Lower Manhattan

An absolutely incredible photo showing life in Lower Manhattan, 1941.  Photo by Charles Cushman, with permission of Indiana University Arch...

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Harrisburg, 1941

A cityscape of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1941.

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Mowing the Yard

A little girl in Albion, Illinois mows the yard.  This picture was taken in April, 1941.

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Main Street - Cascade, Idaho

Photo taken July, 1941.

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At the 1941 Vermont State Fair

At the 1941 Vermont State Fair in Rutland, Vermont.  These pictures are so good you can smell the corn dogs and funnel cakes. The barker...

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Skipping Rope

A grandfather watches his granddaughter skip rope.  New Harmony, Indiana, 1941.

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Sugar Cane Worker and His Woman

Photo taken in 1941 at Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.  Quite a nice shirt made from a sugar cane sack.  

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Three Bums from South Ferry Flophouses

Such is how Mr. Cushman titled this particular photo, taken  in June, 1941.  The men are sitting on a bench at Battery Park, New York City....

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Stores near corner of Baruch Pl. and Broome St.

Lower East Side, New York, 1941. Posted with permission of the Indiana University Archives

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Moppet Poses After Getting Pennies

This photo was taken in 1941 by amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman.  Somewhere in South Chicago. It is posted with the permission of In...

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Chicago Boys 1941

April 1941. "Negro boys on Easter morning, Southside Chicago." Acetate negative by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. ...

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