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- $9,600
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The Corduroy Kid: 1941
December 1941. "New York, New York. Children playing in Washington Square." Photo by Edwin Rosskam for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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Washington Square: 1941
December 1941. "New York, New York. Evening in Washington Square." Photo by Edwin Rosskam for the Office of War Information. View full size.
- 1 comment
- 3089 reads
Knock, Knock: 1939
January 1939. "Businesses in Mound Bayou, Mississippi." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 9 comments
- 5281 reads
The Letter: 1939
July 1939. "In the post office on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina." Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.
The Ascent of Man: 1943
July 1943. Montgomery County, Maryland. "Climbing the ladder to the sliding board at the Glen Echo swimming pool." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 2866 reads
Silver Eagle: 1934
New York circa 1934. "Margaret Bourke-White with her camera atop a stainless steel eagle projecting from the sixty-first floor of the Chrysler Building, overlooking Manhattan and the Hudson River." Gelatin silver print from a photograph by Bourke-White's darkroom assistant Oscar Graubner. Her backdrop is Rockefeller Center's RCA Building, completed in 1933. View full size.
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- 14119 reads
The Junkman Cometh: 1942
October 1942. Chicago, Illinois. "Salvage. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills." Medium format nitrate negative by Ann Rosener for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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Franklin Pirate: 1930
San Francisco circa 1930. "Franklin Series 147 'Pirate' Touring Phaeton on Gough Street at Lafayette Park." 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
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