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Killing Machine: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 12:38am.
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June 1942. Army tank driver at Fort Knox, Kentucky. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
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Bibb Mill Girls: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 11:34pm.
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January 19, 1909. Macon, Georgia. "Some adolescents in Bibb Mill No. 1." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
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Hine Junior High: 1925
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 11:30pm.
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February 19, 1925. Washington, D.C. The Hine Junior High School girls' basketball team. 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.
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A Motley Crew: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 8:20pm.
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August 1908. "Night Shift Leaving for Home. Indiana Glass Works, 8 a.m." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
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Chinatown: 1900
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 3:41pm.
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San Francisco circa 1900. "Chinatown. The street of the gamblers at night." Nitrate transparency by Arnold Genthe. View full size.
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New York: 1933
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 8:30am.
1933. A view across New York's Central Park Lake framed by the Sherry-Netherland and Plaza hotels. 5x7 safety negative by the noted architectural photographer Samuel H. Gottscho. View full size.
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New York to Paris: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 8:24am.
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February 12, 1908. Montague Roberts in Times Square driving the Thomas Flyer at the start of the New York to Paris automobile race 100 years ago today. Five months later the car rolled into Paree and won, with considerable drama along the way. There's an entertaining account of the competition in the New York Times, which sponsored the event a century ago. View full size. 5x7 glass negative by George Grantham Bain, whose photos illustrate the NYT article.
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