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36 photos and 5 illustrations tagged heat, from 12 members of Flickr Commons.

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• industry
• publicdomain
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• largeformat
• 1940s
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• nationallibraryofmedicine
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• The Library of Congress 13 photos & illustrations
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• National Library of Medicine 5 photos & illustrations
• Navy Medicine 3 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 3 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Scotland 3 photos & illustrations
• U.S. National Archives 2 photos & illustrations
• Gallen-Kallelan Museo 2 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Deseronto Archives 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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Summer scene, N.Y. - drinking water from street pump (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 5 older comments, and then…
• Dan4th Nicholas said:

  Okay, history buffs. Are the children bald because of heat, poverty, fashion, lice, illness, or what?

• Michael Daddino said:

  I'm thinking this could be almost anywhere in New York City, but I wonder if this was taken off Bleecker Street.

• aware health said:

  Haircuts are probably an accommodation to the heat, but their heads look a little patchy -- might have had ringworm.

• organic kitty said:

  what does the white box mean?

• Howard33 said:

  Put you cursor on the box to see a note.

Retiring a locomotive driver wheel, Shopton, Iowa. The tire is heated by means of gas until it can be slipped over the wheel. Contraction on cooling will hold it firmly in place. Santa Fe R.R. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Laia Ros said:

  great!

• pointred el vagon said:

  hola

[Electric phosphate smelting furnace used in the making of elemental phosphorus in a TVA chemical plant in the Muscle Shoals area, Alabama] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 46 older comments, and then…
• notsambass said:

  Is this one of the two Nitrate plans built in Muscle Shoals as part of the Muscle Shoals Project authorized under the National Defense Act of 1916 and later rolled into the TVA?

• glistening mine said:

  what a wonderful shot!

• macb said:

  I think this was an early conceptualization of the Internet.

• Bryson DeJong said:

  Indeed, its a series of tubes.

• Nick said:

  wow, great shot!