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Lock Up Your Daughters: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 2:02am.
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July 1940. Migrant cherry picker in front of tent home. Berrien County, Michigan. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.
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The Simple Life: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 1:25am.
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July 1938. "Housing conditions in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, home of the American Bridge Company." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein.
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Too Much Excitement: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 01/09/2008 - 12:02am.
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1941. At the picnic grounds in Vale, Oregon. "Interlude, after watching the Fourth of July parade." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee.
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Berrien Cherriers: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 10:34pm.
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July 1940. "Automobile of migrant cherry pickers. Berrien County, Michigan." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the FSA.
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Youth Council: 1942
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 10:16pm.
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Spring 1942. Young people at the Imperial County Fair near El Centro, California. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the FSA.
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Going Places: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 8:05pm.
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Summer 1938. At the bus station in Marion, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Floyd's Place: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 8:04pm.
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Summer 1938. More of Floyd's Place: "Roadside inn, Central Ohio. The figure of the body, originally distributed to advertise the Newark Indian Mounds, has been redecorated." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the FSA.
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