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Soda Jerker: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 10:40pm.
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February 1939. Corpus Christi, Texas. "Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes." View full size. Photo by Russell Lee. And make mine a double.
Madonna of the Spuds: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 2:20am.
December 1943. "Lynn Massman, wife of a second-class petty officer who is studying in Washington, preparing dinner." View full size. Photograph by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information.
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School Days: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 09/20/2007 - 2:16am.
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August 1938. "Child studying in school, Southeast Missouri Farms." Printed from a 35mm nitrate negative by FSA photographer Russell Lee. View full size.
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Baby Elephant Dentist: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 2:59pm.
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Robert Ellen pulling the tooth of baby elephant "Futz" in 1924. View full size. 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection.
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Lowell, Massachusetts: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 12:39pm.
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January 1941. Middlesex Street in the textile mill center of Lowell, Massachusetts. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.
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Trinity Bootblacks: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 12:49am.
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July 25, 1924. "Some of the young bootblacks working around Trinity Church, New York City." View full size. Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Cheney Silk: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 12:44am.
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1924. South Manchester, Connecticut. "Cheney Silk Mills. Favorable working conditions." View full size. This picture, one of the last photographs Lewis Wickes Hine made over the span of some 16 years for the National Child Labor Committee, is among the relatively few he took using film.
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