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  1. Sep 3, 2020, 12:06 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by marksbug View Post
    my brain is telling me this is a drawing/painting.
    I found that one via Shorpy.com. They tend to touch up the photos they find, and it gives some of them that over-realistic look that can seem unusual for a 100-year-old photo. Here's a good example.

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    oh I see, kinda like makup on a 40 footer....from 40 feet away they look great!!!
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    Butterface. Everything is nice but her face...
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    ya!!! you remember her two!!!
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    Steam skidder and logging crew. Texas, 1907.

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    Certainly a integrated team, not sure about the guy inthe overcoat except possible he worked on the skidder and needed the protection.
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    Kay McNulty, Alyse Snyder, and Sis Stump operate the differential analyzer in the basement of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1942-1945.
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    C&EI Railroad work crew. Villa Grove, IL. 1925.

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