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- Lost in Toyland
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- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
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- 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)
- Great shot
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Rowhouse Redux: 1939
Almost 40 years later, a view of the back yards last seen here.
Washington, D.C., 1939. "A view of backyards of apartment houses where both white and Negro families are living." 35mm nitrate negative by David Moffat Myers. View full size.
Reminds me of
Death of a salesman for some reason.
For gracious living I imagine
Would you prefer one galvanized washtub or two??
Mad World
Two dogs on the walkway and a cat on the bench. Inter-species sharing of the back yard.
But Where Have All The Shutters Gone?
I guess maybe they all crapped out after 40 years.
[When Your Louver Has Gone. - Dave]
Still in use
I lived in a rowhouse on the 1500 block of Park Road NW that had exactly this construction back in the 1980s. The wooden buildings in the back had been cleared out for parking.
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