The Chatter

Yale Showcases 170,000 Depression-Era Photos

Among the collection are more than 1,300 images of life in Baltimore in the 1930s.
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July 1938. Man sleeping in fish market. Baltimore, Maryland. - Sheldon Dick
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April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Peanut stand. - Marjory Collins
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April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Shoe shine boy. - Marjory Collins
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April 1943. Workers reading the newsstand papers while waiting for a trolley after work. - Marjory Collins
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April 1943. Meat Warehouse. - Marjory Collins
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June 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Funeral of a merchant seaman. Pallbearers with flag-covered casket. - Jack Delano
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April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Nun awaiting contributions of workers in the Bethlemhem Fairfield shipyard at the company gates just before three o'clock whistle. - Marjory Collins
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May 1943. Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland. - Arthur S. Siegel
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April 1943. Baltimore, Maryland. Crowding onto a bus at 4 p.m. - Marjory Collins
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May 1943. Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland. Student nurse at work in the pediatrics ward. - Ann Rosener
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May 1943. Looking from grandstand at Pimlico racetrack. - Arthur S. Siegel