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Memorial Day: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/28/2007 - 4:13pm.
May 1942. Patriotic display at the Beecher Street School in Southington, Conn. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Fenno Jacobs.
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Mustang in Flight: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/28/2007 - 3:18pm.
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P-51 "Mustang" fighter in flight near the Inglewood, California, plant of North American Aviation. October 1942. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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Angel of History: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/28/2007 - 4:02am.
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Fulton Fish Market: 1954
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/28/2007 - 3:32am.
Still life with ice and shrimp: The Fulton Fish Market in 1954. View full size. Photograph by Walter Albertin of the New York World Telegram.
Tuskegee Airmen: 1945
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/28/2007 - 3:23am.
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332nd Fighter Group airmen at a briefing in Ramitelli, Italy. March 1945. Foreground: Emile G. Clifton of San Francisco and Richard S. "Rip" Harder of Brooklyn. View full size. Photograph by Toni Frissell.
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High Desert: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/27/2007 - 11:20pm.
Sagebrush and mountains in northern New Mexico, 1943. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Collier.
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Evelyn: 1916
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/27/2007 - 3:03am.
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Evelyn Casey, 129 Gaynore Street. Age fourteen years, six months - Irish. Went to work on 14th birthday cleaning harnesses in Borden Mills. Left because of no work and expects to learn weaving in Flint mill with a girl friend. Location: Fall River, Massachusetts. June 17, 1916. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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