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Boston Rooters: 1914
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 9:55pm.
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October 9, 1914. Boston rooters at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, at the first game of the 1914 World Series. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Bermuda Hundred: 1865
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 8:38pm.
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Butler's signal tower at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia, circa 1865. Wet-plate glass negative, left half of stereograph. Photograph from the main Eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. View full size.
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Gallaudet Basketball: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 6:16pm.
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"Boatwright, Gallaudet '24," taken that year at the venerable Washington, D.C., college for the deaf. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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Palooka, XL: 1914
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 6:05pm.
September 1914. The boxer Fred Welsh in New York. Note the cauliflower ear. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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B-17 Betty: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 1:31pm.
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October 1942. Long Beach, California. "Girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
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Oklahoma: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 12:13pm.
October 1942. Employees at the Mid-Continent oil refinery in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon. View full size.
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Indiana Janes: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 7:47am.
August 1908. "Noon hour in an Indianapolis cotton mill. Witness, E.N. Clopper." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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