Category: Images
Pictures, drawings, paintings

“W.S. Day of Greenwood Farm, Dawsonville, Maryland, Nov. 13, 1925.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Aug. 28, 1958. “Levittown houses. Mrs. Robert Berman, residence at 3626 Regent Lane.” Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

December 1942. “Research laboratory worker at the Chicago & North Western’s 40th Street yard, examining paint samples used on freight cars and coaches of the railroad.” Paint your wagon, or color-coordinate your caboose. Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

November 1913. West, Texas. “Some of the younger boys working in Brazos Valley Cotton Mills at West. One, Charlie Lott, was 13 years old according to Family Record. Another, Norman Vaughn, apparently 12 years old, was under legal age according to one of the boys there, Calvin Caughlin, who did not appear to be 15 years old himself. These and two girls that I proved to be under legal age were all working in this small mill. It was an exceptional case, but it is likely that as the children become tired of school later in the year, there will be many more at work.” Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.

Circa 1904. “Havana, Cuba — the Prado, looking south.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Washington, D.C., circa 1922. “Whiskey still confiscated by prohibition agents.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

San Francisco, 1924. “Marmon coupe at Golden Gate Park.” Equipped with a Biflex bumper. Latest exhibit in the Shorpy Diorama of Defunct Dreadnoughts. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.