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Philadelphia Story: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 12:07am.
Chicago moviegoers waiting to see "The Philadelphia Story" starring Stewart, Grant and Hepburn. April 1941. View full size. Photograph by Russell Lee.
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Easter Sunday: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 12:05am.
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Easter Sunday, April 1941. Boys waiting for the processional at an Episcopal church in South Side Chicago. View full size. Photograph by Russell Lee. Observe, young people of today, how the young people of yesterday dressed: Up.
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Church Ladies: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 12:05am.
Easter Sunday, April 1941. Waiting for the processional at an Episcopal church in South Side Chicago. View full size. Photograph by Russell Lee.
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Got Meat?
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 7:40pm.
East Side peddler, New York. Circa 1915. View full size. 5x7 glass negative. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Colossus: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 05/18/2007 - 7:04am.
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June 1942. Crane at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer. An amazing photograph.
John Slebzak: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 11:56pm.
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John Slebzak, working on the Bottomley farm near Baltimore with his family (Polish). They have worked here three years and one winter at Avery Island, Louisiana. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Galewood Yard: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/17/2007 - 11:56pm.
April 1943. Galewood Yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad (Milwaukee Road) at Chicago. View full size (if you don't, you're missing a lot). 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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