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- Exclusive pump
- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- 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
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Porch Patrol: 1941
March 1941. "Defense workers in front of rooming houses. Norfolk, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
One Man's oil can
Is another Man's flower planter.
Maybe Twenty
These two young guys look about twenty, or younger, to me. My own mother quit high school at 16 in 1942 to go to work in a defense plant and made good money until the end of WWII. After all, there was a war on!
Defense workers?
I realize as I get older kids look younger but I really can't believe these two are defense workers. Defense workers' kids maybe.
I know, all you have to go by it is written the negative.
[He's old enough to smoke! - Dave]
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