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🗓️February 1940. San Angelo, Texas. "4-H Club boys from Tom Green County showing sheep at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

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🗓️1918. "Press correspondents. Photographers on White House lawn." At center: Artie Leonard of National Photo. Harris & Ewing glass negative.

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January 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
🗓️Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1907. "Knights of Pythias Building." A sort of Flatiron wannabe. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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January 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
🗓️August 1942. "Bike rack in Idaho Falls, Idaho." Brought to you by 7up. Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information.

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January 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🗓️Circa 1900. "St. Clair River tunnel. Port Huron, Michigan." Time to move the camera! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.

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January 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🗓️May 17, 1928. Washington, D.C. "Mrs. Victor J. Evans, who with her husband, a Washington attorney, have a private zoo just outside of the National Capital, is shown feeding the blue and white macaws she has tamed." 4x5 inch glass negative by Harris & Ewing.

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January 7, 2025 at 10:20 PM
🗓️From around 1970, a young person from the Columbus, Georgia, news photo archive. A bangs-dimples-smile trifecta! 4x5 inch acetate negative.

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January 7, 2025 at 10:17 PM
🗓️February 1936. Washington, D.C. "Woman in snow." One capital commuter who seems unfazed by the white stuff. Harris & Ewing glass negative.

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January 7, 2025 at 4:16 AM
🗓️February 1937. "Posey County, Indiana. Havoc wrought on farmland, highways, roads, farm buildings, equipment, homes by 1937 flood. Automobile after the flood on Mackey Ferry Road near Mount Vernon." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration

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January 7, 2025 at 4:15 AM
🗓️New York, 1932. "60 Wall Tower (70 Pine Street)." The former Cities Service Building. At 67 stories, the world's third tallest structure when completed in 1932. Now a residential tower with units renting from $2,500 to $7,000 a month. Irving Underhill photo.

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January 4, 2025 at 10:38 PM
🗓️July 1938. "Slums near steel mill. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.

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January 4, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🗓️February 1940. San Angelo, Texas. "4-H Club boys from Tom Green County showing sheep at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration.

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January 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
🗓️The Jersey Shore in 1904. "Boardwalk at Green's Hotel, Atlantic City." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company.

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January 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
🗓️August 1936. "Tour of drought area. President Roosevelt speaking from train at Bismarck, North Dakota." Medium format nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.

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January 4, 2025 at 2:02 AM
November 1936. "Automobile accident on U.S. 40 between Hagerstown and Cumberland, Maryland." Photo by Arthur Rothstein.

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January 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Circa 1910. "Maori woman with a catch of fish on the Northland coast." Glass negative by Arthur James Northwood.

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January 3, 2025 at 10:03 PM
May 1953. "Dancer-actress Gwen Verdon in a hammock wearing a ballgown." Color transparency from photos taken for the Look magazine assignment "Midsummer Fantasies: How to Keep Cool in a Heat Wave."

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January 3, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Circa 1900. "Chicago & North-Western Railway locomotive CNW 605 on turntable." 4x5 glass negative from the Louis A. Marre Rail Transportation Photograph Collection.

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January 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
May 1940. Memphis, Tennessee. "Main Street at night during Cotton Carnival." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration.

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January 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
March 1940. San Angelo, Texas. "Boys in a crap game at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show." Photo by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Admin.

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January 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM
June 30, 1925. Washington, D.C. "National American Ballet." A triad of tessellating terpsichores. National Photo Company glass negative.

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January 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
August 1941. "Stockmen on street corner outside bar 'The Mint.' Sheridan, Wyoming." Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.

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January 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
New York 1912. "The big buildings of Lower Manhattan." Landmark skyscrapers in this view (from where?) include the Woolworth (left) and Municipal buildings nearing completion, as well as the Singer and Bankers Trust towers. Panorama made from two 8x10 inch glass negatives.

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January 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
🗓️ "Our new car in snow -- March 23, 1952." Hubert and Grace's green DeSoto stars in this latest episode of Minnesota Kodachromes.

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January 1, 2025 at 3:08 PM
🗓️ August 1936. "President Roosevelt greeted on tour of drought area. Near Bismarck, North Dakota." Medium-format nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.

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January 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
🗓️ 1948. "Aerial view of U.S. Air Force's 100-ton Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 jet bomber in flight. Northrop Aircraft Inc., Hawthorne, California."

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January 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM