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Medallion: the peace prize

Democratic presidential campaign of 1924, New York. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2014717393/. Contrast and detail restored.
July 13, 2022 jonathanmorse
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Instamatic: the illusion of an innocent prior age

Pacific Southwest Airlines stewardesses, about 1970. San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives, https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/50783402757/in/dateposted/. Restored with Photoshop and Gifmaker. A chronology of the uniforms is at http://www.psa-history.org/sights_and_sounds/stewardesses/.
February 9, 2021February 9, 2021 jonathanmorse
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Foundation

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2006000152/. Photoshopped.

July 19, 2015May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
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Out of three metronomes and a ribbon

Source: George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ggb2005024621/. Photoshopped.

June 4, 2015May 16, 2018 jonathanmorse
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