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Summer Campers: 1943
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/02/2016 - 2:29pm.
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August 1943. Arden, New York. "Rest period at Camp Gaylord White, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service." Medium format nitrate negative by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. View full size.
The Greatest Generation: 1922
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 08/02/2016 - 10:09am.
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Washington, D.C., 1922. "Children playing in sand." We'd love to stay and chat, but our trike is double-parked. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
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Widder Vaught's: 1913
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 08/01/2016 - 7:55pm.
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1913. "Widder Vaught's family, Arkansas." 8x10 inch glass negative by Joseph Kossuth Dixon for department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker's "Expedition of Citizenship to the American Indian." View full size.
Office Cubical: 1910
Submitted by Dave on Mon, 08/01/2016 - 12:40pm.
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Circa 1910. "Rockefeller Building and Superior Avenue -- Cleveland, O." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Idling Auburn: 1928
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 11:10pm.
San Francisco circa 1928. "Auburn sedan." Latest exhibit in the Shorpy Diorama of Disappeared Dreadnoughts. Glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
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The Voice: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 2:08pm.
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"Alda -- May 1921." The Australian soprano and frequent Caruso collaborator Frances Alda shipboard in New York. 5x7 glass negative. View full size.
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Doffer & Spooler: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/31/2016 - 12:35am.
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December 1908. Newton, North Carolina. "Catawba Cotton Mill doffer and spooler." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
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