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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
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- 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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Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day at the big construction operations for a new steel plant which will make important additions to the vast amount of steel needed for the war effort, Columbia Steel Co., Geneva, Utah (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 135 favorites
- 78,646 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Rebels eating tortillas (LOC)
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- 6 comments
- 42 favorites
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Jim Norris, homesteader, cutting a head of cabbage, Pie Town, New Mexico (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 31 favorites
- 62,173 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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El Paso homes of Mexicans who have joined insurrectos (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 18 favorites
- 61,893 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Rebels in action (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 28 favorites
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- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, [Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif.] (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 30 favorites
- 54,102 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Insurrectos camp (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 26 favorites
- 50,445 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Mountains in northern New Mexico (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 61 favorites
- 48,925 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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[Sorfjord from Odde (i.e. Odda), Hardanger Fjord, Norway] (LOC)
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- 5 comments
- 82 favorites
- 46,054 views
- Date taken: 1890
- Date uploaded: 2009-01-06
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Mojave Desert country, crossed by the Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif. (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 53 favorites
- 43,839 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Nearly exhausted sulphur vat from which railroad cars are loaded, Freeport Sulphur Co., Hoskins Mound, Texas (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 74 favorites
- 43,064 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Colorado River into California between Topock, Arizona and Beal, California (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 17 favorites
- 42,526 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Landscape, Northeast Utah (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 30 favorites
- 40,109 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sugar farms along the northern coast, Saint Croix Island, Virgin Islands (LOC)
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- 9 favorites
- 37,902 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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In the Sahara (LOC)
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- 11 comments
- 90 favorites
- 37,434 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-03-21
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A freight train stopping for coal and water at a siding enroute to Gallup, New Mexico, near Laguna, N.M. (LOC)
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- 24 favorites
- 36,987 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Sand dunes Carson Desert Nevada (LOC)
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- 8 comments
- 80 favorites
- 34,614 views
- Date taken: 1867
- Date uploaded: 2010-01-22
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Santa Fe R.R. train stopping for coal and water, Laguna, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 18 favorites
- 34,090 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Mojave Desert country, crossed by Santa Fe R.R., Cadiz, Calif. (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 28 favorites
- 33,333 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. freight train rounding a curve between Ash Fork and Gleed, Arizona (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 12 favorites
- 31,293 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Flagman standing behind his train to flag oncoming trains at a small siding between Laguna, N[ew] Mex[ico] and Gallup, N[ew] Mex[ico]. Sant Fe R.R., Santa Fe trip (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 20 favorites
- 31,030 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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Santa Fe R.R. line leaving Cadiz, Calif. This town is a junction point with a branch going to Phoenix, Ariz. (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 26 favorites
- 30,381 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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East bound track of the Santa Fe R.R. across desert country near South Chaves, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
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- 11 favorites
- 28,287 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-08
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View of the church, Trampas, N[ew] M[exico] (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 8 favorites
- 23,361 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Oasis of Misturata (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 16 favorites
- 22,291 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Valley of Chacon, Mora County, N[ew] Mex[ico] (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 2 favorites
- 21,725 views
- Date taken: 1939
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-09
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Oasis of Misturata (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 2 favorites
- 21,027 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Rock carved by drifting sand, below fortification rock, Arizona (LOC)
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- 1 comment
- 9 favorites
- 18,561 views
- Date taken: 1871
- Date uploaded: 2010-01-22
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpppmsca10023, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, photograph, landscape, az, desert, arizona, albumen, 1871, timothyhosullivan, usgeographicalsurvey
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Tripoli - Italian outpost on the desert (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 15 favorites
- 14,904 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain09983, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, libia, libya, soldati, italiani, italianoutpost, tripoli, desert, 1910s, pithhelmet, rifle, tiredsoldiersinadesert, soldiers, rifles, uniforms, helmets, helmet
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Arabs at prayer in desert (LOC)
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- 4 comments
- 35 favorites
- 14,497 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-09-05
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Bulgarian giving water to dying Turk, Adrianople (LOC)
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- 9 comments
- 27 favorites
- 14,421 views
- Date taken: 1912
- Date uploaded: 2008-06-27
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain11384, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, adrianople, firstbalkanwar, icecreamsundaes, water, soldier, bulgarian, war, dyingturk, desert
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Mexican refugees going to Marfa (LOC)
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- 2 comments
- 9 favorites
- 14,078 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2010-08-20
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Chicken cowboy billboard wreck, B-80, Elko, Nevada (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 12 favorites
- 10,597 views
- Date taken: 1991
- Date uploaded: 2019-08-15
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Tripoli - Artillery taking position at Sciara Sciat (LOC)
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- 0 comments
- 1 favorite
- 9,635 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-01-03
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Oasis, Sahara (LOC)
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- 3 comments
- 15 favorites
- 9,114 views
- Date taken: 1910
- Date uploaded: 2008-03-21
- Tags: libraryofcongress, dc:identifier=httphdllocgovlocpnpggbain10739, xmlns:dc=httppurlorgdcelements11, sahara, desert, oasis, palms, palmtrees, lake, water, man, turban, grasses
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