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Whitewash: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 11:57pm.
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1935 or 1936. "Negro cabin in Hale County, Alabama." View full size. 8x10 nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration.
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Hulett Unloader: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 11:40pm.
May 1943. A Hulett unloader at the Pennsylvania Railroad ore docks in Cleveland. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Fair Maidens: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 11:17pm.
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September 1941. At the state fair in Rutland, Vermont. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.
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Main Street: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 10:01pm.
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Summer 1938. Saturday afternoon shopping in London, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Little Fork: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 3:58pm.
August 1937. Indian pickers on way to the berry fields near Little Fork, Minn. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
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De Colores: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 4:57am.
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December 1941 or January 1942. Child of a Farm Security Administration rural rehabilitation borrower in front of his house in Puerto Rico. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the FSA.
Tower B: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 11/30/2007 - 1:50am.
May 1943. Melrose Park, Ill. Chicago & North Western towerman R.W. Mayberry of Elmhurst at the Proviso Yard. He operates a set of retarders and switches at the hump. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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