Now showing 34 images · 1950–1959

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General Motors Powerama 1955

GM's Powerama: The forgotten 1955 Chicago spectacle where General Motors spent $82 million to make 35-ton bulldozers dance the mambo, lose to elephants, and showcase a bizarre, futuristic vision of American progress.

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Limestone Cliffs, 1950s

Sometime in the 1950s a photographer stood in a quarry or canyon and pointed at a cliff face to document the vertical geometry of sedimentary rock—the kind of s

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AA-2026-B8DD10 · · 1950–1959