For two generations family owned Scurlock Studio photographed Washington DC’s African American community.
At Play
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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Teen Connection Theatre
Teens connect and make theatre together—workshopping skits, painting scenery and field tripping.
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Baldi & Bobo, No Kidding & Nothin!
Class of 1949 Duryea, PA seniors record their favorite sayings, ambitions, wills and nicknames in the Duryea High School yearbook.
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Edison TV
Early motion pictures made by inventor extraordinaire Thomas Edison.
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NYPL Picture Collection: Mom, I’m Starving
It is a plain fact but a fact nonetheless that teenagers are hungry.
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NYPL Picture Collection: So Much Potential
A lot of the time, photographs are either taken at a beginning or at an end.
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Duval Champs
Hear the Tigers Roar! Celebratory pages from the 1920 Duval High School Annual.
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NYPL Picture Collection: Sleepovers
The pictures collected here are from the New York Public Library’s Picture Collection, a room full of folders upon folders of pictures.
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The Brooklyn Enigma
Famous for fasting, Mollie Fancher led a Victorian girls life of sickness and fragility.
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Edelweiss Pirates
A man named Jean Jülich died on October 19th, age 82, in his hometown of Cologne.