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Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection (#7)

FPG International, originally known as Freelance Photographers Guild, was started in 1936 by Arthur Brackman, a New York newspaper editor. FPG specialised in producing photo-essay material for magazines, helping photographers get work with the era's new picture magazines, like "Life". FPG eventually became a general stock-photo company.

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Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Store For Rent

Store For Rent
A For Rent sign outside a grocery store in New York City circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: At The Grocery Store

At The Grocery Store
A woman collects her paper bag of shopping from an assistant behind the counter at the grocery store circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: At Work In A Lumber Yard

At Work In A Lumber Yard
A man at work using a filing saw on wood in a lumber yard circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Tanning Leather

Tanning Leather
Four men scrapping the hairs from animal hides at a leather tannery circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Sokol Lessions

Sokol Lessions
A group of four year-old children being taught simple exercises in a Sokol gymnasium in Czechoslovakia circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Using The Diving Platform

Using The Diving Platform
A group of people queueing to use a diving platform circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Home Lessons

Home Lessons
A father using a globe to teach his son at home circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Teeth Cleaning Lesson

Teeth Cleaning Lesson
A mother gives her young daughter a lesson in how to clean her teeth circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Going Home After School

Going Home After School
Schoolchildren on their way home from school, with book bags strapped on their backs, after the first day of a new term in Germany circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Measuring Goods

Measuring Goods
A shop assistant pouring measured goods in to a paper bag in a grocery store circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: The Deli Counter

The Deli Counter
Two men stand behind the counter at a deli circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: The Family At Home

The Family At Home
Mother, father and two children at home circa 1930 s.(Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Writing On The Board

Writing On The Board
A small boy holding a piece of chalk as he stands at a blackboard circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Having A Cuppa

Having A Cuppa
A woman having a cup of tea circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Drinks Before Dinner

Drinks Before Dinner
Two couples share a toast before dinner in the 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Eyelash Combing

Eyelash Combing
A woman using an eyelash comb while looking in the mirror circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Climbing The School Steps

Climbing The School Steps
A group of schoolchildren climb the steps in to school circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Keeping Time

Keeping Time
A man repairing one of the many clocks at the US Treasury in Washington D.C. circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Checking The Map

Checking The Map
Three people checking a road map in Georgia circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Roadside Beauty Parlour

Roadside Beauty Parlour
A travelling beauty parlour owner attends to a client in London, England circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Tug-of-War Contest

Tug-of-War Contest
A group of men during a tug of war contest in a gymnasium in Germany circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: A Test Drive

A Test Drive
Two men driving in an experimental car with no outer bodywork in the 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Roller Skating Women

Roller Skating Women
A group of women on roller skates circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Mechanic At Work

Mechanic At Work
A man greasing a car at a Kent Automatic Garage in New York in 1929. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Cupids Bow Lipstick

Cupids Bow Lipstick
A woman with a lipstick stencil designed to give the perfect Cupids Bow circa 1925. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Childs Tea Party

Childs Tea Party
A mother enjoying a tea party with her young daughter circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Playing Chess On The Doorstep

Playing Chess On The Doorstep
A group of housewives playing a game of chess on the doorstep in the village of Stroebeck, Germany circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Playing With A Model Boat

Playing With A Model Boat
Two small boys playing with a model boat on the lake in Central Park, New York in 1929. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Sawing Timber

Sawing Timber
Three men use a saw powered by an old Model T Ford motor to cut through a piece of timber circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Street Diamond Dealers

Street Diamond Dealers
A group of men in the Bowery area of New York dealing in diamonds. They weigh, value and make deals out on the street in the 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Shopping For Shoes

Shopping For Shoes
A couple looking in the window of a jewellery shop circa 1935. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Playing Cards In The Sunshine

Playing Cards In The Sunshine
A group of men playing cards as a woman sunbathes circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Student Court

Student Court
German reform school children hold a students court in the open air at the Barthold-Otto reform school in Lichterfeld, Germany, 18th October 1929

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Berlin Beer

Berlin Beer
Waitresses in a beer hall in Berlin, Germany, selling Neue Welt beer, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Choose Communism

Choose Communism
A propaganda van for the Communist Party of Germany (Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands or KPD) during the federal elections in Berlin, Germany, 20th May 1928. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Insurance Strike

Insurance Strike
A picket line outside the premises of the Friedrich Wilhelm Insurance Company on French Street, Berlin, Germany, during a strike by the Insurance Commissioners, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Barbed wire fence by trees

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Tenements In New York City

Tenements In New York City
Photograph shows laundry drying on clotheslines in the backyards of New York City tenement slums, circa 1900. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Coming To America; Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it

Coming To America; Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it
Immigrants pack the upper deck of the liner SS Patricia as it travels from Hamburg to New York, December 10, 1906. The Patricia was built by A.G

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Spanish Gypsies

Spanish Gypsies
Gitano women or gypsies of southern Spain, circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: In Support Of Teachers

In Support Of Teachers
Two young men demonstrate against the low wages of teachers in New York, circa 1930. A teacher earns 17.78 dollars per week, whilst their former pupils earn 23 dollars per week

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Money Printing

Money Printing
Workers wetting the paper for the new small size currency in the Bureau of engraving and printing in Washington DC, USA, 25th June 1929. (Photo by Henry Miller/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Romeria De Valme

Romeria De Valme
The people of Dos Hermanas near Seville pay homage to their patron saint, La Virgen de Valme, with a procession known as the Romeria de Nuestra Senora de Valme, circa 1930

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Hungarian Parliament

Hungarian Parliament
Stenographers in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest, circa 1930. (Photo by P. Jonas/FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Clocking On

Clocking On
A group of workers waiting in line to clock on at a factory, circa 1930. (Photo by Keystone View Company/FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Rugby Training

Rugby Training
Two men during a rugby training session in Berlin, Germany circa 1930. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

Freelance Photographers Guild (FPG) Collection: Putting A Call Through

Putting A Call Through
A telephone operator putting through a call at a switchboard circa 1930 s. (Photo by FPG/Getty Images)

At Work In A Lumber Yard
A man at work sawing wood in a lumber yard circa 1930 s. (Photo by Keystone View/FPG/Getty Images)

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