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The Garmon Theatre, which opened in the 1940s and closed three decades later in Rio Grande City, Texas, became a home-furnishing store among other uses

The Garmon Theatre, which opened in the 1940s and closed three decades...

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The Prairie Chapel School, a three-room schoolhouse that served the mostly German-and Austrian-immigrant community in Crawford, Texas, for three decades in the early 20th Century

The Prairie Chapel School, a three-room schoolhouse that served the mo...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in Historic Mobile, Alabama

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in H...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Wintzell's is known far and wide for its "Oysters-fried, stewed, or nude." Wintzell's Oyster House was founded in 1938 as a 6-stool oyster b... More

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in Historic Mobile, Alabama

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in H...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Wintzell's is known far and wide for its "Oysters-fried, stewed, or nude." Wintzell's Oyster House was founded in 1938 as a 6-stool oyster b... More

The president's official greeters. These two gentlemen, Sergt. Ernest M. Seaman, (left) and Sergt. C.L. Dalrymple, of the White House police force, are the president's official greeters. These are the men who must first talk to each an every one of the 10,000 visitors [...] call at the White House executive offices each year. They have b[...] guarding offices of the President for nearly three decades and are the finest examples of diplomacy and courtesy. Their's is the [...] smile and warm "good morning" but their long training has taught them the art of sizing up the visitor at the same time and knowing just where to place him or her

The president's official greeters. These two gentlemen, Sergt. Ernest ...

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Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in Historic Mobile, Alabama

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in H...

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Fort Washington is the site of Fort Washington Park, which was for many decades the only defensive fort protecting Washington D.C.

Fort Washington is the site of Fort Washington Park, which was for man...

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Shipbuilding (Newport News). One of the major advances in shipbuilding during the past two decades has been the substitution of welding for rivets in a number of vital sections of warcraft. Welding means much less weight and much less steel for each ship. This is one of hundreds of welders employed at Newport News, working on the man-hole coaning for a new cruiser

Shipbuilding (Newport News). One of the major advances in shipbuilding...

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Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in Historic Mobile, Alabama

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in H...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Wintzell's is known far and wide for its "Oysters-fried, stewed, or nude." Wintzell's Oyster House was founded in 1938 as a 6-stool oyster b... More

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in Historic Mobile, Alabama

Wintzell's Oyster House, a landmark on Dauphin Street for decades in H...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Wintzell's is known far and wide for its "Oysters-fried, stewed, or nude." Wintzell's Oyster House was founded in 1938 as a 6-stool oyster b... More

Aviation, two decades of progress in the host city to the National Air Races

Aviation, two decades of progress in the host city to the National Air...

Photograph shows a tri-motored transport plane in flight, against the background of Chicago's skyline.

"Big Train" to roll again. Germantown, MD, Sept. 13. Walter Johnson; Washington Senators' pitching star for two decades, scored another shutout yesterday when he defeated his opponent, James M. Mount, for the Republican nomination as County Commissioner for Montgomery County. The score was; Johnson 1,025 votes, Mount 40, Johnson is pictured as he warmed up that powerful right arm in preparation for the campaign he will wage for election. The former pitcher now runs a dairy farm here, 9/13/38

"Big Train" to roll again. Germantown, MD, Sept. 13. Walter Johnson; W...

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Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this small part for an army machine gun, this worker must achieve tolerance not greater than 1/10,000 of an inch. This upper New York state factory, which formerly produced oil burners, is under contract for 75,000 small precision parts for the Army. Its employees are super-skilled workmen, many of whom have been with the firm for decades. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this sma...

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