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Spook Hill: 1940
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 01/28/2018 - 6:04pm.
March 1940. "Old mine office. Virginia City, Nevada." Medium format negative by Arthur Frankenstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Dark Garden: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/30/2017 - 9:40am.
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Winter 1938. "Cambridge, Massachusetts. Historic churchyard near Harvard Square." Medium format nitrate negative by Paul Vanderbilt. View full size.
And a Dog Named Boo: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 10/17/2017 - 12:31pm.
April 1936. "House at 1629 North Ninth Street, Milwaukee." Or should that be 1313 Mockingbird Lane? Medium format negative by Carl Mydans. View full size.
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Keeping an Open Mind: 1926
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 10:21am.
Washington, D.C., circa 1926. "Man examining skulls." Let's put our heads together and see what we can come up with. 4x5 glass negative. View full size.
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The Black Cat: 1936
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 10/31/2016 - 9:43am.
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Summer 1936. "Cat on porch of a sharecropper's cabin, Hale County, Alabama." Photo by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Pumpkin-Hound: 1923
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/31/2014 - 9:04am.
Washington, D.C., or vicinity, 1923. "Getting ready for Halloween, and it's nobody's business where he got the pumpkin." Jack-o-lantern carving in the field with a boy and his dog. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
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Seven Skulls: 1927
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 10/31/2014 - 3:19am.
Washington, D.C., circa 1927. "NO CAPTION (man with skull display)." Friends of the family, no doubt. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
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Bones: 1938
Submitted by Dave on Thu, 10/31/2013 - 3:51pm.
Circa 1938. "Philadelphia. Window of a medical supply house near Market and Twenty-Third Street." Photo by Paul Vanderbilt. View full size.
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