1921. “Dort touring car at San Francisco Public Library.” Waiting for Marian to clock out. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.
August 10, 1952. “Art Frandle and Steven Lee (10 months).” The latest dispatch from Blue Earth, Minnesota. Kodachrome by Hubert Tuttle.
Cincinnati again circa 1907. “Fourth Street west from Main.” The WURLITZER sign makes its umpteenth appearance on these pages. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.
Circa 1907. “Fourth Street, Cincinnati, Ohio.” Where the brands vying for your trade include Mullane and Wurlitzer. 8×10 glass negative.
November 1942. Babies’ Hospital, New York. “Nurse training. Through classes in pediatrics, student nurses learn how the right toys can be almost as important as medicine and diet in getting a sick child well. Encouraging an interest in play and normal activities of childhood hastens convalescence.” Medium format nitrate negative by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information.
San Francisco, 1921. “California Street east from Montgomery.” 8×10 nitrate negative, late of the Wyland Stanley/Marilyn Blaisdell collections.
A native American watching the newly completed transcontinental railroad in Nevada (1868)
Princeton students after a Freshman/Sophomore snowball fight (1893)
Somewhere in San Francisco circa 1920. “Oakland touring car.”
“Frances Alda May 1921.” The Australian soprano and frequent Caruso collaborator Frances Alda shipboard in New York. 5×7 glass negative.
A US soldier offering his hand to a woman leaving a cave.
during WWII.
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.
“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.”
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