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1941 in Minnesota
The largest open pit iron mine in the world, the Hull-Rust-Mahoning pit, is located close to Hibbing, Minnesota. The pit…
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1942 in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, at Neffsville. Thanksgiving Day, Earle Landis freezing ice cream on the back porch. His son holds it down by…
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Mississippi, 1911
The caption of the photographer Three-year-old Alma Crosien is the daughter of Baltimore resident Mrs. CoRa Croslen. They are both…
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Two horses are pulling this hay wagon, which is pulled by a father and four kids. In the background are two derrick towers.
West Virginia and Ohio, 1896–1912… Two horses are pulling this hay wagon, which is pulled by a father and four…
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1890s in Marion County
1890s in Marion County The man in the front with the shutter release cable pointing toward him is Micajah C.…
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In 1905, a Standard Oil carriage makes early morning deliveries of gas and kerosene to drug stores that sold the fuels to the general public
Michigan’s Howell, in 1905… “In 1905, a Standard Oil carriage makes early morning deliveries of gas and kerosene to drug…
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1936 in New Mexico
A female facing her tepee. Many people reside in such archaic tents on the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico.
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Virginia in 1862
This image dates from May to August of 1862 and comes from the Peninsular Campaign, the main eastern theater of…
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1930s in North Dakota
Somewhere in North Dakota, a John Deere combine being pulled by a John Deere tractor. While another worker rotates a…
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1911 in Pennsylvania
Each of them is a breaker-boy. (See following images from Ewen Breaker.) They had serious doubts about my intentions. 58…
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Alabama’s Childersburg. At the Defense Workers’ Day Nursery run by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), children are offered tomato juice at 10 a.m.
1942 in Alabama… Description Alabama’s Childersburg. At the Defense Workers’ Day Nursery run by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), children…
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The Banks Grant family, who lived in the “old town” section of what is now Andrews, South Carolina, posed on the porch of their house
1909 in South Carolina… Description The Banks Grant family, who lived in the “old town” section of what is now…
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