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On the Air: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 5:44am.
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A radio studio control room in British Mandate Palestine between 1936 and 1939. View full size. 5x7 dry plate glass negative, Matson Photo Service.
Yellow Sentinel: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 6:54pm.
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December 1940. "Industrial buildings in a Massachusetts town, possibly Brockton." View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Egged On: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 5:03pm.
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April 2, 1923. Children eating at the White House Easter egg roll in Washington. View full size. 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Company Collection.
Liberty Ships: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 4:48pm.
1941. Building liberty ships in an abandoned freight car factory near the Atlantic coast. Freighter sections for the merchant fleet are being prefabricated at the rate of one ship a week. View full size. Photograph by Howard Liberman.
Greensboro, Alabama: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 3:39pm.
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"County seat of Hale County, Alabama," in August 1936 as photographed by Walker Evans. View full size. The McCollum Grocery on the corner is the subject of another Evans photo, where it's identified as being in Moundville. See Bill Cary's comment. Is this Moundvlle? Haleyville? Greensboro? (Other Evans photos identify this store as being in Greensboro, the county seat.)
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The Reaper
Submitted by Ken on Fri, 11/09/2007 - 9:42am.
A young woman models in a studio for photographer Fitz W. Guerin. No date is recorded with the photo, but it was probably taken around 1902. View full size.
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