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- 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.
- 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
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On a Roll: 1942
July 1942. "Conservation. Rubber. This truck tire has run 146,000 miles. It is now planned to retread it with a life expectancy of at least half the original mileage. The tire is size 9.75 x 20, weighs 129 pounds and was run at an air pressure of 70 pounds. Miss Jean Spanitz, stenographer in the Division of Motor Transportation, Office of Defense Transportation, poses with the tire." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Albert Freeman for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Whip the Axis, rev.
But, Agfa happens to be Belgian, not quite "The Axis".
[At the time, Agfa was a part of IG Farben, a German company, although their US assets had been seized in 1941 as enemy property. -tterrace]
Classy!
Got to say, women sure dressed with style back in the day.
Oh those shoes!
Sensible, stylish, en vogue at the time. She is very well put together and I like the gap teeth! Makes for a great smile.
Miss Recap 1942
Miss Recap 1942 is riding a B.F. Goodrich Silvertown Heavy Duty.
Whip the Axis!
(But buy their film.) It was kind of the OWI to use German film for a win-the-war photo.
[An interesting point. Wikipedia: "American assets were seized during World War II as enemy property and became General Aniline and Film Corp., whose photographic products reverted to the Ansco brand name." -Dave]
Hey ! Hey!
You don't know where that tire's been.
No "Pretty Girls" tag?
This is the all-American girl.
[Done. - Dave]
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