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- Moo
- Any way you slice it
- Please, sir, I want some more.
- Food Science
- Where oh where?
- Hollenden habitué
- Everything's happening
- Outnumbered
- From the home of Cabbage to the home of the Cavs
- Exposure time
- To Mars in an Airship
- Cod, sacred
- ReClock
- Clock
- Cheap R.R. Tickets
- What are they?
- By threes
- Twinning
- Clock is still there
- That fellow on the left,
- Beach bonfire in waiting
- A little traveling music professor, if you please
- More Evidence
- Still there
- If this was a drawing
- Forward to 1995
- A man from another era
- Fun & Frolic
- More still there than expected
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Railroads, The Gallery
Old Coggers: 1906
New Hampshire circa 1906. "Taking trains of Mount Washington Railway at base station, White Mountains." A cog railway to the highest peak in the Northeast. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
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Dakota Depot: 1940
October 1940. "Rail depot in Burlington, North Dakota." The station last glimpsed here. Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 5618 reads
Milk Runners: 1940
October 1940. "Rail depot in Burlington, North Dakota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 6 comments
- 7763 reads
Virginia Toward Sixth: 1901
Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of Virginia Avenue S.W., north side, between 6th & 7th, looking southeast toward 6th Street." 5x7 glass negative, D.C. Street Survey. View full size.
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- 13210 reads
N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R.: 1900
Albany, New York, circa 1900. "N.Y.C. & H.R.R.R. station." Temple of the New York Central and Hudson River Rail Road, topped off by a sculptural representation of Liberty and Justice over the state motto, EXCELSIOR. Also note the small sign behind the fire hydrant: DINNER NOW READY. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 13697 reads
Doland: 1942
February 1942. "Doland, Spink County, South Dakota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 8922 reads
Missoula: 1942
April 1942. "Missoula, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
- 12 comments
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Traveller: 1903
March 23, 1903. "High water at the New Orleans, Louisiana, levee, Mississippi River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 8239 reads
Mill-Industrial: 1939
September 1939. "Railroad yards and flour mills. Minneapolis, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 9 comments
- 9546 reads
Carrier Mills: 1939
January 1939. "Carrier Mills, Southern Illinois. Small towns and rural areas of a once prosperous mining region, suffering from the Depression." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 6 comments
- 8068 reads
Laconia Depot: 1907
Circa 1907. "Railway station -- Laconia, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 3 comments
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Railroad Bank: 1903
Augusta, Georgia, 1903. "Georgia Railroad Bank, Seventh and Broad Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 8357 reads
Train in Vane: 1905
Syracuse, N.Y., circa 1905. "New York Central Railroad depot." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
- 1 comment
- 6409 reads
Over and Under: 1936
April 1936. "Housing conditions in crowded parts of Milwaukee. Housing under the Wisconsin Avenue viaduct." Photo by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
- 9 comments
- 7674 reads
Muskogee Yards: 1939
July 1939. "Railroad yards. Muskogee, Oklahoma." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
- 6 comments
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