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Let It Snow: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 12/21/2007 - 3:31am.
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February 1940 in Chillicothe, Ohio. Guests in a hotel lobby watching the snowstorm. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
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On the Town: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 3:18am.
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April 1936. Three ladies out and about in Jackson, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Theodor Jung for the Farm Security Administration.
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IC Conditions: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 1:20am.
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February 1940. Shoppers on a wet winter day in the business district of Iowa City. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein. Greetings to his daughter, Shorpy fan Annie Rothstein-Segan. "Dad would have loved to know that you feature his pictures so often," she writes. Thanks and Happy Holidays!
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Davenport: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 12/20/2007 - 1:19am.
February 1940. Government Bridge (or Arsenal Bridge) across the Mississippi River at Davenport, Iowa, on a snowy day. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
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Now Playing: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 8:43pm.
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February 1940. Shoveling snow away from the movie entrance in Chillicothe, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA.
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Santa's Railyard: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 7:15pm.
March 1943. Another night shot by Jack Delano, taken on his Santa Fe rail trip west from Chicago in 1943. His description of this scene: "Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles. Due to blackout regulations, floodlights, switch lights, locomotive headlights and lights on the bridge in background have been shaded to cast light downward. Broad streaks of light are caused by paths of locomotive headlights, thin wavy lines by lamps of switchmen working in the yard." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.
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Night Train: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 12/19/2007 - 10:08am.
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March 1943. The Santa Fe Yards at Argentine, Kansas. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.
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