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Ready to Rock: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 12/10/2007 - 5:25am.
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1937. Cabinetmaker's workshop in Skyline Farms, Alabama. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
Sunday School: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 12/10/2007 - 2:02am.
1937. Sunday School at Penderlea Farms, a Resettlement Administration project in North Carolina. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn.
Organ Transplant: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 12/10/2007 - 1:47am.
February 1937. "An organ deposited by the flood on a farm near Mount Vernon, Indiana." View full size. 5x7 safety negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
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Wright Whirlwind: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 8:06pm.
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August 1942. Mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a Wright Whirlwind motor in the Corpus Christi, Texas, Naval Air Base assembly and repairs shop. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard R. Hollem.
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Clarence and Alonzo: 1900
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 2:49pm.
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Clarence "Grandpa" Liv and Alonzo "Teddy" Tucker behind the Wright Cycle Company on West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio, circa 1897-1901. 4x5 dry-plate glass negative by Wilbur and/or Orville Wright. View full size.
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The Organ Grinder: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 2:37pm.
An organ grinder on the streets of New York's Lower East Side circa 1910. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Welcome to St. Augustine: 1865
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/09/2007 - 2:23pm.
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A street in St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1865. View full size. Left half of a wet-collodion glass-plate stereograph made by Samuel A. Cooley.
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