Category: Images
Pictures, drawings, paintings
1917. “Torpedo shop, Washington Navy Yard.” Note the cryptic missive chalked on one torpedo. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.
Now playing at the Granada: Betty Compson in “The Bonded Woman,” accompanied by Paul Ash and his Synco-Symphonists, with Wallace at the organ.
San Francisco, 1922. “Foster & Kleiser billboard.” 8×10 inch nitrate negative, late of the Wyland Stanley and Marilyn Blaisdell collections
January 25, 1963. “Essex House, New York. Colonnades ballroom.” Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.
Circa 1906. “Custom House and Post Office, Memphis, Tennessee.” Please feel free to toss your empties out the window. 8×10 inch glass negative.
Circa 1909. “Water front — Toledo, O.” The Cherry Street Bridge over the Maumee River. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.
Reddit user jim_diesel6 shared this photo yesterday as he went to pick up his grandmother from a Laser Eye Surgery Center in Brentwood, NY.
While the thought of partially blind people driving somewhere to get their eyesight corrected is alarming, some commenters have speculated that the bent signs may be the result of snowplows in the winter.
Whatever the truth may be, it makes for a quality Internet photo!
“We’ll have you out of here in no time, one way or another!”
Washington, D.C., 1919. “Children’s Hospital.” One of the daybed pavilions characteristic of the contemporary vogue for “fresh air” treatment of tuberculosis. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View
Washington, D.C., 1919. “Children’s Hospital.” Sometime during the transition to cage-free nurseries. National Photo Company glass negative.
Circa 1910 surf bathers somewhere in New England. 5×7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
San Francisco circa 1927. “Falcon-Knight coupe.” Latest hatchling in the Shorpy Aviary of Automotive Albatrosses. Glass negative by Chris Helin.
Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. “A life saver on the lookout.” 5×7 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Washington, D.C., 1940. “Daughters of the American Revolution reception. J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation director, greets Mrs. Henry M. Robert Jr., President General of the D.A.R.”
On this day in history, Marilyn Monroe filmed her iconic subway-grate sequence from The Seven Year Itch, inspiring decades’ worth of imitators and God alone knows how many weirdos.
