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Wall Street: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 2:09am.
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Immobile Home: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 4:14am.
March 1936. "One-room hut housing a family of nine built on the chassis of an abandoned Ford in a field between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee, near the river." 35mm nitrate negative by Carl Mydans. View full size.
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Hobo Jungle: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 4:13am.
A hobo jungle along the riverfront in St. Louis, Missouri. March 1936. Medium format nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size.
Wheel of Fire: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 4:13am.
Re-tiring a locomotive driver wheel in the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe railway shops at Shopton, near Fort Madison, Iowa. March 1943. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Cannonballs: 1862
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 4:11am.
Magazine and cannonballs at Battery Rodgers, Alexandria, defending Washington during the Civil War, circa 1863. View full size. Half of stereograph pair.
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Rabbit Maranville: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 1:17am.
Boston Nationals shortstop Walter "Rabbit" Maranville, twenty-one years old. April 12, 1913. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Little Angels: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 05/03/2007 - 1:16am.
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Baby girl of family living on Natchez Trace Project, near Lexington, Tennessee. March 1936. View full size. Photograph by Carl Mydans.
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