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Fred Lynch
Fred Lynch retired in 2018 after capturing images for the Southeast Missourian since 1975, in that time moving from black-and-white to color, from film to digital and to video. The blog title is a nod to an earlier era of news photography and the 4x5 Speed Graphic: It's more important to be there for the shot than to worry about technical details.
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First WPA project in Cape

Posted Wednesday, January 22, 2014, at 12:00 AM

Nov. 16, 1935 Southeast Missourian

Workmen started Friday, Nov. 15, 1935, on the first all-Cape Girardeau Works Progress Administration project, the surfacing of streets in the Alta Vista residential district in the Oliver Heights addition near State Teachers College. (G.D. Fronabarger photo)

A month later, Frony photographed another WPA project on North Main St.

Read about it in this previous blog:

Early WPA workers 1935

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