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Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children. Show all posts
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Interesting black and white retro photos
These are some rather interesting black and white retro photos. The people and the scenes are quite unusual at least by today’s standards.
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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Stark 100-Year-Old Photos of Destitute East End Children
Taken by Horace Warner in 1912 in Spitalfields England, these images of poverty stricken children show the horrible existences they had to endure just to survive.
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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Color photography of America in years before World War II [more...]
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| Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative. Vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, August 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| African American’s tenant’s home beside the Mississippi River levee. Near Lake Providence, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| A crossroads store, bar, “juke joint,” and gas station in the cotton plantation area. Melrose, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Boys fishing in a bayou. Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Fish saler. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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Thursday, July 14, 2011
Color Photography From Before 1950
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| 1915 - Austro-Hungarian POWs In Russia |
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| 1941 - Students at Washington High School Training For The War Effort, Los Angeles |
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| 1942 - Barrage Balloon, South Carolina |
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| 1942 - Two Female Employees Of North American Aviation Assembling A P-51 Fighter Plane |
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| 1942 - Worker At The Douglas Aircraft Company Assembles A Navy Bomber |
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Monday, July 11, 2011
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Color photography of America in years before World War II
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| Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Connecticut town on the sea. Stonington, Connecticut, November 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Farm auction. Derby, Connecticut, September 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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| Trucks outside of a starch factory. Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress |
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Sunday, June 26, 2011
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