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- No more tailboarding
- Ask the boy who owned one
- The car
- Usually wigwam shaped.
- It works!
- One of 149?
- Wondering
- Re: All black
- A Country Song Comes to Mind
- ... Other Rooms
- If you don't like my driving
- White Sands
- Tried so hard
- Anaglyph of Susie
- Back step Firefighters
- E-4 Before integration of DCFD
- Free Viewing
- Stayed there often in the '50s and '60s
- At last!
- Freeviewing Susie
- Stereoscope
- Lena's Story
- Two different styles of stereo pairs
- Only Kindergarten
- Stereo Pair Viewing
- Good job Popeyelegs.
- Crosseyed and Parallel
- Correction
- Down Beat
- Kid memory
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Harvest Time: 1937
1937. Salvaging coal from the slag heap at Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania. Coal pickers get 10 cents for each hundred-pound sack or two dollars a ton. One man can make from 10 to 20 sacks a day. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn.
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