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Detroit, Michigan. Poker hand and hands of girl players: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941 (Office of War Information/Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)
Detroit, Michigan. Girls playing cards and drinking Coca Cola: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941 (Office of War Information/Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)
Detroit, Michigan. Girl putting on lipstick and another girl straightening seams on her stockings: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Girl picking up mail placed under door: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Group of girls reading their mail: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Back of girl's head showing her coiffure at a hair styling show: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, December 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Models and audience at a hair styling show: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, December 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Models and loving cups that they won at a hair styling show: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, December 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Women drying their hair in the beauty shop at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Salesman demonstrating mattress to woman shopper at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Salesmen demonstrating refrigerators to women shoppers at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Towel department at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Sheet department at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Corset department at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Radio broadcast in the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Women waiting in line to pay bills at the charge account window of the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Class for telephone operators at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Class for receivers of telephone orders at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Telephone operator taking telephone orders at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Executive at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
Detroit, Michigan. Sign in the window of the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941
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ReplyDeleteI spotted a black person !
she's in the "pay the bill" line
heck
when did black folks move to Detroit ?
surely not to work for Henry !
These women look great in their old Edward Hopper outfits. So feminine.
ReplyDeleteTom,
ReplyDeletePretty racy stuff in the Motor City (especially that last one?). . . .
9.4
grey whiteness of fog against invisible
ridge, two crows calling back and forth
in foreground, wave sounding in channel
sort of “physics” of matter,
composition “abstract”
as such, which departs into
strange, blue present
grey white of fog reflected in channel,
cormorant flapping across toward ridge
My sentiments egg-zackly, on all counts.
ReplyDeleteOn a gunmetal grey Depression morning of unusually light rush hour traffic and a fine misting rain, here... while... yes...
those rutting stags on the wall perhaps the er "objective correlative" of the "mind set" -- ?? -- of the head of the art department, there...
sort of [the] “physics” of [the] matter...?
(Wandered in the fog up past the ramshackle haunted-chateau-on-the-hill above the gargoyle- fountain Circle, where a mother deer and offspring were browsing in the overgrowth, visible through the broken slats in the ghostly fence...)
These photos, in their faded b&w glory, are national treasures. And, as Steve observed, great, great finale.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Curtis, I always appreciate your good eye.
ReplyDeleteThat poor model, armless, defenseless.