Category: Images

Pictures, drawings, paintings

Shorpy November 18, 2016

Washington, D.C., 1920. "Gallaudet football -- Bouchard." Joseph W. Bouchard. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Washington, D.C., 1920. “Gallaudet football — Bouchard.” Joseph W. Bouchard. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

 

May 1954. "High school football player Paul Delfeld, 17, of North Dallas, Texas, helping father at plumbing business. Other photos show Delfeld attending high school classes; practicing football with teammates; playing in game; working at ice cream parlor; attending various social functions with girlfriend Janelle Gibson and other teenagers." Medium format negative from photos taken for the Look magazine assignment "High School Hero."

May 1954. “High school football player Paul Delfeld, 17, of North Dallas, Texas, helping father at plumbing business. Other photos show Delfeld attending high school classes; practicing football with teammates; playing in game; working at ice cream parlor; attending various social functions with girlfriend Janelle Gibson and other teenagers.” Medium format negative from photos taken for the Look magazine assignment “High School Hero.”

Shorpy November 17, 2016

1906. "North from Brink Wood, Pen Mar Park, Maryland." With William Henry Jackson himself about to go snap. 8x10 inch glass negative.

1906. “North from Brink Wood, Pen Mar Park, Maryland.” With William Henry Jackson himself about to go snap. 8×10 inch glass negative.

Images November 16, 2016

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Shorpy November 16, 2016

November 1913. "Some of the young workers (not the youngest) in the Kosciusko Cotton Mills. Superintendent objected to my taking photographs. Location: Kosciusko, Mississippi." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

November 1913. “Some of the young workers (not the youngest) in the Kosciusko Cotton Mills. Superintendent objected to my taking photographs. Location: Kosciusko, Mississippi.” Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

 

March 1955. "Men participating in family life. Includes women and children standing by window waving to men as they leave for work." Photo by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine assignment "Male Behavior."

March 1955. “Men participating in family life. Includes women and children standing by window waving to men as they leave for work.” Photo by Bob Lerner for the Look magazine assignment “Male Behavior.”

Images November 15, 2016

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Shorpy November 15, 2016

San Francisco circa 1920. "Studebaker Special Six touring car at Mona Lisa apartments." Fitted with yet another variation on the "California top." 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin.

San Francisco circa 1920. “Studebaker Special Six touring car at Mona Lisa apartments.” Fitted with yet another variation on the “California top.” 5×7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin.

 

September 1943. "Washington Court House, Ohio. Mothers with their babies waiting at the Greyhound bus depot." Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information.

September 1943. “Washington Court House, Ohio. Mothers with their babies waiting at the Greyhound bus depot.” Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information.

Images November 14, 2016

A 10 x 15-foot wooden shed where the "Harley-Davidson Motor Company" started out in 1903

A 10 x 15-foot wooden shed where the “Harley-Davidson Motor Company” started out in 1903

Testing football helmets in 1912

Testing football helmets in 1912

 

Confederate and Union soldiers shake hands across the wall at the 1938 reunion for the Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg

Confederate and Union soldiers shake hands across the wall at the 1938 reunion for the Veterans of the Battle of Gettysburg

A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began,1920

A bar in New York City, the night before prohibition began,1920

Traffic jam in New York, 1923

Traffic jam in New York, 1923

 

Mount Rushmore Before Carving, 1920s

Mount Rushmore Before Carving, 1920s

A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, Florida, 1926

A quiet little job at a crocodile farm in St. Augustine, Florida, 1926

World economic crisis, 1929

World economic crisis, 1929

 

Central Park in 1930

Central Park in 1930

 

Last four couples standing at a Chicago dance marathon, circa 1930

Last four couples standing at a Chicago dance marathon, circa 1930

Meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, early 1930s

Meeting of the Mickey Mouse Club, early 1930s

When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children, flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their sacks, 1939


When they realized women were using their sacks to make clothes for their children,
flour mills of the 30s started using flowered fabric for their sacks, 1939

 

The thirty-six men needed to fly and service a B-17E in 1942

The thirty-six men needed to fly and service a B-17E in 1942

 

Three young women wash their clothes in Central Park during a water shortage . New York, 1949

Three young women wash their clothes in Central Park during a water shortage . New York, 1949

NY, Coney Island, 1940

NY, Coney Island, 1940

Shorpy November 14, 2016

May 1909. Burlington, Vermont. "Jo Bodeon, a 'back-roper' in the mule room, Chace Cotton Mill." More accurately known as Joseph Beaudoine (1894-1958), last glimpsed here. Gelatin silver print by Lewis Wickes Hine.

May 1909. Burlington, Vermont. “Jo Bodeon, a ‘back-roper’ in the mule room, Chace Cotton Mill.” More accurately known as Joseph Beaudoine (1894-1958), last glimpsed here. Gelatin silver print by Lewis Wickes Hine.

 

Here's my contribution to that popular Shorpy genre, the unsmiling-group photo. In this case, it's because I told them all to stay verrrry still for the brief time exposure. I was using the only camera had access to at the time that could do that, an old c.1935 Kodak Junior Six-16. The negative is long gone, so I scanned this from a period print. My mother is standing in the back at center, and we're in the Larkspur, California home of our friends, the man on the couch with the shillelagh and his wife seated at right. At the left is their daughter and her husband. She was recently seen in this same wainscoted room here. The only one who moved during the exposure, probably because she's trying to restrain her squirming pomeranian, is our neighbor at upper right, the mother of one of my childhood chums. I may have known who the other couple was at one time, but no more.


Here’s my contribution to that popular Shorpy genre, the unsmiling-group photo. In this case, it’s because I told them all to stay verrrry still for the brief time exposure. I was using the only camera had access to at the time that could do that, an old c.1935 Kodak Junior Six-16. The negative is long gone, so I scanned this from a period print. My mother is standing in the back at center, and we’re in the Larkspur, California home of our friends, the man on the couch with the shillelagh and his wife seated at right. At the left is their daughter and her husband. She was recently seen in this same wainscoted room here. The only one who moved during the exposure, probably because she’s trying to restrain her squirming pomeranian, is our neighbor at upper right, the mother of one of my childhood chums. I may have known who the other couple was at one time, but no more.

Images November 13, 2016

In this 100+ year old photo we see five adorable kookaburras perched on a branch

In this 100+ year old photo we see five adorable kookaburras perched on a branch

 

Street artist WD just completed this owl mural in Athens, Greece for the "Petit Paris d'Athènes Art Festival"

Street artist WD just completed this owl mural in Athens, Greece for the “Petit Paris d’Athènes Art Festival”

 

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Shorpy November 13, 2016

Eugenie Blair (1864-1922) was what theater people would call a real trouper -- the actress dropped dead after a performance of "Anna Christie" at the Cort Theater in Chicago. June 1904. "Lyceum Theatre, Detroit." Onstage this week: Eugenie Blair in "Claire or the Ironmaster." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative.

Eugenie Blair (1864-1922) was what theater people would call a real trouper — the actress dropped dead after a performance of “Anna Christie” at the Cort Theater in Chicago.
June 1904. “Lyceum Theatre, Detroit.” Onstage this week: Eugenie Blair in “Claire or the Ironmaster.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative.

 

The 1960s saw several SoCal family vacations to visit my sister and her family, and this time the whole slew of us took in Knott's Berry Farm, where I took 18 color slides, as opposed the over 40 I shot in Disneyland. So that'll show you. Faux-reality fan that I was, I liked wandering around Knott's old western-style buildings, cement cliffs and miniature buildings, but no doubt about it, Disneyland was my heaven on earth. Oh, and it was nice seeing the family, too.

The 1960s saw several SoCal family vacations to visit my sister and her family, and this time the whole slew of us took in Knott’s Berry Farm, where I took 18 color slides, as opposed the over 40 I shot in Disneyland. So that’ll show you. Faux-reality fan that I was, I liked wandering around Knott’s old western-style buildings, cement cliffs and miniature buildings, but no doubt about it, Disneyland was my heaven on earth. Oh, and it was nice seeing the family, too.