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- Meeting at Market
- Upstairs --
- Lonely bowler
- Crypt-ic building
- Bad used cars
- Alas it is all gone now
- Ike warned us
- Spanish moss and live oak trees
- She had a neck
- In the market?
- Rear Window
- Two points
- While the cars may be good and bad.
- On the subject of necks.
- Job Opportunities
- Picture frames
- The Good, the Bad and the Not so Bad
- Did they get lost?
- Good Versus Bad
- Truth in Advertising
- Reflection of Life
- Cars and Stripes
- Van Ness Ave has changed, oh wow
- Honesty is the best policy
- The look of love.
- A town that sacrificed greatly in WWII.
- Which is which?
- Lost tradition
- They Visited Yellowstone
- RE: Headlight much?
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Miss Watts: 1902
"Watts, Miss -- between February 1901 and December 1903." Portrait of a well-rounded ingenue. 5x7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.
- 12 comments
- 7737 reads
Mama's Family: 1941
March 1941. "Negro family waiting for ride into town. Halifax County, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 5423 reads
Girl Cave: 1940
November 1940. "Home supervisor examining canned goods of FSA rehabilitation borrower in food storage cave. Labette County, Kansas." Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 5098 reads
Ice Cycle: 1941
January 1941. "Harrisonburg, Virginia." Braking at the door till someone lets it in. Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 4832 reads
Half-Pint Posse: 1941
March 1941. "Children of construction workers in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 5159 reads
Teen Idle: 1941
March 1941, somewhere in Virginia. An uncaptioned photo by John Vachon of Navy-town schoolboys shooting the breeze, possibly in Portsmouth. View full size.
Shipshape: 1941
March 1941. "Sailor's wife living in trailer camp near Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
National Cash Register: 1904
Dayton, Ohio, 1904. "Tool room of the National Cash Register Co." A case study in belt-and-pulley power transmission. George R. Lawrence Co. photo. View full size.
- 25 comments
- 9904 reads
Red Delicious: 1953
May 1953. "Entertainer Gwen Verdon dressed in a costume as Eve and surrounded by apples." Color transparency from the Look magazine assignment "The New Eve." View full size.
- 5 comments
- 4711 reads
Blue Heaven: 1941
June 1941. "Family of worker at General Electric plant in trailer home at FSA camp. Erie, Pennsylvania." Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 5284 reads
Amazon Prime: 1952
February 1952. "Actresses Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe on set and in costume for the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." Photo by Earl Theisen for Look magazine. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 7106 reads
Foot Traffic: 1941
March 1941. "Portsmouth, Virginia. Houses near Navy yard." The street last seen here. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 10 comments
- 6568 reads
A Million Stories: 1913
New York, 1913. "Manhattan looking south along Broadway from Woolworth Bldg." Skyscraper landmarks in this bird's eye view include the Singer (tallest) and Park Row (lower left) buildings. At right, the Statue of Liberty. Gelatin silver print by Irving Underhill. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 4906 reads
Test Pilot: 1958
May 1958. "Lt. Commander George Watkins in flight suit in cockpit of jet fighter." Kodachrome by Frank Bauman for the Look magazine assignment "Navy Test Pilot." View full size.
- 3 comments
- 4486 reads
House Hockey: 1941
March 1941. "Houses near Navy yard. Portsmouth, Virginia." On garbage day, when there's always a plentiful supply of pucks. Acetate negative by John Vachon. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 4457 reads
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