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- Worst Part of the Day
- Puppy-dogs' tails
- Thet weren't called mangles for nothing
- Comfort level: Nil
- Alice & Jerry
- Snooze time
- Bright students
- So frilly they made me SQUEE!
- The rest of the story ...
- Fort Drum
- What's not to love
- Shorpy Filmstrip (R)
- Re: so young
- "From up here the people look like ants"
- Instant headache by first break
- Pop Quiz
- She looks so young!
- And speaking of light
- Broken promise
- From findagrave
- My Son
- Okade Coffee
- Off the Grid
- Pin Money
- Bright Eyes
- On the Grids
- Ford V8 passing a Chevy
- Those black dots on the wall
- Different genre
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Garbage Out: 1943
May 1943. "New York. Emptying garbage and trash from Harlem apartment houses." Photo by Gordon Parks, Office of War Information. View full size.
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- 6711 reads
Awning Manor: 1908
1908. "Rockingham Hotel, Portsmouth, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 6732 reads
Pabsts Past: 1900
Circa 1900. "Pabst brewery, Milwaukee." Avenue of the Beer-Wagons. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 10380 reads
Sweet Home Alabama: 1937
April 1937. "Negro houses in Mobile, Ala." Our third dispatch today from Arthur Rothstein's trip south for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
- 1 comment
- 11368 reads
Good Eats: 1937
1937. "Restaurant in Mobile, Alabama." Welcome to the Wooden Shoe, where you can order your eggs "dressed up" (but not too loudly, because it's a "Quiet Zone"). Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Resettlement Administration. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 9733 reads
Company Town: 1937
February 1937. "Company steel town. Jefferson County, Alabama." The stomping grounds of our namesake Shorpy Higginbotham, killed in a mining accident in 1928. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Resettlement Administration. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 12069 reads
Cow Boy: 1942
July 1942. East Montpelier, Vermont. "Conrad Ormsbee with automatic electric milkers. His father agreed to increase his Jersey herd from 25 to 30 milkers to aid in the Food for Freedom program." Photo by Fritz Henle. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 8571 reads
Kingfish Airflow: 1935
Washington, D.C., 1935. "Sen. Huey P. Long." The former Louisiana governor and future assassinated senator with a shiny DeSoto Airflow. View full size.
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- 11295 reads
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