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- 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
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
- Catenary Supports
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College Photo Contest, 1955
It was my last day of college at the U. of Missouri Journalism School, 1973. A photography professor asked me to haul away entries in the annual university student photo contest from 1955. I couldn't see throwing this one in the trash.
Nun such as I expected!
Looking at the thumbnail of this, I thought she had something like a spoon in one hand and a small container of something in the other. I was shocked to see a hypodermic syringe in one hand and a little mouse in the other! I wonder, from the poster behind her, if she was working on some sort of genetics experiment. The shape of her lips looks like she was saying something to the little mouse, like, "It's OK, we will be done before you know it!"
Glad you didn't throw this one away!
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