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The Barefoot Sweeper: 1916
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/15/2007 - 2:37am.
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15-year-old sweeper in the spinning and spooling room of Berkshire Cotton Mills. Adams, Massachusetts. July 10, 1916. View full size. Photo by Lewis Hine.
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California Here I Come: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 11:59pm.
Santa Fe freight about to leave for the West Coast from the Corwith Yard at Chicago. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. This is the freight Jack accompanied from Chicago to California in March 1943, taking many pictures along the way for the Office of War Information.
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Proviso Yard: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 11:59pm.
Classification yard at the Chicago & North Western Proviso Yard. December 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Chicago and North Western: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 11:55pm.
General view of one of the Chicago and North Western railroad yards at Chicago. December 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Black and White: 1958
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 5:58pm.
"African American high school girl being educated via television during the period that the Little Rock (Arkansas) schools were closed to avoid integration." September 1958. View full size. Photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, USNWR.
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Deadwood From Forest Hill: 1888
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 3:33pm.
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Deadwood, South Dakota, from Forest Hill. View full size. Circa 1888 photograph by John C.H. Grabill.
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Deadwood Closeup: 1888
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/14/2007 - 2:42pm.
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Deadwood, South Dakota, from Mrs. Livingston's Hill. View full size. Circa 1888 photograph by John C.H. Grabill. More Deadwood here.
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