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Civic Life in the 20th Century

Images of urban settings including shops and streets during significant historical moments, reflecting community life and social issues.

Women's Suffrage Banner, Washington DC, USA, circa 1919
Women's Suffrage Banner, Washington DC, USA, circa 1919
138 assets in this story
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Union Oyster House, Union Street, Boston , Restaurants, Signs Notices, Union Oyster House. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Sign of "Rooms for Rent." San Diego, California 1940. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County
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THE BEND, by Jacob Riis, c. 1888-90. The infamous 'Mulberry Bend' of the Five Points neighborhood of the poor and homeless. As a police reporter, Riis described its violence, filth, poor, and immigrant residents in the pages of the NEW YORK TRIBUNE (BSLOC_2018_1_97)
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Omar, West Virginia. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Signs - California. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History
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C. Chapman. August 10, 1953.
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Brattle Book Shop , Bookstores, Storefronts. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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T. B. diorama , Dioramas, Tuberculosis. The Massachusetts WPA Federal Art Project Photograph Collection
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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English Kitchen restaurant sold 20 cent meals on Broadway Street in Round Pond, Oklahoma Territory. Photo taken in Jan. 1894, four months after the Cherokee Outlet 'Land Rush' (BSLOC_2018_1_129)
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Vintage Photograph. A road closed detour sign.
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Anefo photo collection. PAROOL command, largest illuminated advertising at RAI. 25 April 1967
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Sign. San Francisco, California 1942. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Francisco, California , San Francisco County
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Vintage Photograph. Rate sign of auto parking lot.
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Close-up of a mailbox
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Madrid, 1909. "La Europa", Great Popular Pharmacy. Cross 24, 26.
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Market sign. Winston Salem, North Carolina. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Susan Clegg and Her Neighbor's Affairs,' issued between 1895 and 1911. American poster related to the publishing industry
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0153. 1956
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Sign. Weslaco, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , Weslaco, Texas , Hidalgo County
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05/25/1979. California cafeteria attack. After four years of activity, the Grapo attack the emblematic Madrid cafeteria California 47. 9 people die and another 61 are injured.
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Information and Publications Maine, 1957 , Exhibit booths, Canned foods, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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Cavanagh's. 1959. Buttolph, Frank, 1850-1924. text. Menus. Rare Book Division
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Sign, Nantucket , Sundials, Signs Notices. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Paris, France posters of the national loan of 1920, Crédit Lyonnais , (French - Paris , France Affiches de l' emprunt national de 1920 , Crédit Lyonnais). Loan, bank , finances, poster, war effort , war work, drawing, Economic activity, registration , information, First World War, Art, France, Paris, Nal 1920 Crédit Lyonnais Borrowing posters posters group
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The Clearfield. Riverside Drive and One Hundred and Third Street.. Photographs, Floor plans. 1910-03. Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy. Apartment houses , New York (State) , New York, Dwellings , New York (State) , New York
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2000s America - New Hampton Newspapers, 10 North Chestnut, New Hampton, Iowa 2003.
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Vintage photograph. A state of Virginia prevent forest fires sign posted on a tree on route 60 between Covington and Clifton Forge Jefferson national Forest, Virginia
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Sign, El Indio, Texas 1939. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , El Indio, Texas , Maverick County
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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London Street Some. April 01, 1931. (Photo by Central Press Photograph).
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Sign at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project. San Diego, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County
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Sign at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) defense housing project. San Diego, California 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California , San Diego, California , San Diego County
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Information and Publications Maine, 1957 , Civil defense, Posters. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization
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Nathanís signs
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Campaign posters, central Ohio, Route 40. Summer 1938. Ben Shahn, photographer.
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Provincetown theatre sign , Theaters, Signs Notices. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection