Lou Gehrig as Tarzan

Baseball great Lou Gehrig had ambitions to be in the movies. He set his sights on playing Tarzan, auditioning for the role and posing for so...

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Hoe Culture

Hoe culture in the South. Poor white, North Carolina, July, 1936. Source LOC

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Silver Medal

Hedwiga Wajsowna of Poland won the silver in the discus throw at the 1936 Olympics.

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An American Tragedy

This is a series of photos of a depression era family of nine, taken in 1936.  The family lived in an open field on U.S. Route 70 between C...

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Dog Rides Comfortably in Sack on Running Board

From the June, 1936 issue of Popular Mechanics...

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