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Anarchists Live Here: 1908

<img src=https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY-00234u.preview.jpg><div style="width:812px; margin-top:10px;">Paterson, New Jersey, circa 1908. "Passaic Street -- anarchists live here." Paterson was a hotbed of labor unrest in the early 20th century, with the label "anarchist" applied to anyone from strike organizer to bomb thrower. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. <a href="https://www.shorpy.com/node/27896?size=_original#caption">View full size.</a></div>

Milk Run: 1917

<img src=https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY-25540u.preview.jpg><div style="width:812px; margin-top:10px;">New York circa 1917. "Taking home milk. (Woman with baby carriage holding bottles from one of the depots set up by merchant Nathan Straus to provide pasteurized milk to poor families.)" 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. <a href="https://www.shorpy.com/node/27895?size=_original#caption">View full size.</a></div>

Toasties Trucks: 1926

<img src=https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY-32603u.preview.jpg><div style="width:812px; margin-top:10px;">Washington, D.C., 1926. "Post Products Co. -- Dodge Bros. trucks at Lincoln Memorial." 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. <a href="https://www.shorpy.com/node/27892?size=_original#caption">View full size.</a></div>

Ellicott City: 1920

<img src=https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY-01718u.preview.jpg><div style="width:812px; margin-top:10px;">Howard County, Maryland, 1920. "Herald tour to Annapolis (Ellicott City railroad station)." One in a series of photos documenting the Washington <em>Herald's</em> <a href="https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/npco/item/2016828991/resource/">"pathfinding tour"</a> by car from one capital to another, back when inter-city automobile travel, still something of a novelty, could be a real adventure. 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company. <a href="https://www.shorpy.com/node/27893?size=_original#caption">View full size.</a></div>

Any Day Now: 1935

<img src=https://www.shorpy.com/files/images/SHORPY-38669a.preview.jpg><div style="width:812px; margin-top:10px;">March 29, 1935. "CHERRY BLOSSOMS COMING. Famous Japanese cherry blossoms are beginning to open around Washington's Tidal Basin. Velera Barber, left, and Anne Moffett, both of Washington, are inspecting the blossoms. They predict that the blossoms will be out by Sunday, or Monday, March 31, at the latest." Harris & Ewing glass negative. <a href="https://www.shorpy.com/node/27894?size=_original#caption">View full size.</a</div>

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