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Too tired to play match-the-thumbnail-with-the-link (I've been awake a total of 4 hours today), so I'm just providing links to the full-sized images.

The Recipe: 1923

Cafeteria Lunch: 1918

Baby Doll: 1922 (creepy!)

The Purse-Makers: 1912

Meanwhile, Back in the Lab: circa 1924

Heywood-Wakefield: 1920

And finally, the most amazing one:

But Wait, There's More: 1920

Yaaaaay, Shorpy!
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Images from Shorpy... original sizes are much, incredibly, amazingly larger.

Carbon Copies: 1935
"Bethesda, Maryland. Chevy Chase School, 1935." We backspace to another typing class. National Photo Company Collection safety negative

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Original size here.

Ruins of the City: 1904
"Baltimore Fire of 1904. Electric Railway Powerhouse." Out third view from the Great Fire. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

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Original size here.

Boy Most Likely to Explode: 1940
"Montgomery High School students." An amusing (or maybe unsettling) class portrait from Montgomery County, Maryland. The Library of Congress says circa 1936; we've found a number of clues that narrow it down to 1939-40. See the comments for details. National Photo Company safety negative

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Original size here.

Gods, how I love Shorpy, even if it is one of the greatest time-wasters on the planet.
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Courtesy of Shorpy.com, that wonderous source of old photos. Links lead to MUCH larger versions of the pictures. The detail is astounding.

The Office: 1923

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Multi-Processor Computing:1924

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How things have changed... I sometimes wonder what people from that era would have thought if they could have caught a glimpse of the world of 2008.
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