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>>1710039 (OP)
>The driver of this Detroit Electric automobile takes a break from the promotional “Seattle to Mt. Rainier” tour to appreciate the incredible view. 1919.

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>>1710040
>A couple enjoying their lunch at the Vermont State Fair in 1941.

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>>1710041
>This World War II poster strongly encouraged women to join the workforce in a variety of fields such as – farm workers, typists, elevator operators, waitresses, taxi drivers, and more.

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>>1710042
>US Navy ordnanceman Jesse Rhodes Waller posing with a M1919 Browning machine gun next to a PBY Catalina aircraft, Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, Aug. 1942.

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>>1710043
>Women on lunch break at Douglas Aircraft Company – 1940s.

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>>1710045
>Willow Run Bomber Plant in Willow Run, Michigan was the largest single-story war production plants in the world. July 1942.

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>>1710050
>Waiting Room of Union Station. 1943.

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>>1710052
>Steam locomotives of the Chicago & North Western Railway in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Illinois rail yards. Dec. 1942.

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>>1710054
>Roundhouse wipers having lunch in their rest room, Chicago & North Western Railroad, Clinton, Iowa, April 1943.

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>>1710055
>A young worker at the C & NW RR 40th Street shops, Chicago, Illinois, 1942.

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>>1710057
>Farm workers chop cotton on rented land near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia in June 1941.

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>>1710058
>Sugar cane workers resting, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico - December 1941.

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>>1710062
>Mike Evans, a welder, at the rip tracks at Proviso yard of the C & NW RR, Chicago, Illinois, April 1943.

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>>1710063
>Mrs. Viola Sievers, one of the wipers at the roundhouse giving a giant H class locomotive a bath of live steam, Clinton, Iowa. Mrs. Sievers is the sole support of her mother and has a son-in-law in the Army. April 1943.

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>>1710065
>In the convict camp in Greene County, Georgia, 1941. Blues musician Buddy Moss is playing guitar; other men unidentified. Man at left dancing. May, 1941.

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>>1710067
>Hammering out a draw bar on the steam drop hammer in the blacksmith shop, Santa Fe R.R. shops, Albuquerque, New Mexico. March 1943.

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>>1710068
>Damaged Child, Shacktown, Elm Grove, Oklahoma, Great Depression.

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>>1710069
>A "Hooverville" was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was President of the United States during the onset of the Depression and widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson, publicity chief of the Democratic National Committee.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

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>>1710072
One of the shots in the series that would produce the iconic "Migrant Mother" photograph.

>''Migrant Mother'' Florence Owens Thompson. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California, 1936.

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>>1710075
>The iconic symbol of the Great Depression, ''Migrant Mother'' Florence Owens Thompson. Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California, 1936.

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>>1710077
>Farmer preparing to blow tamarack stump. It will take fourteen sticks of dynamite. Bonner County, Idaho. October 1939.

Keep 'em coming. This is I visit /hr/ for.

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>>1710079
>Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 1931.

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>>1710080
Thanks.

>Jack Dempsey (l), Harry Houdini (center), and Benny Leonard (r) jokingly spar at a publicity event.

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>>1710085
>5th Avenue and Broadway c. 1910-1915.

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>>1710087
>The Graf Zeppelin's Rendezvous with the Eternal Desert and the More than 4,000 Year-old Pyramids of Gizeh, Egypt. 1931.

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>>1710091
>Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee, 1935.

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>>1710092
>Storytelling, Apaches.

cool pictures thanks for sharing!

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>>1710096
>Circa 1898. U.S.S. Massachusetts in dry dock.

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>>1710102
>Unemployed lumber worker at bean farm near Stayton. 1939.

*Note his SSA tattooed on his arm.

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>>1710104
>Bedouin Warrior. 1900-1920.

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>>1710108
>Waiting for a dust storm in the Dust Bowl. 1930's.

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>>1710111
>New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition.

It's time for me to head out for a bit, I've been at it for a while now but anyone feel free to contribute please. I'll be joining the thread again later.

Ty for great pics!!

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The hanging of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, July 7 1865. Poor old Mary Surratt is the woman on the left.

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Antietam 1865 - two years after the battle, and shortly after the end of the Amerrican Civil War, a grave collections team gathers remains for reinterment.

bump for interest

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>>1710117
>11 a.m. Monday, May 9, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter’s Branch, Jefferson near Franklin, St. Louis.

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>>1711141
>11 A. M . Monday, May 9th, 1910. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch, Jefferson near Franklin. They were all smoking. Location at St. Louis, Missouri.

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>>1711144
>11a.m. Newsies at Skeeter's Branch. They were all smoking. St. Louis, Missouri, May 9, 1910.

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>>1711146
>Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley in ''Viva Las Vegas'' (1964).

>when you see it

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>>1711149
>Breaker Boys Working in Ewen Breaker of Pennsylvania Coal Co. South Pittston, PA - January, 1911.

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>>1711150
>Breaker boys, Woodward coal breakers, Kingston, Pennsylvania, 1900-1906.

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>>1711154
>Breaker boys, Woodward Coal Mines, Kingston, Pennsylvania, 1900.

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>>1711158
>Eureka, Colorado, circa 1900.

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>>1711159
>Atomic bombing of Nagasaki. 9 August 1945.

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>>1711160
>Cuban visitor watching hockey game, Maple Leaf Gardens — [between 1955 and 1970].

Judging from the fact that people were constantly trying to assassinate Fidel Castro, this guy looks to be one of his many doubles standing in for him at this public occassion. From up close, like where the picture was taken you can tell it's not him. But to an assassin at a distance it would be easy to mistake for the real Castro.

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>>1711164
>Dancing in the recreation tent; FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. Bridgeton, New Jersey. 1942.

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>>1711165
>Fire at 413-417 Broadway. August 12, 1968.

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>>1711166
>Jackie Robinson signing autographs. Late 40's.

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>>1711167
>Kingston, Pennsylvania, circa 1900. ''Breaker boys, Woodward coal mines.''

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>>1711168
>Men are dwarfed by the Titanic's huge propellers when the ship was in the dry dock. 1911 or 1912.

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>>1711169
>Mother and children on empty Street. Upper Buckingham Street, Dublin, 1956.

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>>1711172
>New York, June 6, 1944. D-Day. Crowd watching the news line on the Times building at Times Square.

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>>1711174
>Segregated Bus, Texas 1956.

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>>1711175
>Swiss engineer Mr. Gerdes in 1931 riding his monowheel from Arles, France, heading for Spain.

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>>1711176
>The 363-foot-high Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 10 mission towers over the crawlerway during its rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B, four miles away. March 10, 1969.

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>>1711180
>The Great Depression in the U.S. Men eating bread and soup in a breadline.

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>>1711182
>Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, in the West End of London. London, 1949.

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>>1711184
>Watching the America's Cup Race. Mrs. Kennedy, President Kennedy, others. Off Newport, RI, aboard the USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. 15 September 1962.

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>>1711188
>''Garden of the Gods'' Park , Colorado , 1950's.

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>>1711193
>Auto polo, Coney Isl. 1910-1915.

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>>1711198
>Auto polo. 1910-1915. (1)

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>>1711201
>Auto polo. 1910-1915. (2)

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>>1711204
>Boy building a model airplane as girl watches, FSA camp, Robstown, Texas, 1942. The girl is featured on the cover of the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Carson McCullers' ''The Member of the Wedding''.

Last one for now. Will be back later with more...

Enjoying the pictures, thanks.

This is terrific stuff. Thanks a bunch!

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Found this in an old porno from the late 60's

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Detroit

Summer of 1942

>>1711639
i love it

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opening of Disneyworld

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>>1711184
>Shaftesbury Avenue from Piccadilly Circus, in the West End of London. London, Today.

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>>1711207
>Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Located 530 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 90,000 kw., which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 150,000 kw. The reservoir at the dam adds 370,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system. June 1942.

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>>1712739
Lunchtime brings a few minutes of rest for these women workers of the assembly line at Douglas Aircraft Company's plant, Long Beach, Calif. Sand bags for protection against air raid form the background. October 1942.

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>>1712741
>Woman worker in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant (Oct 1942). This girl in a glass house is putting finishing touches on the bombardier nose section of a B-17F navy bomber, Long Beach, Calif. She's one of many capable women workers in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant.

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>>1712742
>A group of Newsies playing craps in the jail alley at 10 P.M. Albany, N.Y. February 12, 1910.

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>>1712744
>A noontime rest for a full-fledged assembly worker at the Long Beach, Calif., plant of Douglas Aircraft Company. October 1942.

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>>1712745
>An unidentified car on a road in the Texas Panhandle with heavy clouds of dust in the sky - a typical phenomenon of the Dust Bowl. March 1936.

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>>1712749
>Canon De Chelly. Navajo. Seven riders on horseback and dog trek against background of canyon cliffs. 1904.

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>>1712752
>Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman.

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>>1712752
>Interior of tepee, man kneeling on ground removing buffalo hide around skull on ground.

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>>1712759
>Main street, Lancaster, Ohio, 1938.

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>>1712764
>Sheet metal parts are numbered with this pneumatic numbering machine in North American's sheet metal department, North American Aviation, Inc, Inglewood, Calif. October 1942.

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>>1712767
>Tank crew standing in front of M4 Sherman tank; Fort Knox, Kentucky. June 1942. (2)

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>>1712775
>The Douglas Dam, Tennessee early in its construction in June 1942.

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>>1712793
>Two 7 year old newsies, profane and smart, selling Sunday. Nashville, Tenn. November 13, 1910.

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I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet. I find this the most moving old photo I've seen. I believe it's titled "the end of an era" or something similar.

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I don't have descriptions for many of these like the OP does, but I'll post a bunch.

>>1713033
>Circa 1905. Titled, ''The close of a career in New York'' in reference to the passing of the horse.

I do have this image in higher resolution but it's still up in some thread and would not allow me to post it.

>>1713034
Awesome photo.

>>1713051
>Country store on dirt road, Gordonton, North Carolina, 1939.

I was born way to late and in the wrong place...
Life is just so dull now.

>>1713164
Tell that to someone stuck down a 19th C. coalmine for their entire life

You don't imagine they would trade places with you in an instant?

>>1713214
19th cent. coach driver would have been fine for me

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Excellent thread, OP. Gonna throw in what I have.

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>>1710055
>>1710057
>>1710058
>>1710063
>>1710068
>>1712739
>>1712741
>>1712742
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>>1712775
these have exquisite color and brightness reproduction. digital still cant match it without many hacks.

>>1711149
is it me or are those old school swimsuits really sexy

excellent thread gentlemen

spent like an hour on this thread holy fk

this thread is fascinating

>>1711169
holy fuck
>>1711182
dude....
>>1712753
being from AZ, this picture fucking kills it.

pictures like these...fuck...I can't even put into words how much it makes me wish I lived in simpler times.

like those men eating the bread. fuck. they were grateful for having shitty bread and soup, and now we have people their age complaining about "oh boo hoo my ipad shipped late" or "I can't believe that nobody is following my pinterest account" or stupid shit like that. I hate it. I hear it every day, and I think FUCK you should be grateful to even be ALIVE. do you realize how special that is in and of itself? you are alive, you have luxuries, you aren't starving, you live in a world of infinite information. and yet kids kill themselves because becky from my 9th grade biology class doesn't talk to me any more.

fuck. i wish I lived back then. wish i lived with people who took responsibility for themselves, took action, and realized how blessed they really are.

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Something now 80 years ago.

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Back then, Europe could have been united by nazis, without any feminazis.

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This is historic. They had children back then.

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When Hitler came to power, it was normal to be jobless.
Three years later there was no joblessness.
They all worked in the flag factories.

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Hitler:
Virgin
Otaku

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>>1713164
There's downsides and upsides to everything. Many of the people depicted in these pictures would love trade places with YOU. As this >>1713214 anon put it, there were tens of thousands of kids in coal mines who would love to live a day in YOUR shoes.

>>1713281
That was actually a priviledged job. Keep in mind who the people buying and sitting in coaches were. Being a driver for the wealthy was considered a great job in the 19th century.

>>1713720
Agreed, those KC film shots are amazing. And about that swimsuit...let's just say the tightness of them is really fucking attention grabbing...if you catch my drift (hint in the post)...

>>1713725
>>1713746
Thanks you.

>>1713826
Your post is very telling. As a result, I think the next set of pictures will be mostly about the Great Depression. I'll do that theme for a bit right now and then return to it in my next round of posting.

Just as a side note, I'd encourage those who save the pictures to save them with the information. If the titles are too long open the properties of the pictures, go to the "Details" section and paste the descriptions in the Title, Subject or Comment sections, they can hold much more text. These pictures are interesting on their own and great to look at, but it's the story behind them that is the most engaging. Having the description allows the viewer to have a greater degree of connection to the image and allows your imagination to "place" you in that place, time, etc. Enough talk...

>This wirephoto, taken on a ranch near Boise City in Cimarron county, Oklahoma, shows the approach of Sunday's 'black roller' dust storm. The sun had not set when the blow began and some of the lighter dust clouds reflected its rays, but part of the dust was solid black against the sun.

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>>1713979
I wonder why my trip keeps changing...Maybe I just keep forgetting what it is.

>April 3, 1917. Oklahoma City. "Workshop of Sanitary Ice Cream Cone Co., 116 S. Dewey Street. Boys packing cones are John Myers, 14 years old, and a boy 12 years old who is working steady now. Boss said: 'He said he wasn't going to school so I took him.' "

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>>1713984
Ok there we go, remembered what it was.

>A dust storm in Ulysses, Kansas in the 1930s. Dust storms like this one were common place in the Dust Bowl era. What had previously been giant areas of prime farmland, have now been turned into desert plains.

>The Dust Bowl, or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936.

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>>1713985
>A farmer's son in Cimarron County, Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era. April 1936.

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>>1713989
>A man at work with a jack-hammer. 1935.

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>>1713995
>Child with chicken, rural America, 1940.

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>>1714007
>Drought refugees from Oklahoma camping by the roadside, Blythe, California, 1936.

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>>1714024
>Dust Bowl, Dallas, South Dakota 1936.

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>>1714035
>Fomer slave with Slave Horn with which slaves were called, Marshall, Texas, 1939.

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>>1714040
>Freight-hopping youth near Bakersfield, California. Helping a newcomer hop a freight. 1940.

>Freight-hopping was the most common way for the jobless and unemployed the get around. The term "hobo" refers to one such person and emerged during the Great Depression years when millions of American found themselves looking for any job they could scrape up. Most of the time this required travelling great distances and across many states. Hopping freights was the way to do it.

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>>1714044
>Hobo making turtle soup, Great Depression, 1930's.

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>>1714046
>In Lakin, Kansas, three children prepare to leave for school wearing goggles and homemade dust masks to protect them from the dust in 1935.

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>>1714049
>In this 1932 photo, a long line of jobless and homeless men wait outside to get free dinner at New York's municipal lodging house during the Great Depression.

Last one for now...

amazing thread, thanks man

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>>1714052
Just a quick bump before I get back to it later on.

>Hiroo Onoda is a former Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer who fought in World War II. On December 26, 1944, he was sent to Lubang Island in the Philippines. He was ordered to do all he could to hamper enemy attacks on the island, including destroying the airstrip and the pier at the harbor.

>His orders were, "You are absolutely forbidden to die by your own hand. It may take three years, it may take five, but whatever happens, WE'LL COME BACK FOR YOU. Until then, so long as you have one soldier, you are to continue to lead him. You may have to live on coconuts. If that's the case, live on coconuts! Under no circumstances are you to give up your life voluntarily."

>After the Allies invaded and took control of the island Onoda and some of his men fled to the jungle and hills to continue the fight as a guerrilla outfit, like they were ordered. When the war ended a few months later the men found leaflets airdropped in the jungle telling them war was over and orders from General Tomoyuki Yamashita to surrender. The men dimissed it as propaganda.

>On February 20, 1974, Norio Suzuki, a college dropout found Onoda after four days of searching. Onoda now the only one in the group who remained alive, still refused to surrender, saying that he was waiting for orders from a superior officer.

>The Japanese government located Onoda's commanding officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, who had since become a bookseller. He flew to Lubang where on March 9, 1974, he finally met with Onoda and fulfilled the promise made in 1944, "Whatever happens, we'll come back for you".

>In March of 1974, some 29 years after the official end of World War II, Hiroo Onoda, walks out of the jungle of Lubang Island in the Philippines. He handed over his sword (hanging from his hip in photo), his rifle, ammunition and several hand grenades and was finally relieved of duty by Major Taniguchi. He never actually surrendered.

>>1714052
I guess women weren't hungry back then

>>1715277
fascinating

>>1715326
>implying mixed-gender soup kitchen lines

>>1715344

1. soup kitchen

When a group of 4 or more bums have an orgy in a vehicle.
Hey, you wanna join us? We're going to turn this red prius into a soup kitchen.
Hey are you the bums that turned my car into a soup kitchen?

>>1711149

dat camel toe

>>1713849
who are these people?

>>1715344
implying that those where the glorious times when women still knew their place

>>1715973
>Here is Ted Cannon and his LDS missionary companions in Holberg on April 10, 1938 (just a month after Hitler's "Anschluss", the annexing of Austria).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Q._Cannon

>In 1937, Cannon went on a mission for the LDS Church to Nazi Germany. He was president of a branch of the church in Berlin in 1939 when the LDS Church evacuated its missionaries from Europe at the beginning of World War II. Cannon finished his mission in eastern Canada and returned to Utah in 1940.

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old postcard

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>>1715277
>A young Mexican farm worker plays guitar and sings in a Coachella Valley labor camp. 1935.

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>>1718644
>American Civil War, Embalming Surgeon at work.

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>>1718651
>April 18, 1906 in the wake of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The photograph shows the results of the earth quake, the beginning of the fire.

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>>1718652
>Bashi-Bazouks Turkish infrantrymen, 1888.

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>>1718655
> U.S.S. Massachusetts in dry dock. Circa 1898.

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>>1718656
>Erika, a 15-year-old girl and Hungarian Freedom Fighter, carries a PPSh-41 in Budapest during the revolution, 1956. She was eventually shot by the Soviets.

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>>1718661
>Heavily tattooed woman. 1907.

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>>1718663
>Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. Stalled on the desert near Indio, California, 1937.

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>>1718664
>>1718664
>Related to: >>1718652

>''San Francisco in Ruins'' by George Lawrence, documents the damage caused by the April 18, 1906 Magnitude 7.9 earthquake on the San Andreas fault and subsequent fire.

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>>1718667
>Telephone operators sitting in chairs typical of those used by the Telephone Company. April 7 or April 17, 1927.

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>>1718668
>The Chicago Skyline. 1920s Chicago, Illinois.

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>>1718672
>On U.S. 99. Near Brawley, Imperial County. Homeless family of seven, walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on the relief because he once lived there. February 1939.

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>>1718681
>A smoky day at the Sugar Bowl. Hupa, 1923. Hupa man with spear, standing on rock midstream, in background, fog partially obscures trees on mountainsides.

That's a screenshot from an early Charlie Chaplin short film I believe. Note the black face, masks behind and eye make up.

If I'm correct about this, this seems like the one where one of Chaplin's character wreck havok on a live show on stage, while his other character is a gentlemen in the audience that eventually pies one of the performers.

>>1713724
That's a screenshot from an early Charlie Chaplin short film I believe. Note the black face, masks behind and eye make up.

If I'm correct about this, this seems like the one where one of Chaplin's character wreck havok on a live show on stage, while his other character is a gentlemen in the audience that eventually pies one of the performers.

By the way, for the three of you who may still not be aware, Shorpy remains a veritable treasure trove of restored, high-res archival images:

http://www.shorpy.com/

>>1718782
except for the watermarks

best thread ever...
good work sirs.

>>1718782
Oh fuck yes. I had no idea this site existed but I look forward to ripping the whole shebang.
>python awaaaay

>>1719272
>>1718783
Not only the watermarks but the resolutions don't go really high either. Most of the time it's around 2000x2000 which is good but not as good as some of the 4000x4000 stuff on here. Also, because some of the stuff has been digitally restored, I've seen times where they've done a bad job compared to the original. Other than that Shorpy is still a great site. Btw, I don't use Shorpy for any of these, because the resolutions and the watermarks.

>>1713979

I think my favorite part about the Titanic picture, especially, is that those men BUILT that boat. They knew they were doing something extraordinary in building this craft, and it was the first time anything like this had ever been done- yet, in the picture, they still seem so humble and respectful, as if they knew they would be outdone someday. They are proud of their work, yet, if you saw people building something this innovative and groundbreaking today, you can bet that they would either A: be all dressed up and it would be like a corporate photo or B: all be throwing up stupid faces, gang signs, what ahve you and being like "YO dis iz da best shit evar we ain't never gonna be outdone 15 seconds of fame nigguh"

I love the titanic photo. respectful, humble men looking at something they were a part of with pride, humility, and amazement. it speaks volumes to me.

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I have like a million of old photos.

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very interesting composition, but unfortunatly lowres

anyone care to explain why theres a 150 image limit on a board dedicated to image dumping?

>>1719765
We reached limit? Oh well. Give this thread a little time to sink in so people can take a look and gather all the pictures. We'll make a new one soon enough but not too soon, or else others might disregard this one and it will get lost and deleted.

>>1719732
amazing quality photo

Great thread OP, much love. Saved a lot.

I can stare at these for hours, just need some music and tea. You're right how the backstory really adds to them, but I can't help but to make up my own stories as I look at them.

>>1713865
>>1713863
>>1713858
These are amazing, are these original or have they been restored?

Wow. Great stuff. We can actually learn from this material . . .
Forgive me for all the porn I have posted . . .I will try to respect the best wishes and intentions of the best of /hr/ . . . and fap elsewhere . .