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We have never really done “Black Friday.”
Navigating the stores and shopping centers for Christmas shopping often seemed more of a hassle than an adventure.
And buying something just because it is a bargain has never made sense to me.
in yard near Calumet Park stockyard, Calumet City (near Chicago), Illinois
Photographer: Jack Delano
Original color transparency image created: January 1943
Lib. of Congress—Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection
This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 11/29/2005 © MpG
Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov
Post from one of my abandoned blogs – Images from the Public Domain – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/27/2011 – page
C & NW RR; at Proviso yard, Chicago, Illinois
Photographer: Jack Delano
Original color transparency image created: December 1942
Library of Congress—Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection
This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 11/29/2005 © MpG
Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov
Post from one of my abandoned blogs – North Farnham Freeholder – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/26/2011 – page
One-room hut housing family of nine built over chassis of abandoned Ford in open field between Camden and Bruceton, Tennessee, near Tennessee River
1 negative : nitrate ; 35 mm
Created: March 1936
Photographer: Carl Mydans
Lib. of Congress—Farm Security Administration – Office of War Information Collection
This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 01/02/06 © MpG
Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov
More vintage images available at reflets – images from the public domain
Post from one of my abandoned blogs – North Farnham Freeholder – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/28/2011
This image cropped and digitally enhanced, 12/08/2005 © MpG
Public domain digital file from original slide available at loc.gov
Post from one of my abandoned blogs – North Farnham Freeholder – recovered from Internet Archive WayBackMachine 2/28/2011 – page