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Hollywood Hopefuls II: 1925
May 25, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Applicants to Paramount Motion Picture School. The school will be housed in the Paramount Eastern Studio at Astoria, Long Island." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Who Wants Serum?
![July 8, 1926. Washington, D.C. "Miss Hattie E. Alexander & Mrs. S.A. Carlin testing serum." View full size. National Photo Company Collection. [Update: A few years after this photo was taken, Hattie (on the left) would become Dr. Alexander. As president of the American Pediatric Society in the 1960s, she was among the first women to head a major medical association.]](https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/16044u.preview.jpg "Who Wants Serum?")
July 8, 1926. Washington, D.C. "Miss Hattie E. Alexander & Mrs. S.A. Carlin testing serum." View full size. National Photo Company Collection. [Update: A few years after this photo was taken, Hattie (on the left) would become Dr. Alexander. As president of the American Pediatric Society in the 1960s, she was among the first women to head a major medical association.]
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Pterodactyl: 1922
January 18, 1922. More of the "Naval Curtiss bombing plane" at Fort McNair. View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Tom Hook: 1924
Washington, D.C. "Tom Hook, Eastern High, 1924." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress.
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Naval Bombing Plane: 1922
January 18, 1922. Fort McNair, Washington, D.C. "Naval Curtiss bombing plane at War College." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Tax Man: 1929
May 20, 1929. Washington, D.C. "Secretary Mellon laying cornerstone of Internal Revenue building." View full size. National Photo Company Collection.
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D.C. Dog Catcher: 1924
Four Pots a Day: 1913
February 1913. Bluffton, S.C. Oyster shuckers at Lowden Canning. "Ten-year old Frank. Shucks four pots a day." View full size. Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine.
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Lt. Custer and Pvt. Pup: 1862
May 20, 1862. "The Peninsula, Virginia. The staff of Gen. Fitz-John Porter; Lts. William G. Jones and George A. Custer reclining." Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war: the Peninsular Campaign, May-August 1862. Wet plate glass negative, half of stereograph pair, by James F. Gibson. View full size.
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Mona Cornelia: 1896
New York, 1896. Cornelia Montgomery in a studio portrait by Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934). 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
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Nick Grillo: 1942
May 1942. Southington, Connecticut. "As a boy in Italy, Nick Grillo dreamed of America and its opportunity. He saved enough money for boat passage to this country. Today, after 22 years, he is one of the world's outstanding floriculturists, developer of the famous Thornless Rose, an age-old dream of his craft." Medium format Kodachrome transparency by Fenno Jacobs. View full size.
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Aeronautic Girls: 1929
September 9, 1929. "Girls of Aeronautic Division, Department of Commerce." View full size. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.
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Jack Smith: 1924
Pratt Wig-Wag: 1917
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L'Ecole Culinaire: 1917
New York, August 9, 1917. "Teaching Army cooks, Pratt Institute." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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