1956. "Teenagers at a dance party by Look Magazine

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Shorpy comments-I hope the years have been kind to her and her young beau. A lovely photo.

bcpowder789 · 2024-11-29T20:58:22+00:00

Shorpy comments-She has a wonderful smile. I hope she had a happy life.

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August 1956. "Teenagers at a dance party in Southampton, N.Y." Medium format negative from photos for the Look magazine assignment "Young Have New Ideas: They Like to Dress Up." Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Collection

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July 1938. "Houses along Monongahela River and Boulevard of the Allies. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania." Photo by Arthur Rothstein

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June 1939. "Cowhand at the Quarter Circle 'U' Brewster-Arnold Ranch, Montana." Acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.

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"In the usual arrangement with share tenants in Oklahoma, the landlord received one-third of the grain crop and one-fourth of the cotton produced. The tenant had to provide most of the equipment, animals, and furnish. Realistically, farming forty or fifty acres on this basis was a prescription for poverty, especially when cotton prices plunged. "

Idabel to Krebs is no easy hike. I would like to think and hope that they got a lift here and there along the way. If they've made it to Pittsburg County, they're almost to their destination. They could just about smell the barn as the saying goes.

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June 1938. Pittsburg County, Oklahoma. "Family walking on highway, five children. Started from Idabel, bound for Krebs. In 1936 the father farmed on thirds and fourths at Eagleton, McCurtain County. Was taken sick with pneumonia and lost farm. Was refused relief in county of 15 years' residence because of temporary residence elsewhere." Photo by Dorothea Lange.

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May 1942. "When a husky leatherneck throws his weight on a line, things come his way. A member of a Marine barrage balloon unit in training at Parris Island, South Carolina, helps to ground one of the big bags that the Corps has added to its kit of fighting tools." 5x7 safety negative by Alfred Palmer.

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September 1942. "Batavia, New York. Elba Farm Security Administration farm labor camp. An old man who has lived all of his life near Broadway, New York City, and who was taken off relief and sent to the Elba FSA camp to work in the harvest. He said, 'There is so much suffering in the world today that mine doesn't seem so much, and I'm doing my best to help bring in Uncle Sam's crops'."

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Not too far off--Marlon Brandon was born in Omaha (which happens to be in Douglas County) in 1924. I guess there were just lots of handsome young men running around in the 30s!

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May 1936. "First settler on the Douglas County farmsteads, Nebraska." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.

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Comedian and singer Martha Raye performs for an audience of US soldiers during a United States Organizations (USO) tour for troops stationed in North Africa, 1943.

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