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Eats, Liquors: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 03/01/2014 - 11:57am.
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March 1943. "Ash Fork, Arizona. Pulling into the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railyard." With much helpful signage. Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.
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Needle's Eye: 1943
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March 1943. Needles, California. "General view of street leading to depot of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad." Photo by Jack Delano. View full size.
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For the Ladies: 1912
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/28/2014 - 7:42pm.
Washington, D.C., circa 1912. "National Safe Deposit Savings & Trust Co., 15th St. & New York Avenue." Note the PUBLIC TOILET FOR WOMEN, possibly for a parade. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Le Grand Pont: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/28/2014 - 1:05pm.
June 30, 1910. "Traveling bridge - Marseilles, France." 5x7 acetate negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Above the Nixon: 1914
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 02/28/2014 - 9:25am.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1914. "Sixth Avenue above the Nixon Theatre." Home to the Nixon Cafe. Note the theater's "digital" carriage call. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
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Technocracy Inc.: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 2:53pm.
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August 1939. Josephine County, Oregon. "New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of North America and formation of 'energy units,' which had widespread vogue in the early years of Depression." Another of Dorothea Lange's quirky-sign photos. View full size.
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Chretien Point: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 02/27/2014 - 1:32pm.
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1938. "Chretien Point Plantation, Sunset vicinity, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. Structure dates to 1831." Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. View full size.
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