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Give Him The Best You've Got: 1942
Submitted by Ken on Fri, 09/28/2007 - 10:14am.
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Kenneth Hall, a Tennessee Valley Authority worker, eating lunch. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June 1942. View full size.
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Coney Island: c. 1904
Submitted by Ken on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 12:59pm.
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Project Management: 1958
Submitted by Ken on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 2:24pm.
Movie theater projectionist somewhere in the Washingon, D.C., area. Photograph by Marion S. Trikosko, 1958. View full size.
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Man and the Sea: 1942
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 2:02pm.
A Portuguese dory fisherman rows his boat out at 4:30 a.m. leave for the banks off Cape Cod. Photograph by John Collier, 1942. View full size.
Laughter and Tears: 1942
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 09/25/2007 - 1:51pm.
Children get milk or tomato juice after their nap at the nursery school at Queensbridge housing project in Queens, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June 1942. View full size.
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Pull Down Tear Up: 1942
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 2:52pm.
Children wash before lunch at the nursery school at the Red Hook housing project community center in Brooklyn, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June 1942. View full size.
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Can You Hear the Bitter Cry of Children
Submitted by Ken on Mon, 09/24/2007 - 11:26am.
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Using some of the photos posted on Shorpy, reader Dale Caruso put together this touching audio slide show on child workers at the turn of the century. Thanks for sharing Dale.
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