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Garbage Out: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/27/2014 - 10:37pm.
May 1943. "New York. Emptying garbage and trash from Harlem apartment houses." Photo by Gordon Parks, Office of War Information. View full size.
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Awning Manor: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/27/2014 - 5:17pm.
1908. "Rockingham Hotel, Portsmouth, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
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Pabsts Past: 1900
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/27/2014 - 3:34pm.
Circa 1900. "Pabst brewery, Milwaukee." Avenue of the Beer-Wagons. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
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Sweet Home Alabama: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/26/2014 - 1:10pm.
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April 1937. "Negro houses in Mobile, Ala." Our third dispatch today from Arthur Rothstein's trip south for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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Good Eats: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/26/2014 - 12:33pm.
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1937. "Restaurant in Mobile, Alabama." Welcome to the Wooden Shoe, where you can order your eggs "dressed up" (but not too loudly, because it's a "Quiet Zone"). Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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Company Town: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/26/2014 - 12:22pm.
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February 1937. "Company steel town. Jefferson County, Alabama." The stomping grounds of our namesake Shorpy Higginbotham, killed in a mining accident in 1928. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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Cow Boy: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 07/25/2014 - 11:25pm.
July 1942. East Montpelier, Vermont. "Conrad Ormsbee with automatic electric milkers. His father agreed to increase his Jersey herd from 25 to 30 milkers to aid in the Food for Freedom program." Photo by Fritz Henle. View full size.
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