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Foreground, Background

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No, but what am I looking at here? ["Alpine Creature"]

Stereophonic Radiogram

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Have you heard the new GWAR album yet? I think you'll love it.  [Winsome Murray, Dunedin, c.1960. W.B. Murray photographer.]  

On the Water

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It looks so shallow. Were they fishing? Just out enjoying the day? That's such a tidy looking little boat.  [Snapshot. No Details Available.]

Skate

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I feel like this guy is really personifying the name of this blog. [Kodachrome Slide. 1955.]

Dead Serious

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It does seem faintly disrespectful, but would they really care? [Snapshot. No Details Available.]

Little Italy

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I just really love their faces. Where do you think they were going? [New York, 1943. Photographer Fred Stein.]

Skunk

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I don't know what the plan is here, but it's a bad one.  [Snapshot. No Details Available.]

Sock Garters, 1924

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This is what a lack of comprehensive sex education gets you.  [Snapshot.]

An Unusual Eating Place

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  This is just a fucking delight from one end to the other. I love the descriptions that don't really describe what the dishes are. It's like the J Peterman catalog of chicken joints.  [Washington, DC. Circa 1950.]