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Indianapolis Truck Engine Works Lobby

Date: 1939
Description: Ten chairs, a table, ashtrays, and a pamphlet and magazine display in the lobby of International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. An engine is on display in...
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Three Children Painting At A Table

Date: 1939
Description: Three boys painting with watercolors at a folding table. They appear to be on a porch.
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Woman Milking Cow

Date: 1939
Description: Mrs. Harvey Schmidt sits on a stool in a barn to milk a cow by hand.
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Stone Tavern Restaurant Interior

Date: 1939
Description: A man and a woman stand behind two separate counters inside a restaurant at Stone-Tavern. Signs on the walls advertise Coca-Cola, Schweppes, and read "With...
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Kindergarten Students

Date: 1939
Description: Kindergarten students laying on the floor in a row, possibly for nap time.
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Students at Nap Time

Date: 1939
Description: A group of students laying down on the floor of their kindergarten classroom, probably for nap time. In the background there is a fireplace surrounded with...
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Five Kindergarten Students

Date: 1939
Description: A group of five kindergarten students sitting around a table doing work near the fireplace in their classroom. The fireplace is surrounded by tiling depict...
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Typing Class

Date: 1939
Description: Interior view of a classroom with young men and women learning about, and working on, typewriters.
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Li Hsiu Lan

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by the Orioles, a girls' club at Neighborhood House, with papercuts and an image of Li Hsiu Lan, a girl to whom club members cor...
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Early Meeting of the Social Security Board

Date: 1939
Description: From left to right: George Bigge, Arthur Altmeyer, Chairman, and Ellen Woodward in an early meeting of the Social Security Board.
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Early Meeting of the Social Security Board

Date: 1939
Description: Arthur Altmeyer, Ellen Woodward and George Bigge in an early meeting of the Social Security Board.
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Early Meeting of the Social Security Board

Date: 1939
Description: Arthur Altmeyer, Ellen Woodward and George Bigge in an early meeting of the Social Security Board.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sawles

Date: 1939
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sawles stand with floral tributes at their golden wedding anniversary.
Postcard

Republican House Restaurant

Date: 1939
Description: Text on reverse reads: "Stately Republican House Restaurant...at Ripon, Wisconsin, where in 1954, the Republican Party was Born in the 'little White School...
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Louis Lochner at His Desk

Date: 1939
Description: Louis Lochner is seated at a desk in his office in Berlin. There is a map on the wall in the background.
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The Associated Press Bureau

Date: 1939
Description: The Associated Press newsroom, probably in Berlin. Eight journalists, including Louis P. Lochner, are at work.

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