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Mermaid Club: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 10:52pm.
"Mermaid Club, Philadelphia." Members in bathing suits circa 1920. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Harriot Stanton Blatch: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 3:26pm.
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July 30, 1913, New York. Suffragist Harriot Stanton Blatch in the front seat of a Cole touring car with (from left) Susan Fitzgerald, Emma Bugbee and Maggie Murphy. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Polar Express: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 12:37am.
December 1942. Proviso classification yard of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Oyster Bay: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/26/2007 - 11:40pm.
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September 1908. "Invited guests going to Roosevelt house on foot and by carriage" at Sagamore Hill, the president's estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Immigrant Arrival: 1907
Submitted by Ken on Fri, 10/26/2007 - 6:23am.
Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, New York. Photo from the George Grantham Bain collection, 1907. View full size.
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New York Tenement: 1912
Submitted by Ken on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 9:21pm.
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A Jewish family works on garters in the kitchen of a New York City tenement home. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine, November, 1912. View full size.
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Boys' Choir: 1942
Submitted by Ken on Wed, 10/24/2007 - 10:44am.
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"Portuguese Boy Scouts singing in New Bedford, Massachusetts." Photograph by John Collier, spring 1942. View full size.
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