Fujimi Teahouse at Zoshigaya

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Fujimi Teahouse at Zoshigaya

Zoushigaya fujimi chaya – created by Andō Hiroshige in 1858.
Summary: Two women at an outdoor teahouse stall at Zōshigaya with Mount Fuji in the distance.
Print : woodcut, color ; 35.9 x 24.5 cm. (14.0 x 9.6 in.)

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Wonderful Wizard of Oz

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wizard of oz

Tinman and Scarecrow, from frontpiece illustration and title page in the 1900 edition of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” By L. Frank Baum with pictures by W. W. Denslow. Published by Geo. M. Hill Co. Chicago and New York. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated.

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Eroded Farmland – Western Oklahoma 1936

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Eroded Farmland - Western Oklahoma 1936

Severe wind erosion made this farm uninhabitable. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, April 1936.

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Desperate Times – A shanty built from refuse

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A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, January 1939.

A shanty built of refuse near the Sunnyside slack pile, Herrin, Illinois. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, January 1939.

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Christmas Toy Vendor

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Christmas Toy Vendor

Early 1900s street vendor selling Christmas toys on 6th Avenue in New York City. Bain News Service. From glass negative.

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Flood Refugee – 1939.
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1939 Flood Refugee

“Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California. The child is a flood refugee of March 1939 from southeast Missouri,” Dorothea Lange, photographer, April 1939. Movie: “I’m from Missouri.”

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Dust Bowl Farm – Western Oklahoma 1936

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Sand dunes on a farm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma panhandle. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, April 1936.

Sand dunes on a farm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma panhandle. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, April 1936.

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Christmas Morning

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Christmas Morning

Elderly man seated, holding toy horse, facing right, with arm around young boy. Photo by Hatton & Weller, Bronx, N.Y.; © 1909

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A Christmas joke with a point to it!

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A Christmas joke with a point to it!

“Illustration shows the interior of a frontier cabin where a long table is set for a Christmas turkey dinner; around the table are seated several people, some of whom are surprised to discover an arrow stuck in the turkey, shot by a Native standing outside the open door of the cabin.” Centerfold illustration in December 5, 1906 edition of Puck; illustration by by Carl Hassmann.

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First Christmas eve; a vision of the future

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First Christmas eve; a vision of the future

Print shows a well-dressed couple sitting on a sofa before a fire in the fireplace, with the spirits of three young children dancing around a Christmas tree; there are art-nouveau style furnishings (lamp and flower vase) on the table in the background. Chromolithograph. Centerfold illustration in December 8, 1896 issue of Puck (magazine). Illustration by Charles Jay Taylor.

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