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Mrs. Bryan and Mrs. Flaherty: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 4:30pm.
October 27, 1908. "Mrs. W.J. [William Jennings] Bryan and Mrs. Flaherty in carriage" in New York. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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The Excitement Begins: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 3:21pm.
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August 1938. Girls at the fair in central Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Elmer Pace: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 11:57am.
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August 1942. Corpus Christi, Texas. "Working inside the nose of a PBY, Elmer J. Pace is learning the construction of Navy planes. As a National Youth Administration trainee at the Naval Air Base, he gets practical experience. After about eight weeks, he will go into civil service as a sheet metal worker." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Howard R. Hollem. View full size.
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Lena Lochiavo: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 10:44am.
Cincinnati, August 1908. "Lena Lochiavo, 11 years old, 209 West Sixth Street. Basket [and pretzel] seller at Sixth Street Market in front of saloon entrance." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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The Reading Tree: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/07/2008 - 3:19am.
July 1939. "Negro tenant farmer reading paper on a hot Saturday afternoon. Note vegetable garden across footpath. Chatham County, North Carolina." Photograph by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Marlboro Boy: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 11:47pm.
July 1939. "Ten-year-old son of tobacco sharecropper can do a 'hand's work' at harvest time." Seen here feeding logs into the fire next to flue of the curing barn. Granville County, North Carolina. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
Granville County: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 02/06/2008 - 11:39pm.
July 1939. "Grandson of Negro tenant farmer whose father is in the penitentiary." Granville County, North Carolina. View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
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