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This Land Is Your Land: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 6:29pm.
June 1939. Lincoln County, Oklahoma. Camp of migrant workers near Prague. View full size. Medium-format negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
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E.B. and P.P.: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 12:05pm.
"Edwards boy and P.P. Claxton." Our mysterious lad continues his tour of Washington in early 1921 with a visit to the offices of the federal commissioner of education, Philander P. Claxton. View full size. National Photo Co. Collection.
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Votes for Women: 1913
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 12/06/2007 - 8:31am.
Elizabeth Freeman, dressed as a gypsy, during a February, 1913, suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. Photo from the Bain News Service. View full size.
Help Is On the Way: 1915
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Child of the Depression: 1935
Submitted by Ken on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 6:28pm.
A farm child whose family resettled on the Bosque Farms project in New Mexico. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1935. View full size.
Zuni Girl: c. 1903
Submitted by Ken on Wed, 12/05/2007 - 10:36am.
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A Zuni Native-American girl with a pottery jar. Photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1903. View full size.
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America Calls For More: 1942
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Julien Case in the county agent's office in Florence, Alabama. Photographed by Arthur Rothstein in 1942 while documenting Tennessee Valley Authority work. View full size.
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