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Lighter Than Air: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 12:08pm.
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May 1942. Marines training in barrage balloon technique at Parris Island, South Carolina. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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The Summer of ’36
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 2:32am.
Summer 1936. Children of sharecropper Frank Tengle at their Hale County, Alabama, cabin. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans.
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Family Portrait: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 10:27pm.
Summer of 1936. William Edward "Bud" Fields, wife Lily Rogers Fields and infant daughter Lilian at their sharecropper cabin in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Lily Fields: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 6:43pm.
Summer 1936. Lily Rogers Fields and two of her children in their Hale County, Alabama, cabin. Husband is cotton sharecropper Bud Fields. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration.
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Loud and Clear : 1922
Submitted by Ken on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 3:55pm.
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Lester Picker listens to his shortwave radio through earphones while convalescing after breaking his back when he fell 55 feet erecting an aerial for the radio. Photograph by Underwood & Underwood, April 18, 1922. View full size. (Updated with additional information on Lester — click here and scroll down.)
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On the Air: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 5:44am.
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A radio studio control room in British Mandate Palestine between 1936 and 1939. View full size. 5x7 dry plate glass negative, Matson Photo Service.
Yellow Sentinel: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 11/10/2007 - 6:54pm.
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December 1940. "Industrial buildings in a Massachusetts town, possibly Brockton." View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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