Pete Seeger: 1919

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Pete Seeger conducts an instrument-making session on Children's Day at the Newport Folk Festival, in Newport, R.I.

The American troubadour, folk singer and activist Seeger died Monday Jan. 27, 2014, at age 94.

1948

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Henry A. Wallace listens to Pete Seeger, his banjo-playing singer, on a plane between Norfolk and Richmond, Va.

1961

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American folk singer Pete Seeger, a banjo slung over his shoulder, being accompanied by his wife Toshi, on his arrival at the Federal Court, in New York.

1967

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Pete Seeger poses for a photo in 1967.

1971

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American Folk singer Pete Seeger, left, with Spanish singer Raymond, at Madrid's Barajas airport enroute to a concert in the southern Spanish city of Seville, Feb. 10, 1971.

1975

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Pete Seeger, left, performs at the Rally for Détente at Carnegie Hall in New York.

1984

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Pete Seeger performs in a one-man benefit concert in Berkeley, Calif., at the Berkeley Community Theater, Feb. 25, 1984.

1993

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Pete Seeger, left, age 74, who hadn't sung with Burl Ives, right, age 84, for at least 40 years, singing together in rehearsal at New York's 92nd St. Y, May 1993.

1994

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Actor Kirk Douglas, standing from left, singer Aretha Franklin, singer Peter Seeger and seated from left, director Harold Prince and composer Morton Gould pose for photographers following a dinner at the State Department in Washington, Dec. 3, 1994. The dinner was to honor them as recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors of 1994.

1994

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President Clinton presents folk musician Pete Seeger with a 1994 National Medal of Arts, in Washington at the White House, Oct. 14, 1994.

2003

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Folk singer Pete Seeger performs "When the Saints Go Marching In" with the Saint Rose Chamber Singers during commencement ceremonies for the College of St. Rose at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, N.Y., May 10, 2003.

2006

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Pete Seeger in Beacon, N.Y., May 5, 2006.

2006

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Pete Seeger talks during an interview in Beacon, N.Y., May 5, 2006.

2008

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Pete Seeger performs after receiving an honorary Doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music at the Riverside Church in Harlem, May 16, 2008.

2009

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Musicians Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen (R) perform in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the "We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration At The Lincoln Memorial," Jan. 18, 2009 at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

2009

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Pete Seeger, his grandson Tao Rodriguez-Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, will.i.am, and Samuel L. Jackson perform at the "We Are One: Opening Inaurgural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, Jan. 18, 2009.

2009

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Musician Pete Seeger sings "Amazing Grace" during a concert celebrating his 90th birthday in New York, May 3, 2009.

The concert at Madison Square Garden had an all-star roster of performers with proceeds to benefit Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, a non-profit corporation founded by Seeger in 1966 to bring environmental attention to the Hudson River Valley.

2009

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Musician Pete Seeger (R) performs with Toshi Reagan (L) and Warren Haynes (C) during a concert celebrating Seeger's 90th birthday in New York, May 3, 2009.

2011

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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, left, marches with nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests for a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle in New York, Oct. 21, 2011.

2011

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Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, left, marching with nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests for a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle in New York, Oct. 21, 2011.

2013

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Pete Seeger, right, and Willie Nelson on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Sept. 21, 2013.

2013

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John Mellencamp, left, and Pete Seeger on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y, Sept. 21, 2013.

2013

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Pete Seeger, left, being welcomed on stage by John Mellencamp during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Sept. 21, 2013.

2013

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This Sept. 21, 2013, file photo shows Pete Seeger performing on stage during the Farm Aid 2013 concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The American troubadour, folk singer and activist Seeger died Monday Jan. 27, 2014, at age 94.