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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- 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
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Favorite Daughter: 1940
May 1940. "One of the seven children of Burdell White, FSA client near Venton, Maryland." Photo by Jack Delano, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Alveda at 13
Based on 1930 and 1940 census records, this is most likely Alveda White, age 13 in 1940.
No electricity
All of the lights in the picture are kerosene lamps; this was not a home with electricity in 1940.
Down the Up Staircase
That pitch is precarious. Building codes: they do a body good.
Reflections
Looks like Jack Delano gave himself a cold shoulder.
Stairway to Heaven
From the looks of that treacherously steep stairway behind the young lady, they are making use of every inch of space in the house for seven kids.
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