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- The most dangerous fire escape I've ever seen
- Out of Place
- Sir Bedevere
- Witch way to the fire?
- Proud to be an old Coot
- That old scale
- Bowled Over
- Cat years?
- 'Why' Wyoming?
- His Master's Voice
- What! No dish under the skewer?
- Only in Hollywood?
- What's Up Doc?
- Destination?
- I'm pretty sure this was a voluntary program
- When I see chicken wire rabbit cages I think of three things
- The War Ears
- Eating the bunnies? Really?
- A love affair with a machine
- Hasenpfeffer
- Back support
- Hot type!
- Can you smell ... the news?
- Looking across the street and Flong
- Memories of my elderly hoarder neighbor
- Linotype in the Twilight Zone
- By Memory?
- Quiet place
- Line Of Type
- And no hearing protection
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Fair Game: 1939
September 1939. "Calf-scramble. Central Iowa Fair, Marshalltown, Iowa." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The beginning of a mootiful relationship?
If I understand this clipping correctly, these two will be spending the next year together
I guess it beats a blind date.
Where are his boots?
This brawny young man definitely deserves membership in the Handsome Rakes club. The one thing that throws me off about him is his shoes. He's wearing dress shoes to wrestle a calf to the ground. That must put a lot of dirt in your socks.
Serenity now?
It must've taken some doing to get everyone/thing in this photo so still.
[A flashbulb and a Speed Graphic. - Dave]
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