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Detroit circa 1905. "Steamer Sappho at Belle Isle Ferry dock, Woodward Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Lycurgus S. Glover. View full size.
November 1961. "Actress Sophia Loren posing with fur stole." Color transparency by Michael Vaccaro for the Look magazine assignment "Clothes to Bring Out the Beast." Shall we slip into something more comfortable? View full size.
September 1940. "Old house of gold miner. Telluride, Colorado." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "Trestle of narrow gauge railroad near Ophir, Colorado." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. Montrose, Colorado. "Loading express packages into Denver & Rio Grande Western truck, which takes them to points on the narrow gauge railroad where passenger and express service is not otherwise available." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "Store buildings at Ouray, Colorado." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1940. "Dilapidated buildings at Telluride, Colorado." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Marty Balin, a founder, lead singer and songwriter of the groundbreaking San Francisco psychedelic band Jefferson Airplane and a key member of its 1970s successor, Jefferson Starship, died on Thursday in Tampa, Fla. He was 76.
— New York TimesFebruary 1967. San Francisco. "Rock group The Jefferson Airplane. Members Paul Kantner, Marty Balin, Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Spencer Dryden and Grace Slick posing outdoors." Color transparency from photos by Jim Marshall for the Look magazine assignment "Jefferson Airplane Loves You." View full size.
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November 1942. Babies' Hospital, New York. "Student nurses, like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, are rendering their country a great service by making it possible for experienced nurses to join the Army or Navy Nurse Corps. Relieved of such civilian duties as administering injections to patients like this smiling youngster, graduate nurses are tending America's fighting men in distant parts of the world." Photo by Fritz Henle, Office of War Information. View full size.
November 1942. New York. "Nurse training. After a day of hard work and study, Susan Petty and her fellow student nurses enjoy a swim and frolic in the pool, one of the recreational facilities offered in the School of Nursing residence." Medium format negative by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information. View full size.
March 29, 1941. "James H. McGraw Jr. residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Patio. Henry Corse, architect." Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.
March 29, 1941. "James H. McGraw Jr. residence in Hobe Sound, Florida. Loggia. Henry Corse, architect; Jessup Inc., decorator." Note glass hats and boots among the tchotchkes in the cupboard. Gottscho-Schleisner photo. View full size.
February 1943. "Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, now the only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, maker of gasoline trailers for the Army Air Forces." Medium format Kodachrome by Howard Hollem for the Office of War Information. View full size.
October 1, 1936. Washington, D.C. "Supreme Court guard." You may approach the bench. Then make a sharp right. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
July 1942. "Truckload of ponderosa pine, Edward Hines Lumber Co. operations in Malheur National Forest, Grant County, Oregon." Medium-format Kodachrome by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.