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Proviso Yard: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 10:59pm.
Classification yard at the Chicago & North Western Proviso Yard. December 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Chicago and North Western: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 10:55pm.
General view of one of the Chicago and North Western railroad yards at Chicago. December 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Black and White: 1958
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 4:58pm.
"African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock (Arkansas) schools were closed to avoid integration." September 1958. View full size. Photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, USNWR.
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Deadwood From Forest Hill: 1888
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 2:33pm.
Deadwood, South Dakota, from Forest Hill. View full size. Circa 1888 photograph by John C.H. Grabill.
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Deadwood Closeup: 1888
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 1:42pm.
Deadwood, South Dakota, from Mrs. Livingston's Hill. View full size. Circa 1888 photograph by John C.H. Grabill. More Deadwood here.
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New Haven Newsies: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 2:35am.
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High school route boys for the New Haven Register. New Haven, Connecticut, March 1909. "Adolescents. Some in back row have been newsboys for seven, eight and nine years." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Two Trains: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 2:34am.
"Train of 1862 & 1924 Limited - Great Northern." 5x7 glass negative. George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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