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Moon River: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 11:36pm.
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Three boys diving from mudbank circa 1935, location unknown. View full size. 5x7 safety film negative, Acme News Photo archive, Library of Congress.
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Gamecocks: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 11:34pm.
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December 1937. Gamecocks in the training arena in Puerto Rico. View full size. Photograph by Edwin Rosskam, Farm Security Administration.
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The Old Swimming Hole: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 3:54pm.
July 1941. Swimming hole at Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania. View full size. Photograph by Edwin Rosskam for the Farm Security Administration.
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Republic Steel: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/11/2007 - 2:41pm.
November 1941. Eastern Bessemer converter at Republic Steel in Youngstown, Ohio. Molten iron is charged with air to change it into steel for war essentials. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
Fort Knox: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 10:36pm.
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June 1942. M-3 tank in action at Fort Knox, Kentucky. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.
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Whoosh: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 10:32pm.
December 1942. Time exposure of repair tracks of the Chicago & North Western R.R. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
Hanna Furnaces: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 07/10/2007 - 10:27pm.
November 1942. Hanna furnaces of the Great Lakes Steel Corporation, Detroit. General view showing tank which stores gas from the coke oven. Square building and extension in middle ground is where coal is fed to a feeder belt and then transferred to a storage place on top of the coke oven. The coal is then dropped into three inverted bottle-like containers and from there fed directly into the coke ovens. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Arthur Siegel.
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