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- I was just there
- New to me
- Football-shaped thing
- It's [not] a Diamond T
- A Red Brown Truck
- Cheap labor
- Straining or laughing?
- Heavy!
- I don't like the look of that supervisor
- What tribe? Which rail location?
- How many do they need?
- Pursed lips
- Another lost street trade?
- Where Is The Carpet bag?
- Another great composition
- The Un-Coaler
- The Last Bickford's
- Re: And literally just around the corner
- Straight from Central Casting
- And literally just around the corner
- How did Vachon do it?
- Clean on the outside
- You write Bickfords, I write Bickford's
- Clean Outside In
- Don't interrupt the photographer
- Immortalized for Posterior
- Still standing on Fayette Street
- Takin' Care of Business
- Balt Noir
- Joke
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Bye, Y'all: 1939
May 1939. "Booth in hamburger stand. Alpine, Texas." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
- 6 comments
- 19760 reads
Canoe Rental: 1925
"Yocum canoe house, Arlington Beach Park, Virginia, 1925." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
- 2 comments
- 11795 reads
Four Belles: 1923
May 23, 1923. Washington, D.C. "Shrine relay team at Potomac bathing beach." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
- 7 comments
- 29966 reads
Back at the Diner: 1939
May 1939. "Man in hamburger stand. Alpine, Texas." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
- 5 comments
- 27018 reads
A Day at the Beach: 1924
"Potomac bathing beach. June 19, 1924." In case anyone needed reminding: No horseplay will be tolerated. National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 20442 reads
My New Olds: 1922
1922. "Milan and Oldsmobile." Washington Nationals manager Clyde Milan. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 13595 reads
X-Man: 1909
February 12, 1909. "James Clarke, winner of Brooklyn Marathon, with others." View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
- 2 comments
- 15080 reads
Beer for Rent: 1943
March 1943. "Raceland, Louisiana. U.S. Highway 90." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information.
- 7 comments
- 21629 reads
T-Bone 50 Cents: 1939
May 1939. "Interior of hamburger stand. Waiting for customer. Alpine, Texas." View full size. 35mm negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration.
- 11 comments
- 31118 reads
Hamburgers 5 Cents: 1941
October 1941. An exterior view of the White Tower (called "White Tavern" in the LOC captions) restaurant in Amsterdam, New York. View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration.
- 6 comments
- 35768 reads
White Tower: 1941
October 1941. "White Tower hamburger stand, the popular place in Amsterdam, New York." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by John Collier.
- 4 comments
- 26929 reads
Teen Spirit: 1926
July 9, 1926. Washington, D.C. "Girls in bathing suits with ukuleles." Identified in the caption of another photo as Elaine Griggs, Virginia Hunter, Mary Kaminsky, Dorothy Kelly and Hazel Brown. National Photo Co. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 60407 reads
No. 2: 1909
February 12, 1909. "James Crowley, 2nd in Brooklyn Marathon." View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
- 7 comments
- 15370 reads
Pieface Boy: 1923
August 2, 1923. Washington, D.C. "Max Schwartz, winner of pie eating contest, Jefferson school." View full size. National Photo Company glass negative.
- 6 comments
- 8363 reads
Branding: 1939
September 1939. "Hamburger stand with old cattle brands. Dumas, Texas." 35mm negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 17 comments
- 35967 reads
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