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Didn't I Have Six Dice?
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 12:33pm.
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Jack on Hay Rake: 1915
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 8:20am.
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"Eight-year old Jack driving horse rake. A small boy has difficulty keeping his seat on rough ground and this work is more or less dangerous." August 1915, western Massachusetts. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Big Pete: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 1:04am.
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June 1942. "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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A Place in the Sun: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 12:42am.
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Ponderosa: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 5:56pm.
A dead but picturesque pine tree frames this view of Moreno Valley in Colfax County, New Mexico. February 1943. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome trans- parency: John Collier, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information.
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Hit the Grit: 1905
Submitted by Ken on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 2:51pm.
Circa 1905. "Tramps fighting on R.R. train -- Get down and hit the grit." Bain News Service reproduction of a Brown Bros. print. View full size.
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Dandelions and Daisies: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 05/23/2007 - 2:20pm.
A springtime carpet of dandelions and daisies in Vermont, June 1943. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Collier. I see clover and daisies, but nothing that looks very dandeliony to me. Are the orange flowers dandelions?
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