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Missouri: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 1:51am.
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May 1938. "Farmer's wife with cow. Southeast Missouri." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
Are We There Yet?
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 11/27/2007 - 1:43am.
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June 1939. Migrant children heading west in the back seat of the family car somewhere east of Fort Gibson in Muskogee County, Oklahoma. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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Oh, the Places I'll Go: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 10:51pm.
June 1939. Migrant child in family car east of Fort Gibson. Muskogee County, Oklahoma. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee.
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En Route: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 10:42pm.
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June 1939. Migrant children sitting in family car east of Fort Gibson. Muskogee County, Oklahoma. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee.
Private Ruth: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 7:35pm.
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Yankees slugger Babe Ruth on May 28, 1924, at the War Department in Washington shortly after signing up for a three-year stint in the New York National Guard. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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Propellers 101
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 11:55am.
September 1942. Students at Washington High School in Los Angeles training for specific contributions to the war effort. Instructor Ralph Angar explains propeller characteristics to students in the aeronautics class. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.
Country Kitchen: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/26/2007 - 1:11am.
July 1939. Corner of a sharecropper's kitchen showing stove and butter churn. Person County, North Carolina. View full size. Photograph by Dorothea Lange.
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