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Edwin Rosskam’s Poignant Photos of Black Americans on the South Side of Chicago, 1941

Edwin Rosskam’s Poignant Photos of Black Americans on the South Side of Chicago, 1941

"There are things you can only say with words, there are things you can say better with pictures than any other way." ...
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Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939

“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the ...
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Striking Images of 1941 Chicago by John Vachon, One of the New Deal’s Most Original Photographers

Striking Images of 1941 Chicago by John Vachon, One of the New Deal’s Most Original Photographers

Vachon photographed what others might consider irrelevant or mundane ...
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Buy Prints Photographs of a Cajun Fais Do-Do Dance in Crowley, Louisiana in 1938

Photographs of a Cajun Fais Do-Do Dance in Crowley, Louisiana in 1938

For the uninitiated a 'Fais do-do' (do is pronounced dough) refers to a Cajun dance party of some sort often held on a Sunday afternoon. ...
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New York City in the Summer of 1938

New York City in the Summer of 1938

New York City in the summer of 1938 was wet. On June 28, 1.69 inches of rain fell on the city - a record for the date. On July 23, 2.40 inches of rain fell. Minding where they stepped, photographers Jack Allison, Sheldon Dick, Walker Evans and Russell Lee photographed the city as pat of the Farm Security Administration's aim to record American life between 1935 and 1944. ...
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Watching them Watching the Parade To Recruit Civilian Defense Volunteers – Washington DC, 1943

Watching them Watching the Parade To Recruit Civilian Defense Volunteers – Washington DC, 1943

In July 1943, Esther Bubley trained her camera on the faces of spectators massed in Washington DC to watch the parade to recruit civilian defense volunteers. ...
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New York City Crowds In The Early And Mid 20th Century

New York City Crowds In The Early And Mid 20th Century

Photographs of crowds of people in the city that never sleeps ...
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Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

Women On The Homefront Railroad: Epic 1943 Portraits by Jack Delano

"I've always felt that photographs for me were primarily for reproduction and for mass distribution. A photograph is something for lots and lots of people to see." ...
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Scenes From A Rainy Day In Norwich, Connecticut by Jack Delano (1940)

Scenes From A Rainy Day In Norwich, Connecticut by Jack Delano (1940)

I don't know that there were any rules for documentary photography. As a matter of fact, I don't think the term was even very precise because it is based on a passionate concern for the human condition. That is the basis of all the work that I do. ...
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Building the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’: Alfred T. Palmer’s Extraordinary Wartime Color Portraits

Building the ‘Arsenal of Democracy’: Alfred T. Palmer’s Extraordinary Wartime Color Portraits

"Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt first used in a radio broadcast delivered on 29 December 1940. ...
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A Night at O’Reilly’s Bar in New York in 1942

A Night at O’Reilly’s Bar in New York in 1942

Marjory Collins, a self-confessed "rebel looking for a cause", took these photographs of customers at an Irish bar on New York City's Third Avenue. Some of whom were sailors on their last night of leave.  ...
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Students At A One-Room School in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico – 1943

Students At A One-Room School in Ojo Sarco, New Mexico – 1943

The two men squatting in a ditch, the little fire, the side - meat stewing ...
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