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- The two front doors
- You are correct Dave.
- I was just there
- New to me
- Football-shaped thing
- Working all the live long day
- How do you stop slackers?
- It's [not] a Diamond T
- A Red Brown Truck
- Not Too Long a Long Walk
- What Tribe? Huh?
- Cheap labor
- No Mel Brooks fans?!?
- The real "Gandy"
- @louJudson
- Somethings not right
- 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?
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- The Un-Coaler
- The Last Bickford's
- Re: And literally just around the corner
- Straight from Central Casting
- And literally just around the corner
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November 1937. "Street scene, Washington, D.C. Proprietor of a tombstone shop." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.
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Redlands Oranges: 1943
March 1943. Drying oranges at a co-op packing plant in Redlands, California. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, taken during his trip from Chicago to California on a Santa Fe freight train.
- 2 comments
- 13987 reads
Back to School: 1936
Untitled, fall 1936. Schoolchildren probably in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Neighboring frames show views of Amoskeag, "the French section" of that city.) View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the FSA.
Bank Shot: 1940
May 1940. A friendly game in a Scranton, Iowa, poolroom. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
Passing the Time: 1935
October 1935. Another scene from the post office and store at Nethers, Virginia. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA.
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Nethers: 1935
October 1935. The post office at Nethers, Virginia, in Shenandoah National Park. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA.
- 13 comments
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Tracks in the Snow: 1942
December 1942. Three West Coast streamliners in the Chicago & North Western yards at Chicago. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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City of Los Angeles: 1942
Detail from Jack Delano's shot of the C&NW railyards in December 1942, and streamliners City of Denver and City of Los Angeles. View full size.
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Proviso Yard: 1942
December 1942. General view of the C&NW R.R. Proviso classification yard at Chicago. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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- 17410 reads
Walker Evans: 1937
The photographer Walker Evans in a February 1937 portrait by his colleague Edwin Locke. 35mm negative, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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- 28156 reads
Chillicothe Buicks: 1940
February 1940. Courthouse and auto transport hauling Buicks in Chillicothe, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA.
- 7 comments
- 18026 reads
Wild Animal Circus: 1936
Posters advertising a 1936 circus near Lynchburg, South Carolina. 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 33624 reads
Bethlehem Boys: 1935
November 1935. Sons of American Legion members in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the FSA.
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- 21827 reads
Central Grade School: 1940
February 1940. The snowballs fly at Central Grade School in Chillicothe, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA.
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- 11811 reads
Rhea Quintin: 1916
June 1916. Fall River, Mass. "Rhea Quintin, 14 years old. Drawing in on Webb frame. Been at it about three months. Requires great deal of mental application and accuracy and good oversight. Takes over a year to learn. Seemed very young in certificate office. Miss Smith thought she was a little schoolgirl coming for some other purpose." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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