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Morning Rush: Workers hurrying to catch a conveyance for work at seven a.m. Baltimore, Maryland, April 1943.
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Corner Pockets: Portrait of a man on the corner of 44th and State Streets, Chicago, Illinois, 1941.
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The Day After: A Japanese restaurant in San Francisco, California. Monday morning after the attack on Pearl Harbor. December 8, 1941.
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Urban Heartbeat: New York City street scene June 1936.
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Night Moves: Activity in the Santa Fe R.R. yard, Los Angeles, Calif. All switch lights, head lights and lamps have been shaded from above in accordance with blackout regulations. March 1943
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Taking a Sight: Boys trained in the fundamentals of navigation may become technicians in the armed service, Los Angeles, California. Student Thomas Graham in the Victory Corps at Polytechnic High School. September 1942.
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Wars, Past & Present: Memorial Day parade moving down the main street in Southington, Connecticut, May 1942. The small number of spectators is accounted for by the fact that the town's war factories did not close for the holiday.
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Junk: Scrap salvage campaign.This boy is looking up junk dealers in the telephone directory, wants junk dealer pick up the scrap which he collected stored in his celler Washington, D.C. May 1942.
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Farmers near Woodstock, Vermont bring their cans of milk to the crossroads early every morning where it is picked up by the coop farmers' truck and is taken to the city, 1940.
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Evicted: State highway officials moving evicted Black sharecroppers away from roadside to area between the levee and the Mississippi River. New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938.
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Siesta: Sunday afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana. Men playing checkers. January 1941.
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Morning Rush: Waiting for the Third Avenue elevated railway in the Sixties about 8:45 a.m., New York, New York. September 1942.
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Scrappper: Truck loaded with scrap metal is weighed on platform scale before being unloaded in wholesale junkyard during the salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington, D.C. May 1942.
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Winterize: Christmas trees for sale at a gas station. Woonsocket, Rhode Island, December 1940.
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Wartime tips: For insurance against the Axis, buy defense bonds and stamps. You can get them at your bank, post office, department store and from your newsboy. Buy them regularly and frequently. February 1942.
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Wartime tips: For insurance against the Axis, buy defense bonds and stamps. You can get them at your bank, post office, department store and from your newsboy. Buy them regularly and frequently. February 1942.
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Flop House: Impoverished farmers sleeping in a white camp room in a warehouse. They often must remain several days before their tobacco is sold. Durham, North Carolina, 1939.
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It's Been Good to Know Ya: Wolfsmith waves good-bye. Freight ops of the Chicago & Northwestern RR between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. January 1943.
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The Three of Us: Two of the Dumond children at the back door of their home in Lille, Maine. The family are French-Canadian potato farmers and Farm Security Administration clients, October 1940.
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That Way Out: Men waiting for the Third Avenue elevated train in the Fifties at 8:30 a.m., New York, New York. September 1942.
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A Dollar a Day: Turpentine worker's family near Cordele, Alabama. Father's wages one dollar a day. This is the standard of living the turpentine trees support July 1936.
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Loners in a Crowd: Waiting for trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, in New York City, New York, August 1942.
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Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. Plant foremen regard 20-year-old Annie Tabor as one of their best lathe operators, despite her lack of previous industrial experience. October 1942.
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Armed Guard: An Army sentry guards new B-17F (Flying Fortress) bombers at the airfield of Boeing's Seattle plant, 1942.
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Invasion!: Pedestrians watching news of the Normandy Invasion on an electric marquee near Times Square on D-Day, June 6, 1944. New York, New York.
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Angels' Perch: A rainy evening in New York City looking west toward Hudson River from University Place, September 1939
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Inspectors Gadget: Workers inspecting a plane at the Wayne County Airport, a United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan. September 1942.
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Working Class Hearths: A Syrian neighborhood near the shipyards. Slum area where many shipyard workers live. Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. December 1940.
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Our Daily Bread: Changing of shifts at Penomah Mills, Inc. in Taftville, Connecticut. November 1940.
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And the War Came: Corner of Montgomery and Market Streets, Monday morning, after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. San Francisco, California, December 8 1941.
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Night Light: Illinois Central Railroad freight cars in South Water Street freight terminal, Chicago, Illinois. April 1943.
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Day of Days: Pedestrians watching news of the Normandy Invasion on an electric marquee near Times Square on D-Day, June 6, 1944. New York, New York.
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Workin' on the Railroad: Portrait of Abbie Caldwell, employed in the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad yard to clean out potash cars. Clovis, New Mexico. March 1943.
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Shuffle With Tired Feet: Line of men inside a division office of the State Employment Service office at San Francisco, California, waiting to register for benefits on one of the first days the office was open. January 1938.
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OK Corral: P-51 Mustang fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of North American Aviation plant in Inglewood, California. October 1942.
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Watering Hole: At 7 a.m. on June 21st, the day before stricter gas rationing was enforced, cars were pouring into this gas station on upper Wisconsin Ave. Washington, D.C., 1942.
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The Long Shadows: Traffic on the main street of Fayetteville, North Carolina at about five o'clock, when the workers start coming out at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. March 1941.
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Night Owls' Roost: A hamburger shop in Durham, North Carolina. George's Grill, open all night. May 1940.
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New Found Land: El Monte Federal subsistence homesteads in California, 1936. One hundred homes, each with three quarters of an acre land, all occupied. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per year.
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I Put Away Childish Things: From toy trains to parachute flare casings, Stephanie Cewe has turned to the aid of Uncle Sam. She used to assemble toy locomotives; today, she uses the same screwdriver to assemble flare casings. New Haven, Connecticut, Feb 19
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Gas Lines: Morning of July 21st, the last day before stricter gas rationing went into effect, cars were parked in front of gas stations long before they opened, waiting to fill their tanks on the quota. Washington, DC 1942.
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Morning of July 21st, the last day before stricter gas rationing went into effect, cars were parked in front of gas stations long before they opened, waiting to fill their tanks. Washington D.C., 1942.
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So Long the Road: Portrait of an elderly cotton sharecropper in Mississippi, June 1937. She was born 'two years before the surrender' (In 1863, two years before the end of the Civil War).
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Disputed Passage: Cotton snakes, waste cotton picked from floors of sampling and classing rooms in brokers' offices on Cotton Row, Front Street, Memphis, Tennessee. October 1939.
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Shulman's Market - Washington, D.C.
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The Sand Bar Club, a bench on the waterfront main street which is occupied all day by fishermen, unemployed fishermen and other residents with nothing to do. Here, they gossip, whittle, and make remarks about passing tourists. September 1940.
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Inspection Arms: A United States Army Air Corps air ferry command base sixteen miles from Detroit, Michigan at Wayne County Airport. Factory inspector and Captain Roddy inspect a new P-38, Sept 1942.
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Talking Hard Times: Scene outside the Farm Security Administration grant office during the pea harvest. Calipatria, California, February 1939. During spring 1938 for the first time, the labor surplus had grown so large that relief grants were necessary.
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