
Discussion here notes that the figure's little finger has broken off - and that radiator caps may well be the origin of the automobile hood ornaments that followed.
Image by Russell Lee. [American Memory link]
Showcasing some of the 160,000 images taken between 1935 and 1944 by government-hired photographers. (If you were to look at 100 of them per day, every day, you'd need more than four years to view them all).