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On the Tipple: 1910
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 12:33pm.
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On the tipple at the Bessie Mine, Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. These young boys work around and on these coal cars, loaded and empty, while they are running at full speed. It is dangerous. One of these boys said, "Ain't hardly a day goes by that someone don't get pinched or hurt." "I got my leg jammed a while ago and was laid up a week." Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine, 1910. View full size
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Ballooning Contest: 1908
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 07/05/2007 - 7:40am.
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An Old-Fashioned Fourth
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 8:23pm.
July 4, 1922. Takoma Park neighborhood of Maryland and the District of Columbia. View full size. National Photo Company. Happy Fourth of July from Shorpy! Is there a Takoma Parker out there who knows where this house is?
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Fort Belvoir: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 2:41am.
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Engineers' color guard at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. March 1943. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency, photographer unknown.
Parade Day: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 2:35am.
August 1942. Children stage a "patriotic demonstration" at the Beecher Street School in Southington, Conn. View full size. Kodachrome by Fenno Jacobs.
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Ella Watson: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 07/04/2007 - 2:08am.
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August 1942. Ella Watson, a charwoman employed by the government in Washington, D.C. View full size. Photograph by Gordon Parks, who took dozens of pictures of Mrs. Watson in one of his first assignments for the FSA.
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