Tag: Shorpy

Shorpy April 03, 2017

Washington, D.C., circa 1923. “Union Station.” You’ll come for the trains but stay for the sculpture. National Photo Company glass negative.

 

June 1923. Washington, D.C. “Aloha Band at Bureau of Engraving and Printing.” Welcoming the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine (AAONMS) during the Shriners convention, with a portrait of President Warren Harding, noted Mason (who would be dead by August), over the entrance. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

 

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

Shorpy April 02, 2017

San Francisco, 1918. “Buick Model 46 four-passenger touring coupe at De Young Museum, Golden Gate Park.” 5×7 glass negative by Chris Helin.

 

April 1958. “The ‘Beatnik’ community of San Francisco’s North Beach district, socializing at a local coffee house, at a ‘beat’ party and other activities.” 35mm negative from photos by Cal Bernstein for the Look magazine assignment “The Bored, the Bearded and the Beat.”

Shorpy April 01, 2017

Detroit, 1907. “Hotel Pontchartrain under construction.” The 10-story, 298-room “Pontch,” after expanding up with a five-story addition completed in 1910, came back down in 1920 at the tender age of 13, demolished to make way for an office tower. 8×10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

 

Manhattan circa 1909. “New Pennsylvania Station, New York, N.Y.” The Beaux-Arts behemoth whose demolition in 1963 lit a fire under the nation’s armchair architects. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative.

 

July 1943. Washington, D.C. “A child whose home is an alley dwelling near the U.S. Capitol.” Photo by Esther Bubley, Office of War Information.

 

August 1943. Southfields, New York. “Interracial activities at camp Nathan Hale, where children are aided by the Methodist Camp Service. First aid.” Photo by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information.

Shorpy March 31, 2017

April 1936. “Blight — 1316 West Walnut Street. Milwaukee, Wisc.” Medium format negative by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration.

 

June 1943. Tunisia. “A German military cemetery on the outskirts of Tunis.” Photo by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.

 

June 1943. “Miss Ruth Gusick, formerly a clerk in a drugstore, now works as a garage attendant at one of the Atlantic Refining Company service stations in Philadelphia.” Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information.

 

June 1943. Washington, D.C. “Miss Helen Ringwald, employee at the Western Union telegraph office, works with the pneumatic tubes through which messages are sent to branches in other parts of the city for delivery.” Medium format nitrate negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information.

Shorpy March 30, 2017

Cincinnati circa 1907. “Federal Building (Custom House and Post Office).” Alfred B. Mullett, architect. Completed 1885, demolished 1936.

 

1912. “Campus Martius, City Hall and Detroit Opera House.” Other points of interest in this view along Woodward Avenue at Fort Street include the Bagley Memorial Fountain, Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument and Majestic Building. 8×10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 

September 1918. Dinard, France. “Calestenic Exercises before their swim. Little refugee boys from Nancy at their American Red Cross home at Saint Lunaire. Facilities for refugee children from the devastated regions can accommodate over 500.” 5×7 glass negative by Guerin & Chamberlain.

 

San Francisco circa 1926. “Locomobile Junior Eight Brougham at City Hall.” Bearing the monogram “PMN.” 5×7 glass negative by Chris Helin.

Shorpy March 29, 2017

September 1918. “Shell Shock patients having a happy time fishing and swimming under the walls of the old chateau. These American soldiers are recovering from war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as ‘shell-shock.’ Capt. A.E. Dennis, American Red Cross hospital representative for the U.S. Army camp at Blois, has obtained wonderful results by taking a number of these patients away from the noise and congestion of the hospital to the quiet out-door life in the forest of the Chateau Chambord near Blois.” 5×7 glass negative by Lewis Hine for the American Red Cross.

 

Library of Congress
A quiet hour at noon in the sleeping tent. (See number 7705) A quiet hour at noon in the sleeping tent. These men are suffering from war neurosis, as the scientists now call the condition that used to be described as “shell-shock.” Capt. A.E. Dennis, AMERICAN RED CROSS hospital representative for the U.S. Army at Blois, has obtained wonderful results by taking a number of these patients away from the noise and congestion of the hospital to a quiet outdoor life in the Chateau Chambord near Blois

 

July 1938. Douglas, Georgia. “Wife of sharecropper in town to sell their crop at the tobacco auction.” Medium format negative by Dorothea Lange.

 

November 1942. Garfield, Utah. “Loading a copper converter at the Garfield smelter of the American Smelting and Refining Company.” Medium format nitrate negative by Andreas Feininger for the Office of War Information.

Shorpy March 28, 2017

The Jersey Shore circa 1905. “The Casino, Asbury Park.” Greetings from your great-great grandparents. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative.

 

Detroit, 1905. “Children’s Day — Playground at Belle Isle Park.” Somewhere under all those kids, there’s a merry-go-round. 8×10 glass negative.

 

March 17, 1919. “Interior of main garage of American Red Cross, 79 Rue Laugier, Paris, France.” 5×7 glass negative by Henri A. Coles.

Shorpy March 27, 2017

Baltimore circa 1903. “Confederate Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument, Mount Royal Avenue.” Sculptor Frederic Ruckstull’s allegorical bronze “Spirit of the Confederacy,” whose Latin inscription means “Glory to the Vanquished.” 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 

What sorcery within a night has made
a city street into a fairy glade?
Detroit circa 1907. The normally prosaic Detroit Publishing caption writers got creative on this one. Added attraction: whimsical mailbox graffito. 8×10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

 

Washington, D.C., circa 1924. “Memorial Continental Hall, 17th Street N.W.” National headquarters of the Daughters of the American Revolution. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

Shorpy March 26, 2017

“The goody bag is nice, but I asked for a glass of ROSÉ.”
June 14, 1918. “Red Cross comfort bag in the American Military Hospital No. 1 at Neuilly, France.” 5×7 glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine.

 

San Francisco circa 1923. “Studebaker Big Six touring car.” At the Vanderbilt Apartments. 5×7 glass negative by Christopher Helin.

 

January 29, 1951. “S.S. Independence, American Export Lines. Staircase down.” 4×5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner.

Shorpy March 25, 2017

February 1917, New York. “Frieda Hempel.” The German soprano and Metropolitan Opera star. 4×6 glass negative, Bain News Service.

 

Washington, D.C., circa 1921. “Garfield Hospital.” Where Mother and Baby are doing fine. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

 

January 1943. “Freight train operations on the Chicago and North Western Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa.” Somewhere in Illinois between Cortland and Malta, en route to Clinton. Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information.

 

May 1943. “Galveston, Texas. Newspaper delivery boys.” Medium format nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information.