The Library of Congress has done a masterful job of cataloging their collection of prints and photographs and making the images available online. To search their collection, follow this link:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
We’re partial to photographs that are part of the public domain (which means they are available free of charge for anyone to use).
Photographer Russell Lee‘s caption reads: Ice-cream bar tender at state fair, Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The year is 1938.
To download a high-res version of this photo, follow this link (the focus is a bit soft):
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