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We Deliver Free-Freely: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 1:09pm.
Washington circa 1920. "People's Drug Store, H and 8th Street N.E., night." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Insane: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 11:35pm.
Washington, D.C., 1917. "St. Elizabeths, government hospital for the insane." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
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Jersey Hotties: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 9:15pm.
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July 11, 1911. "On beach near Casino, Asbury Park." Anyone up for a nice cold lemonade? 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Marcella Hart: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 4:02pm.
April 1943. Clinton, Iowa. "Mrs. Marcella Hart, mother of three, employed as a wiper at the roundhouse. Chicago & North Western R.R." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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Eastern Track: 1905
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 12:22pm.
Back in H&E's Washington portrait studio circa 1905. "Eastern High School track team." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Q Street: 1925
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 10:29am.
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Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Panama Legation, New Hampshire Avenue and Q Street N.W." 18th Street is on the left and New Hampshire Avenue on the right. This is one of the earliest examples of a stop sign ("Boulevard Stop") in the archive. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Company B: 1864
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 8:12am.
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August 1864. "Petersburg, Virginia. Group of Company B, U.S. Engineer Battalion." Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Wet-plate glass negative. View full size.
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