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Brooklyn Bridge: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 6:22am.
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High Voltage: 1942
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June 1942. Working on power transmission and utility lines near the TVA hydro- electric plant at Chickamauga Dam or Douglas Dam, Tennessee. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.
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Civil War Signal Tower: 1864
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 05/20/2007 - 6:09am.
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia. Signal tower on left of the line near the Appomattox River. Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Wet collodion glass plate. View full size | Even larger. Signal towers, employed by both the Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War to transmit coded messages, used flags by day and torches by night.
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Williamsburg Bridge: 1903
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Pat Connelly: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 4:33pm.
New York, November 13, 1909. "Irish wrestler Pat Connelly." 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Time to Make the Donuts
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June 1942. Truck driver at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam. View full size. Amazing 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.
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Philadelphia Story: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 05/19/2007 - 12:07am.
Chicago moviegoers waiting to see "The Philadelphia Story" starring Stewart, Grant and Hepburn. April 1941. View full size. Photograph by Russell Lee.
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