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Fair Maidens: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 11:17pm.
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September 1941. At the state fair in Rutland, Vermont. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.
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Main Street: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 10:01pm.
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Summer 1938. Saturday afternoon shopping in London, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Little Fork: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 3:58pm.
August 1937. Indian pickers on way to the berry fields near Little Fork, Minn. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
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De Colores: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 4:57am.
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December 1941 or January 1942. Child of a Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation borrower in front of his house in Puerto Rico. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the FSA.
Tower B: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 1:50am.
May 1943. Melrose Park, Ill. Chicago & North Western towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst at the Proviso Yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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You Better Watch Out: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 1:27am.
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A Christmas window display in 1941 or 1942, photographer unknown. 35mm Kodachrome transparency, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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This Old House: 1865
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 12:20am.
May 1865. The Bryant house near Petersburg, Virginia. View full size. Wet collodion glass-plate negative by Timothy H. O'Sullivan.
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