Shorpy March 31, 2017

April 1936. “Blight — 1316 West Walnut Street. Milwaukee, Wisc.” Medium format negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration.

 

June 1943. Tunisia. “A German military cemetery on the outskirts of Tunis.” Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.

 

June 1943. “Miss Ruth Gusick, formerly a clerk in a drugstore, now works as a garage attendant at one of the Atlantic Refining Company service stations in Philadelphia.” Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.

 

June 1943. Washington, D.C. “Miss Helen Ringwald, employee at the Western Union telegraph office, works with the pneumatic tubes through which messages are sent to branches in other parts of the city for delivery.” Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information.