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- Rear View
- Way in the back --
- Button It Up
- And with an eye on the time ...
- Working in an enclosed ashtray
- Rear View Mirror?
- Tobacco cam
- Basic fact I learned only later in life
- Put a Lid on it!
- Pinstripes in the Tower
- Sound enhancement
- 3438 in '38
- Second Career
- Their days are numbered
- Only the Sensor
- Train control mechanism
- Rarest of the Rare?? & Classy 3400 Class
- Control Mechanism
- Those standpipes
- Wrenches
- International D-40 I believe
- Job prospects
- You had me at Train
- Land of the free
- Broad-Exchange Bldg
- Parking innovation
- The old block
- "Peck turned a sweet propeller"
- National Bank Building
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Philadelphia Story: 1941
Chicago moviegoers waiting to see "The Philadelphia Story" starring Stewart, Grant and Hepburn. April 1941. View full size. Photograph by Russell Lee.
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Easter Sunday: 1941
Easter Sunday, April 1941. Boys waiting for the processional at an Episcopal church in South Side Chicago. View full size. Photograph by Russell Lee. Observe, young people of today, how the young people of yesterday dressed: Up.
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Church Ladies: 1941
Easter Sunday, April 1941. Waiting for the processional at an Episcopal church in South Side Chicago. View full size. Photograph by Russell Lee.
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Got Meat?
East Side peddler, New York. Circa 1915. View full size. 5x7 glass negative. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Colossus: 1942
June 1942. Crane at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer. An amazing photograph.
John Slebzak: 1909
John Slebzak, working on the Bottomley farm near Baltimore with his family (Polish). They have worked here three years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Galewood Yard: 1943
April 1943. Galewood Yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) at Chicago. View full size (if you don't, you're missing a lot). 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Bay Windows: 1899
Man on the porch of his house in Georgia, probably near Atlanta. 1899 or 1900. View full size. Gelatin silver print from the collection of W.E.B. Du Bois.
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Hood Ornament: 1948
April 7, 1948: "Woman with chest & stomach on mat, head up and hands behind her back holding her feet." View full size. New York World-Telegram & Sun photo by Phyllis Twatchman. (Looks like a cross between Madonna and Marilyn.)
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Locomotive Cab: 1942
Working on the cab of a locomotive brought in for repairs at the Chicago & North Western 40th Street shops, Chicago. December 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Apparition: 1931
The Graf Zeppelin hovering over Jerusalem. April 11, 1931. View full size. Dry plate glass negative. American Colony Photo Department.
Push Harder: 1908
Clement-Bayard dirigible in shed in France circa 1908. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Jerusalem: 1931
Graf Zeppelin over the Tower of David, Jerusalem. April 11, 1931. View full size. American Colony Photo Dept. Visit the Shorpy Zeppelin Hangar.
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Zeppelin in Flight: 1908
German airship in flight over the Bodensee. July 4, 1908. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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A Tight Squeeze: 1908
"Zeppelin airship seen from water at 6:05 AM." German zeppelin on the Bodensee. August 4, 1908. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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