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Farm in southern U.S. ... Louisiana? (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[John W. January, veteran of Co. B, 14th Illinois Cavalry Regiment, with prosthetic legs] (LOC)
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- 113,136 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2018-11-09
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United Nations exhibit put on by OWI in Rockefeller Plaza, New York, N.Y. Central motif was this frame containing copy of Atlantic charter, with amplifiers at each end broadcasting speeches by Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-Shek every half hour, and
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- 8 comments
- 31 favorites
- 112,286 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Wreck of teachers train (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive, Va. (LOC)
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- 112,266 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene County, Ga. (LOC)
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- 112,211 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Winner at the Delta County Fair, Colorado (LOC)
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- 112,094 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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[Mountains along the Skyline Drive in Virginia] (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 32 favorites
- 111,357 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Washington, D.C. Field trips for the "flying nun" pre-flight class, including inspection tours of hangars at the Washington National Airport. Here, Sister Aquinas is explaining engine structure to her students (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 124 favorites
- 111,340 views
- Date taken: 1943
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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The Battle of Gettysburg, a major turning point in the American Civil War, was fought July 1-3, 1863. Artists, photographers, and printmakers all documented the event, using their unique talents to help people then and now understand the conflict (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 14 favorites
- 111,203 views
- Date taken: 1863
- Date uploaded: 2013-06-28
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Weavers at work (LOC)
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- 25 comments
- 102 favorites
- 111,154 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Jack Whinery, homesteader, and his family, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 22 comments
- 376 favorites
- 111,057 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mountain farms along the Skyline Drive, Va. (LOC)
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- 2 favorites
- 110,769 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Fields along the Skyline Drive in Virginia (LOC)
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- 16 favorites
- 110,139 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm. Cimarron County, Oklahoma (LOC)
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- 347 favorites
- 109,723 views
- Date taken: 1936
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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Overlooking the Thames at 11 o'clock at night, London, England (LOC)
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- 109,678 views
- Date taken: 1903
- Date uploaded: 2019-01-16
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[Eddie Collins, Philadelphia, AL (baseball)] (LOC)
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- 36 favorites
- 109,630 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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[Unidentified girl seated in dress] (LOC)
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- 27 favorites
- 109,551 views
- Date taken: 2012
- Date uploaded: 2010-12-03
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View of a valley from the Skyline Drive, Virginia (LOC)
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- 8 favorites
- 109,256 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Cutting the pies and cakes at the barbeque dinner, Pie Town, New Mexico Fair (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 202 favorites
- 108,372 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Young "Cy" Young [Irv Young] between seasons (LOC)
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- 19 comments
- 67 favorites
- 108,317 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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View in the mountains along the Skyline Drive, Va. (LOC)
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- 7 favorites
- 108,305 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Day laborers picking cotton, near Clarksdale, Miss. (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 84 favorites
- 108,285 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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John Howell, an Indianapolis newsboy, makes $.75 some days. Begins at 6 a.m., Sundays. (Lives at 215 W. Michigan St.) (LOC)
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- 257 favorites
- 107,812 views
- Date taken: 1908
- Date uploaded: 2011-07-01
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Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky. (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 45 favorites
- 107,766 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 278 favorites
- 107,734 views
- Date taken: 1936
- Date uploaded: 2009-05-20
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Jimmy Clabby. Boxing (LOC)
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- 7 comments
- 142 favorites
- 107,676 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Sir Genille Cave Brown Cave (LOC)
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- 25 comments
- 169 favorites
- 107,443 views
- Date taken: 1911
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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The tenth muse (LOC)
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- 107,390 views
- Date uploaded: 2018-01-07
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Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 24 comments
- 314 favorites
- 106,916 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Copper mining section between Ducktown and Copperhill], Tennessee. Fumes from smelting copper for sulfuric acid have destroyed all vegetation and eroded the land (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 41 favorites
- 106,637 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Tripoli - Captured Arabs at Fountain of Bu Meliana (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 34 favorites
- 106,634 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Orange World citrus stand in a mammoth, orange-shaped vernacular structure dating to 1970, was a must-stop roadside attraction in the years when Kissimmee, Florida, was little more than a citrus-packing center among acres of orange and grapefruit groves (
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- 15 comments
- 215 favorites
- 106,624 views
- Date taken: 2020
- Date uploaded: 2022-08-26
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Smoke stacks (LOC)
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- 61 comments
- 245 favorites
- 106,435 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Japanese-American camp, war emergency evacuation,[Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
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- 14 comments
- 150 favorites
- 106,304 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Negro tenant's home beside the Mississippi River levee, near Lake Providence, La. (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 120 favorites
- 106,253 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- 48 comments
- 220 favorites
- 105,754 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Man in bill cap and dungaree coat, possibly a farmer] (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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United Nations Fight for Freedom : colored, white and Chinese Boy Scouts in front of Capitol, They help out by delivering poster to help the war effort (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Center of town. Woodstock, Vermont. "Snowy night" (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1940
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Orchestra during intermission at square dance; notice sweated shirt of host, McIntosh County, Oklahoma (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Women are trained as engine mechanics in thorough Douglas training methods, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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C. & N.W. R.R. Cloe Weaver, mother of four children, employed as a helper at the roundhouse, Clinton, Iowa. She is learning to operate the turntable. Her husband works for a structural steel company (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Woman machinist, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Lieutenant "Mike" Hunter, Army pilot assigned to Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Natchez, Miss. (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Marine Corps Major in summer uniform, W[orld] W[ar] II (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Women become skilled shop technicians after careful training in the school at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant, Long Beach, Calif. Most important of the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 (
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- Date taken: 1939
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Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas (LOC)
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- Date taken: 1939
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Roadside America-- Big Fish Supper Club, Bena, Minnesota
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- Date taken: 1980
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