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Little Orphan Annie in a Pittsburgh Institution, Lewis W. Hine, ca. 1910, printed later, Smithsonian: American Art Museum

Size: sheet and image: 6 ½ x 4 ½ in. (16.5 x 11.5 cm.) Medium: gelatin silver print

Group portrait of beauty contestants, possibly sponsored by the Inter-state Tattler magazine, at the Savoy Ballroom, ca. 1927.

A peaceful scene in Brooklyn's Brower Park, September 28, 1941.

Bobby soxers wait for their hero Frank Sinatra outside Toots Shor's restaurant on West 51st Street, September 30, 1944.

Black New Yorkers celebrating the victory of heavyweight boxer Joe Louis over Max Baer, September 30, 1935.

The latest fashion for teen girls in 1953: dog collars on their bobby socks.

Dodgers Duke Snider, Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese wave a big bat before the start of Game 2 of the World Series with the Yankees, October 2, 1952.

"Au Lapin Saute" restaurant in Saint-Prix, Parisis region of France