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undertakers

during the 1936 campaign

New York stopping over to fill up for gas

A collaboration with the Travels Through Time podcast and Guardian Faber to celebrate the release of Simon Hall's Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s

Pie Town Cafe by Russell Lee, 1940 Size:(A4) Small undertakersABOUT THIS PHOTOGRAPH Throughout June 1940, FSA photographer Russell Lee stayed in Pie Town, New Mexico, documenting everyday life and the community. The photographs, many of them in genuine colour, have become an iconic series of photographs. It continues to astound me how intensely garish and saturated colours are in the 1940s, particularly in the near ubiquitous advertising for tobacco of various kinds. For this photograph, I had something I

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