Retro Photo: 2009

Friday, September 4, 2009

Retro photo:
"Pvt. J.B. Slagle, USA, receives his daily dressing of wounds on board USS SOLACE enroute from
Okinawa to Guam."May 1945.
By Lt. Victor Jorgensen.

Retro photo:"Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill"

Retro photo:
"Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the presidential retreat Shangri, La."May 14, 1943
By an unknown photographer.

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Retro photo:
Alonzo Bankston is a furnace operator in the TVA plan producing carbide for use in plants manufacturing
synthetic rubber.
By an unknown photographer.

Retro photo:"Old timer"

Retro photo:
Old-timer, keeping up with the boys.
Many structural workers are above middle-age. Empire State [Building].
New York City, New York. 1930.
By Lewis Hine.

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Retro photo:
"Mr. and Mrs. Hoover paid a visit to President and Mrs. Coolidge at the Summer White House,
Brule, Wisconsin."July 18, 1928.

By an unkown photographer.

Retro photo: "Pedestrians on the upper deck promenade of Brooklyn Bridge."

Retro photo:
"Pedestrians on the upper deck
promenade of Brooklyn Bridge."1910
By an unknown photographer.

Retro photo: "Immigrant children"

Retro photo:
Immigrant children, Ellis Island, New York.1908
By Brown Brothers, ca.

Retro photo: Grand Canyon

Retro photo:
Grand Canyon from South Rim, 1941 Arizona.
Ansel Adams(1902-1984)

Retro photo: "A quartet of girl workers"

Retro photo:
Lunch time at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, California. A quartet of
girl workers, August 1943.
Charles Fenno Jacobs (1904-1975)

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Retro photo:
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California, July 2, 1942. Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at theWar Relocation Authority center
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

Hancock homestead.

Retro photo:
Hancock homestead, July 23, 1910
July 23, 1910.Settler from Benson, Minn. Sun River project, Montana
Walter Lubken (1881-1960)

Farmer and his son

Retro photo:
Farmer and his son listening in the evenings, Shawnee county,
Kansas, September 23 or 24, 1924
George W. Ackerman (1884-1962)

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Sweeper and doffer boys in Lancaster Cotton Mills

Retro photo:
Sweeper and doffer boys in Lancaster Cotton Mills, December 1, 1908.
Many more as small. Lancaster, S.C.
Lewis Hine (1874-1940)

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"Starving inmate of Camp Gusen, Austria"

Retro photo:
"Starving inmate of Camp Gusen, Austria" May 12, 1945.
T4c Sam Gilbert

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Retro photo: "American servicemen and women gather in front of "Rainbow Corner"

Retro photo:
"American servicemen and women gather in front of "Rainbow Corner"
Red Cross club in Paris to celebrate the unconditional surrender of the Japanese."
By an unknown photographer,
August 15, 1945

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Retro photo:"Flag Making"

Retro photo:
"Flag Making" Brooklyn, New York, July 24, 1940.
Margaret Bourke-White

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Retro photo: "White Angel Breadline"

Retro photo:
"White Angel Breadline" San Francisco, California, winter 1933-34.
Dorothea Lange

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"Women Rivet Heaters and Passers on"

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Retro photo:
"Women Rivet Heaters and Passers on" Puget Sound Navy Yard, Washington, May 29, 1919.
By an unknown photographer.

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Retro photo:
"Some of the colored men of the 369th (15th N.Y.) who won the Croix de Guerre for gallantry in action." Left to right. Front row: Pvt. Ed Williams, Herbert Taylor, Pvt. Leon Fraitor, Pvt. Ralph Hawkins. Back Row: Sgt. H. D. Prinas, Sgt. Dan Strorms, Pvt. Joe Williams, Pvt. Alfred Hanley, and Cpl. T. W.

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Retro photo: "The Sam McCall family of Wilcox County, Alabama"

Retro photo:
"The Sam McCall family of Wilcox County, Alabama" 1910.
M.A. Crosby

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Retro photo: "The Tetons-Snake River"

Retro photo:
"The Tetons-Snake River" Wyoming, 1942.
Ansel Adams (1902–1984)

Retro photo: "Tired member of VF-17 pauses under the squadron scoreboard at Bouganville"

Retro photo:
"Tired member of VF-17 pauses under the squadron scoreboard at Bouganville" February 1944.
Charles Fenno Jacobs (1904-1975)

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Retro photo: "Young migratory mother, originally from Texas"

Retro photo:
"Young migratory mother, originally from Texas" Edison, Kern County, California, April 11, 1940.
Dorothea Lange (1895-1965)

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Retro photo:
"Testing the subsurface-Drilling with diamond drills",
Boise Irrigation Project, Idaho and Oregon, August 1910.
Walter Lubken (1881-1960)