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Shady Characters: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 6:25pm.
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July 1941 in Caldwell, Idaho. "Two boys read storybooks in the shade." 35mm negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. View full size. Below: Their kid-size tree.
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Crossing Dearborn: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:50pm.
July 1941. Crossing Dearborn Street in Chicago. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA. What's the street we're looking down?
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Extra Fancy: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:47pm.
More delectables at the Edw. Neumann grocery in Detroit's Broadway Market circa 1910. 8x10 glass plate negative, Detroit Publishing. Superjumbo full size. Note the artfully arranged pickle slices in the big apothecary jar to the left.
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Medicine Show: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 1:56pm.
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October 1935. Medicine show at Huntingdon, Tennessee. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Step Right Up: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 1:53pm.
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Summer 1939. Traveling carnival at Bozeman, Montana. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
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Shenandoah: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 9:11am.
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1938. Maher's Dance Hall in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, showing orchestra platform and dancers. (Note the stag line and that two of the couples are girl-girl.) View full size. 3x4 safety negative by Sheldon Dick. Twelve years after this picture was taken, the photographer, son of mimeograph magnate A.B. Dick, would meet a violent end along with his wife in a tragic murder-suicide.
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Lock Up Your Daughters: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 1:02am.
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July 1940. Migrant cherry picker in front of tent home. Berrien County, Michigan. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.
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