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- 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.
- 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)
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Off Broadway: 1942
September 1942. "Batavia, New York. Elba Farm Security Administration farm labor camp. An old man who has lived all of his life near Broadway, New York City, and who was taken off relief and sent to the Elba FSA camp to work in the harvest. He said, 'There is so much suffering in the world today that mine doesn't seem so much, and I'm doing my best to help bring in Uncle Sam's crops'." 4x5 nitrate negative by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Really AnonTip?
You have homeless kids living behind your local Wal Mart? Why have you not reported them to your local state's child welfare division office? We have social programs for that the last I checked to take them in and provide foster homes. So you are wrong about comparisons. Back in the days of this photo, there really WERE homeless kids in the street and no government social safety net to provide for them. Today, we have multi-billion dollar programs to take care of them.
[These kids move around, and DCS does not have to money to buy them hotel rooms, pay their rent or build them houses. I live in a small town in Arizona that has over 300 homeless students. Last year I gave $40 to two boys living in a tent behind the grocery store. Below are some links from my own local newspaper so that you may become better-informed. - Dave]
Waterproof overshoes
Waterproof rubber overshoes are called galoshes.
Protection
After looking closely at the laces on that right boot, I think he is wearing some sort of shiny (rubber?) waterproof overshoe over his work boots.
Boo-Hooey
To those among us inclined to lament that Americans today have nothing to complain about compared to this fellow:
1. You are wrong. Homeless kids whose parents are in jail are living in cardboard boxes in the woods behind my Wal-Mart.
2. STOP YOUR WHINING.
Uncomfortable much?
Collier seems to have posed his subject over the crack between two benches.
Dapper Dan
Interesting mixture of clothing -- pinstripe suit coat, possibly bib-overalls and new work boots.
So much to ask but mostly:
I wonder what kind of jokes made this man laugh.
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