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Cal and Car: 1924
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 6:40pm.
August 14, 1924. President Calvin Coolidge and his radio-equipped Buick automobile in Washington. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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New Brunswick: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 6:39pm.
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February 1936. "Narrow street in New Brunswick, New Jersey." View full size. 3¼x4¼ nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Farm Security Administration.
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Making Sparks Fly: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 11/13/2007 - 1:31pm.
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June 1942. Boiler welder at Combustion Engineering in Chattanooga, Tennessee. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
Long Beach: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 1:14pm.
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October 1942. "American mothers and sisters, like these women at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Long Beach, California, give important help in producing dependable planes for their men at the front." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.
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Lighter Than Air: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 12:08pm.
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May 1942. Marines training in barrage balloon technique at Parris Island, South Carolina. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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The Summer of ’36
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 11/12/2007 - 2:32am.
Summer 1936. Children of sharecropper Frank Tengle at their Hale County, Alabama, cabin. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Walker Evans.
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Family Portrait: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 11/11/2007 - 10:27pm.
Summer of 1936. William Edward "Bud" Fields, wife Lily Rogers Fields and infant daughter Lilian at their sharecropper cabin in Hale County, Alabama. Photograph by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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