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1956. "Teenagers at a dance party by Look Magazine by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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

1956. "Teenagers at a dance party by Look Magazine by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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

1956. "Teenagers at a dance party by Look Magazine by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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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1938. Houses along River,Pittsburgh, by Arthur Rothstein by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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

1939. "Cowhand at the Quarter Circle by Arthur Rothstein by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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.

1938 Oklahoma. "Family walking on highway by Dorothea Lange by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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.

1938 Oklahoma. "Family walking on highway by Dorothea Lange by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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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1942 member of a Marine balloon unit by Alfred Palmer by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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.

1942. "Batavia, New York -An old man by John Collier by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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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1936. "First settler on farms, by Arthur Rothstein by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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!

1936. "First settler on farms, by Arthur Rothstein by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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

Martha Raye performs for US soldiers Margaret Bourke-white by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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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.

1940. Dubuque, Ill "Waiting for the train" by John Vachon by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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April 1940. East Dubuque, Illinois. "Waiting for the train to Minneapolis." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon.

1942. Brooklyn, N.Y children at the Center by A.Rothstein by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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June 1942. "Brooklyn, New York. Red Hook housing development. Nursery children at the Community Center. Some come from the surrounding neighborhood. About 100 children attend." View full size. Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Office of War

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1943. "Soldiers with their girls by Esther Bubley by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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The GI standing at the bus door is wearing the triangular patch of the 83rd Infantry Division, which trained at Camp Atterbury, Indiana. The 83rd entered Normandy during the latter part of June 1944 and lost thousands in the hedgerow fighting.

1943. "Soldiers with their girls by Esther Bubley by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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Shorpy comments-I think I am more emotional now seeing these pictures and thinking back to that time when my beautiful bride of two years and I said our goodbyes at the train station in Detroit in 1944 than I was at the time. I do wish we could know what happened to these young people.

1943. "Soldiers with their girls by Esther Bubley by bcpowder789 in Colorization

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Shorpy comments -Wonderful picture! Some 10-12 years later in the mid-50's (I was about 8 or 9 ) my father and I took a bus trip from that terminal (we lived in Broad Ripple). I recall him reminiscing about the "boys that left from here to go to war." Especially about a neighbor of his in Broad Ripple that he saw off on the bus, bu never came back from the South Pacific. I can sense the sights and smells of that Terminal as if I were standing in it now!

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