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Free Horse Dinner!
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 1:51am.
December 29, 1923. "Horse Christmas Party" at the Washington, D.C., Animal Rescue League. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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Blue Train: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 1:43am.
December 1942. Train going over the hump at the Chicago & North Western Proviso Yard. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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And a Bone for Fido: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/12/2007 - 1:42am.
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Pour this on your pancakes, it's that sweet: "Christmas Story" from 1923 or 1924. National Photo Company Collection. All together now: Awww.
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Man of Steel: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 1:24pm.
November 1942. Columbia Steel at Geneva, Utah. Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day on the construction site of a new steel plant needed for the war effort. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Andreas Feininger.
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Shacktown: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 1:23pm.
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April 1940. Shacktown in Dubuque, Iowa. Many residents keep a cow or a few chickens. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.
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Christmas With Wilbur and Orville: 1900
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 1:08pm.
December 1900. Christmas tree in the home of Wilbur and Orville Wright at 7 Hawthorn Street in Dayton, Ohio, three years before their famous flight. 4x5 dry-plate glass negative by the Wright Brothers. View full size. There's a lot of detail here for fans of old-school Christmas decoration. Zoom the gifts. Update: Niece Bertha is shown here playing with the dish set in a different room or house.
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B-25 Over California: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 12/11/2007 - 1:07pm.
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October 1942. North American Aviation B-25 medium bomber 41-12823 over the mountains near Inglewood, California. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Mark Sherwood for the Office of War Information.
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