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The farming life, 1930s.

Top left: Mrs. Williamson, stands at the door of her house in North Carolina, 1938. John Vachon photo.

Right: Fanny Lowe’s children chop cotton in Georgia, 1939. Marion Post Wolcott photo.

Bottom left: Watering horses at the well on a North Carolina tobacco farm, 1939. Dorothea Lange pho...


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Men.

A man of the Kwakiutl tribe, living along the Pacific Northwest coast, wears a ceremonial hat in the shape of a heron, 1914.

Women.

Four generations of women, 1910.

New York’s workhorses, c. 1910s.

Top left: Penn Station, 1903. Right: Railway freight depot at Barkley Street, 1910.

Bottom l...


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Chicago rail yard, 1942.Boys.

Golfing with Grandpa, 1936.

Girls.

Marine officer candidates during a drill period at Quantico, Virginia, 1967.

Good eats, cheap.

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With faith in the future.

Dorothea Lange’s photos of 1930s drought migrants heading to California.

Boys.

Children of service members get ready for the start of their T-ball game, Pensacola, 1989.

Girls.

Utah women’s mountain hiking club prepares lunch in camp, 1931.

Good eats, cheap.

Dinner at Kmart,


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Time lapse.

Left: US Marines in France, c. 1918.

Right: US Marines train at King Faisal Naval Base, Saudi Arabia, Feb. 2, 2026.

Boys.

Boys (brothers?) of the Ute tribe in Utah, 1953.

Girls.

Richard Rodgers interviews Sandra Salinas and Andrea Applebome for the ...


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