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The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

RBH

Bartender
Prairie City, Missouri, in Mississippi County

1936 Mar

Mydans, Carl, photographer.

Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)




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Dan Allen

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Notice the right side bow on hat of guy in overalls...
Is it any coincidence that our economic decline began about the time that as a nation we became too proud to
squat, and all the economies that began to rise came from nations of squatters--Asians?? The members from
farming communities may know more what I'm talking about.
 
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Fletch

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Not so much for the hats as for an unusually intimate view of people at a moment in time when large-format vernacular photography was very rare. Solar eclipse watchers on the 86th floor deck of the Empire State Building, August 31, 1932.
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