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- 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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Atwater Kent: 1925
Philadelphia, 1925. Frank Aiken and Atwater Kent at the new Atwater Kent radio factory. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
- 4 comments
- 24203 reads
Flyboy: 1924
Another shot from that 1924 grade-school track meet in Washington. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
- 1 comment
- 14753 reads
Cleared for Landing: 1924
Washington, D.C., 1924. "Grade school track meet." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
- 2 comments
- 10962 reads
St. Louis: 1940
May 1940. "Fountain in front of Union Station, St. Louis, Missouri." 35mm negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 34746 reads
Provincetown: 1940
August 1940. "Local talent makes music on a Sunday afternoon under the soldiers' monument. Provincetown, Massachusetts." View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
- 5 comments
- 18992 reads
Shop Class: 1939
1939. Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C. "Carpentry shop." 5x7 nitrate negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 14625 reads
Departures: 1940
April 1940. East Dubuque, Illinois. "Waiting for the train to Minneapolis." 35mm negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 15625 reads
Cockfight: 1937
Puerto Rico, December 1937. "The beginning of the cockfight. When the man in the center raises the cloth, the birds will see each other and begin to fight." Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the FSA. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 16230 reads
Pallbearers: 1938
January 1938. "Ponce, Puerto Rico. Funeral of a child." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
- 3 comments
- 19676 reads
Full House: 1938
January 1938. "Interior of workers' shack. Porta de Tierra, San Juan, Puerto Rico." Note the drop-in guest. Medium format nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 26505 reads
Who You Lookin' At: 1940
Missouri, May 1940. "Ozark farmer and family." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
Those Eyes, Those Lips: 1940
May 1940. "Advertising. Woodbine, Iowa." A tattered billboard shot by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. 35mm negative. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 11630 reads
Ninth Street: 1940
May 1940. "Residential street in Woodbine, Iowa." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
- 11 comments
- 17259 reads
Quiet City: 1940
St. Louis, May 1940. "Downtown street on Sunday morning." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
- 3 comments
- 35716 reads
Des Moines: 1940
May 1940. "Afternoon, downtown Des Moines, Iowa." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
- 3 comments
- 20771 reads
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