Working class

Construction in 1929. Photo stolen from Mr. Stewart of Vintage Haberdashers

kids, candy, cigarettes, circ 70's-80's

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“The image was a publicity effort by the Rockefeller Centre,” Corbis’s chief historian Ken Johnston told the Independent. “It seems pretty clear they were real workers, but the event was organised with a number of photographers.”

In the summer of 1965, riots broke out in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles. Over a six-day period, 34 people were killed, 1,032 injured and over 3,438 arrests were made. In 1966, LIFE magazine revisited the site of the worst riots America had ever seen in its history. The photo essay d

Each of the three types of individuals are depicted with the emblem of the Soviet Union in the background.

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