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Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 11:45pm.
"Man operating water tricycle" (Supplemented by wind power?) Circa 1913. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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The Office: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 11:42pm.
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"Boxing mail in the New York post office." View full size. Circa 1913. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. Note the spittoon.
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Office Hi-Lites: 2007
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 6:31pm.
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Along the lines of the Beaver Letter, we're excited to present the Jim Letter from the opening credits of "The Office." You might think it would have something to do with the Dunder Mifflin paper company's Scranton branch, but actually it's a Los Angeles Department of City Planning (zoning) document showing revisions to the L.A. Municipal Code. Specifically, Section 12.22.C.20(f).
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We Mean Your People No Harm
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 5:12pm.
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June 1942. Electrical transformer at the TVA Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
Onem, Jack and Jesse: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 3:51pm.
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Oklahoma City. March 14, 1917. Jack Ryan, 6 years old and Jesse Ryan, 10 years old. Onem Smith, 12 years old and lives at 1506 S. Robinson St. Onem said: "I never have been in school in my life but I got a pretty good education - sellin' papers." View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Gone Fishin'
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 2:04am.
June 1940. Cajun boys fishing in the bayou near Schriever, Louisiana, not far from the Terrebonne Parish School. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Marion Post Wolcott, Farm Security Administration.
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Chickamauga: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 06/27/2007 - 1:52am.
Generator hall of the Chickamauga Dam powerhouse near Chattanooga, Tenn. June 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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