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Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 9:28pm.
Another Kodachrome slide from the Shorpy shoebox, labeled "Florida 1960." View full size. Could there be a postcard on eBay showing the same motel?
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Dirigible of Baron deMarcay
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Flint Mill: 1912
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January 1912. "The Flint Cotton Mill spinning room. Small girls are employed here but not in evidence this noon. Fall River, Massachusetts." View full size.
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New York to Paris: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 3:30am.
February 1908. "Lelouvier and driver in Werner car, at start of New York to Paris automobile race." The course was from Times Square to the Eiffel Tower via Alaska and Siberia. George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Syracuse Varsity: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 3:29am.
Syracuse varsity crew team at the boathouse with coach Ten Eyck circa 1908. Bain News Service glass negative. View full size.
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Citizens Glass: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 3:28am.
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October 1908. "Citizens Glass Co., Evansville, Indiana. Over ten small boys on day shift in one department." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Flag Day: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 4:00pm.
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"The floating folds of the Star Spangled Banner symbolize the American way of life to soldiers in training for the battles that will bring freedom to an unhappy, wartorn world." Fort Knox, Kentucky, June 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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