It Looked Like This Once

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New York, New York. Ice skating in Rockefeller Center

1941

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Title: Napoleon Leighton, Said 9 years old, 14 1/2 Griffin Street, New Bedford, Mass. Also young Portuguese girl about 11 years old. Location: Rochester [vicinity] Eldridge Bog, Massachusetts.

Creator(s): Hine, Lewis Wickes, 1874-1940, photographer

Date Created/Published: 1911 September.

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Purim Carnival in Tel Aviv, 1934

American Colony (Jerusalem) Photo Dept., photographer

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WPA Federal Art Project

Town of Hempstead, NY, Dec. 1, 1937

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Photo shows President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil before the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to the Amazon River which began in 1913. Dr. Lauro Severiano Müller (1863-1926), Foreign Minister of Brazil and military engineer is to the right of Roosevelt.

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"Dudes harmonizing in back room of beer parlor."

Birney, Montana

Arthur Rothstein, June 1939

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Zion City, Ill., destroys 80,000 pint bottles of beer

"Mrs. Graze Knippen of Zion City holding up bottle of beer as she helps get rid of the beer."

National Photo Co. Collection

Between 1921 and 1932

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"Probably St. Augustine Ostrich & Alligator Farm."

W.J. Harris

St. Augustine, Florida

c1910

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Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Homesteader

Carl Mydans

February 1936

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Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. Home schooling

Carl Mydans

February 1936

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"You is my best girl"

Artist - Elizabeth Curtis

1902

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To A Suffragette Valentine.

Your vote from me you will not get,

I don't want a preaching suffragette.

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"Traveling evangelists between Lafayette and Scott, Louisiana. They have spent twenty five years on the road preaching the gospel, sharpening knives to meet expenses"

Russell Lee, October 1938

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Long Beach pier & bathers

"Photograph shows children in bathing suits wading in water at the pier; in background some are using a rope to maintain balance in the water."

G.C. Hovey, c. 1905

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Weeki Wachee spring, Florida

Toni Frissell, 1947

Published in: Harper's Bazaar, Dec. 1947; Sport's Illustrated, 1955. Also published as a frontispiece in Photographs, 1933-1967 / Toni Frissell : Doubleday, 1994

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"Marie Dressler, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing lamp shade style hat on her head"

c 1909

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Tobacco auctioneer who "bet on Carolina" and lost, pays off the wager by pushing the warehouseman in a wheelbarrow from the warehouse to the courthouse. Durham, North Carolina

Marion Post Wolcott

November 1939