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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
UPDATE: Commenter psteach informs us that this is the A.A. Cooper mansion "Redstone" at 504 Bluff Street, now welcoming guests as the Redstone Inn.
April 1940. "House in Dubuque, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
My father steers our 1966 Rambler Classic station wagon through Sequoia National Park's Tunnel Log in this Kodachrome slide I took on our summer vacation in July 1967. But it wasn't the first time he'd driven a Rambler through a tree, however, an event seen previously here on Shorpy. View full size.
September 1939. "Driver entering cab of truck which has just been cleaned and checked over in garage preparatory to next trip. Minneapolis, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1940. "Old Orpheum theater. Dubuque, Iowa." Today's double feature: Adventure in Diamonds and Viva Cisco Kid. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
October 1939. "Six-man football played in high school at Greenhills, Ohio." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "Children of a dairy farmer near Rutland, Vermont." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Jan. 30, 1917. "14-year old Fred cutting dies for a new job. Embossing shop of Harry C. Taylor. 61 Court Street, Boston, Mass." 5x7 inch glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
New York circa 1903. "Hotel Gregorian -- Palm Court Cafe." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
New York circa 1904. "Willcox & Gibbs building, Broadway and Bond Street." New headquarters of the Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company, which "will return to this building on or about Feby. 1st." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
1906. "Bay Street, Nassau, Bahama Islands." 5x7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
June 1941. "Railroad yards. Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. "One of the children of Albert Lynch, FSA client of Dummerston, Vermont." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1941. "View of Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, on a Saturday afternoon." The street corner last seen here. Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
August 1940. "Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Houses and colliery from a street in Lansford." More specifically, the Old Company's Lehigh Navigation Coal Co. Lansford Colliery. Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
January 1941. "Ann Garabedian, Russian girl married to Armenian vegetable gardener in Andover, Massachusetts. Her husband works as a truck driver in Lawrence in the winter." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.