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It’s Flashback Friday, when we feature a 1970s photo in honor of our current exhibit “Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Project.” And it’s also National Donut Day!What’s your favorite donut?Image: Jim Tillman of Tillman’s Bakery in New Ulm, Minnesota, taken in October of 1974 (DOCUMERICA series, ARC 558360)
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usnatarchives:

It’s Flashback Friday, when we feature a 1970s photo in honor of our current exhibit “Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Project.” And it’s also National Donut Day!

What’s your favorite donut?

Image: Jim Tillman of Tillman’s Bakery in New Ulm, Minnesota, taken in October of 1974 (DOCUMERICA series, ARC 558360)

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Meter reading was very stylish in 1918.  
“Minneapolis General Electric Co. Meter Readers” is dated August 31, 1918 and comes from the Records of the Women’s Bureau, Department of Labor.  
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Meter reading was very stylish in 1918.  

“Minneapolis General Electric Co. Meter Readers” is dated August 31, 1918 and comes from the Records of the Women’s Bureau, Department of Labor.  

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Photograph of Three Spot, July 25, 1927. 
Original caption: Three Spot. First Duluth & Iron Range locomotive brought to Two Harbors on a scow July 1, 1883. Used in laying first rails between Two Harbors and Tower.
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Photograph of Three Spot, July 25, 1927. 

Original caption: Three Spot. First Duluth & Iron Range locomotive brought to Two Harbors on a scow July 1, 1883. Used in laying first rails between Two Harbors and Tower.

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