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- Fender Roads
- Santa Lucia Plantation
- Nice "Trike"
- Designed to impress
- Wasp waist
- Nice Bike
- Shhh
- Two things --
- SIX SECONDS OF HISTORY
- A slot rail in the middle?
- Quaint
- Re: My Favorite Year
- A perfect scene!
- John McGiver comes to mind
- The Bank Block is still half there (right side).
- Decapitated
- Busy town
- Animal Crackers
- My Favorite Year
- Their town
- I wanna know ...
- Left Bank
- No hurryin', but maybe Russian?
- Stack 'Em Up
- What's in a name
- Some things that caught my eye
- No Comment(s)
- Dark swoosh
- Also Use “Zeff” for Malaria
- Rock Island Line
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Fully Involved: 1939
January 1939. "Lake Harbor, Florida. Negro agricultural laborers watching one of their houses burn to the ground. All they have left is piled on the ground." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Indefinitely Suspended
On my third time back to this breathtakingly dramatic image, I am left wondering what was the purpose of the pieces of wood hanging from the roof of next cabin?
[Those are metal gutters for filling the cisterns below. - Dave]
Like a house on fire
This image has been haunting me for the last two days. I’m fortunate that I do not live in an era or place where houses burn down like that with any frequency. I don’t mean to sound overly dramatic, but the house thoroughly consumed by flame has an apocalyptic look to it.
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