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Source: loc.gov
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Palm Springs, California. Mid-century modern home built by the Alexander Construction Company
Posted on February 4, 2011 with 6 notes
Source: loc.gov
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Portrait of Wesley Prince, Oscar Moore, and Nat King Cole, Zanzibar, New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946
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Arnett Cobb and Walter Buchanan, live at the Apollo, 1947.
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American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, AEP-AZS223], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.
Via LOC.
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American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, AEP-AZS229], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.
Via LOC.
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American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, AEP-CAS35], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library
Via LOC.
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Mexican artists have always been rad. This one is from 1910.
Via the LOC.
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Mojave Desert from the LOC.
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Another great pic from the LOC.
Circa 1898 to 1905.
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I am always surprised and somewhat amused when I see historical photographs in colour. It is probably because I picture the pre-polaroid world as black & white like my history text-books. Seeing photographs like these Russian photographs from 1910 just erases that naive thought pretty quickly.
A series has been curated by The Big Pitcure.
The one above is from the LOC archive.




![American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, AEP-AZS223], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.
Via LOC.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8qj4cigSk1qzb0ioo1_500.jpg)
![American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, AEP-AZS229], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library.
Via LOC.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8qiwqngbx1qzb0ioo1_500.jpg)
![American Environmental Photographs Collection, [AEP Image Number, AEP-CAS35], Department of Special Collections, University of Chicago Library
Via LOC.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l8qiuquIvK1qzb0ioo1_500.jpg)




