Janet MacLeod

Professional model Janet MacLeod wearing veiled hat designed by Lilly Dache. New York, NY, 1937, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt

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Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky

Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, 1937

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Depression Era

New York - January 1938. "Unemployed Workers."  - Depression Era 

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Edith Beale

Edith Bouvier Beale, dressed to kill in Central Park. | Autumn, 1937.

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Metropolitan Opera House

A full house, seen from the rear of the stage, at the Metropolitan Opera House for a concert by pianist Josef Hofmann, 1937
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Vintage Photo

May 1, 1937, New York. Grocery at 1028 Third Avenue and 61st Street with Salvatore Campanelli far right. John J. Campanelli Collection. View full size

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Vintage Photos

Destitute: Children sitting on the steps of a dilapidated house in Michigan in June of 1937

Down-and-out: Mother and father and several children of a family of nine living in open field in rough board covering built on old Ford chassis on U.S. Route 70, between Bruceton and Camden, Tennessee

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Vintage Photo

Westmoreland Hills, Maryland. "Mrs. Albert F. Walker of this town has been declared 1937 women's skeet shooting champion of the country by the National Skeet Shooting Association. The Association has released the averages on which the ratings were based, but one day last year at the Kenwood skeet club, Mrs. Walker set the women's record fall with 99x100 (skeet for 99 birds out of a possible 100). In addition to her national title, she outranks both men and women shooters in the District of Columbia and Maryland." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative

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Vintage Photo

Window shopping at Simpsons department store. (Toronto, Canada) c. 1937

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Vintage Film

Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, and Fredric March in Nothing Sacred (1937)

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Vintage Illustration

Silk Stockings (1937) Higgins

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Constance Bennett

Constance Campbell Bennett (October 22, 1904 – July 24, 1965) was an American actress. Blond, stunning and honey-voiced Constance Bennett glided through comedies like Topper (1937), Merrily We Live (1938) and Topper Takes a Trip (1939) with a delightful sprite-like lightness and definite air of sophistication. Constance's portrayal of the merry, witty and troublesome ghost Marion Kirby in Topper is certainly her most memorable.

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Vintage Photo

Anti-Lynch campaign, vintage postcard

 In 1937 and again in 1940, yet two more anti-lynching bills passed through the House of Representatives, but were defeated in the Senate. Although the NAACP had failed to get a federal law passed, lynching had almost disappeared by 1950. - vintage

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Oil Wells 1937

Oil wells near Los Angeles. 1937 Photographer: Horace Bristol - vintage

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Red Skelton

 Richard Bernard "Red" Skelton (July 18, 1913 – September 17, 1997) was an American entertainer best known for being a national radio and television comedian between 1937 and 1971.

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Zora Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (poses from a Crow dance), 1935

Zora Neale Hurston (born January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960 ) spent her early adulthood studying at various universities and collecting folklore from the South, the Carribean, and Latin America. She published her findings in Mules and Men. She was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance, rubbing shoulders with many of its famous writers. In 1937, she published her masterwork of fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

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History

During the Great Ohio River Flood of 1937, at the height of the Great Depression, African Americans in Louisville, Kentucky, line up seeking food and clothing from a relief station, in front of a billboard ironically proclaiming, "World's Highest Standard of Living." - vintage

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