Images via Shorpy.com
September 1, 1900. “Chicago River elevators at Chicago, Illinois.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
March 1936. “One-room house on Coalins Forest and Game Reservation between the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers in Kentucky.” Medium format nitrate negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration.
Circa 1910. “The levee at Baton Rouge — sternwheeler Paul Tulane.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
San Francisco, 1927. “Oldsmobile roadster at Golden Gate Park.” Latest listing in the Shorpy Catalogue of Jaunty Jalopies. 5×7 glass negative.
June 1936. “Derrick, characteristic sight in Louisiana cane field. Used to transfer cane from wagons to trucks for transportation to sugar mills.” Medium format negative by Carl Mydans for the Farm Security Administration.
May 1943. “Buffalo, New York. Peter Grimm, age 10 (last seen here), delivers for Loblaw’s grocery store with his wagon. This was a rainy day with few customers. Sometimes Peter makes as much as $3 on a Saturday. He pays for all his school supplies and much of his clothing. His mother, a 26-year-old widow, is a crane operator at Pratt & Letchworth.” Medium format negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.
Circa 1904. “Depot at Braidwood, Illinois.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
September 26, 1922. Washington, D.C. “Virginia Avenue playgrounds.” Equipped with a skate pit. National Photo Company glass negative.
January 1937. “Children of migrant citrus worker who lives in a rundown apartment house. The sink at the head of the stairs is the only running water in the house. Winter Haven, Florida.” Photo by Arthur Rothstein
December 1942. “Proviso departure yard of the Chicago & North Western R.R. at twilight.” 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.
November 1938. Shafter, California. “During the cotton strike, the father, a striking picker, has left his wife and child in the car while he applies to the Farm Security Administration for an emergency food grant.” Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration.
February 1943. “Daytona Beach, Florida, street scene.” Photo by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information; Photobomb by Humphrey Bogart.
Detroit circa 1899. “Detroit N.E. from Chamber of Commerce.” The elevated vantage affords an excellent view of at least a dozen of the city’s celebrated “moonlight tower” carbon arc lamps — giant electric fixtures 165 feet tall, each illuminating several blocks. 8×10 inch glass negative.
San Francisco. “Maxwell – 1919” is all it says here. Perhaps these gents are in scale sales. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.
1963. “George Jenkins, founder of the Publix supermarket chain, at store in Lakeland, Florida.” 35mm negative by Marvin Newman for the Look magazine assignment “George Pleasures Them With Groceries.”
1865. “Earthwork fortifications and bomb-proofs in front of Petersburg, Va.” Wet plate glass negative, Civil War collection, Library of Congress.
July 11, 1923. “Montrose play grounds (girls with dolls).” By now presumably all safely back in their toy boxes. National Photo glass negative.
May 1943. “Clinton, Iowa. Women wipers of the Chicago & North Western cleaning one of the giant freight locomotives.” Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.
January 1943. “Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. Getting his waybills, Conductor Cunningham telephones his yardmaster with the number of cars he has to handle and where the delivery is to be made.” Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. “People’s Drug Store, 15th Street & New York Avenue N.W.” National Photo Company glass negative.
January 1943. “Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. At 8:45 p.m. the train arrives at its destination.” Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.
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