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The Boys of Bridgeton: 1909
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 12/03/2007 - 6:03am.
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Workers at the More-Jones Glass Co. in Bridgeton, N.J. Small boy in the middle is Harry Simpkins. The photograph is by Lewis Wickes Hine, who described the work conditions as, "dirty, noisome." November 1909. View full size.
Fort Knox: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 8:25pm.
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June 1942. M-3 tank crews at Fort Knox, Kentucky. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.
House of Tires: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 5:46pm.
March 1940. Secondhand tires for sale at a gas station in San Marcos, Texas. View full size. Medium-format safety negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
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Missouri: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 5:22pm.
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May 1938. New Madrid County, Missouri. "Wife and child of sharecropper, cut-over farmer of Mississippi bottoms." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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Cafe Texan: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 3:25pm.
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April 1939. Street scene in San Augustine, Texas. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.
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Ramallah: 1939
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 12:11am.
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Radio masts in Ramallah, British Mandate Palestine, circa 1939. 5x7 dry plate glass negative from the Matson Photo Service collection. View full size.
I Am the Oud Man: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 12/02/2007 - 12:10am.
Oud player at the Palestine Broadcasting Service studios in Jerusalem circa 1940 during the British Mandate. View full size. 5x7 acetate, Matson Photo Service.
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