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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Actually my aunt, Shirley Archer, daughter of Ralph E. and Mildred M. Archer, owners of the Archer Camera Shop in Titusville, Pennsylvania, seen here earlier. Scan from an early kodachrome stereo slide taken by her father circa 1945-47 in their apartment above the camera store. View full size.
1941. "Kids' race at the Fourth of July celebration in Vale, Oregon." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
1941. "Boy who caught the greased pig at the Fourth of July celebration at Vale, Oregon. Says he's going to join the 4-H Club so he can learn how to feed his pig properly." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
November 1940. "Tulare County, California. Son of worker weighing up milk at Mineral King cooperative farm. Accurate milk records of each cow are kept." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1940. "Farm Security Administration client Roger Spence and two of his sons. Two miles out of Princess Anne, Maryland." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the FSA. View full size.
1938. "Tolland County, Connecticut. The kitchen on the Schneider farm." Acetate negative by Sheldon Dick for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1940. "Two boys, sons of fishermen. Deal Island, Maryland." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1940. "One of the seven children of Burdell White, FSA client near Venton, Maryland." Photo by Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1938. "Shenandoah. House fronts in a mining town." Medium format acetate negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
Circa 1910. "Gate lodge and Niles Beach, East Gloucester, Mass." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
East Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Niles Beach." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1910. "Meeting Street and St. Michael's Church." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1910. "Freighter Midland King, Cleveland, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Cleveland circa 1910. "Lift Bridge, Cuyahoga River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Detroit, 1907. "Penobscot Building and State Savings Bank, Fort and Shelby Streets." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.