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- Freeze Frame
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- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
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- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
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- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
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Are We There Yet?
March 1937. "Four families, three of them related with 15 children, from the Dust Bowl in Texas in an overnight roadside camp near Calipatria, California." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
Heartbroken? Nah, nap-broken.
The little girl on mommy's lap looks more grumpy than heartbroken. For that matter, all the kids look like they need some quality time on that cot. Hope Ms. Lange didn't wake them up.
Hopefully the didn't stick around
Calipatria in Summer is unbearably hot.
A new meaning to the term "Depression"
At an elevation of 184 feet (56 m) below sea level, Calipatria, California is the lowest elevation city in the western hemisphere.
Everything is Relative
Although most families displaced by the dustbowl and hard economic times had it rough, some apparently faired better than others. As opposed to other Shorpy submissions from the era, at least these boys are wearing shirts with their bib overalls and everyone has shoes!
Quite a crowd
The face of the little girl being held by her mother (sitting on the milkcan) is heartbreaking. It also looks like child #16 might be here soon.
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