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Under the El: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 1:02pm.
September 1942. "New York. Third Avenue elevated railway at 18th Street." The Shorpy Pub Crawl starts at Flynn's! Medium format negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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Table Reading: 1963
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 12:30pm.
Another visit to faux New Rochelle: Mary Tyler Moore with Carl Reiner, left, and Jerry Paris on the "Dick Van Dyke Show" set in 1963. Photo by Earl Theisen for the article "America's Favorite TV Wife" in Look magazine. View full size.
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Arterial Stop: 1937
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 05/21/2013 - 11:49am.
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June 1937. "Street corner. Black River Falls, Wisconsin." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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Tahoe Beer: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 5:41pm.
March 1940. "Genoa, Nevada. Stores on Main Street." A former Mormon outpost, Genoa was the first settlement in the Nevada Territory. Medium-format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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Top Brass: 1860s
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 3:22pm.
Man with a horn, ca. 1861-65. "Soldier in Union infantry uniform with saxhorn." Sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. View full size.
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New Flame: 1949
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 2:43pm.
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1949. "University of Michigan fraternity party." Brothers and sisters and a cozy fire. Photos by Stanley Kubrick for Look magazine. View full size.
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Hot Lead: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 05/20/2013 - 12:48pm.
September 1942. "Linotype operators in composing room of the New York Times newspaper." These machines cast lines of type (Linotype) from molten lead prior to their assembly by compositors into the printing plates that go on the presses. Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
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