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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 Insurance Lobby: 1937
Washington, D.C., circa 1937. "Lobby, Acacia Mutual Life Insurance Co. building." 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
Desk Diva
Shown early in her career developing techniques for maintaining order in a pristine lobby bereft of visitors, she later changed jobs and became way cool as seen here. Her doctoral thesis, Liberating Lavish Lobbies of Lallygaggers, was never published.
We are not alone
If you look carefully through the portal between the two columns, you can spot at least one pair of shoes with feet attached. It's nice to know that there is at least some semblance of human companionship for our otherwise lonely and isolated receptionist!
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