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Meet the Yankees: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 03/16/2008 - 2:21am.
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"Yankee group, 1921." More of the basketball-playing Yankees in Washington, D.C. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Tom Collins: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 9:08pm.
November 1936. Arvin migratory farm workers' camp in Kern County, California. "Tom Collins, manager of Kern migrant camp, with drought refugee family." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. View full size.
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Mildred's Place: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 9:47am.
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October 1938 at the Alamo. "Mildred Irwin, saloon singer at North Platte, Nebraska. She entertained for 20 years in Omaha before coming to North Platte." Medium-format safety negative by John Vachon. View full size.
Letter from John Vachon to his wife, Penny:
October 29, 1938
Last night I had an adventure. Of the 1st water. To have it I had to get kind of stiff. And I did, dear. Pretty plastered. But it was all in the line of duty, eminently legitimate and justifiable. About eight o'clock I went into a corner saloon. It was a saloon in the grand tradition. I drank only beer, but great gobs of it. At the piano was a big huge large fat blonde woman of 45 to 50 yrs. With beautiful smeary red makeup on her puss, and huge mammy type bosoms. And her voice, O that you could hear her voice. She has Sophie Tucker in the wastebasket . . .
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Waiting for the Oranges: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 03/15/2008 - 9:16am.
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November 1936. "Drought refugee from Polk, Missouri. Awaiting the opening of orange picking season at Porterville, California." View full size. Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
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Where's Adolf?
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 11:19pm.
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May 1942. Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. "Hitler would like this man to go home and forget about the war. A good American non-com at the side machine gun of a huge YB-17 bomber is a man who knows his business and works hard at it." View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency: Alfred Palmer.
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The Simple Life: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 7:17pm.
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December 1936. "Washstand in house occupied by married hired hand and his wife. Harry Madsen farm near Dickens, Iowa. Three hundred sixty acres, owner-operated." View full size. Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee.
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Country Kitchen: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 10:49am.
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December 1936. "Farmer's wife churning butter. Emmet County, Iowa." Medium-format nitrate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
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