Louise Rosskam (1910-2003)

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Edwin and Louise Rosskam at Work, Examining Photographs in Pan of Solution 1938 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002712044/	[Black milk. This baby is getting a mixture of coffee, sugar and water instead of milk, which is too expensive. San Juan, Puerto Rico]. November 1937 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998023190/PP/
Mock wedding, N Street SW, Washington, D.C. 1938 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002712051/	Will Rogers, Jr., Half-length, Standing Next to a Statue of his Father 1940. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002712046/
Farm Woman Washing Clothes in her Motor-driven Washing Machine. Near Lincoln, Vermont, July 1940 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998023404/PP/	Aerial View, Cemetery and Town, Lincoln, Vermont July 1940 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1998023405/PP/
[Shulman's Market, on N at Union Street S.W., Washington, D.C.] 1941 or 1942. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa1992000629/PP/	Washington, D.C. Victory Gardening in the Northwest Section May 1943 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/owi2001027668/PP/
Elk Basin, Wyoming, C.W. Trimble, Derrick Man for the Noble Drilling Corp., Riding the Elevator at a Carter Oil Co. Well. Photo by Ed and Louise Rosskam, July 1944 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011645761/	[Portrait of Edwin and Louise Rosskam, Posed with Cameras, Sitting on a Wall by the Sea, Puerto Rico] Photo by Charles E. Rotkin late 1945 or early 1946 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002712045/
Woman waiting for land lottery, Puerto Rico 1946 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002712049/	Munos Marin, Puerto Rico 1946 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002712048/
The day after we got here a man came and talked to my daddy. "There's a school," he says, "and we want your boy in it" Exhausted boy asleep at desk, migrant school, Cranbury, New Jersey 1956 http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002712052/	[Long counter in Louise Rosskam's kitchen], [between 1990 and 2000] http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011648641/