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The Willingboro Plaza in Levittown, New Jersey was a 614,000-square-foot regional shopping center that was built as a centerpiece of the city. After 7 years of construction, Willingboro Plaza was completed in 1967 with featured stores like Sears and…

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The Worcester Center Galleria was a suburban mall which opened in 1971 as part of the Worcester Common urban renewal project. It was shut down and reopened in the 1990s as an outlet called the Worcester Common Fashion Outlet, which then closed in…

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A large commercial structure slated for demolition in order to make room for the Triangle redevelopment project, a federally funded urban renewal project that aimed to create affordable public housing in Madison.

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Rail yard at Rices Point, on the shore of Lake Superior. The yard was owned by Northwestern Pacific Railroad (NP) at the time of this photograph (1964). The Blatnik Bridge, an automobile bridge, was completed in 1961 and carried auto traffic between…

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Designed by James Bucklin, the Hay Block (1867) is a Second Empire commercial building composed of red brick with granite trim. On the street level are cast iron storefronts.  The Hay Block was then “married” to Stone and Carpenter’s Owen Building to…

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Warwick Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Warwick, Rhode Island, on the north side of Interstate 295 near the junction of Interstate 95. Composed of more than 1,000,000-square-foot (100,000 m2) of retail space, it features more than 70 stores and…

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A seascape view of Sal Rei including a small dock that extends into the Atlantic Ocean. A team of dock workers can be seen unloading cargo from a small craft at the dock.

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Cargo and fishing vessels docked at Porto Grande, the country's largest port. Porto Grande is located in Mindelo. Porto Grande is used for imports but also as a storage port for visiting vessels. It was equiped with a fish freezing plant a few years…

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Cargo and fishing vessels docked at Porto Grande, the country's largest port. Porto Grande is located in Mindelo. Porto Grande is used for imports but also as a storage port for visiting vessels. It was equiped with a fish freezing plant a few years…

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Cargo is transported to shore at Porto de Vale de Cavaleiros. This port serves the island of Fogo and is located about four kilometers north of São Felipe.

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Cargo is loaded at Porto de Vale de Cavaleiros, a port about four kilometers north of São Felipe that serves Fogo.

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Porto de Vale de Cavaleiros, just north of São Felipe. A crane is used to life cargo from smaller wooden boats to bring to a larger ship docked a couple hundred feet off shore.

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Two female residents of São Felipe pose for a photograph. They appear to be taking a break from some activity, perhaps sorting or selling firewood. In the background, some of the pastel buildings and terracotta roofs that this city is known for.

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A busy market scene in São Felipe, the main city on Fogo. Although the island is home to a large and active volcano, and also because of it, it is a well populated island due to the high fertility of the soil. São Felipe is known for it's pastel…

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Pigs loaded in a vehicle in Ribeira Grande.

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Young boys in Mindelo make government supported pottery for marketing to tourists.

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Examples of government supported pottery. Here, two boys in Mindelo make clay figures to be fired and marketed to tourists.

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Examples of government supported pottery made for tourists in Mindelo.

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Ships in the Bay of Mindelo. Largely devoid of all other natural resources, Mindelo's economy has evolved around it's natural harbor.

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Porto Grande is photographed from the Bay of Mindelo in 1981. São Vicente has virtually no natural water supply and for years it's only major natural resource was the excellent harbor created by the Bay of Mindelo. Despite the lack of resources, the…

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Scene at a warehouse in Porto Grande. Goods are loaded onto a truck, either to be moved to a ship or delivered locally.

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Scene at a Porto Grande warehouse. Goods are taken from storage and loaded onto a truck to be either shipped out or delivered locally.
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