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The Travelers: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 06/12/2008 - 2:46am.
May 1943. Peso-brandishing beet harvesters brought north from Mexico by the Farm Security Administration during World War 2. View full size. OWI photo.
Learning to Fly: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 10:27pm.
May 1942. Parris Island, South Carolina. "Marine lieutenant glider pilot in training at Page Field." View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency: Alfred Palmer.
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Burning Sands: 1932
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 7:37pm.
September 1932. "Iraq oil fields. Man with fires in desert." American Colony Photo Department, Matson Photo Collection. View full size.
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Minute Service Station: 1925
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 5:09pm.
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1925. "Minute Service Station No. 3, 10th and E Streets N.W." A Standard Oil gas station in Washington, D.C. National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.
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Too Much Excitement: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 12:57pm.
"Summer Scene, New York" circa 1913. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
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Beet Train: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 12:18pm.
May 1943. More Mexican sugar-beet pickers headed north. "Mexican workers recruited and brought to the Arkansas valley, Colorado, Nebraska and Minnesota by the FSA to harvest sugar beets." View full size. Office of War Information.
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More Mascots: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 11:39am.
New York, 1917. Another shot of the sailors and mascots aboard the U.S.S. Recruit, a mock battleship moored in Union Square as a Naval recruiting station. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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