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Missouri: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 4:22pm.
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May 1938. New Madrid County, Missouri. "Wife and child of sharecropper, cut-over farmer of Mississippi bottoms." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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Cafe Texan: 1939
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April 1939. Street scene in San Augustine, Texas. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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Ramallah: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 11:11pm.
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Radio masts in Ramallah, British Mandate Palestine, circa 1939. 5x7 dry plate glass negative from the Matson Photo Service collection. View full size.
I Am the Oud Man: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 11:10pm.
Oud player at the Palestine Broadcasting Service studios in Jerusalem circa 1940 during the British Mandate. View full size. 5x7 acetate, Matson Photo Service.
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Our Humble Chapeaux: 1914
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 8:05pm.
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May 25, 1914. "Mrs. Del Campo and Ruth Rabasa," daughter of the Mexican diplomat Emilio Rabasa. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Fair Beauty: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 7:27pm.
October 1940. "Winner at the Delta County Fair" in Colorado. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Feeling Hot Hot Hot
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 5:27pm.
1939 or 1940. "Square-dance orchestra during intermission; notice sweated shirt of host." McIntosh County, Oklahoma. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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