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Girls' Hoops: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 04/17/2009 - 9:31am.
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Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Friends School. Girls basketball team." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Maryland Packers: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 10:38pm.
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July 1909. "Some of the workers in a Maryland packing company." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
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We Are the Champions: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 4:56pm.
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Washington, D.C., 1913. "Technical High School. Football team." Some of the nicest chaps you'd ever want to meet. Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
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Gramma and Grampa: 1948
Submitted by Julie on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 9:18am.
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I've always been really fond of this picture. It was taken on the day of my grandparents' wedding in 1948. My grandmother was 21 at the time and my grandfather was 22. View full size.
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Low Rider: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 04/16/2009 - 8:08am.
December 1942. "Worker inspecting a locomotive on a pit in the roundhouse at the Chicago & North Western RR's Proviso Yard." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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Horse Man: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 8:20pm.
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"Untitled -- November 27, 1923." Who can figure out what's going on here? National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Update: Stanton Square rides to the rescue with the answer: It's the vaudeville strongman Zishe Breitbart, who was something of a legend in his own time.
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Barbershop Duet: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 04/15/2009 - 1:31pm.
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March 1936. "Negro barber shop, Atlanta." Large-format nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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