Tag: Shorpy

Shorpy April 14, 2017

 

July 26, 1919. Washington, D.C. “Bathing beach parade at Tidal Basin.” National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
GALAXY OF BEAUTY PARADES AT BEACH
Comely Damsels in Scant Attire Win Prizes for Their Appearance.
JULY 27 — While more than 5,000 persons clambered to each other’s shoulders and to roofs of nearby buildings to view the Annette Kellermanns at the first annual beach parade at the Tidal Basin yesterday afternoon, Mrs. Audrey O’Connor, 620 Maryland avenue southwest, was proclaimed by the judges as Washington’s most beautiful girl in a bathing suit. Mrs. O’Connor wore a blue and orange jumper, blue cap and orange tights. Miss Dot Buckley, 1250 Tenth street northwest, received honorable mention in the contest. Her suit was a creation in red, white and blue. First prize in the costume contest was awarded Mrs. Grace Fleishman, 5 Iowa circle, who wore a white silk suit with black and white border and a white silk hat. Miss Muriel Gibbs, costumed as Miss Liberty in stars and stripes, received honorable mention. Silver loving cups were awarded to the winners of both the beauty and the costume contests. Following the parade of the score or more of beauties between cheering crowds of bathing beach fans, the former faced half a dozen movie machines and a battery of press cameras. Later one of the winners obligingly did a modified “shimmy dance” for the movie men.

 

Santa Rosa, California, circa 1924. “Graham Brothers truck at Nelligan & Son.” 8×6 inch glass negative, photographer unknown.

 

 

 

Which way to the Cinnabon?
Oct. 2, 1939. Continuing our theme of housing: “Wingspread — Herbert F. Johnson Jr. residence in Racine, Wisconsin. Living room interior. Frank Lloyd Wright, architect.” Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

 

 

 

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1950, and another snap from the “Housing” series. 4×5 inch acetate negative from the News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 13, 2017

San Francisco circa 1918. “Day-Elder bus.” Today’s entry in the Shorpy Inventory of Obsolete Omnibi poses the question: How did its passengers get on and off, or from front to back, on a vehicle whose seats seem to extend the full width of the bus? 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.

 

 

March 17, 1919. “Paris. Interior of the American Red Cross garage at 79 Rue Laugier.” Note the sign advising that LOAFING IN CARS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. 5×7 inch glass negative, American National Red Cross.

 

 

Blue Earth, Minnesota. “Sept. 1951 — Dottie & Sally.” One hon and one Dalmatian. Though the dog might look spotty, she’s not Dottie, she’s Sally. 35mm Kodachrome by posthumous Shorpy contributors Grace or Hubert Tuttle.

 

Shorpy April 12, 2017

Circa 1897. “U.S.S. Brooklyn apprentice boys.” Just remember, sailors: Bronx up, Battery down. 8×10 inch glass negative by Edward H. Hart.

 

August 1939. “Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. One tenant purchase program (Farm Security Administration) client, Jacob N. Schrock. This family with eight children had lived for 25 years on a rocky, rented farm in this valley. They now own 48 acres of good land, this good house, price $6,770. They raise hay, grain, dairy and hogs. Mrs. Schrock says, ‘Quite a lot of difference between that old rock pile, and around here’.” Photo by Dorothea Lange.

 

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1948. “Housing — ‘A.C.’ chicken house dwelling.” Some of the tots last seen here (below), waiting for a rope and a tree to come along. 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

 

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1948. “Housing — ‘A.C.’ chicken house dwelling.” These youngsters may be poor, but they seem to be comics-literate. 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

 

Shorpy April 11, 2017

“St. Paul Building, New York, 1901.” One of the first structures to be called a skyscraper, the 26-story St. Paul was completed in 1898 and demolished 60 years later. Its neighbor to the left, the 28-floor Park Row Building, completed in 1899, still stands. 8×10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.

 

August 1939. “Josephine County, Oregon, near Grants Pass. A row of shelters like this for hop pickers’ families.” Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration.

 

August 1939. “Washington, Yakima Valley, near Wapato. Carrying peppers from garden. One of eight Schrock children, Farm Security Administration client family in tenant purchase program.” Photo by Dorothea Lange.

 

Shorpy April 10, 2017

San Francisco circa 1920. “Chalmers touring car at Spreckels Mansion, N.E. corner Octavia & Washington streets.” Wearing yet another variation on the “California top,” an accessory (this one with sideways-sliding windows) that afforded some of the advantages of the era’s heavier, more expensive closed-body models. 5×7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin.

 

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1960, and that’s all we know. If you know these ladies, or are one of them yourself, speak up. 4×5 inch acetate negative.

Shorpy April 09, 2017

While I didn’t take this photo of the California State Capitol – my brother did on 35mm Anscochrome – I am the reason it exists. At 11 years of age I was an avid rockhound and longed to find things like quartz crystals or what was for me the holy grail: a geode. What I lacked was field experience, so I wheedled my father into driving up from Marin County to the American River in the Sierra foothills east of Sacramento. My brother came along for the ride. History does not record, nor did my brother, anything that might have happened past Sacramento. If I’d found crystals or a geode, I’d have remembered. But today I have one consolation: my brother fortuitously captured a Nash in its natural habitat, the roadways of the 1950s.

 

Chicago circa 1962. “Miss Eileen Dawson of American City Bureau at Tri-State Hospital Assembly exposition. Air-Shields Inc. Isolette incubator display.” 4×5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 08, 2016

April 1, 1938. San Francisco. “Camera Craft store, 425 Bush Street. Mr. E.R. Young.” 8×10 inch acetate negative by Moulin Studios.

 

Mariposa County, California, circa 1940. “Yosemite Lodge pool and Falls vista.” 8×10 inch acetate negative by Moulin Studios.

Shorpy April 07, 2017

Circa 1906. “Elks Club, Memphis.” Antlers in the attic; wallpaper in the basement. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 

San Francisco circa 1927. “Willys-Knight Model 66 sedan.” Note the knight radiator cap. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.

 

Columbus, Georgia, 1952. “Soap Box Derby champion Joe Lunn at Kirven’s.” Young Joe was winner of that year’s Junior Speed Classic in Akron, Ohio. 4×5 negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive.

Shorpy April 06, 2017

April 1865. Petersburg, Virginia. “Federal Army camp. Soldiers boxing.” Wet plate glass negative. Civil War Collection, Library of Congress.

 

Circa 1906. “Coaling a river packet underway on the Mississippi near Memphis.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 

August 1908. “Noon hour in an Indianapolis tomato cannery. Young fellows in front of boxcar.” Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine.

 

The Bureau of War Risk Insurance, a World War I agency that over the past century morphed into the Department of Veterans Affairs, which still occupies this building. Plus ça change …
Washington, D.C., 1923. “War Risk Bureau, Vermont Avenue and I Street N.W.” 8×10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection.

 

May 1942. “Twenty-four hours a day the sparks from acetylene torches of steel workers in eight Denver fabricating plants are flying thick and fast that the U.S. Navy may carry the battle to the enemy in all parts of the world. Here in secluded Denver, the world’s largest city not on a navigable waterway, this war production worker, who has never seen a battleship or an ocean, fashions the steel hull parts which are being assembled at Mare Island Navy Yard in California — 1,200 miles from where he and his fellow workers are on the job to help ‘keep ’em sailing’.” Office of War Information, photographer unknown.

 

November 1942. “Loading copper ore at the open-pit mining operations of Utah Copper Company at Bingham Canyon.” Medium format nitrate negative by Andreas Feininger for the Office of War Information.

 

June 1943. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. “Miss Natalie O’Donald, service-station attendant at the Atlantic Refining Company garages.” Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

Shorpy April 04, 2017

1906. “Memphis Trust Building, Main Street.” Completed 1904, and then doubled in width 10 years later. Now an apartment building.

 

1906. “City Hall — Vicksburg, Mississippi.” The building still stands, although the angels have flown. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative.

 

July 1918. “Alex, a 14-year-old working boy in St. Etienne, France, was found intently studying the playground model at the Children’s Welfare Exhibit of the American Red Cross. He has been working since 11 years of age, and said: ‘On account of the high cost of living, I now get four and a half francs a day’.” 5×7 inch glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the American Red Cross.