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Russell Lee
Indian mother and baby, near Little Fork, Minnesota, 1937 Indian woman, wife of farmer, McIntosh County, Oklahoma, 1939 Mrs. Huravitch and youngest son. Williams County, North Dakota, 1937 Mrs. Olie...
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Ben Shahn - Arkansas
A destitute family, Ozark Mountains area, 1935 Community canning, Dyess Colony, Arkansas, 1935 Blind street musician, West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935 Cotton pickers at 6:30 a.m., Alexander plantation,...
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Frances Stewart - Japanese Internment
Free-hand drawing class. Hunt, Idaho, 1943 Harvest Festival Queens at Camp 1, Thanksgiving day. l-r, Irene Takayama; Peggy Tagami; Chiyi Sekino, Queen; Claire Fujishige; Janet Miura. Rivers, Arizona,...
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Detroit Publishers
Observation car on a deluxe overland limited train, 1910-1920 Pay day at the shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 1905 Pay day for the stevedores, Baltimore, Maryland, 1905 Pay-day on the levee,...
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Mrs. Coolidge
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, wife of President Calvin Coolidge, was First Lady of the United States from 1923-1929. By all accounts she was vivacious, outgoing, and active (in contrast with her...
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Cabinet Cards
Couple in Fairport, New York Aunt Martha, Chicago, Illinois Couple in Holyoke, Massachusetts African American family Dagmar, 15 years old, Chicago Couple with book in Glatz, Germany, 1914 Couple in...
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Dorothea Lange
Salvation Army. San Francisco, California, 1939 Unemployed lumber worker goes with his wife to the bean harvest. Note social security number tattooed on his arm. Oregon, 1939 Washington, Yakima...
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Civil War
Major General Daniel Sickles and his staff following the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 Dutch Gap, Virginia. Picket station of Colored troops near Dutch Gap canal, 1864 Allan Pinkerton, President Lincoln,...
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Charles Mace - Japanese Internment
Part 1: Closing of an Internment Center A little girl is consoled as the closing of the Jerome Center separates her from her pet, Major, a friendly dog owned by Henry Ishino, which had become the pet...
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Harris & Ewing
Adelaide Henry, Council for Eastern Air Lines. March 1938 At luncheon to English peace advocate. Washington, D.C., Jan. 9. Mrs. Roosevelt was among the distinguished guests to attend the luncheon...
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Russell Lee - Kids
Southeast Missouri Farms. Daughter of FSA client, former sharecropper, leaning on hoe, 1938 Spanish-American children waiting for a ride on the merry-go-round, Fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940...
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High School
These are high school scenes from National Photo. It doesn't appear to have been any more fun then than it is now (though the girls taking auto shop look like they're enjoying themselves), but at least...
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World War II Combat
A Marine of the 1st Marine Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper, Okinawa, 1945 A formation of Spitfires on interception patrol over De Djerba Island, off Gabes, on their way to the Mareth Line...
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Lewis Hine
A former chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family, seventeen children and five elders, live on Hitchen's farm, Seaford, Delaware, 1910 A group of girl workers in Greenabaum's...
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Cabinet Cards - Entertainers
Lizzie Webster, theater actress Mabel Trunelle, stage and silent film actress, Fort Wayne, Indiana Mary Beebe, stage actress, New York[to me she looks a bit like a young Barbra Streisand] Mary...
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Vintage Bathing Beauties
From National Photo. Women in bathing suits with ukuleles, 1926 At Arlington Beach, Hazel Watson, Eleanor Howell and Marjie Peacock, July 1924 Bathing beach contest, 1922 Bath costume contest, 1921...
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Detroit Publishers
The Lincoln gates, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, 1906 The Beach, Gordon Park, Cleveland, Ohio, 1908 Two Jacks and a Jill, 1900-1906 The Whole black family at the Hermitage, Savannah, Georgia, 1907...
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Adolphe Braun
Perhaps you've noticed that this blog has been a tad Ameri-centric. To begin to widen the horizons a bit, I start with Adolphe Braun (1812-1877), a Frenchman who was a very eclectic and imaginative...
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Felix Nadar
Felix Nadar (1820-1910) was a French portrait photographer whose subjects included some very prominent people indeed. His real name was Gaspard-Félix Tournachon. Auguste Rodin, 1893 Charles Baudelaire,...
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Henry Peach Robinson
Henry Peach Robinson (1830-1901) was an English photographer. His photos appear to attempt to capture the feeling of Victorian genre painting. A Cottage Autumn Fading Away (1858)[about this photo] In...
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