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Percy Neville: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/29/2007 - 4:53am.
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November 1913. Shreveport, Louisiana. "Percy Neville, 11 years old. Messenger boy #6 for Mackay Telegraph Company. He has been messenger for different companies for four years. Goes to the Reservation [red light district] every day." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Chiaroscuro: 1909
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/28/2007 - 10:43pm.
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November 1909. "Night scene, Wheaton Glass Works." Blowing bottles in Millville, New Jersey. View full size. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.
Gotcha: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 10/28/2007 - 2:56pm.
Rat meets rat catcher in New York circa 1920. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress.
Mermaid Club: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 11:52pm.
"Mermaid Club, Philadelphia." Members in bathing suits circa 1920. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Harriot Stanton Blatch: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 4:26pm.
July 30, 1913, New York. Suffragist Harriot Stanton Blatch in the front seat of a Cole touring car with (from left) Susan Fitzgerald, Emma Bugbee and Maggie Murphy. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Polar Express: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 1:37am.
December 1942. Proviso classification yard of the Chicago & North Western Railroad. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
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Oyster Bay: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 10/27/2007 - 12:40am.
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September 1908. "Invited guests going to Roosevelt house on foot and by carriage" at Sagamore Hill, the president's estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection.
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