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It's often said that every picture tells a story. This collection of 100 photos selected from the John Rogers Collection Archives allows you to bear witness to some of history's most compelling stories of regular people engaged in the agony and ecstasy of everyday life.
Captured long before digital technology made creating and storing photos inexpensive and easy, these archival images encapsulate moments that would have been lost if the effort and expense had not been incurred in preserving them.
There are people, captured at a time when being featured in the local newspaper granted a person permanent placement on their Grandmother’s refrigerator door. You’ll find:
· Mothers & fathers
· Sons & daughters
· Brothers & sisters
· The young & the old
· The happy & the sad
· The innocent & the guilty
· Workers & players
You’ll also find pictures of some of the more indispensable elements of everyday life. Buildings where people worked and lived, for example. Or the beautiful vehicles they used to get to those places, or to escape once the weekend came.
The stories in these photos arc from the humdrum to that which can only be described as extraordinary.
Carefully harvested, this collection derives from the images of the Chicago Sun Times, Seattle Post, Denver Post, St. Petersburg Times, Detroit News, and Chicago Daily News. Images average very good to excellent condition and average 8x10 in size.
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