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What Goes Up: 1926
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 1:24am.
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Montgomery County, Maryland. The roller coaster at Glen Echo Park in 1926. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Messenger 43: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 8:18pm.
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Houston, Texas. October 1913. "Fourteen-year-old Western Union Messenger #43. Works until 10:30 p.m. Goes to Reservation [red light district] some." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
Laredo: 1941
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 6:50pm.
August 1941. Laredo, Montana. "Farm Security Administration borrower and 2 of his children." View full size. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott.
Avant-Garden: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 3:34pm.
July 15, 1921. Our third photo of the treetop table at the Krazy Kat club in Washington. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. (Coming Monday: Details on the Krazy Kat and one of the notables who ran it.)
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Nutrition Division: 1920
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 2:45pm.
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Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Nutrition Division, Bureau of Chemistry, Department of Agriculture." View full size. National Photo Company.
Broad Channel: 1915
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 5:06am.
"Dinner at Broad Channel." Summer cottage in the Jamaica Bay, Queens, island community circa 1915. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Branch Office: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 4:37am.
July 15, 1921. More strange goings-on at the Krazy Kat. Our waiter has a ball and chain dangling from his sleeve. National Photo Company. View full size.
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