Vintage shots from days gone by!

Ingrid Bergman

 

A Hard Day’s Night

 

http://heckyeahdorisday.tumblr.com/post/18016056909/doris-day-1945

 

Can anyone tell me why a lot of the images on the Library Of Congress site have a black dot on them as example below

 

Could it be to block out names or other Identifying features. Did people have to sign a release of some kind before they could show store names etc. like the dot in this picture is blocking out above the door where the sign would be

 

A CCC worker in 1935 working on a trail in the Grand Canyon

 

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Could it be to block out names or other Identifying features. Did people have to sign a release of some kind before they could show store names etc. like the dot in this picture is blocking out above the door where the sign would be

In some cases that would figure , but not in all cases

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?fa=displayed%3Aanywhere&sp=188&co=fsa&st=gallery

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?fa=displayed%3Aanywhere&sp=192&co=fsa&st=gallery

 

my great-grandfather's football team....Treverton PA


and some Treverton post cards...

 

swi66, Thanks for the trucker stuff.

 

That's an editorial technique. Those are the shots that were not chosen for publication. Did you notice on most of them there are alternate views and the cut outs seldom have captions. They also don't seem to show up in searches for, say, the location, or a keyword such as "store." I never saw any of these cut outs until I started just paging through the whole collection.

Another thing that bugs me is that a lot of the shots are portraits but they don't give the person's name. The caption will say something like, "a cotton farmer..."

 

Actually, you can thank Roy Stryker (relation to Ted?) who just didn't damn well like those particular photographs and did his best to make sure that you didn't enjoy them either.... http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2010/10/04/william-e-jones-punctured/ http://www.theatlanticwire.com/ente...r-evans-you-made-beautiful-photographs/44532/ "The FSA's photography program also kept other famous American photographers like Dorothea Lange in work during the Depression, although Roy Stryker, the hard-nosed economist tasked with running the program, had a bad habit of punching holes in the negatives of photographs he didn't like."

 

Big thanks for that, explains it all, and as for Stryker he ruined some good photo's

 

Hey Jimi, I had forgotten that you could get guy stuff like a baseball glove with the old trading stamps. That's a cool memory. My Mom was pretty slick. She got a big sponge, soaked it in water, and we used that to wet the stamps. Yeah, that glue was deadly.

 

I second that.

 

Seems to be a hit with the boys around Dubuque, Iowa this lady !!

 

Like the avatar Woody

 

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Mid 20s​

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Late 30s, Bakery Truck​

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Mid 40s coal truck​

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Early 20s​

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1942

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photo LIFE online archives​

 

1938 Central Ohio

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1947 Tulsa OK

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photo LIFE online archives​

 

1944 London US Army Signal Center Govenor Square #1

 

Great range of shots ;many thanks for going to the effort of posting them.

 

Showlow AZ

Kival rest home Phoenix

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