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Right Smart Two Years: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 2:14am.
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October 1908. Gastonia, North Carolina. Boy from Loray Mill. "Been at it right smart two years." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Sad Linty Luther: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/22/2008 - 2:10am.
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April 1913. Lindale, Georgia. "Luther Dories. Been doffing some months in Spinning Room #2, Massachusetts Mills. Said 12 years old, but very doubtful. Father and brother work." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Apple Turnover: 1926
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 10:09pm.
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Washington, D.C., 1926 or 1927. "Liberty Pie Company truck wreck." 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.
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Conrad Espew: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 6:08pm.
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1921. Washington, D.C. "Conrad Espew, George Washington University." 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size. Anyone out there have an old GW yearbook? I wonder if Espew is really anyone's last name.
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What a Dump: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 12:14pm.
May 1943. Pennsylvania R.R. iron ore docks, Cleveland. "After the ore is weighed in the Hulett unloader it is dropped in the waiting hopper cars below." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the OWI. View full size.
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Jeff Miller: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/21/2008 - 9:34am.
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October 1913. Houston, Texas. "Jeff Miller. A young delivery boy for Magnolia Pharmacy. This is especially bad for him as he has recently returned from the Seabrook Reform School where he had spent a year. He would not tell me why he was sent there." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Fight for Freedom: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 02/20/2008 - 11:56pm.
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Washington, 1943. "United Nations Fight for Freedom: Colored, white and Chinese Boy Scouts in front of Capitol. They help out by delivering posters to help the war effort." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Rous for the Office of War Information. What photo expert out there can tell us about the numbers on these Kodachromes -- how and at what point in the manufacturing/ exposure/ developing process they were made, and what they signify.
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