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The Long Tail: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 3:31pm.
The airship ZR-1 leaving its hangar at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey in 1923. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Center Market: 1890
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/07/2007 - 3:26pm.
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American Pineapple: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 07/06/2007 - 9:47am.
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November 1942. "An American pineapple, of the kind the Axis finds hard to digest, is ready to leave the hand of an infantryman in training at Fort Belvoir, Va." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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On the Tipple: 1910
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 1:33pm.
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On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. These young boys work around and on these coal cars, loaded and empty, while they are running at full speed. It is dangerous. One of these boys said, "Ain't hardly a day goes by that someone don't get pinched or hurt." "I got my leg jammed a while ago and was laid up a week." Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1910. View full size
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Ballooning Contest: 1908
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 8:40am.
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An Old-Fashioned Fourth
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 9:23pm.
July 4, 1922. Takoma Park neighborhood of Maryland and the District of Columbia. View full size. National Photo Company. Happy Fourth of July from Shorpy! Is there a Takoma Parker out there who knows where this house is?
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