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Tom Parker
Six-year-old Reiko Masado, convalescing from a serious illness, is looked after by nurse's aide, Chiyo Okata. Denson, Arkansas, 1943 The ice cream counter in the community operated stores. Heart...
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Lifestyles of the Rich
From Harris & Ewing. A typical Hollywood reception was accorded Miss Marion Weldon, Paramount starlet, as she arrived in Washington today to represent the movie city in participating in National...
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Cabinet Cards
Bearded man, Pawtucket, Rhode Island Maid serving tea in the garden Old man with horse and buggy, Nunda, Illinois Phyllis and Zena Dare having tea Seven men from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota...
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Duchess of Devonshire’s Jubilee Costume Ball 1897
Final set from this high-society fling. The Countess of Gosford as Minerva, period of Louis XV The Countess of Kilmorey, Ellen Constance née Baldock as Comtesse du Barri The Countess of Mar as...
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Born in Slavery
More pictures of former slaves. Adeline Cunningham, age 85, 1936-38 Andrew Goodman, ex-slave, age 97, Dallas, Texas, 1937 Angie Garrett, 1936-38 Campbell Davis, age 85, Karnack, Texas, 1937...
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National Photo
Laurel bicycle races, 1925 Miss Elsie Tydings who had the distinction of purchasing the first ticket sold for aWorld Series in the National Capital. She was no. 1 in the 1st line this...
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Marjory Collins
Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. "Cleaning" metal by hammering off parts to separate kinds of metal, 1942 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Children...
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Russell Lee - Japanese Internment
Los Angeles, California. Japanese-Americans boarding a train for Owens Valley, 1942 Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war...
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Julia Margaret Cameron
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a pioneering English photographer. There is a great article about her online. 'The Little Novice and the Queen', plate XI from The Idylls of the King, 1874...
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Harris & Ewing
For each block of 1,000 Social Security account applications 'work' cards are prepared. One work card is made for each operation incident to setting up individual accounts and necessary indexes....
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Toni Frissell
Toni Frissell did fashion and portrait photography, and did a stint in World War II photographing American servicemen in Europe. Abandoned boy, London, 1945 American soldier, Red Bull Regiment,...
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Ansel Adams
Leaves, in Glacier National Park Montana Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944 Sand Fence, Keeler, California, 1948 Storm, Point Sur, Monterey coast, California, 1942...
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Photographic Times 1895
From a photography periodical. Alfred Clements: Where the Nightingale Sings Alfred Stieglitz: Going to Prayers Alfred Stieglitz: Mushrooms by the Sea Charles Berg: My Lady Disdain Constance...
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Harris & Ewing - Kids
Christmas greetings in all tongues were broadcast all over the world today by the tiny sons and daughters of foreign diplomats participating in Annual International Children's Christmas Program staged...
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Lewis Hine
"Radishes! Penny a bunch!" Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati. 10 PM, 1908 A group of girl workers at Greenabaum's Cannery. They range from 6 years of age up. Seaford, Delaware, 1910 Callie Campbell,...
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Robert Doisneau
A young girl crossing the street on roller skates on chaussée de la Muette in Paris, 1955 Accordionist playing in a bistro near Les Halles, ca. 1950 At the Café, Chez Fraysse, Rue de Seine,...
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Neurdein Frères
Algeria. Tlemcen. Young Moorish woman Chateau de Caze Constantine. Ancien Palais d'Ahmed-Bey Constantine. Maures Eiffel Tower during 1889 Exposition Femme des Ouled Naı̈ls Le Grand...
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Roman Vishniac
Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s Children playing on a street lined with swastika flags, probably outskirts of Berlin,...
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San Francisco Earthquake
The great earthquake of April 18, 1906 that leveled San Francisco still ranks as one of the greatest disasters to strike an American city. Here are some photos taken in the aftermath of that event....
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Russell Lee
Stevedores at work on bow of packet boat El Rito on lower Mississippi River, 1938 Street dance, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938 Supervisor of the Work Projects Administration...
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