Tag: Shorpy

Shorpy May 16, 2017

Detroit circa 1900. “Majestic Building and Campus Martius.” The Motor City, back when bicycles and horses filled the streets. 8×10 glass negative.


 
 

Circa 1905. “Pittsburgh, Penna. — the Monongahela wharves.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company.


 
 

Remove from oven. Place on platter garnished with parsley and passive-aggression; serves your entire ungrateful family.”
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1950. “Mrs. D.L. Randall.” 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy May 15, 2017

“Lawrence, Mrs. G.W. — between February 1894 and February 1901.” 5×7 glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C.


 
 

August 1939. Yakima Valley, Washington. “Champion hop picker in squatter camp before the season opens. Earned five dollars a day in the 1938 season. Age 23, been on the road seven years. Married. ‘I think I did pretty well, only have one baby. Want to get out of this living like a dog’.” Medium format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration.


 
 

Washington, D.C., 1942. “Children on rowhouse steps, corner of N and Union Streets S.W.” Note service stars in the windows and the curious narrow passage between houses. Kodachrome transparency by Louise Rosskam.

Shorpy May 14, 2017

San Francisco circa 1921. “Dorris 6-80 touring sedan at Spreckels Mansion.” Latest entry in the Shorpy Compendium of Cretaceous Conveyances; by 1924 the Dorris would be extinct. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.


 
 

My mother and my father’s mother on a chilly January day in 1966. Kodachrome slide I took in Calpella, California, where my grandfather raised grapes from 1915 to 1953.

Shorpy May 13, 2017

December 1941. Washington, D.C. “Christmas shopping. Salesgirls at Wool­worth’s.” Photo by John Collier, Office of War Information.


 
 

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1950. “Library — Jean Hollis.” Cited by one source as “head of Reference Division, Bradley Memorial Library.” 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.


 
 

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1954. “Louise Mullin” is all it says here. Regardless, we seem to have a quorum. Let the meeting come to order! 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy May 12, 2017

Philadelphia circa 1904. “Market Street and City Hall from Eighth.” From an 8×10 glass plate exposed about a minute after this one was taken.


 
 

Washington, D.C., circa 1904. “Willard Hotel, Pennsylvania Avenue and 14th Street.” 8×10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.


 
 

March 1943. “Santa Fe R.R. yard at night, Kansas City, Kansas.” Note the light trails made by the yard workers’ torches in this time exposure, as well as a phantom number (3167, at right) on a train that paused in front of the camera. 4×5 inch Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

Shorpy May 11, 2017

New York, 1908. “George Bothner and John Perelli (standing).” Bothner (1867-1954) held the title of world lightweight wresting champion. 5×7 glass negative, Bain News Service.

June 1942. “Inspecting a Cyclone airplane motor at North American Aviation in Long Beach, Calif.” Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.

“Now I can afford a longer necktie!”
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1949. “Safety Patrol Fund.” A $50 check to Sergeant 97 of the Georgia State Patrol. 4×5 inch acetate negative.

Washington, D.C., 1957. “Postman delivering issues of U.S. News & World Report.” From a series of images showing the production and delivery of that magazine. 35mm negative from the News Photo Archive.

Shorpy May 10, 2017

Circa 1905. “New York Central Railroad station, Albany, N.Y.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Circa 1905. “The Capitol at Washington — East Front.” The Senate wing is closest to the camera, with Thomas Crawford’s sculpture The Progress of Civilization decorating the pediment atop the portico; the House of Representatives pediment at far left is blank; it would eventually be filled by Paul Bartlett’s sculpture Apotheosis of Democracy, dedicated in 1916. 8×10 glass negative.

Shorpy May 08, 2017

June 16, 1923. “Semaphore signals — Boy Scouts at Lincoln Memorial.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
EVENTS 1. COMPASS 2. SEMAPHORE SIGNAL 3. FIRST AID 4. INT’N’L MORSE SIGNAL 5. FIRE BY DRILL 6. TENT PITCHING and (saving the best for last) 7. FIRE BEDS & WATER BOILING


 
 

May 1, 1943. “South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago.” 4×5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.

Shorpy May 07, 2017

August 2, 1924. Washington, D.C. “F.R. Hudzik & H.W. Hornbrook.” And that’s all they wrote. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.


 
 

October 23, 1959. “Bloomingdale’s in Hackensack, New Jersey. Clothing, children 1 to 3. Raymond Loewy, client.” This, kids, is a department in a department store, a place people went back when “shopping” meant actually leaving the house. 4×5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

Shorpy May 06, 2017

St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1900. “Broadway north from Olive Street.” A nice view of the Homeopathic Pharmacy sign. 8×10 glass negative.


 

Washington, D.C., circa 1925. “Semmes Motor Co. — Hellmann’s truck.” Back when mayonnaise delivery was a thing. 8×10 inch glass negative.


 

December 1940. “Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts.” These houses, which look to have been built in the 1890s, must have been imposing in their day. Note the elaborate woodwork and intricate system of gutters and downspouts. Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano.