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- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
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- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
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- Icing Platform?
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- Fallen Flags
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Amite City: 1935
October 1935. Young residents of Amite City, Louisiana. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Keerless Love: 1935
October 1935. Scotts Run, West Virginia. Doped singer: "Love, oh love, oh keerless love." Relief investigator reported a number of dope cases at Scotts Run. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative and caption by Ben Shahn for the FSA.
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Harmonica Boy: 1937
1937. "Boy playing mouth organ. Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina." 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Ready to Rock: 1937
1937. Cabinetmaker's workshop in Skyline Farms, Alabama. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
Sunday School: 1937
1937. Sunday School at Penderlea Farms, a Resettlement Administration project in North Carolina. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn.
Main Street: 1938
Summer 1938. Saturday afternoon shopping in London, Ohio. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration.
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Watching the World Go By: 1938
Summer 1938. Passing the time outside the bus station in Marion, Ohio. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Say Cheeseburger: 1938
August 1938. "Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Ozark Mother: 1935
October 1935. "Poverty on the march." Wife and child of destitute Ozark family in Arkansas. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn. View full size.
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Ozark Boy: 1935
October 1935. Son of destitute Ozark family on the road in Arkansas. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
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Lowest Price in Town Sale: 1938
Summer 1938. Drugstore window in Newark, Ohio. View full size. Photograph (35mm nitrate negative) by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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The Pause That Refreshes
September 1935. Resident of Smithland, Kentucky. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
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Red House Kids: 1935
"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
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
"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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