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Pictures: 1969’s Woodstock music festival

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People helping to clear the debris after the infamous three-day festival at Woodstock in August 1969.
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This is a view of part of the crowd at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival held on a 600-acre pasture in the Catskill Mountains near White Lake in Bethel, N.Y., in Aug. 1969. The festival, billed as "Thee Days of Peace and Music," started on Friday, Aug. 15. More than 450,000 persons attended.
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Two young men in the boot of a car after hitching a lift home from the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair in August 1969.
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A group of people listening to the music at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair and enjoying the relaxing atmosphere.
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A girl naps on top of her car, while trying to reach the music festival at Woodstock, N.Y., Aug. 16, 1969.
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A young woman wears a fringed buckskin top at the Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, New York, Aug. 15-17, 1969.
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Members of the American youth subculture generally termed 'hippies' walk along roads choked with traffic on the way to the large rock concert called Woodstock in Bethel, New York, August 1969. The lucky few may get rides in or on the vehicles of likeminded motorists.
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Members of the American youth subculture generally termed 'hippies' walk along roads choked with traffic on the way to the large rock conert called Woodstock in Bethel, New York, August, 1969. Here one particularly free-thinking, barefoot fellow makes an impish face for the camera while dressed in the brass-band jacket made popular by the musical group The Beatles.
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A youth lies with head injuries suffered when he was thrown from the trunk of a car on the road leading to the Woodstock Music and Art festival in Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969. Ambulances were unable to reach the scene because of the traffic.
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A group of friends sitting by their car at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair, one of them is giving a peace sign.
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Fans sit on top of a painted bus at the Woodstock Music Festival, Bethel, New York, Aug. 15-17, 1969.
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Hundreds of rock music fans jam highway leading from Bethel, New York, Aug. 16, 1969 as they try to leave the Woodstock Music and Art Festival. Two hundred thousand persons spent a rainy night at the festival.
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Fans climb a scaffold to get a better view at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair held at Max Yasgur's dairy farm in August 1969 near White Lake a hamlet of Bethel, New York.
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Members of the crowd at the Woodstock Festival in Bethal, New York.
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About 400,000 people attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., August 16, 1969.
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A young woman runs through the mud at the Woodstock Music Festival in New York Aug. 17, 1969.
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Concert-goers sit on the roof of a Volkswagen bus at the Woodstock Music and Arts Fair at Bethel, N.Y., in mid-August, 1969. The three-day concert attracted hundreds of thousands of people, and became a landmark cultural event of the late '60s.
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A girl among the large crowds at Woodstock enjoying the music and the atmosphere.
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Music fans dance and sing to the Rolling Stones at a free concert at the Altamont Speedway near Livermore, Ca. on Dec. 6, 1969. The concert was dubbed 'Woodstock West'.
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Grass and leaf huts are used as makeshift living quarters for some of the attendees at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival at White Lake in Bethel, N.Y., in Aug. 16, 1969. The festival, billed as "Three Days of Peace and Music," took place Aug. 15-18.
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Woodstock attendees sell jeans at the music festival in August 1969.
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Woodstock Music and Art Festival participants leave the festival on Aug. 17, 1969 in Bethel, N.Y.
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A man walking past a car notices the feet sticking out of the window during the Woodstock Music And Arts Fair.
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Jammed cars are seen on Rt. 17B near the Woodstock Festival in Bethel, N.Y., on August 16, 1969.
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Rock music fans sit on a tree sculpture as one leaps mid-air onto a pile of hay during the Woodstock Music and Art Festival held on a cow pasture at White Lake in Bethel, New York on Aug. 15, 1969.
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A girl helps herself to a free food ration in the camp area at the Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, N.Y. on Aug. 15, 1969.
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About 400,000 people attend the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in Bethel, N.Y., August 16, 1969.
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People applaud at the Woodstock Music Festival in New York Aug. 16, 1969.

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By Orlando Sentinel

PUBLISHED: August 14, 2019 at 2:22 p.m. | UPDATED: August 15, 2019 at 1:17 p.m.

Check out pictures from the Woodstock music festival held between Aug. 15–18, 1969, which attracted more than 400,000 people. Over the sometimes rainy weekend, 32 acts performed outdoors at Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, New York.