Pictures, drawings, paintings
1920’s Car looking the worse for wear? “Paint it yourself for $50 with Nu-Enamel — Only One Coat and Is Brushed On.”
I obtained this photo at a paper show at the Rothman Center at Fairleigh Dickinson University many years ago. The photographer, Stadler, was based in Chicago. Where are you now, Nu-Enamel boys?
July 1941. “Boys on the Fourth of July. State College, Pennsylvania.” 35mm nitrate negative by Edwin Rosskam for the Resettlement Administration.
“We always carry a spare, just in case.”
San Francisco circa 1919. “Mercer touring car at Chain of Lakes, Golden Gate Park.” 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.
January 1937. “Highway marker in Polk County, Florida.” Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration.
June 1938. “City hall and courthouse in Vincennes, Indiana.” Behold the Palace of Tweets, formerly known as the White House. Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration.
Repeat just because~
A model floating in the water at Weeki Wachee Spring, Florida. This image, by fashion photographer Toni Frissell, was published in Harper’s Bazaar in December 1947. Mug | Weeki Wachee Mermaids
Circa 1904. “State House, Boston, Mass.” With Gen. Hooker on sentry duty 24/7. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co.
October 4, 1938. “Cakes for sky riders. Air travelers leaving Washington Airport during National Air Travel Week, Oct. 2 through 9, are being given a special treat. Cakes baked from their favorite recipes are being put aboard each plane by chefs of the leading hotels in the Capital. Marjorie McKinnon, Eastern Airline hostess, is pictured receiving the delicacies from (left to right) Theophile Homberger, Hotel Hamilton; Eddie Weber, Shoreham Hotel; Joseph Cattaneo, Hotel Washington; Fritz Meissner, Hay-Adams; Abraham Grob, Wardman Park; Joseph Tucci, Raleigh; Jacques Haerringer, Shoreham; Otto Merz, Willard.”
August 25, 1948. “Doubleday & Co. book publishing plant, Hanover, Pennsylvania. General view to front facade. Harrie T. Lindeberg, architect.” Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.
January 1943. Washington, D.C. “Girl in the doorway of her room at a boardinghouse.” With photographer Esther Bubley (or sister Enid) front and center. Medium format negative for the Office of War Information.
This mystery woman came from a small metal box of slides I found in a thrift store; they all appear to have been professionally done. There are various index tabs in the tray that may or may not be the names of the photographers who took the photos but other than that no idea what this is about. She is very elegant except for the 3-pack-a-day look around the eyes.
San Francisco, 1929. “Franklin Brougham at Lafayette Park.” Its telltale bollards standing guard. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.
Circa 1899. “Chicago & North Western Railway station, Elmhurst, Ill.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
This is Rauleigh, previously seen in the colorful kitchen. He’s almost 10 (Edit: I made a mistake, he is about 8 in these 1951 photos) in this Kodachrome taken at the “south porch” door of a cabin in Running Springs, California in 1951. From a set found in a thrift store.
“Tampa Pier, Fla.” The Port Tampa Inn, wharf and rail line circa 1898, captured on an 8×10 glass plate by William Henry Jackson.
October 1963. “Cars in parking garage at base of Marina Towers high-rise apartment building, Chicago.” 35mm acetate negative from photos for the Look magazine assignment “Living on the Top.”
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