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Pictures, drawings, paintings


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Circa 1900. “The beach at Old Orchard, Maine — Ocean Pier and Hotel Velvet.” Which, following the curiously inevitable destiny of beach resorts surrounded by ashtray-grade sand and literal oceans of water, “burned like oil” in the Great Fire of 1907. 8×10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.

Chicago circa 1907. “Illinois Central Railway station.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative by Hans Behm for Detroit Publishing Co.

The Pacific Northwest circa 1918. “Kissel Military Highway Scout Kar, America’s first camouflaged automobile,” seen earlier here, here and here. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.

May 1940. Southington, Connecticut. “Schoolgirl studying.” Medium format negative by Fenno Jacobs for the Office of War Information.

March 26, 1954. “Becton Dickinson & Co., Rutherford, New Jersey. Glass wall.” Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

April 4, 1932. “New York city views. Lower Manhattan from foot of Brooklyn Bridge.” Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

May 1942. “Amusement park in Southington, Connecticut.” Medium format negative by Fenno Jacobs for the Office of War Information.

September 1943. Washington Court House, Ohio. “Boy who rides to and from school daily on a Greyhound bus waiting outside the depot.” Medium format negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information.


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Washington, D.C., circa 1926. “Man examining skulls.” Let’s put our heads together and see what we can come up with. 4×5 glass negative.

Summer 1936. “Cat on porch of a sharecropper’s cabin, Hale County, Alabama.” Photo by Walker Evans for the Farm Security Administration.

1938. ” ‘San Francisco,’ Reserve vicinity, St. John Parish, Louisiana. Steamboat Gothic circa 1850.” 8×10 negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston.

March 25, 1952. “Lever House, 53rd Street and Park Avenue. Gordon Bunshaft, architect.” 5×7 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

Our lovely lady from upstate New York once again, here wearing the most incredible hat. Another photo from the collection of circa 1912 negatives I recently purchased.