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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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The Crying Boy: 1920
"Boy Crying (1920)" is all the caption card has to say about this enigmatic scene. Cheer up, Bub. View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
Back to school
Boy on the first day back to school after summer vacation?
I think he's crying because
... someone dumped a bag of powdered sugar on him.
The real reason
Those aren't smudges in the picture around his shirt; it's smoke. He's seconds away from spontaneous human combustion.
"How do I get to the Susquehanna Hat Company?"
Nope, He Just Found Out...
The 1919 World Series was fixed.
He just found out
there would be no jello for dessert either!
Are you sure he's crying?
Are you sure he's crying? Maybe he's laughing really hard and the tears are running down his cheeks because he just watched someone slip on a banana peel or something...
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