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Children at Play in Chicago Alley

Date: 07 1923
Description: Children at play in a dirt alley on Chicago's west side.
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Bureau of Sewers Dump Truck

Date: 12 01 1937
Description: A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ...
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Playground, Jacob Riis Houses

Date: 1968
Description: View from below of two boys on a jungle gym. Some of the brick buildings of the Jacob Riis Houses rise in the background.
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Istanbul Harbor

Date: 1951
Description: Elevated view of pedestrians at the harbor at Istanbul, Turkey.
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Family Loading Truck

Date: 1967
Description: Shelly and Mary Louise Grossman, and their children Keith and Julie, load items including teddy bears, suitcases, and boxes into an International Scout tru...
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Urban Garden

Date: 1918
Description: A man is using a garden plow to cultivate an urban garden located near a row of commercial brick buildings.
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Children in Tenement Section

Date: 1923
Description: Children joining hands while playing in an alleyway between brick buildings in an area of tenement housing. A line of laundry suspended over the alley is h...
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Robert Kennedy in Hong Kong

Date: 1962
Description: Robert Kennedy, then attorney general, surrounded by young people during a visit to Hong Kong. Kennedy was traveling in Southeast Asia, and the tall white-...
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Warsaw Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion.
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Quarantine Fence

Date: 1940
Description: A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had...
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Jewish Ghetto in Poland

Date: 10 1940
Description: A street in the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, Poland.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: A wide load on a Sarajevo street, about a year before the Kingdom of Yugoslavia fell to the Germans.
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Sarajevo Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Wood carts and drivers on a street in Sarajevo, about a year before the city fell to the Germans.

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