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- Shades of the Great War
- Taken very seriously
- M3A1 Scout Car
- Troubleshooting
- 5th Avenue North and 20th Street
- 20th St N & 5th Ave N, SW corner
- Clubs vs Gyms
- Black romance
- Norris Lake
- A splash of color anyone ?
- High voltage indeed.
- DANGER: time stopped ahead
- Norris Dam and reservoir
- One suggestion ...
- My hoist is bigger
- A lesson in composition
- +83
- +83
- +83
- +83
- +117
- Now I'm Satisfied
- A Barrel Of Laughs
- "Direct From European Triumphs"
- 10th Avenue bridge
- Now it's water under the bridge
- Millers and sawyers
- Two Saints walk into a bar ...
- Building ... what?
- Wondered Where Her Life Went
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Boys' Choir: 1942
"Portuguese Boy Scouts singing in New Bedford, Massachusetts." Photograph by John Collier, spring 1942. View full size.
John Collier
John Collier co-founded the Visual Anthropology Department at San Francisco University and was teaching there in the 1970s.
The amazing John Collier
Did you know that after John's stint with the FSA photographic project he went to Standard Oil with his mentor, Roy Stryker, and then became an academic? His book "Visual Anthropology: Photography as a research method" was written for anthropologists who carry cameras.
Love it! Can almost hear
Love it! Can almost hear them.
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