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- I Thought
- No. 7 v. No. 13
- Don't forget where we parked the car, Hon
- 80 years later —
- Double Cola Clocks
- Um, er
- Sold American
- Luckies 2 to 1
- Coke-lectable
- Pads of Tobacco
- Times long gone in Durham
- Mascots
- Let the games begin.
- Jocks and Bobby Socks
- A Streetcar Named Diner
- The Armory Building
- Banged Up
- Alas, Alas
- Rug or rag?
- Creepy Nun
- Pictures I love
- Classic Coke
- Scared Me
- I'll be buried in 'em
- The lost art of conversation
- Tough classes in college
- Can it be?
- Hope they quit that terrible addiction of smoking
- Most of the guys I knew
- Walking Wounded
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Vintage photos of:
New York Nuns: 1938
New York, 1938. "Convent on East 63rd Street." The Dominican Convent of Our Lady of the Rosary. Medium format negative by Sheldon Dick. View full size.
- 8 comments
- 5106 reads
The Cumberland: 1906
1906. "Margaret Street north from Cumberland Hotel, Plattsburgh, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 6 comments
- 3970 reads
Water Over the Bridge: 1897
Circa 1897. "Mexican Central Railway -- the Aqueduct at Queretaro." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 3170 reads
On the Tomoka: 1894
Florida circa 1894. "Misenor's Landing on the Tomoka." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson of Detroit Photographic. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 3484 reads
Going Native: 1890
Indian River County, Florida, circa 1890. "Dawson's, Gem Island, Indian River." The homestead of Lewis Bebee Dawson (1836-1904) and two young men, one of them possibly his son Lewis Mills Dawson (1877-1907). 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size.
- 1 comment
- 3835 reads
Sunday Swimmers: 1942
July 1942. "Washington, D.C. Sunday swimmers at the municipal swimming pool." Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information. View full size.
- 9 comments
- 5704 reads
The Typing Pool: 1939
May 1939. "School students in typing class. Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
- 17 comments
- 8014 reads
Dot & Liz: 1939
May 1939. "Dorothy Smith and Elizabeth Atkinson setting table in home economics room in school building. Ashwood Plantations, South Carolina." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 5682 reads
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