Your Inner Nerd Will Love These Photos Of Old-School America

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Herald Square and 34th St. in Manhattan, 1935.

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Blossom Restaurant, 103 Bowery, Manhattan, 1935.

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St. Mark's Church on East 10th Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan, with sky-writing in the background, 1935.

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Milk wagon and old houses, Grove Street, Manhattan, in 1935.

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A young, penniless family hitchhiking on U.S. Highway 99, California, in November 1936. The father, 24, and the mother, 17, came from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, early in 1935. Their baby was born in the Imperial Valley, California, where they were working as field laborers.

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Migrants in California in 1936.

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Midway Dairy cooperative, near Santa Ana, California, in 1936.

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Children from Dead Ox Flat get off the bus at the schoolyard in Ontario, Malheur County, Oregon, in October of 1939.

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A photo from sometime between 1902 and 1913 shows the pens at Ellis Island. The people in the photo have passed the first mental inspection for immigration.

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A photo from the Spalding Baseball Collection shows Jim Fogarty of the Philadelphia Quakers, sometime in the late 1800s.

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A stereoscopic view of a Klondike camp in Alaska. The date is unknown.

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This GIF was created from the two frames of the preceding stereoscopic image. Alternating between the frames gives the image the illusion of depth that one would see from a stereoscopic viewer.

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A stereoscopic image titled "Gazing into a yawning chasm 5000 feet deep, Moran's Point," taken in the Grand Canyon in 1902 or 1903.

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This GIF was created from the two frames of the preceding stereoscopic image. Alternating between the frames gives the image the illusion of depth that one would see from a stereoscopic viewer.

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A piece created for the Works Progress Administration titled "Fishing In the Park," sometime between 1935 and1943.