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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsThis is such a HOT guy!
In all seriousness you should check out these great photographs of the Shorpy gallery. Shorpy is an Alabama-based high-quality printer of gorgeous old photographs, from the Juniper Gallery's archives, of some of best topics include: Cities, industry, architecture, interior design, grand municipal spaces.
Would you ride this?!?!
Rochester NY's own Ponte Vecchio... who knew?
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This is such a HOT guy! (Original Post)
Agschmid
Feb 2013
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. One of my favorite sites..incredible photographs.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)2. You knew about it...
and you did not tell me!
Haha well thanks for the comment, have a good night!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)3. The photo of the man with the wrench was by Lewis Hine, taken in 1920
Hine was most famous as a social reformer, taking pictures of terrible living and working conditions, particularly child labor.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)4. Ask Sinclair...
It was/is in fact a Jungle out there.
Thanks for adding some more photographs to the thread.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)5. I have seen several collections of his work.
Most people do not know, today, about the "reformers" of the early 1900's,
how much poverty, child labor, squalor, there was in East Coast cities then,
and how important some photographers were in helping change conditions.