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October 1941. "Windsor Locks, Connecticut (vicinity). An Italian farmer and part owner of a harvest market." Photo by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
September 1941. "First evening in the new home. FSA defense housing project in Hartford, Conn. Living in a defense boom town is expensive, so both work -- husband at Pratt & Whitney and wife in a restaurant." Photo by John Collier, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 19, 1957. College Park, Maryland. "British monarch Queen Elizabeth II on an official visit to the United States. The Queen attends a University of Maryland football game." (The Terrapins trounced the Tar Heels 21-7.) Kodachrome transparency for the Look magazine assignment "Elizabeth II: Her job, her income and wealth, her importance." View full size.
LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-serving monarch, whose broadly popular seven-decade reign survived tectonic shifts in her country’s post-imperial society and weathered successive challenges posed by the romantic choices, missteps and imbroglios of her descendants, died on Thursday at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, her summer retreat. She was 96. -- New York Times
October 1941. Berkshire Hills County, Massachusetts. "Tourist camps stretch in an endless village along the Mohawk Trail through the Berkshires." Chicken and Spaghetti, 50 cents! Acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
October 1941. Berkshire Hills County, Massachusetts. "Members of a motorcycle troop out to enjoy the fall coloring along the Mohawk Trail through the Berkshires." Medium format acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 14, 1942. Washington, D.C. "Filling up with gas on the day before rationing starts." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
May 14, 1942. Washington, D.C. "Filling up with gas on the day before rationing starts." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
August 1941. "Cambridge, Maryland, home of Phillips Packing Co. tomato canning plant." As well as Phillips Hardware at the corner of Muir and Race streets, and a green-on-top stoplight. 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
August 1941. Cambridge, Dorchester County, Maryland. "Service station on Gay Street." Acetate negative by John Collier for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
May 1942. "Arlington, Virginia. Auto refinishing plant. Mechanical paint mixer." 4x5 inch acetate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
October 1941. "The rich and the poor crowd into the Berkshires to enjoy the fall coloring. Mohawk Trail, Massachusetts." Photo by John Collier, Farm Security Admin. View full size.
May 1943. New York. "Woman and her dog in the Harlem section." Medium format nitrate negative by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Nyssa, Oregon. Japanese-American boys at the newsstand on their weekly visit to town." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.
July 1942. "Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Measuring logs to determine board-feet." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
July 1942. "Grant County, Oregon. Malheur National Forest. Loading large logs on truck for transport to railroad flatcar." Photo: Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.