Tag: Shorpy

Shorpy April 25, 2017

Circa 1910. “Main Street — Springfield, Massachusetts.” Back when people actually had to go outdoors and walk around. 8×10 inch glass negative.

Paris, France. circa 1918. “Sample Red Cross rolling kitchen, ready to travel. On exhibition at the Grand Palais.” 5×7 glass negative.

San Francisco, 1925. “Ajax Six sedan at Golden Gate Park Conservatory.” The Ajax, manufactured by Nash Motors in Racine, Wisconsin, survived just two model years before expiring in 1926. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1956. “Future Marines of America — Juniors.” Signatories of the FMA pledge (“We further, in the interest of worldly peace and humanity, do agree at all times to conduct ourselves in a military manner”) include Tommy Tucker, Jerry Tucker, Lasseter Jones and Allen Leroy Osborne. 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 24, 2017

October 1907. “Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue, New York.” Be there at 11 Sunday morning on Oct. 6 (today!) for Dr. Burwell’s sermon, “The King’s Outriders.” 8×10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.

 
 

October 1907. “Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue, New York.” Just a few minutes before this view was recorded, on what was evidently a busy corner for the Department of Sanitation. 8×10 inch glass negative.

 
 

From circa 1955 Columbus, Georgia, comes this uncaptioned snap of two youngsters interacting with an authority figure driving a Buick. Where to, kids? 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.


 
 

From circa 1962 Chicago comes this uncaptioned shot of a tot in a cop car, caught in the literal glare of publicity. Hopefully the past fifty-odd years have made things all better. 4×5 acetate negative from the News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 22, 2017

Circa 1896. “Cocoanut grove at McCormick’s, Lake Worth, Florida.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 
 

May 1942. “Southington, Connecticut. A girl.” Medium format nitrate negative by Fenno Jacobs for the Office of War Information.


 
 

Columbus, Georgia, 1953. “Kayser-Lilienthal window display.” Tied to the fall issue of Glamour and its focus on “The Girl With a Job,” who if she was really kicking it as a career woman might be working as a switchboard operator or even a secretary. 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 21, 2017

The Jersey Shore circa 1900. “The beach at Long Branch.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.


 
 
 
 

San Francisco circa 1919. “Velie Six touring car at Phelan mansion, Washington Street.” Latest entry in the Shorpy Baedeker of Brobdingnagian Barouches. 5×7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin.


 
 
 
 

August 1943. Southfields, New York. “Interracial activities at Camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. Comic papers are very popular during the campers’ free periods.” Medium format nitrate negative by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information.


 
 
 
 

From Columbus, Georgia, circa 1957 comes this uncaptioned shot of two guys about to go somewhere. Cola? Check. Bedroll? Ditto. Daddy’s Roadmaster? All gassed up. 4×5 negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 20, 2017

Circa 1900. “Ormond, Florida. Princess Issena at Tomoka landing.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

The Jersey Shore circa 1901. “Driveway and beach at Long Branch.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

August 1908. “A group of Young Fellows working in an Indianapolis Tomato Cannery.” Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

May 1930. Washington, D.C. “American Road Builders Association — earth-moving shovel.” Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

Shorpy April 19, 2017

Circa 1894. “Fritz Reuter.” The Washington, D.C., hotelier and his children Fritz and Gertrude. 5×7 glass negative by the C.M. Bell portrait studio.

Pittsburgh circa 1910. “Schenley Park Bridge and the ‘Tick’ (Carnegie-Mellon University).” A carnival atmosphere (note loop-the-loop) in the park at right. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Washington, D.C., circa 1932. “Shoreham Hotel from across Calvert Street.” 8×10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak.

Shorpy April 18, 2017

Springfield, Mass., circa 1908. “Court House Place — Court Square Theatre Building and Court Square Hotel.” 8×10 inch glass negative.

 

The Bay Area circa 1915. “Chew Sing produce truck.” Fresh fruit via Ford. 8×6 inch glass negative by the Cheney Photo Advertising Company.

 

June 1925. Washington, D.C. “Takoma News.” We need two more girls for the kiddie conga line. National Photo Co. Collection glass negative.

 

October 1925. Washington, D.C. “Fire at Drive It Yourself Co. garage.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Shorpy April 17, 2017

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1957. “Boys with Cowboy Easter Bunny.” 4×5 acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 16, 2017

June 1943. “Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Miss Natalie O’Donald, attendant at the Atlantic Refining Company garages.” A Gibson Girl in coveralls. Medium format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

 

My niece and nephews were coming down for an Easter egg hunt, so that gave my brother, his wife and me an excuse to color some eggs for the first time since our own childhood. I made a caricature of my brother, another that was supposed to look like the Western Hemisphere, and at the bottom center in a sort of holiday mashup, an homage to one of our favorite vintage Christmas tree ornaments. The brown ones were made via the traditional onion skin method and some forgotten arcane process produced the blue-and-white mottled jobs. Paste-on printed features from an egg-dyeing kit are on two, and two more are named for their creators. All posed against the lawn at the family home in Idyllic Larkspur™, California and immortalized by me with this Polaroid snapshot.

Shorpy April 15, 2017

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. “Red Cross group, Government Hotels.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

 

“Jordan touring car at San Francisco piers, 1921.” The S.S. Ventura at dock. 8×6 inch glass negative, photographer unknown.

 

March 1943. “A Southern Pacific freight passing Vaughn, New Mexico. The Santa Fe R.R. crosses the Southern Pacific R.R. at Vaughn.” 4×3 inch Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.