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Photo of the Day

Life as art.

Left: Edward Hopper, “Nighthawks,” 1942.

Right: Esther Bubley, “The Sea Grill Restaurant, Washington, D.C.,” 1943.

My country ‘tis of thee.

New York City subway construction workers stand in the East River tunnel, 1907.

It wasn’t like the movies.

On this date in 1968, Americans learned that North...


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Photo of the Day

Life as art.

Left: William H. Johnson, Jitterbugs (III), ca 1941.

Right: Marion Post Wolcott, “Jitterbugging in Negro juke joint, Saturday evening, outside Clarksdale, Mississippi,” 1939.

My country ‘tis of thee.

Tennessee Valley Authority drill workers construct the Fort Loudoun Dam on the Tennessee River near Lenoir City,...


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Life as art.

Left: Gari Melchers, “The Sisters,” 1895.

Right: Russell Lee, “Sharecropper’s children, New Madrid County, Missouri,” 1940.

My country ‘tis of thee.

Oil workers in the Spindletop oil field, near Beaumont, Texas, c. 1901.

It wasn’t like the movies.

Young American soldier exhibits his helmet and the bullet which pierced it, then rac...


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Life as art.

Left: Max Beckmann, “Paris Society,” 1931.

Right: Winston Churchill and others attend Charlie Chaplin’s party in celebration of the London premiere of his film, “City Lights,” 1931.

My country ‘tis of thee.

Painters suspended on cables on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1914.

It wasn’t like the movies.

On this date in January 1945, near the ...


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Life as art.

Left: Camille Pissarro, “Peasant Woman,” 1880.

Right: Jack Delano, “Negro woman who has not yet found a place,” (detail) 1941.

My country ‘tis of thee.

US Army nurses in South Vietnam, late 1960s.

It wasn’t like the movies.

A Coast Guard landing vessel evacuates wounded men from the Normandy invas...


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