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A view of Chicago’s historic La Salle Street train station, November 1936.
PHOTOGRAPH BY WILLIAM M. RITTASE,

 

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Elderly Army Officer Back in Service, Brownsville, TX, 1942
LOC-FSA-OWI, 1935-1945

Jack Delano photographer circa 1940s

Circa 1940s FAS

 

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The opening of Tri-State Bank in Memphis. Made by Rev. L.O. Taylor in 1946.
Courtesy Center for Southern Folklore

The New York Cafe on East McLemore circa 1940's Memphis.

 

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[Qvist]

Jean Sibelius 1930´s

 

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Finnish businessmen in 1938

 

[TheDane]

Jean Sibelius 1930´s

And one of our national composers, Carl Nielsen (probably late 1800s):

 

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http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/the-forgotten-that-glaring-young-man-on-the-flying-trapeze--2

 

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This mare won a blue ribbon at a horse show in Wateloo, Iowa, August 1939.
PHOTOGRAPH BY J. BAYLOR ROBERTS

 

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Absurd Portraits from the National Beard & Mustache Championships by Greg Anderson

 

[Lefty]

before I wore hats and before bearding had a tv show
WBMCs, Carson City, 2003

 

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[bowlerman]

Wow! Some very cool contributions to this thread today!

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OK... lets get back on track.

Two photos from Esther Bubley-

Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee.
Passengers on the Memphis-Chattanooga Greyhound bus.
September 1943. Library of Congress

 

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And another from the FSA...1939.

Just to show cowboys did wear fedoras...

Branding at the Quarter Circle U Ranch in Montana.

June, 1939, Arthur Rothstein...FSA ...LOC

 

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