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GAS MASK, 1942. Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a gas mask in a practice

GAS MASK, 1942.
Sergeant George Camblair learning how to use a gas mask in a practice smokescreen at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Photograph by Jack Delano, September 1942

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1942, American, Camblair, Delano, Fort Belvoir, Fsa, Gas Mask, Gun, Jack, Mid, Photograph, Practice, September, Sergeant, Virginia

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1908. Portrait of 12 year old Johns Lewis, a cotton mill employee

HINE: CHILD LABOR, 1908.
Portrait of 12 year old Johns Lewis, a cotton mill employee earning sixty cents an hour and responsible for four looms, Springstein Mill, Chester, South Carolina. Photograph by Lewis Hine, 1908

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1908, American, Boy, Chester, Child Labor, Cotton, Early, Hat, Hine, John, Johns, Kid, Labor, Lewis, Mill, Outside, Photograph, Portrait, Sepia, South, South Carolina, Springstein Mill, Suspenders, Work

DETROIT, 1942. Mounted police surrounding a group of black men during a riot caused

DETROIT, 1942.
Mounted police surrounding a group of black men during a riot caused by white residents attempting to keep black families from moving into the Sojourner Truth homes in Detroit, Michigan. Photograph by Arthur Siegel, February 1942

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1942, African American, Arthur, Black, Detroit, Exterior, February, Fsa, Great Migration, Horse, Horseback, Men, Michigan, Photograph, Police, Riot, Siegel, Sojourner Truth Housing Project