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Tax Man: 1929
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 5:50pm.
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May 20, 1929. Washington, D.C. "Secretary Mellon laying cornerstone of Internal Revenue building." View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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D.C. Dog Catcher: 1924
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Four Pots a Day: 1913
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February 1913. Bluffton, S.C. Oyster shuckers at Lowden Canning. "Ten-year old Frank. Shucks four pots a day." View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Lt. Custer and Pvt. Pup: 1862
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 8:31pm.
May 20, 1862. "The Peninsula, Virginia. The staff of Gen. Fitz-John Porter; Lts. William G. Jones and George A. Custer reclining." Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war: the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Wet plate glass negative, half of stereograph pair, by James F. Gibson. View full size.
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Mona Cornelia: 1896
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 6:34pm.
New York, 1896. Cornelia Montgomery in a studio portrait by Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934). 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
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Nick Grillo: 1942
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May 1942. Southington, Connecticut. "As a boy in Italy, Nick Grillo dreamed of America and its opportunity. He saved enough money for boat passage to this country. Today, after 22 years, he is one of the world's outstanding floriculturists, developer of the famous Thornless Rose, an age-old dream of his craft." Medium format Kodachrome transparency by Fenno Jacobs. View full size.
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Aeronautic Girls: 1929
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 11:07am.
September 9, 1929. "Girls of Aeronautic Division, Department of Commerce." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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