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- Someone made way with the Stained Glass
- Price point
- Still a Tourist Home
- It's remarkably unchanged
- Baskets
- Mine!
- Guest House
- Very nice and tidy but ...
- Guest house?
- A Visual Time Machine!
- That civilian on the left
- The diet killer
- Mason's Island
- Time warp
- Colorize, please
- Distance matters
- Dichotomy
- Desperate times
- 37th Infantry Division
- Two-Barbers Riddle
- Just for grins
- I see what you did there —
- Bluefield section of Welch
- The Barber
- Tricks of the trade
- Perspective not so wild
- Webmaster Request
- French Royalty for the Union
- "Was that 'Right Face'?"
- Large Windows
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Coal Hole: 1938
September 1938. "Coal mining community near Welch, West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
Welcome to Welch: 1938
September 1938. "Coal mining town of Welch, in the Bluefield section of West Virginia." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 3829 reads
Terminal Station: 1910
New Orleans circa 1910. "Terminal Station, Canal Street." Demolished in 1956. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 9 comments
- 5542 reads
Over the Oconee: 1941
November 1941. "Greene County, Georgia. Railroad tracks across the Oconee River." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
- 15 comments
- 5057 reads
Beacon Beckons: 1902
Dutchess County, New York, circa 1902. "Mount Beacon Casino and power house, Fishkill-on-the-Hudson, N.Y." At right, a car of the Mount Beacon Incline Railway. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 6174 reads
Enosburg Falls: 1941
September 1941. "Small town scenes in Vermont. Locomotive passing through Enosburg Falls." Medium format negative by Jack Delano. View full size.
- 12 comments
- 7060 reads
River Traffic: 1898
The Mississippi River circa 1898. "Winona, Minnesota. The levee below the bridge." At left, the sternwheeler Lafayette Lamb. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photgraphic Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 4083 reads
Winter Wonderland: 1941
January 1941. "The end of the afternoon shift at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Corporation. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 6789 reads
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