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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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Two-Cent Cigars: 1942
January 1942. "Yauco, Puerto Rico, In a small cigar factory. These cigars are made for local consumption and sell for about two cents." Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Leftover Scraps
You can see that he's using small, chopped scraps of tobacco, almost like cigarette filler. Definitely not premium, full leaf cigars.
Fight fan
Isn't that the "Brown Bomber" to the left? Our cigar roller ooks like a fan of exciting things doing his best in a job that just might be dull.
The Fighting 69th
Based on the activities in World War I of the actual 69th Infantry Regiment from New York City, the film is about the fictional character Jerry Plunkett played by Jimmy Cagney. Watch the trailer on YouTube for more Irish clichés than you’d think could be crammed into under two minutes.
Do the Math
If the cigars retailed for two cents, he was probably paid something like a cent for every five he rolled.
Vapor Cherokee
"Steamship" Cherokee was sunk by the German navy on June 16, 1942.
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