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Grand Central Station

    Black and white photo of Grand Central station mural honoring U.S. Navy and U.S. Army in the wartime 1940s. The signage reads BUY DEFENSE BONDS STAMPS NOW! Scenes illustrate what war bonds supported. Images of a sailor and an infantryman are positioned between the scenes. The top of the mural features a tank on both sides of a large battleship with airplanes in the sky behind them, and is framed under the curve of the station’s dome ceiling.

    Grand Central Station in New York City, 1940s. Malcolm Little’s stopover station while working on the New York, Hartford & New Haven Railroad. From here Malcolm discovered Harlem in 1942.

    1940s
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    Photo by John Collier Jr., U.S. Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black & White, Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division