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Elephant Walk: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 09/02/2007 - 8:03pm.
April 24, 1920. New York City. "Overalls Circus Parade." View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. In the background: The Cort Hotel, probably at 301 West 48th Street and Eighth Avenue. Is it still there?
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Sennett Girls: 1919
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 09/02/2007 - 1:36pm.
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"Mack Sennett girls in costume" circa 1919. Sennett, an early producer of silent films, was known as the King of Comedy for his slapstick reels. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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Coaling: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 09/01/2007 - 11:08am.
December 1942. Locomotives over the ash pit at the roundhouse and coaling station of the Chicago & North Western Railroad yards. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.
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Bessie Hicks: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 08/31/2007 - 8:24am.
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June 1911. "A Suggestion for Dependent Widows. Mrs. Bessie Hicks, a widow in the mill settlement at Matoaca, Virginia. She has no children large enough to work in the cotton mill, so she is starting a little store in her home." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Wingwoman: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 4:04pm.
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October 1942. Inglewood, California. North American Aviation drill operator in the control surface department assembling horizontal stabilizer section of an airplane. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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The Wind-Up: 1921
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 08/30/2007 - 5:49am.
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Amarillo Yardmaster: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 08/29/2007 - 11:06am.
March 1943. Yardmaster at Amarillo, Texas, railyard. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.
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