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Red House Kids: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 2:53pm.
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"School youngsters. Red House, West Virginia." October 1935. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Omar Boy: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 3:29am.
October 1935. "Coal miner's child." Omar, West Virginia. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Hammond Girl: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/21/2007 - 3:27am.
"Child of strawberry picker. Hammond, Louisiana." October 1935. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photo by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Maynardville Men: 1935
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 11:09pm.
October 1935. Men of Maynardville, Tennessee. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Finger First Aid: 1917
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 10:14pm.
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February 1, 1917. An injured finger gets bandaged in the infirmary of the Hood Rubber Co. in Cambridge, Mass. View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Southern Gothic: 1830-1960
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 5:53pm.
Stair to attic from the second-floor hallway at Woodburn, a circa 1830 plantation house in South Carolina, before its restoration in 1960. View full size. Photograph by Jack Boucher, Historic American Buildings Survey.
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The Stuff Under the Stairs
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 08/20/2007 - 5:50pm.
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Detail view of this shot of the attic stairs at Woodburn. Photograph by Jack Boucher, Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.
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