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- 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
- 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
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Junk Men: 1941
December 1941. "Junk men with waste paper. New York City." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Not so fast, Buster!
How'd these rocks get under here?!
Columnar
High paid metals rags. Prices for paper.
A Junk Shop for Junk Men?
Perhaps there is a '4' obscured by the cart wheel (preceding the '59'). This, because at 459 W 18th Street in those days there was a Junk Shop.
Mickey's home today
If I'm correct in reading Mickey's address as 159 West 18th Street, it can be seen in Google streetview as the last remaining red brick tenement building on a nice-ish block in Chelsea, not far from the meatpacking district.
[There is no "1." The address is just two digits. - Dave]
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