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Who We Were
The cover of Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America, published by CityFiles Press in Chicago....
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A 3D Hit
A Kodachrome image marked "Dede at bat," taken with a stereo camera that produced...
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When Snapshots Were Round
A ride in a surrey with the fringe on top, in a snapshot taken around 1890 with a Kodak No. 1...
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To End All Wars
The peace agreement that ended World War I is celebrated in Gulfport, Mississippi, on November 11,...
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Korean War Dispatch
"This is one of the mosquitoes out here," wrote a soldier from the battlefront of the...
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Colors of a Generation
Kodachrome was a slide film that defined the 1950s with a color palette as brilliant as...
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The Message is Clear
Until the age of snapshots, most photographs of loved ones were stiff and posed. That changed when...
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Red, White, and Blue
"Hurray the war is over, like the other war," wrote C.M. Gregge, of Alpena, South Dakota,...
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View from the Grandstands
A game of stickball on the streets of Champaign or Urbana, Illinois, in 1918. It was taken from an...
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Tin Can Tourists
A family poses for a portrait in their beloved car. The photo was taken about 1930. (Photo from Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America.)
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First Family on the Moon
"This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth." That was what Charles Duke wrote...
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Back to Back
The term "teenager," coined in the forties, defined the semi-independent,...
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No Time to Vote
Anti-suffragists demonstrate against a proposed federal amendment guaranteeing the right of women to...
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What's the Story?
Many snapshots are by anonymous photographers of anonymous subjects. But they leave behind stories...
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Double Exposed
Women took the majority of snapshots during the 1950s. Their number one subject? Children. (Photo from Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America.)
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The 5 O'clock Local
Before the development of color film, some snapshooters colored their pictures using transparent oil...
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Down and Out
Belongings from an evicted family are left on a city street during the Depression in 1932. (Photo from Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America.)
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Kind of Shy
Wrote the Saturday Evening Post in 1954 about the new craze of teenager photography: "They are...
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