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Insulators home pageIntroduction: Pat Barkwell began to circulate links to photographs from www.shorpy.com via email to ICON at some point in early 2010. These are vintage large format photographs taken of ordinary daily life where insulators just so happen to be in the pictures. It became apparent to me over time that this could become a great visual reference for line construction of the day, especially in large cities. The purpose of this archive is to create a library of links to photographs of interest for future reference by collectors. I've extracted some key information from the photographs captions to allow the photographs to be sorted by year, location and dates added. You can also search for text within the captions. Links can be submitted by anyone.
Please email your submissions to: Dave Wiecek: dwiecek@optonline.net
Last updated: Monday, April 23, 2018; Total photos: 521
| Year | Location | Shorpy Photograph Title and Caption | Added on Shorpy | Added Here |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | Birmingham, AL | Birmingham P.O.: 1906 Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1906. "Birmingham Post Office." Right next to The Cable Company. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
September 30, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Birmingham, AL | Birmingham: 1906 Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1906. "Second Avenue looking east." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 4, 2011 | April 6, 2011 |
| 1906 | Birmingham, AL | Municipal Castle: 1906 Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1906. "Jefferson County Court House." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 9, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Birmingham, AL | Neighbors: 1906 1906. "Birmingham, Alabama -- Jefferson County Courthouse and St. Paul's Church." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 19, 2015 | February 28, 2015 |
| 1901 | Mobile, AL | Battle House: 1901 Mobile, Alabama, circa 1901. "Battle House." Whose name has lengthened over the years to "Battle House Renaissance Mobile Hotel and Spa by Marriott." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 15, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Mobile, AL | King Cotton: 1906 Mobile, Alabama, circa 1906. "Cotton Exchange." A building with beaucoup bling -- note the crown-topped bale signifying you-know-what. |
February 8, 2015 | February 28, 2015 |
| 1910 | Mobile, AL | Monroe Park: 1910 Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "A pretty bit of Monroe Park -- bandstand and yacht club pier." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
February 14, 2014 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1910 | Mobile, AL | Royal Street: 1910 Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Royal Street looking south from St. Francis." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 21, 2011 | November 23, 2011 |
| 1910 | Mobile, AL | This Way to Kloskys: 1910 Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Royal Street looking north." Points of interest include a lineman up a pole and the fickle finger of retail. |
November 27, 2011 | December 13, 2011 |
| 1906 | Montgomery, AL | Court Square: 1906 Montgomery, Alabama, circa 1906. "Commerce Street from Court Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 26, 2011 | May 28, 2011 |
| 1906 | Montgomery, AL | Exchange Hotel: 1906 Circa 1906. "New Exchange Hotel. Montgomery, Alabama." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 12, 2015 | March 25, 2015 |
| 1906 | Montgomery, AL | Montgomery: 1906 Montgomery, Alabama, circa 1906. "Dexter Avenue and the Capitol." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 27, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Montgomery, AL | Southern Gothic: 1906 1906. "Post Office -- Montgomery, Alabama." Municipal Dungeon (Basement Level) open daily 9 to 3. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
February 5, 2015 | February 28, 2015 |
| 1935 | Selma, AL | Sweet Home Alabama: 1935 December 1935. "Sidewalk scene in Selma, Alabama." Large-format nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration. |
March 22, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1939 | Selma, AL | Jewel: 1939 1939. "St. James Hotel, Selma, Dallas County, Alabama. Building dates to circa 1840. Now market warehouse. Three story brick masonry, two story porch, ornamental iron work." Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
April 5, 2014 | April 7, 2014 |
| 1906 | Tuskegee, AL | The Lincoln Gates: 1906 Tuskegee, Alabama, circa 1906. "The Lincoln gates, Tuskegee Institute." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 16, 2011 | June 16, 2011 |
| 1915 | Iglesia El Carmen, Antigua | Ruinas el Carmen: 1915 Circa 1915. "Travel views of Guatemala. View from northeast of Iglesia el Carmen, Antigua." 4x5 nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. |
November 2, 2014 | November 8, 2014 |
| 1900 | Hot Springs, AR | Seven Points: 1900 Hot Springs, Arkansas, circa 1900. "Seven Points." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 2, 2011 | August 3, 2011 |
| 1901 | Hot Springs, AR | The Eastman Hotel: 1901 Hot Springs, Arkansas, circa 1901. "The Eastman Hotel." Completed in 1890; demolished 1946 after serving as a hospital annex and transit hub for the military during World War 2. Panorama of three 8x10 glass negatives. |
May 16, 2017 | May 29, 2017 |
| 1908 | Hot Springs, AR | Follow the Finger: 1908 Hot Springs, Arkansas, circa 1908. "Army and Navy General Hospital." Closer to the camera on Reserve Avenue we have the Imperial Bath House and some helpful signage. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 30, 2011 | March 30, 2011 |
| 1910 | Little Rock, AR | Markham From Main: 1910 Wrapping up our tour of Little Rock, Arkansas, circa 1910. "Markham Street west from Main." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
February 13, 2011 | February 14, 2011 |
| 1910 | Little Rock, AR | Signs and Portents: 1910 Little Rock, Arkansas, circa 1910. "Main Street." Home to a number of intriguing juxtapositions. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
May 2, 2014 | May 6, 2014 |
| 1943 | Ash Fork (vicinity), AZ | Smoke Signal: 1943 March 1943. "Ash Fork, Arizona (vicinity). Passing an eastbound freight on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Winslow and Seligman." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. |
July 10, 2014 | July 23, 2014 |
| 1939 | Brawley, CA | Route 99: 1939 February 1939. "On U.S. 99 near Brawley, Imperial County, California. Homeless mother and youngest child of seven walking the highway from Phoenix, Arizona, where they picked cotton. Bound for San Diego, where the father hopes to get on relief 'because he once lived there.'" Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. |
May 21, 2012 | May 21, 2012 |
| 1915 | Crockett, CA | The Sugar Factory: 1915 Crockett, Calif., circa 1915. "South view of refinery and entrance to Loring Avenue." Plant of the California & Hawaii Sugar Refining Co. |
December 11, 2013 | December 11, 2013 |
| 1915 | Fresno, CA | Fresno Fruit & Honey: 1915 Fresno, California, circa 1915. "Auto tourists in Fruit Packing District." 8x6 glass negative by Howard Clinton Tibbitts, a San Francisco-based photographer who worked for the Southern Pacific railroad and its Sunset magazine. |
November 18, 2015 | December 31, 2015 |
| 1939 | Fresno, CA | Approaching Fresno: 1939 May 1939. "Between Tulare and Fresno. From the overpass approaching Fresno." Large-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. |
December 11, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| Undated | Los Angeles, CA | SP Cab-Forward: Undated Arriving at Union Station in Los Angeles. Southern Pacific was unique in its use of the massive cab-forward design, intended to keep crewmen cooler and awake while traversing the numerous tunnels on many of the Line's routes. The picture is from the late 40s or early 50s. Photographer: Don Hall, Sr. |
October 27, 2007 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1925 | Mendocino County, CA | Covelo Stables: 1925 1925. "Indian guides and Nash auto at Covelo stables. Mendocino County, Calif." Along with a tin-sign Who's Who of the 1920s soft drink industry, starting with Shorpy's favorite beverage, Whistle, and its slogan "WHIZ-WHIM-WHANG." 6˝ x 8˝ glass negative from Wyland Stanley via Marilyn Blaisdell. |
November 6, 2014 | November 8, 2014 |
| 1913 | Mount Lowe, CA | Streetcar to the Sky: 1913 Mount Lowe, California, circa 1913. "Electric car at Ye Alpine Tavern, Mount Lowe Railway." This Swiss-style chalet in the San Gabriel Mountains was the upper terminus (elev. 5,000 feet) of an 1890s scenic and incline railway that started in Altadena, with streetcar connections all the way to the main terminal at the Pacific Electric Building in Los Angeles. The railway and associated resorts, including the 70-room Echo Mountain House, were gradually obliterated by fire and flood until, by 1940, nothing was left. Detroit Publishing Co. |
November 21, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1913 | Mount Lowe, CA | Ye Alpine Tavern: 1913 Mount Lowe, California, circa 1913. "Ye Alpine Tavern on Mount Lowe Railway line." Our second look at this mile-high Swiss-style chalet that was the end of the line for passengers of the Mount Lowe scenic railway. Excursionists got a spectacular ride for their fare (which in the railway's opening year of 1893 was a hefty $5). 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 22, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Oakland, CA | Industrial Eden: 1910 Circa 1910. "Gasometers and rail yard at Oakland, California." 8x6 inch glass negative by the Cheney Photo Advertising Co. |
January 31, 2017 | February 1, 2017 |
| 1917 | Oakland, CA | Western Electric: 1917 Oakland circa 1917. "Western Electric Co. -- looking east toward Pacific Tel." For more than a century, the company was the manufacturing arm of Bell Telephone. 8x6 glass negative by the Cheney Photo Advertising Co |
March 21, 2016 | March 21, 2016 |
| 1918 | Oakland, CA | Reinventing the Wheel: 1918 Oakland, 1918. "Crating Fageol 'walking tractors' at factory." Our first look at an unusual agricultural implement. 8x10 glass negative. |
June 15, 2016 | June 18, 2016 |
| 1958 | Oakland, CA | The Case of the Battered Buick Oakland, Calif., circa 1958, and yet another fender-bender. Let's move along, folks. Nothing to see here! 4x5 acetate negative from the News Archive. |
October 3, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1906 | San Francisco, CA | Smoking Rubble: 1906 "Nob Hill from roof of Ferry Post Office." San Francisco after the earthquake and fire of April 18, 1906. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
February 3, 2011 | February 4, 2011 |
| 1919 | San Francisco, CA | A Couple of Cads: 1919 San Francisco circa 1919. "Cadillac touring car and sedan." Touring a veritable wonderland of chalk art. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. |
December 11, 2015 | December 31, 2015 |
| 1920 | San Francisco, CA | Grant Six: 1920 Somewhere around San Francisco in 1920. "Grant Six touring car." Pointed straight into the 20th century, although the Grant brand itself was not long for this world, expiring in 1922. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. |
September 28, 2014 | September 30, 2014 |
| 1920 | San Francisco, CA | Need Lumber Quick?: 1920 San Francisco in 1920. "Federal truck -- Van Arsdale-Harris Lumber Co., Fifth and Brannan." 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. |
November 14, 2014 | November 30, 2014 |
| 1921 | San Francisco, CA | Angler-Saxon: 1921 San Francisco, 1921. "Saxon auto and fishing boats." Another automotive brand not long for this earth. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. |
November 10, 2014 | November 30, 2014 |
| 1922 | San Francisco, CA | Jurassic Truck: 1922 San Francisco, 1922. "Fageol truck on construction ramp." Flintstones-era dumper with solid rubber tires. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. |
July 27, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1926 | San Francisco, CA | Paiges on Parade: 1926 "Paiges on Fillmore Hill at Broadway." San Francisco in 1926 is the setting for this latest entry in the Shorpy Pageant of Extinct Conveyances, a passel of parked Paiges. 8x10 film negative by Christopher Helin. |
November 20, 2014 | November 30, 2014 |
| 1929 | San Francisco, CA | Lights Up: 1929 San Francisco circa 1929. "Dodge Brothers truck at City Hall." Where illumination seems to be the order of the day (or night). 5x7 glass negative. |
October 17, 2017 | October 23, 2017 |
| 1935 | San Francisco, CA | Bridge Out: 1935 San Francisco, 1935. "Oldsmobile coupe and Golden Gate Bridge under construction." Only two more years and this lady will be able to cross. 8x10 film negative, originally from the Wyland Stanley collection. |
March 24, 2015 | April 20, 2015 |
| 1936 | San Francisco, CA | Big Rigs: 1936 August 15, 1936. "Sterling trucks in San Francisco." With a chain drive that looks like something off a giant bicycle. 8x10 inch acetate negative. |
February 19, 2015 | February 28, 2015 |
| 1937 | San Francisco, CA | Texaco Test Car: 1937 June 15, 1937. Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. "Texaco Test Fleet auto at Joe DiMaggio Grotto. Driver of Pontiac with restaurant manager Tom DiMaggio." 8x10 film negative from the Wyland Stanley collection. |
April 6, 2015 | April 20, 2015 |
| 1939 | San Francisco, CA | Key System: 1939 April 1939. "San Francisco, California, seen from the First Street ramp of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge." Before BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) crossed the bay, there was the Key System. Photo by Dorothea Lange. |
May 20, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1940 | San Francisco, CA | Upward Oldsmobile: 1940 San Francisco, 1940. "Oldsmobile sedan and pedestrians ascending steep grade." With the Palace of Fine Arts and Golden Gate Bridge in the distance. 8x0 film negative, originally from the Wyland Stanley collection. |
March 23, 2015 | March 25, 2015 |
| 1924 | San Mateo County, CA | Health Deputy: 1924 San Mateo County, California, 1924. "Daly City Deputy Health Officer and construction trucks." Also the quarters of the Constable, not to mention "Oiling & Greasing." 6˝ x 8˝ inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. |
December 15, 2014 | December 27, 2014 |
| 1940 | Shafter, CA | A Tale of Two Chevys: 1940 March 1940. "Cooperative gas station at Shafter migrant camp. Shafter, California." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. |
November 21, 2017 | November 24, 2017 |
| 1934 | Weaverville, CA | Weaverville: 1934 March 10, 1934 "Weaverville, Trinity County, California. General view looking west." Not much evidence of a Great Depression other than the NRA sign in a store window. Photo by Roger Sturtevant for the Historic American Buildings Survey. We wonder if he ever crossed paths with Dorothea Lange. |
April 23, 2014 | April 26, 2014 |
| 1908 | Denver, CO | Welcome to Denver: 1908 Denver, Colorado, circa 1908. "Welcome arch and Union Depot." Where blurry pedestrians risk the retoucher's brush. 8x10 glass negative. |
April 15, 2014 | April 26, 2014 |
| 1900 | Victor, CO | Gold Coin Mine: 1900 Circa 1900. "Victor, Colorado. Gold Coin Mine." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 17, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | New Haven, CT | Blue Highway: 1900 New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1900. "Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company |
May 20, 2017 | May 29, 2017 |
| 1910 | New Haven, CT | Campus Life: 1910 New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1910. "Students leaving Battell Chapel, Yale University." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
March 13, 2012 | March 13, 2012 |
| 1910 | New Haven, CT | Manual Training: 1910 Circa 1910. "Boardman Manual Training School, New Haven, Connecticut." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 9, 2016 | February 15, 2016 |
| 1904 | Havana, Cuba | Havana: 1904 Havana, Cuba, circa 1904. "Muelle Tallapiedras (Tallapiedra wharf)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company |
April 18, 2011 | April 19, 2011 |
| 1904 | Havana, Cuba | The Prado: 1904 Circa 1904. "Havana, Cuba -- the Prado, looking south." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 20, 2016 | December 15, 2016 |
| 1865 | Washington, DC | Paint Your Wagon: 1865 April 1865. "District of Columbia. Government repair shops. Paint Shop." Another motley crew from the Civil War era. Wet plate glass negative. |
July 18, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1901 | Washington, DC | Inaugural Umbrellas: 1901 March 4, 1901. "President William McKinley second inaugural parade, Pennsylvania Avenue." Brady-Handy Collection glass negative. |
July 25, 2009 | March 11, 2011 |
| 1914 | Washington, DC | Back Alley: 1914 District of Columbia, 1914. "Alley clearance. Slum views." A scene that I don't imagine would have changed much since the 19th century except for the utility pole. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. |
October 20, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1914 | Washington, DC | Gaslight Alley: 1914 Washington, D.C., 1914. "Alley clearance -- slum views." (Seen earlier here.) Familiar fixtures from a century ago include the gas lamp, maypole-style phone pole and a turnbuckle star. Harris & Ewing glass negative. |
December 12, 2013 | December 16, 2013 |
| 1919 | Washington, DC | Dial D for Danger: 1919 Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. equipment." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. |
March 28, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1919 | Washington, DC | Hooked Up: 1919 Washington, D.C., circa 1919. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. equipment." More communications gear at what seems to be the Capitol. The box on the left bears the nameplates of Leeds & Northrup, Philadelphia, and Western Electric. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. |
March 29, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1920 | Washington, DC | Gas Shack: 1920 Washington, D.C., in 1920. "Penn Oil Co., 16th and M Sts." Pardon the mold. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
December 1, 2010 | December 3, 2010 |
| 1922 | Washington, DC | Derailed: 1922 Washington area, 1922. "Railroad wreck." National Photo Company Collection. The tilted camera gives a nice arrangement of diagonals. |
February 26, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1922 | Washington, DC | Polar Volleyball: 1922 February 1922. Washington, D.C. "Barefoot volleyball in snow." Recreation at Fort Frostbite. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. |
February 26, 2014 | March 7, 2014 |
| 1923 | Washington, DC | Bucket Brigade: 1923 August 1923. Washington, D.C. "Dump story." The past is a bucket of ashes. Or a pail of water. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
August 23, 2016 | December 12, 2016 |
| 1923 | Washington, DC | Pole Position: 1923 Washington, D.C., 1923. "A.W. Leonard." National Photo Company lensman "Artie" Leonard chasing a shot. |
June 19, 2014 | July 6, 2014 |
| 1925 | Washington, DC | Minute Service No. 6: 1925 1925. "Texas Co., Third Street & Florida Avenue N.E." One in a series of photos, evidently commissioned by Texaco, of service stations in and around Washington, D.C. Here we have the added attraction of a speeding train. |
November 19, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1928 | Washington, DC | Telco Truck: 1928 Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
September 1, 2012 | September 4, 2012 |
| 1928 | Washington, DC | The Polesters: 1928 Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "Chesapeake & Potomac telephone school, Georgia Avenue." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
June 14, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1929 | Washington, DC | A Higher Calling: 1929 Washington, D.C., 1929. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. lineman." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
April 19, 2015 | April 20, 2015 |
| 1929 | Washington, DC | Pole Cat: 1929 Washington, D.C., 1929. "Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. lineman." Last seen here. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
June 30, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1929 | Washington, DC | Throwing the Switch: 1929 February 27, 1929. Washington, D.C. "Testing installation for radio broadcast of the Inauguration." On the eve of the Great Depression, a sound check for the presidency of Herbert Hoover. National Photo Co. |
January 20, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1937 | Washington, DC | Shampoo: 1937 Washington, D.C., or vicinity circa 1937. "Potomac Electric Power Co. -- Pole setting." Safety negative by Theodor Horydczak. |
February 18, 2014 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1904 | Daytona, FL | Daytona Beach: 1904 Florida circa 1904. "Beach Street, Daytona." Note the early Coca-Cola sign on Burdine's Pharmacy. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
March 21, 2012 | March 22, 2012 |
| 1906 | Daytona, FL | Florida Souvenirs: 1906 Daytona Beach, Florida, circa 1906. "Beach Street, with souvenir shops." Glimpsed earlier here. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
August 29, 2012 | September 4, 2012 |
| 1904 | Jacksonville, FL | Bay Street: 1904 Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1904. "Bay Street." Big Hosiery Sale To-day at Furchgott's! 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 18, 2013 | October 15, 2013 |
| 1910 | Jacksonville, FL | Forsyth Street: 1910 Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Forsyth Street, west from Main." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 27, 2010 | January 3, 2011 |
| 1910 | Jacksonville, FL | Forsyth Street: 1910 1910. "Forsyth Street looking east." Our 20th large-format, high-resolution view of Jacksonville, Florida. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
August 16, 2014 | August 22, 2014 |
| 1910 | Jacksonville, FL | Hotel Duval: 1910 Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Hotel Duval." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 27, 2010 | January 3, 2011 |
| 1910 | Jacksonville, FL | Hotel Seminole: 1910 Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Hotel Seminole." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 12, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1910 | Jacksonville, FL | Hotel Windle: 1910 Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Forsyth Street west from City Hall." Note the city-issued car tags. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 5, 2012 | May 2, 2012 |
| 1910 | Jacksonville, FL | Jacksonville: 1910 Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Main Street north from Bay." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 17, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Jacksonville, FL | Jax Nior: 1910 Jacksonville, Florida, circa 1910. "Forsyth Street at night." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 5, 2011 | January 5, 2011 |
| 1943 | Jacksonville, FL | Florida Ice: 1943 February 1943. "Jacksonville, Florida. Street scene in the Negro section." Photo by Gordon Parks for the Office of War Information. |
November 24, 2016 | December 15, 2016 |
| 1904 | Miami, FL | Avenue C: 1904 1904. "Avenue C -- Miami, Fla." Renamed First Avenue after the city's brief fling with lettered streets. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
December 9, 2014 | December 27, 2014 |
| 1908 | Miami, FL | Miami, Florida: 1908 12th Street, looking east, Miami, Florida. Detroit Publishing Co. |
October 25, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1912 | Miami, FL | Halcyon Hotel: 1912 January 29, 1912. "Halcyon Hotel, 12th Street and Avenue B, Miami, Florida." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 23, 2012 | January 30, 2014 |
| 1906 | Pensacola, FL | Pensacola Cannonball: 1906 Pensacola, Florida, circa 1906. "Louisville & Nashville Railway station." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 20, 2011 | March 21, 2011 |
| 1910 | Pensacola, FL | Pensacola: 1910 Pensacola, Florida, circa 1910. "Louisville and Nashville Railway station." Where libations for the parched traveler are a mere stagger away. |
January 6, 2011 | January 6, 2011 |
| 1900 | Pensacola Harbor, FL | Tall Ships: 1900 Pensacola Bay circa 1900. "Pensacola Harbor, Florida." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 12, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1941 | Sarasota, FL | Pale Driver: 1941 January 1941. "Guest at Sarasota, Florida, trailer park washing his car." This would be Mr. White from Virginia. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott. |
March 18, 2014 | March 25, 2014 |
| 1894 | St. Augustine, FL | St. George Street: 1894 Florida circa 1894. "St. George Street, St. Augustine." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
September 2, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1897 | St. Augustine, FL | Plaza de la Constitucion: 1897 Florida circa 1897. "The Plaza, St. Augustine." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. |
March 30, 2018 | April 23, 2018 |
| 1908 | St. Augustine, FL | Cozy Inn: 1908 St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1908. "St. George Street." Where ice cream cones and gun-trunk-umbrella-sewing machine repairs are just a few steps apart. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 7, 2011 | June 8, 2011 |
| 1905 | Tampa, FL | Old Tampa: 1905 1905. "Franklin Street, Tampa, Florida." Next stop, Hyde Park. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 13, 2017 | February 20, 2017 |
| 1864 | Atlanta, GA | Marietta Street: 1864 1864. "Atlanta, Georgia. View on Marietta Street." Wet plate negative by George N. Barnard. LOC Civil War glass plate negative collection. |
June 26, 2009 | March 10, 2011 |
| 1864 | Atlanta, GA | The Roundhouse: 1864 November 1864. "Railroad yards at Atlanta. The Roundhouse. Ruins of depot, blown up on Sherman's departure." Wet plate glass negative by George N. Barnard. Civil War glass negative collection, Library of Congress. |
April 2, 2011 | December 9, 2013 |
| 1903 | Augusta, GA | Rise & Fall: 1903 Augusta, Georgia, circa 1903. "Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 17, 2014 | June 7, 2014 |
| 1905 | Augusta, GA | Our Confederate Dead: 1905 Augusta, Georgia, circa 1905. "Albion Hotel and Confederate Monument." A full view of the memorial glimpsed here last week. The main inscription: "No nation rose so white and fair. None fell so pure of crime." Facing the camera: Stonewall Jackson. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 27, 2012 | March 27, 2012 |
| 1905 | Augusta, GA | The Albion: 1905 Augusta, Georgia, circa 1905. "The Albion." Please watch your step crossing the street. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 22, 2012 | March 25, 2012 |
| 1905 | Savannah, GA | Savannah Electric: 1905 Savannah, Georgia, circa 1905. "Broughton Street, looking east." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 15, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Savannah, GA | Savannah: 1905 Savannah, Georgia, circa 1905. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
October 4, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Savannah, GA | Seaboard Air Line: 1910 Savannah, Georgia, circa 1910. "Seaboard Air Line Railway docks." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 28, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1937 | Savannah, GA | Dark Passage: 1937 Chatham County, Georgia, circa 1937. "Stoddard's Lower Range from Factory [Factors] Walk, River Street, Savannah." Passage through the cotton warehouses built by John Stoddard on the bluffs above the Savannah River in the late 1850s. 8x10 inch safety negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
July 11, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1939 | Savannah, GA | Pause ... Drink: 1939 Chatham County, Georgia, circa 1939. "Fahm Street, west side, Savannah. Row houses built about 1850. Torn down 1940 for Yamacraw Village housing." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
August 26, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1939 | Savannah, GA | Troll Hole: 1939 1939. "Georgia Central Railway Bridge, Railroad Street, Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia. Schwab and Mueller, engineers, 1848-1858." Another view of the span seen here. Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
March 5, 2014 | March 7, 2014 |
| 1943 | Clinton, IA | On Top of Old Steamy: 1943 Clinton, Iowa. April 1943. "Chicago & North Western Railroad. Women wipers at the roundhouse cleaning one of the giant H-class locomotives." In the red bandanna: Marcella Hart, seen here in a few other posts. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information |
March 8, 2011 | March 9, 2011 |
| 1940 | Dubuque, IA | The Flavor Lasts: 1940 April 1940. "Dubuque, Iowa." Grit and gum in the Key City. 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. |
May 17, 2011 | May 18, 2011 |
| 1939 | Grundy Center, IA | Grundy Center: 1939 September 1939. "Main street (G Avenue), Grundy Center, Iowa." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 4, 2018 | January 7, 2018 |
| 1939 | Lamoille, IA | Standard Service: 1939 October 1939. "Lamoille, Iowa. A village consisting of a few houses, general store, and railroad station." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 12, 2018 | January 13, 2018 |
| 1900 | IL | The Sentinels: 1900 Circa 1900. "Interlocking signal plant, Chicago & Alton Railway." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 28, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1910 | Alton, IL | Working Boys: 1910 May 17, 1910. Alton, Illinois, "Noon hour. These boys are all working in the Illinois Glass Company. Smallest boy, Frank Dwyer, 1009˝ E. Sixth Street, says he has been working here three months. Joe Dwyer (brother) has been working here over two years. Henry Maul, 513 Central Avenue. Frank Schenk, lives with uncle, 611 Central Avenue. Emil Ohley, 1012 E. Sixth Street. William Jarett, 825 E. Fifth Street. Fred Metz, 707 Bloomfield Street. In addition to their telling me they worked, I saw them beginning work just before 1 p.m. Photo at 12:30." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
September 7, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1904 | Braidwood, IL | The Braidwood Bunch: 1904 Circa 1904. "Depot at Braidwood, Illinois." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 6, 2016 | December 12, 2016 |
| 1937 | Cache, IL | Poultry Crossing: 1937 February 1937. "During the flood, cows and chickens were moved to the highest ground possible. Near Cache, Illinois." Aftermath of the Ohio River Valley flood. Photo by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. |
June 14, 2013 | June 14, 2013 |
| 1907 | Chicago, IL | Commuters: 1907 Chicago circa 1907. "Arriving from the suburbs." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by Hans Behm, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 16, 2010 | April 11, 2011 |
| 1910 | Chicago, IL | Dearborn Street Station: 1910 Chicago circa 1910. "Dearborn Street Station." Streetcar wires and a small ghost pedestrian not entirely banished by the retoucher's hand. |
November 3, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1943 | Chicago, IL | Frosty the Brakeman: 1943 January 1943. Chicago, Illinois. "Freight operations on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad between Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. The Chicago & North Western Railroad yard." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. |
November 6, 2013 | November 8, 2013 |
| 1943 | Chillicothe, IL | Iron Dragon: 1943 March 1943. "On the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe between Chicago and Chillicothe, Illinois." Another of the many photos by Jack Delano documenting his trip on a freight train from Chicago to California. |
November 24, 2013 | November 28, 2013 |
| 1900 | Dwight, IL | Dwight Depot: 1900 Circa 1900. "Chicago & Alton station at at Dwight, Illinois." Home to a very healthy looking telegraph pole. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
February 16, 2011 | February 16, 2011 |
| 1943 | Elmhurst, IL | Bicycle Crossing: 1943 January 1943. "Freight train operations on the Chicago and North Western Railroad between Chicago and Clinton, Iowa. The train rushing through the town of Elmhurst, Illinois." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. |
December 9, 2014 | December 27, 2014 |
| 1939 | Franklin County, IL | Expect Delays: 1939 January 1939. "Highway in Franklin County, Illinois." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. |
November 28, 2017 | November 29, 2017 |
| 1900 | Mazonia, IL | Mazonia: 1900 Circa 1900. "Chicago & Alton Railroad. Signal station and crossroads at Mazonia, Illinois." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
January 7, 2011 | January 11, 2011 |
| 1905 | Pontiac, IL | Pontiac Depot: 1905 Circa 1905. "Railway station at Pontiac, Illinois." Next stop: Hooterville. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 12, 2010 | March 20, 2011 |
| 1937 | Shawneetown, IL | Shawnee Tavern: 1937 April 1937. "The Posey Building of Shawneetown, Illinois, in which Abraham Lincoln and Robert Ingersoll had law offices." Now home to a newspaper and a bar. Photo by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. |
October 28, 2015 | December 31, 2015 |
| 1936 | IN | Globe Gasoline: 1936 May 1936, somewhere in Indiana. "Auto transport at gas station." Everyone has a nice hood ornament here. Photo by Carl Mydans. |
February 6, 2014 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1938 | Blankenship, IN | Nehi Guy: 1938 May 1938. Blankenship, Indiana. "Resting in front of general store." 35mm negative by Arthur Rothstein, Farm Security Administration. |
September 2, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1943 | Emporia, KS | Emporia Junction: 1943 March 1943. "Emporia, Kansas. Passing Emporia Junction switch tower as the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe train pulls into the yard." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. |
December 6, 2014 | December 27, 2014 |
| 1943 | Kiowa (vicinity), KS | Waiting for the Light: 1943 March 1943. "Kiowa (vicinity), Kansas. Train waiting for a block signal along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad." Photo by Jack Delano. |
March 19, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1906 | Louisville, KY | Big Box: 1906 Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1906. "Columbia Building, Fourth and Main." An interesting look at the gritty environment of the urban horse. And maybe a record for the number of insulators on one tree in a Shorpy photo. |
March 21, 2011 | March 21, 2011 |
| 1906 | Louisville, KY | Central Tobacco: 1906 Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1906. "A tobacco warehouse." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 4, 2010 | April 6, 2011 |
| 1906 | Louisville, KY | The Kind Father Drinks: 1906 Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1906. "Lincoln Savings Bank." An interesting sampling of signage here, including the second appearance on Shorpy in recent weeks of an advertisement for Capt. Woodward's trained seals. |
February 11, 2012 | March 13, 2012 |
| 1907 | Louisville, KY | The Seelbach: 1907 Louisville, Kentucky, circa 1907. "Seelbach Hotel." Which might have had a roof garden. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 18, 2011 | March 18, 2011 |
| 1943 | Louisville, KY | Another Passenger: 1943 September 1943. "Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals. Girl waiting for bus by road's edge." Medium format negative by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. |
March 4, 2017 | March 6, 2017 |
| 1939 | Convent, LA | Convent Postmistress: 1939 Circa 1939. "Post Office in Convent, Louisiana." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. |
December 12, 2011 | December 13, 2011 |
| 1880 | New Orleans, LA | The Old French Market: 1880s Circa 1880s-1890s. "The old French Market, New Orleans." Photo by William Henry Jackson. Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. |
August 16, 2009 | March 14, 2011 |
| 1890 | New Orleans, LA | Canal Street: 1890s New Orleans in the 1890s. "Canal Street from the Clay monument." Dry-plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Publishing Co. |
February 8, 2009 | May 22, 2011 |
| 1890 | New Orleans, LA | Horsecar Opera: 1890 New Orleans circa 1890. "The Clay Monument, Canal Street." Fascinating details abound in this scene captured by William Henry Jackson: The 1-horsepower horsecar, the ancient carbon-arc lamp suspended from a complicated-looking boom, and much signage. Personal favorites: WIG MANUFACTORY, and logo of the ETV&G (East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia) Railway. |
July 7, 2012 | September 4, 2012 |
| 1900 | New Orleans, LA | A Streetcar Named Clio: 1900 "Royal Street, New Orleans, circa 1900." The sign on the car reads CLIO ST. Who can tell us more? Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
December 30, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | New Orleans, LA | Bon Temps: 1900 Feb. 27, 1900. "Mardi Gras procession on Canal Street, New Orleans." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 12, 2013 | April 7, 2014 |
| 1900 | New Orleans, LA | Esplanade Avenue: 1900 "Esplanade Street, New Orleans, 1900." And running along the grassy median, streetcar tracks. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
September 22, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | New Orleans, LA | Mardi Gras: 1900 "Mardi Gras, New Orleans, the Red Pageant," circa 1900-1910. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative, Library of Congress. |
September 23, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | New Orleans, LA | Waiting for Rex: 1900 The Mississippi River circa 1900. "Mardi Gras, New Orleans. Awaiting Rex on the levee." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
February 28, 2017 | March 6, 2017 |
| 1903 | New Orleans, LA | Cotton on the Levee: 1903 New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1903. "Mule teams on the levee." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 16, 2011 | December 16, 2011 |
| 1903 | New Orleans, LA | Levee Work: 1903 New Orleans, Louisiana, circa 1903. "Mule teams on the levee." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 8, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | New Orleans, LA | Jackson Square: 1905 New Orleans circa 1905. "Jackson Square and St. Louis Cathedral." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 22, 2018 | February 25, 2018 |
| 1906 | New Orleans, LA | Lugger Landing: 1906 Along the Mississippi circa 1906. "Oyster luggers at New Orleans." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 24, 2011 | February 24, 2011 |
| 1906 | New Orleans, LA | Payday on the Levee: 1906 New Orleans circa 1906. "Payday on the levee." Don't spend it all in one place. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 25, 2011 | February 25, 2011 |
| 1906 | New Orleans, LA | The Old Basin: 1906 New Orleans circa 1906. "Charcoal lugger in the Old Basin." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 22, 2011 | February 24, 2011 |
| 1907 | New Orleans, LA | Mardi Gras: 1907 New Orleans circa 1907. "The Rex pageant, Mardi Gras." Laissez les bons temps rouler! Panorama of two 8x10 glass plates, Detroit Publishing. |
February 21, 2012 | March 13, 2012 |
| 1910 | New Orleans, LA | Bicycles, Cadillacs: 1910 New Orleans circa 1910. A close-up of the H.A. Testard Bicycles & Automobiles storefront. Detroit Publishing Co. |
January 11, 2011 | January 12, 2011 |
| 1910 | New Orleans, LA | Esplanade Ave.: 1910 New Orleans circa 1910. "Gayarre Place monument, Esplanade Avenue." In its current incarnation, the monument's much-abused sculpture ("Peace, the Genius of History," originally displayed at the 1884 World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition) has regained an arm but lost the cherubs. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 10, 2017 | December 12, 2017 |
| 1910 | New Orleans, LA | French Market: 1910 Circa 1910. "French Market, New Orleans." Our second look at the market at N. Peters and Decatur streets. Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. |
July 10, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | New Orleans, LA | Retail White House: 1910 New Orleans circa 1910. "Maison Blanche, Canal Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 26, 2016 | August 12, 2016 |
| 1910 | New Orleans, LA | Smart Clothes: 1910 Canal Street in New Orleans circa 1910. Large building is the Maison Blanche department store. 8x10 inch glass negative, exposed about six minutes before this image, posted here three years ago. Detroit Publishing Co |
February 6, 2014 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1923 | New Orleans, LA | Horsy Chapeau: 1923 New Orleans circa 1923. "View of a street and roofs." Also an ice wagon whose horse is wearing a hat. Bonus points if you can identify the street. Nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. |
January 22, 2014 | January 22, 2014 |
| 1937 | New Orleans, LA | Royal Furniture: 1937 New Orleans circa 1937. "842 Royal Street, Sign." Among the highlights: interesting period signage, a ghost pedestrian and an ectoplasmic dog. 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
January 9, 2011 | January 11, 2011 |
| 1938 | Pointe Coupee Parish, LA | Labatut: 1938 Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 1938. "Labatut. New Roads vicinity, built by Don Evariste de Barra, Spanish grandee, 1800. His descendants, the Labatut and Pugh families, still living here." Photo by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
August 31, 2010 | April 2, 2011 |
| 1890 | Boston, MA | Boston: 1890s 1890s. "Old State House, Boston." Detroit Publishing Co. |
October 13, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1903 | Boston, MA | Mechanics Hall: 1903 1903. "Mechanics' Hall, Boston." Last seen here. Coming in October: The 2nd Triennial Merchants & Mechanics Exposition. Plus: The Great Creatore and his Italian Band. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 7, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1906 | Boston, MA | Mechanics Hall: 1906 Boston circa 1906. "Mechanics Hall, Huntington Avenue." Demolished in 1959 to make way for Prudential Center. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
November 7, 2015 | December 31, 2015 |
| 1941 | Brockton, MA | 125 Pleasant Street: 1941 Street corner, Brockton, Massachusetts. January 1941. Two blurry figures pass by a fire hydrant in this time exposure by Jack Delano. View full size. Using the 125 above the door and the street sign as clues, we were able to find this building in Google Maps: 125 Pleasant Street at North Warren Avenue. It's the building to the right with the white roof, and seems to be more or less unchanged. Some of the apartments above the store are on the market as condos. The building the photographer used as his vantage point has disappeared, replaced by a parking lot. |
March 9, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1912 | Cambridge, MA | Harvard Underground: 1912 Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1912. "Entrance to subway, Harvard Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 21, 2011 | October 26, 2011 |
| 1916 | Fall River, MA | Pick-up' in the Park: 1916 June 1916. A Sunday afternoon "pick-up" at Sandy Beach. Girls about 15. Fall River, Massachusetts. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
July 27, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1920 | Fall River, MA | Shoe Hospital 1920 Circa 1920, another look at Main Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. Where the Shoe Hospital and Five Cents Savings Bank are mere steps apart. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 2, 2011 | January 6, 2011 |
| 1910 | Gloucester, MA | Main Street: 1910 August 1910. "Main Street, Gloucester, Massachusetts." The sidewalks and signage of a century ago. Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 6, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Holyoke, MA | High Street: 1908 Circa 1908. "High Street -- Holyoke, Massachusetts." High Street highlights include the Three Amigos as well as Guy Checking Out Car. |
April 15, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1906 | Malden, MA | Pleasant Street: 1906 Malden, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Pleasant Street from Malden Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 15, 2014 | May 17, 2014 |
| 1907 | North Adams, MA | Hoosac Tunnel: 1907 Circa 1907. "West portal, Hoosac Tunnel, North Adams, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 11, 2013 | August 12, 2013 |
| 1907 | North Adams, MA | Main Street: 1907 Circa 1907. North Adams, Massachusetts. "Main Street, looking west." Last seen here, looking the other way. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
July 12, 2016 | August 12, 2016 |
| 1908 | North Adams, MA | North Adams: 1908 Circa 1908. North Adams, Massachusetts. "Main Street, looking east." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 16, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1908 | North Adams, MA | The Wilson: 1908 Circa 1908. "North Adams, Massachusetts -- Wilson Hotel." With "first-class moving pictures" at the Empire Theatre. 8x10 glass negative. |
April 22, 2013 | April 22, 2013 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Colonial House Cafe: 1906 Continuing our tour of Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Colonial House." Next door to a nickelodeon advertising "moving pictures and illustrated songs." 6˝ x 8˝ inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 18, 2011 | February 21, 2011 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Free to Visitors: 1906 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "John Ward house, Prison Lane." Later moved to its current location on Essex Street. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
March 24, 2015 | March 25, 2015 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Frisbee Moxie Witch House: 1906 Salem, Mass., circa 1906. "The Old Witch House." Spells, signs and portents, with an emphasis on signs. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
February 27, 2011 | February 27, 2011 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Grimshawe House: 1906 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "The Grimshawe House." A pleasant street where the neighbors are quiet and have deep roots in the community. 6˝ x 8˝ inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 8, 2011 | April 10, 2011 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Locomotive Breath: 1906 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Boston and Maine Railroad depot, Riley Plaza." 6˝ x 8˝ inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
February 18, 2011 | February 18, 2011 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Salem Witch House: 1906 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "The Old Witch House." In the best Early American tradition, a blending of history and retailing: The Witch House Parlors (enter through the antique store) and Witch House Trial Room (right this way through the pharmacy). 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing. |
October 28, 2011 | October 28, 2011 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Scarlet Letter Written Here: 1906 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Nathaniel Hawthorne house." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 1, 2011 | November 1, 2011 |
| 1906 | Salem, MA | Well Connected: 1906 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Essex Street, looking north from town square." Our third look at this cable-ready mini-metropolis. 6˝ x 8˝ inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 19, 2011 | March 29, 2011 |
| 1910 | Salem, MA | Look Out for the Engine: 1910 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Boston and Maine Railroad depot, Riley Plaza." Our second look at this castle-depot and its steam-snorting iron horse. 6˝ x 8˝ inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 20, 2011 | February 21, 2011 |
| 1910 | Salem, MA | Multi-Story Dwelling: 1910 Salem, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "Nathaniel Hawthorne house." Abode of the author of 19th-century blockbusters The Scarlet Letter and House of the Seven Gables, last seen here. Note the glass insulators in the tree being used as a utility pole. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 4, 2013 | October 15, 2013 |
| 1908 | South Hadley, MA | Lyon Hall: 1908 Circa 1908. "Mary Lyon Hall, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass." One of the half-dozen or so campus buildings at American colleges that are named after the 19th-century educator. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
April 14, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1906 | Worcester, MA | Main Street: 1906 Circa 1906. "Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts." Bonbons and dance lessons are among the goods and services on offer in this bustling burg. |
January 30, 2012 | January 30, 2012 |
| 1906 | Worcester, MA | Sandwich Depot: 1906 1906. "Post Office, Worcester, Massachusetts." The highlight here (for Shorpy, at least) is the Sandwich Depot next door, and its sign beckoning the passing ghost pedestrians. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 29, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1905 | Annapolis, MD | The Old Harwood Place: 1905 Annapolis, Maryland, circa 1905. "Old Harwood mansion (Hammond-Harwood House)." Street-furniture nerds will appreciate the carbon arc lamp with the yardarm-style boom, and the odd-looking hydrant. |
April 15, 2011 | April 15, 2011 |
| 1903 | Baltimore, MD | Lexington Market: 1903 Circa 1903. "Lexington Market, Baltimore, Maryland." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 6, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1920 | Baltimore, MD | Dead Man's Curve: 1920 1920. "Dead Man's Curve. Baltimore tour." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. Note the tiny DANGER sign in the middle. |
May 4, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1929 | Baltimore, MD | Patriotic Pole Sitter: 1929 There's no label on this Harris & Ewing plate from the summer of 1929, but it might match up with this news item about the Jazz Age fad of pole-sitting: "August 10, 1929. Twelve-year-old Jimmy Jones descended from his pole this evening and ascended the throne as king of Baltimore's juvenile pole sitters. He had been up since 10 a.m. July 31." Note the light bulb rigged to the seat. |
April 16, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1937 | Hagerstown, MD | Making the Rounds: 1937 October 1937. "Houses near the railroad tracks. Hagerstown, Maryland." With a return appearance by the boys last seen here. 4x5 inch acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration |
November 2, 2017 | November 12, 2017 |
| 1921 | Hyattsville, MD | Chez Balberg: 1921 Prince George's County, Maryland, circa 1921. "Balberg house, Hyattsville." The address looks to be 137. Bonus points if you can find the street. |
July 19, 2012 | September 4, 2012 |
| 1922 | Laurel, MD | Off the Rails: 1922 July 31, 1922. Laurel, Maryland. "Two B&O freights wrecked in head-on crash at Laurel switch." Details here. National Photo glass negative. |
February 5, 2014 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1922 | Laurel, MD | Train Wreck: 1922 Laurel, Maryland. July 31, 1922. "Two B&O freights wrecked in head-on crash at Laurel switch." National Photo Company glass negative. |
April 5, 2012 | May 2, 2012 |
| 1926 | Silver Spring, MD | Mass Transit: 1926 Silver Spring, Maryland, circa 1926. "North Washington Realty Company." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
December 5, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1927 | Silver Spring, MD | Chicken Dinner Here: 1927 Silver Spring, Maryland, circa 1927. One of three National Photo glass negatives with the caption "Jordan & Co." National Photo Company. |
December 4, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Washington County, MD | Mountain Retreat: 1905 Washington County, Maryland, circa 1905. "Buena Vista Springs station at Pen-Mar." A Blue Ridge mountain resort, developed by the Western Maryland Railway, that took its name from the two neighboring states. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 12, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1904 | Old Orchard, ME | Gingerbread Hotel: 1904 Old Orchard, Maine, circa 1904. "Alberta and Velvet hotels." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 2, 2015 | December 31, 2015 |
| 1904 | Old Orchard, ME | Hotel Velvet: 1904 Old Orchard, Maine, circa 1904. "Alberta and Velvet hotels." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 16, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | Portland, ME | Listen My Children: 1900 Portland, Maine, circa 1900. "Longfellow's birthplace." The home where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807, when Portland was part of Massachusetts. Off to the right, in front of the Block Shop: Two Shortfellows. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 3, 2011 | August 3, 2011 |
| 1904 | Portland, ME | Middle Street: 1904 Portland, Maine, circa 1904. "Middle Street." Much signage for various goods and services including Taxidermy, Trunks & Bags and "The Ezy Blind Worker." Something to do with window shades, maybe, or a kind of libertine Helen Keller. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 2, 2012 | May 2, 2012 |
| 1904 | Portland, ME | Portland, Maine: 1904 Portland, Maine, circa 1904. "Congress Square." 8x10 inch glass transparency (something of a novelty for this collection), Detroit Publishing Co. |
May 6, 2011 | May 10, 2011 |
| 1909 | Portland, ME | Congress Street: 1909 Portland, Maine, circa 1909. "Congress Street south from Market." At right, City Hall in the final stages of construction. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
August 26, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1908 | York, ME | York Village: 1908 Circa 1908. "Street in York Village, York, Maine." Where perambulating is encouraged and moseying is mandatory. 8x10 glass negative. |
November 28, 2013 | December 2, 2013 |
| 1901 | Chelsea, MI | Factoryville: 1901 Chelsea, Michigan, circa 1901. "Glazier Stove Company, general view." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 21, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1901 | Chelsea, MI | Stove-Cam: 1901 Chelsea, Michigan, circa 1901. "Glazier Stove Company, general view." In the four years since our last visit from this perspective, one of the fence-leaners has made his way across the tracks. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
April 28, 2014 | April 28, 2014 |
| 1901 | Chelsea, MI | The Stovemakers: 1901 Chelsea, Michigan, circa 1901. "Glazier Stove Company -- lamp stove department." Our second glimpse today into the Dickensian workings of Glazier Stove. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
October 28, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1901 | Detroit, MI | Traffic Ahead: 1901 Detroit circa 1901. "Woodward and Farnsworth Avenues." The future Motor City on the cusp of the Motor Century. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
July 15, 2013 | August 12, 2013 |
| 1904 | Detroit, MI | Campbell's Empire: 1904 Circa 1904. "Empire Theater, Detroit." Valet parking for bicycle patrons! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 22, 2011 | July 24, 2011 |
| 1905 | Detroit, MI | Brew House: 1905 Detroit circa 1905. "Goebel Brewing Co. brew house." Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
October 20, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Detroit, MI | City Gas: 1905 Circa 1905. "Gas holder, Detroit City Gas Company." A familiar sight from the era of "city gas," when municipalities had their own gas plants in the days before long-distance transmission of natural gas. The telescoping sections rose or fell as "illuminating gas," which was made by heating coal, was put into or removed from the holder. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
July 2, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Detroit, MI | Tubular Lanterns: 1905 Detroit circa 1905. "Buhl Stamping Co., 3rd Ave. and Larned." Note the "Cheese Factory" milk cans illustrated between the windows, and the arc-lamp "moonlight tower" to the right. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
August 8, 2011 | August 14, 2011 |
| 1908 | Detroit, MI | Cadillac: 1908 Detroit circa 1908. "Cadillac Motor Car Company." Cradle of the tailfin. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 16, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Detroit, MI | Rainy Day People: 1908 Detroit circa 1908. "Walker Block, Griswold and Fort Sts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company |
February 21, 2017 | February 27, 2017 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | 33 Center Street: 1910 Detroit, Michigan, circa 1910. "No. 33 Center Street." Why this little house is in the Detroit Publishing archive is a mystery to me. Note yet another of those maypole-style telephone line drops. 8x10 glass negative. |
December 7, 2010 | December 9, 2010 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | Detroit Edison: 1910 Circa 1910. "Edison Electric plant (Detroit Edison Company), Detroit, Michigan." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 4, 2014 | November 8, 2014 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | Down to the River: 1910 Detroit, Michigan, circa 1910. "Approach to the Detroit River tunnel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 9, 2011 | August 14, 2011 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | Electro-Motive: 1910 Circa 1910. "Electric engine, Detroit River tunnel." With a plug for Royal Salad Dressing. Dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 2, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | Ford Motor Company: 1910 Circa 1910. "Ford Motor Co., Detroit, Michigan. Highland Park plant." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 23, 2012 | March 13, 2012 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | German American Bank: 1910 Circa 1910. "Postal Telegraph Cable office below German American Bank. Possibly Detroit, Michigan." Downstairs: Lafayette Barber, offering Shower and Needle Baths, and something to do with electric vibrators. |
March 30, 2011 | March 30, 2011 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | Sinking the Tunnel: 1910 The Detroit River circa 1910. "Sinking cast section of Michigan Central Railroad Company tunnel." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
August 4, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | The Lookout: 1910 Detroit circa 1910. "House of Correction." With everyone in place for the big jailbreak. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 3, 2014 | June 7, 2014 |
| 1910 | Detroit, MI | Victorian Vines: 1910 Detroit circa 1910. "Bagley Homestead -- Michigan Conservatory of Music." Former abode of Michigan Governor John Judson Bagley (1832-1881). 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 25, 2014 | March 25, 2014 |
| 1912 | Detroit, MI | Between the Grands: 1912 Detroit circa 1912. "Pringle Furniture Co., Gratiot Avenue." Establishing shot of the home-furnishings crypt seen here. 8x10 glass negative. |
July 15, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1912 | Detroit, MI | Coal Weather: 1912 Circa 1912. "Coke delivery wagon and workers, Detroit City Gas Company." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 1, 2010 | December 3, 2010 |
| 1912 | Detroit, MI | Small Steaks: 1912 Detroit circa 1912. "Dime Savings Bank, Woodward & Willis branch." As is often the case with these glass plates, a supporting player steals the scene: Jordan's Cafeteria, where the Small Steak is 20 cents. The friendly loan officers next door can help with that. Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 15, 2012 | September 4, 2012 |
| 1912 | Detroit, MI | What Goes Around: 1912 The year is 1912 and the place is Detroit. This as the beginnings of a gas holder, or gasometer -- a storage reservoir for what used to be called "city gas," or coal gas (as opposed to the natural and LP gas that we use now). The original caption: "April 4, 1912. Foundation for gas holder, Detroit City Gas Company." |
November 24, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1916 | Detroit, MI | Ten Cents a Branch: 1916 Detroit circa 1916. "Dime Bank branch, Broadway & Grand Circus Park." Co-starring the Crescent Music Co. and a fine-looking carbon-arc streetlight. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 30, 2016 | January 7, 2017 |
| 1917 | Detroit, MI | Cityscape: 1917 Detroit circa 1917. "Looking northwest from roof of interurban station." Landmarks here include the Hotel Pontchartrain, Ford Building and Dime Savings Bank. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
August 13, 2011 | August 14, 2011 |
| 1908 | Grand Rapids, MI | Candy Kitchen: 1908 Grand Rapids, Michigan, circa 1908. "View of Monroe Street showing Hotel Pantlind." Not to mention the Candy Kitchen and Ice Cream Parlor. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 26, 2011 | September 27, 2011 |
| 1908 | Grand Rapids, MI | The Hat That Talks: 1908 Grand Rapids, Michigan, circa 1908. "Monroe Street." Your headquarters for chatty chapeaux. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
September 26, 2011 | September 27, 2011 |
| 1906 | Hancock, MI | Quincy Copper: 1906 1906. "Shaft No. 2, Quincy copper mine, Hancock, Michigan." Whatever is going on in there, we're glad we don't have to wash the windows. |
October 9, 2014 | November 8, 2014 |
| 1905 | Houghton, MI | King Copper: 1905 Houghton, Michigan, circa 1905. "Loading copper on steamer Juniata." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 13, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Houghton, MI | Electri City 1906 Houghton, Michigan, circa 1906. "Shelden Street." Houghton was nothing if not well wired. 8x10 dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
March 17, 2010 | May 22, 2011 |
| 1905 | Lake Linden, MI | Calumet and Hecla: 1905 Circa 1905. "Calumet and Hecla smelters, Lake Linden, Michigan." Starting point for the web of copper telephone and streetcar wires seen in so many of the other Detroit Publishing images. Panorama of two 8x10 glass plates. |
June 17, 2013 | August 12, 2013 |
| 1908 | Lansing, MI | Olds Motor Works: 1908 Lansing, Michigan, circa 1908. "Olds Motor Works." Home of your great-grandfather's Oldsmobile. Note the OLD MOTOR sign, missing its S. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
July 13, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Mackinac Island, MI | Rugs & Bric-a-Brac: 1905 Circa 1905. "Main Street -- Mackinac Island." Where pedestrians may avail themselves of Bailey's, a Buffet, Bazaar and Bric-a-Brac. |
April 7, 2014 | April 7, 2014 |
| 1908 | Mackinac Island, MI | Surrey With the Fringe on Top: 1908 Mackinac Island, Michigan, circa 1908. "New Mackinac and New Murray Hotels." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 2, 2012 | March 13, 2012 |
| 1905 | Marquette, MI | Front Street: 1905 Marquette, Michigan, circa 1905. "Front Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 7, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Marquette, MI | More Marquette: 1908 Resuming our visit to the Great Lakes port of Marquette, Michigan, circa 1908 in a view joining two 8x10 glass negatives. At right is another glimpse of Front Street, showing many of the same buildings seen here yesterday. Moving out of the frame, we continue into the panorama that was the subject of the previous post. Points of interest here include various signs, a baby and a cat. |
March 1, 2012 | October 28, 2013 |
| 1909 | Marquette, MI | High Noon: 1909 Circa 1909. "Marquette, Michigan. Front Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 29, 2012 | October 28, 2013 |
| 1900 | Petoskey, MI | Meanwhile, Back in Petoskey: 1900 Petoskey, Michigan, circa 1901. "Grand Rapids & Indiana R.R. station." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 11, 2011 | October 26, 2011 |
| 1905 | Petoskey, MI | WELCOME: 1905 Circa 1905. "Petoskey, Michigan -- Lake Street." Rolling out the Welcome Arch. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 20, 2015 | February 28, 2015 |
| 1906 | Petoskey, MI | Day Trippers: 1906 Circa 1906. "Suburban station at Petoskey, Michigan." A locomotive of the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad, with a car bearing the names of Little Traverse Bay and Crooked and Walloon Lakes. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
April 20, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1908 | Petoskey, MI | Welcome to Petoskey: 1908 Circa 1908. "Lake Street, Petoskey, Michigan." A bustling hub of commerce offering silk shawls, "kimonas" and "the place U-R looking for." As well as a nice arch. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 15, 2012 | March 16, 2012 |
| 1900 | Port Huron, MI | Port Huron: 1900 Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1900. "General view east from Post Office." The signs are everywhere in this bird's eye view of the business district. |
January 7, 2014 | January 22, 2014 |
| 1905 | Port Huron, MI | Howard Furniture: 1905 Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1905. "Armory (Charles Baer Bldg.) and Maccabees Temple." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
November 6, 2017 | November 12, 2017 |
| 1905 | Port Huron, MI | St. Clair Tunnel: 1905 Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1905. "St. Clair Tunnel." Oh, and please note: "No Admittance." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 22, 2011 | April 23, 2011 |
| 1908 | Port Huron, MI | Military Street: 1908 Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1908. "Military Street." Breathe deep its heady mix of cigar smoke, coal soot, gasoline fumes and fresh manure! |
April 11, 2011 | April 11, 2011 |
| 1910 | Port Huron, MI | Huron Street: 1910 Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1910. "Huron Street and ferry landing." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 7, 2011 | April 10, 2011 |
| 1905 | Sault Sainte Marie, MI | Canal Parade: 1905 Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, circa 1905. "St. Mary's Canal celebration, parade on Ashmun Street." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 5, 2011 | April 6, 2011 |
| 1905 | Sault Sainte Marie, MI | Park Hotel: 1905 Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, circa 1905. "Park Hotel." An interesting cast of characters in less than parklike surroundings. Detroit Publishing. |
February 14, 2011 | February 14, 2011 |
| 1908 | Sault Sainte Marie, MI | Served by the Soo: 1908 Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, circa 1908. "Algonquin Tannery." Served by the Soo Line, as well as the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. |
May 3, 2012 | May 21, 2012 |
| 1912 | Wyandotte, MI | Dept. of Life Rafts: 1912 July 10, 1912. Wyandotte, Michigan. "Detroit Ship Building Co., life rafts dept." Our second peek behind the scenes. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
July 11, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1900 | Ypsilanti, MI | Dept. of Public Works: 1900 Ypsilanti, Michigan, circa 1900. "Water tower." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 21, 2010 | April 6, 2011 |
| 1899 | MN | All a Board: 1899 Minnesota circa 1899. "Winona, a sawmill plant." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company |
May 9, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1904 | Duluth, MN | Crown Restaurant: 1904 Superior Street, Duluth, 1904." Last glimpsed here, five years in the future. The latest installment of Minnesota Monochromes. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 22, 2014 | December 27, 2014 |
| 1905 | Duluth, MN | Devine's Place: 1905 Circa 1905. Our latest installment from the Duluth, Minnesota, panoramic series. Anyone for a round of Blatz? Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
October 5, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Duluth, MN | Zenith City: 1905 Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1905. "Elevators and harbor," along with a view of the Incline Railway and many other points of interest, make up our daily dose of Duluth. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
October 7, 2009 | May 23, 2011 |
| 1907 | Duluth, MN | Incline Saloon: 1907 Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1907. "Up the incline railway from Superior Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 2, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Duluth, MN | The Spalding: 1908 1908. "Spalding Hotel, Duluth Minnesota." Next door to the more intimate Hotel Windsor. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
August 6, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1910 | Duluth, MN | Smoke on the Water: 1910 Duluth, Minnesota, circa 1905-1910. "Duluth from the Incline Railway." Another of the eerily depopulated hive-of-industry scenes that seemed to be a specialty of Detroit the Publishing Co. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
October 15, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1899 | Lewiston, MN | The Pulpit: 1899 Circa 1899. "Near Lewiston, Minnesota -- The Pulpit." Yet another rock formation with a fanciful name. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
July 13, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1899 | New Ulm, MN | Old New Ulm: 1899 New Ulm, Minnesota, circa 1899. "Main Street." Showcasing the latest in electric illumination. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Co. |
March 30, 2018 | April 23, 2018 |
| 1902 | St. Paul, MN | St. Paul P.O.: 1902 Circa 1902. "Post office at St. Paul, Minnesota." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 21, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1899 | Winona, MN | The Winona: 1899 Winona, Minnesota, circa 1899. "Winona Hotel." Spelled out in Edison bulbs. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 6, 2017 | November 12, 2017 |
| 1937 | Winton, MN | Last Call: 1937 August 1937. "Abandoned saloon. Winton, Minnesota." Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Resettlement Administration. |
February 28, 2016 | March 17, 2016 |
| 1943 | Henrietta, MO | Henrietta: 1943 March 1943. "Henrietta, Missouri. Going through the town on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad between Marceline, Missouri, and Argentine, Kansas. The operator has just handed up a message." Medium-format nitrate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. |
June 4, 2009 | March 23, 2011 |
| 1906 | Kansas City, MO | BOT: 1906 Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906. "Board of Trade Building." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 25, 2011 | October 26, 2011 |
| 1906 | Kansas City, MO | Elks Lodge: 1906 Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906. "Elks Club." Welcome to B.P.O.E. 26. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
May 23, 2011 | May 23, 2011 |
| 1906 | Kansas City, MO | No Loafing: 1906 Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906. "Jackson County Court House." Please mind the signs. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 23, 2011 | July 25, 2011 |
| 1906 | Kansas City, MO | Skating Masquerade: 1906 Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906. "Convention Hall." For four days only, a "Grand Skating Masquerade." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
July 23, 2011 | July 25, 2011 |
| 1906 | Kansas City, MO | Walnut Street: 1906 Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906. "Walnut Street." Home of the $2 hat. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 8, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Kansas City, MO | What This Country Needs: 1906 Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1906. "Junction of Main and Delaware Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 2, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Kansas City, MO | Grand Avenue: 1908 Kansas City, Missouri, circa 1908. "Grand Avenue north from Twelfth." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 8, 2017 | February 9, 2017 |
| 1900 | St. Louis, MO | St. Louis: 1900 St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1900. "Olive Street west from Sixth." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 13, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1901 | St. Louis, MO | Planters House: 1901 St. Louis circa 1901. "Planters Hotel, Fourth and Chestnut." Completed 1893; demolished 1976. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
February 15, 2016 | March 17, 2016 |
| 1910 | St. Louis, MO | Johnston's Branch Newsies: 1910 St. Louis, Missouri. May 1910. "Newsies. Johnston's Branch adjoining Saloon at 10th & Cass Street." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
October 10, 2008 | March 19, 2011 |
| 1936 | Vicksburg, MS | New Deal: 1936 March 1936. Vicksburg, Mississippi. "Vicksburg Negroes and shop front." A close-up of the New Deal barbershop seen in the previous post. Nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration. |
March 23, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1942 | Wisdom, MT | Wisdom, Montana: 1942 April 1942. Baker's Garage in Wisdom, Montana. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. |
January 5, 2008 | April 2, 2011 |
| 1939 | Gordonton, NC | Pop Kola: 1939 July 1939. Gordonton, North Carolina. "Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. |
September 30, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1939 | Gordonton, NC | Set a Spell: 1939 July 1939. Gordonton, N.C. "Country store on dirt road. Sunday afternoon. Note kerosene pump on the right and the gasoline pump on the left. Rough, unfinished timber posts have been used as supports for porch roof. Negro men sitting on the porch. Brother of store owner stands in doorway." 4x5 nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 17, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1939 | Halifax County, NC | Old House: 1939 1939. Halifax County, N.C. "Old house, Dr. Gideon Hunt Macon (Williams-Reid- Macon House near Airlie)." Frances Benjamin Johnston photo. |
June 23, 2010 | April 13, 2011 |
| 1939 | Pittsboro, NC | Electric Shoe Shop: 1939 July 1939. "Street encounter on a Saturday afternoon. Pittsboro, North Carolina." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange. |
November 14, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| 1937 | ND | Last Chance Texaco: 1937 October 1937. "Abandoned garage on Highway No. 2. Western North Dakota." Medium format safety negative by Russell Lee for the FSA. |
March 1, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1937 | Williams County, ND | The Old Bus: 1937 October 1937. "Old school bus. Williams County, North Dakota." Medium-format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 31, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1934 | Lincoln, NE | High Voltage: 1934 June 1934. "Nebraska State Capitol at Lincoln. Transformers." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. |
February 21, 2014 | March 7, 2014 |
| 1938 | Omaha, NE | Buyer Get Busy: 1938 "Alex's Bargain Center, South Omaha's Largest Selection of Work and Dress Clothing." Store in Omaha, Nebraska catering to farmers. November, 1938. |
August 8, 2011 | August 14, 2011 |
| 1909 | Auckland, New Zealand | Rotorua Express: 1909 New Zealand in 1909. "The Rotorua Express leaving Auckland, alongside Customs Street East." Glass negative by A.P. Godber. |
June 20, 2014 | July 6, 2014 |
| 1896 | Wellington, New Zealand | Toys & Fancy Goods: 1896 "Elson chemist and Dutton bookshop on Courtenay Place, Wellington, between 1896 and 1897." Glass negative by Frederick James Halse. |
November 8, 2013 | November 8, 2013 |
| 1910 | Wellington, New Zealand | Family Butcher: 1910 1910. Wellington, New Zealand. "David Taylor's butcher shop, Wadestown, showing decorated carcasses and horse-drawn delivery cart. David Taylor in doorway." Glass plate negative by Frederick James Halse. |
October 2, 2013 | October 15, 2013 |
| 1907 | Bethlehem, NH | O Little Town: 1907 Circa 1907. "Bethlehem Street looking east. Bethlehem, White Mountains, New Hampshire." Continuing our visit to the Granite State we pause at Merrow's Souvenir Store and photography studio, dealer in Views, Novelties and "Bric-Brac." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
February 24, 2016 | March 17, 2016 |
| 1908 | Bethlehem, NH | Maplewood House: 1908 New Hampshire circa 1908. "Maplewood House, Bethlehem, White Mountains." Completed in 1876, this first-class New England resort burned to the ground in 1963. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
February 25, 2016 | March 17, 2016 |
| 1905 | Keene, NH | Leafy Keene: 1905 Keene, New Hampshire, circa 1905. "West Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 14, 2017 | October 23, 2017 |
| 1908 | Keene, NH | Old New Hampshire: 1908 Circa 1908. "Main Street in Keene, New Hampshire." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 7, 2016 | February 15, 2016 |
| 1908 | Littleton, NH | Littleton Fruit: 1908 Circa 1908. "Main Street -- Littleton, New Hampshire." Yes, they have bananas, and Moxie, too. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
May 13, 2013 | May 20, 2013 |
| 1910 | Manchester, NH | Beech Street: 1910 Circa 1910. "Beech Street -- Manchester, New Hampshire." Note the carbon arc lamp and its elaborate rigging. 8x10 glass negative. |
February 5, 2014 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1909 | Portsmouth, NH | Pleasantville: 1909 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, circa 1909. "Congress Street near Market Square." With at least two painless dentists, an optician, hatter and oyster house among the merchants vying for your trade. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
February 22, 2015 | February 28, 2015 |
| 1910 | Portsmouth, NH | Congress Street: 1910 Portsmouth, New Hampshire, circa 1910. "Congress Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 21, 2010 | December 23, 2010 |
| 1900 | Arlington, NJ | Over and Under: 1900 Circa 1900. "Grade separation near Arlington, New Jersey." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 2, 2011 | March 2, 2011 |
| 1900 | Atlantic City, NJ | Atlantic City: 1900 Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1900. "Boardwalk, Easter morning." 8x10 dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 11, 2009 | April 23, 2011 |
| 1904 | Atlantic City, NJ | Virginia Avenue: 1904 Circa 1904. "Virginia Avenue -- Atlantic City, New Jersey." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 4, 2013 | December 4, 2013 |
| 1905 | Atlantic City, NJ | Atlantic Avenue: 1905 Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. "Atlantic Avenue." Meet you in front of Two Stumps in an hour. Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. |
May 6, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Atlantic City, NJ | Atlantis: 1905 Glimpses of a lost world circa 1905. "Young's Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 24, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Atlantic City, NJ | Carnival of Fire: 1905 Atlantic City circa 1905. "Hotel Chalfonte and Boardwalk." Where the diversions include shooting flames, rolling chairs and "social drama." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 6, 2014 | March 7, 2014 |
| 1905 | Atlantic City, NJ | Meats and Groceries: 1905 Continuing our visit to Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. "Atlantic Avenue West." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 24, 2010 | March 15, 2011 |
| 1905 | Atlantic City, NJ | Seawater Baths: 1905 Circa 1905. "Boardwalk, Atlantic City." Strollers on parade, at least one beach baby, and a number of ponies. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
December 29, 2011 | December 29, 2011 |
| 1905 | Atlantic City, NJ | The Boardwalk: 1905 New Jersey, April 1905. "The Boardwalk parade, Atlantic City." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 7, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Atlantic City, NJ | Windsor Castle: 1906 Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1906. "Hotel Windsor and Boardwalk." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 16, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1908 | Atlantic City, NJ | Guarantee Trust: 1908 Circa 1908. "Atlantic Avenue -- Atlantic City, N.J." The business end of A.C. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company |
March 7, 2014 | March 14, 2014 |
| 1910 | Atlantic City, NJ | Shave Yourself: 1910 Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1910. "The Boardwalk at night." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 24, 2011 | March 16, 2011 |
| 1911 | Atlantic City, NJ | The Wild, Wild East: 1911 Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1911. "Savoy Theatre, Schlitz & Young's hotels." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 4, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1909 | Bridgeton, NJ | Cumberland Glass Works: 1909 November 1909. Blowing bottles. Night shift at the Cumberland Glass Works in Bridgeton, New Jersey. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
October 19, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1907 | Cape May, NJ | Hotel Shoreham: 1907 Circa 1907. "The Shoreham, Cape May, New Jersey." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 21, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1905 | Hoboken, NJ | Mysterious Missive: 1905 Hoboken, New Jersey. "Holland America Line piers." This two-plate composite showing the S.S. Potsdam at anchor could be looked at as a letter to the future -- five years into the future, if we compare it to the other Hoboken panoramas posted this weekend. Who can decipher the riddle? |
March 13, 2011 | March 13, 2011 |
| 1905 | Hoboken, NJ | Over the River: 1905 Hoboken, New Jersey, circa 1905. "Holland America Piers with view of Manhattan across Hudson River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
February 23, 2017 | February 27, 2017 |
| 1910 | Hoboken, NJ | Holland America: 1910 Hoboken, New Jersey, circa 1910. "Holland America docks and Manhattan skyline." Another three-plate panorama showing the S.S. Rotterdam, and a different perspective on the Curious Tipsy Shed. |
March 13, 2011 | March 13, 2011 |
| 1909 | Jersey City, NJ | Train Wreck: 1909 Wrecked Pennsylvania R.R. car on tracks south of Brunswick Street. Jersey City, N.J. November 6, 1909. George Grantham Bain Collection. |
April 17, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | Manunka Chunk, NJ | West Chunk: 1900 New Jersey circa 1900. "West end of tunnel, Manunka Chunk." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 10, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1909 | Millville, NJ | Bottle Boy: 1909 November 1909. Wheaton Glass Works, Millville, N.J. "Day scene in New Jersey Glass House. Boy is Howard ____, 15 years old but has been in the glass works for two years, and has worked some at night." Photo and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. |
April 22, 2012 | May 2, 2012 |
| 1954 | Newark, NJ | General Hospital: 1954 December 17, 1954. "Martland General Hospital, Newark, New Jersey. View II. Benson & Mantella, client." Photo by Samuel H. Gottscho. |
April 15, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1907 | Wildwood, NJ | The Sheldon: 1907 Circa 1907. "Hotel Sheldon, Wildwood, New Jersey." Streetlight photobomb. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 3, 2016 | August 12, 2016 |
| 1910 | Wildwood, NJ | Wildwood Casino: 1910 The Jersey Shore circa 1910. "Casino and pier, Wildwood." A popular amenity: "Bathing robes to hire." Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
August 23, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1943 | Isleta, NM | Unread Messages: 1943 March 1943. "Isleta, New Mexico. The Santa Fe depot. Horizontal arms on pole indicate a 'red beard,' that is a message is to be picked up by the train crew." Photo by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. |
August 7, 2016 | August 12, 2016 |
| 1940 | Wells, NV | Elko County: 1940 March 1940. "Southern Pacific track approaching Wells, Elko County, Nevada." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 30, 2018 | February 1, 2018 |
| 1940 | Wells, NV | Elko Depot: 1940 March 1940. "Railroad station. Elko, Nevada." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. |
February 20, 2018 | February 25, 2018 |
| 1900 | Albany, NY | State Capitol: 1900 Circa 1900. "State Street & Capitol -- Albany, New York." 6˝x8˝ inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 26, 2014 | September 30, 2014 |
| 1906 | Albany, NY | New Kenmore: 1906 Albany, New York, circa 1906. "New Kenmore Hotel." Familiar street fixtures of the era include the carbon arc lamp, telephone distribution ring and streetcar pylons. Not to mention hostelry with complicated masonry facade. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 14, 2011 | June 16, 2011 |
| 1906 | Albany, NY | Wired: 1906 Circa 1906. "Post Office, Albany, New York," amid the usual cat's cradle of streetcar, telephone and telegraph wires. If the byword of 1960s America was "plastics," half a century earlier it was "copper." |
January 13, 2012 | January 30, 2012 |
| 1908 | Albany, NY | Keeler's: 1908 Albany, New York, circa 1908. "Keeler's Hotel." Next door, one category of retailing that's taken a hit over the years: "Carriage & Sleigh Robes." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 3, 2011 | August 3, 2011 |
| 1905 | Binghamton, NY | Security Mutual Life: 1905 Binghamton, New York, circa 1905. "Security Mutual Life Insurance building." Rising amid a web of wires. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
December 30, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Binghamton, NY | Tower of the Press: 1905 Binghamton, New York, circa 1905. "Kilmer Building, Chenango Street." Also known as the Press Building, this was headquarters of patent-medicine magnate Willis Kilmer's newspaper. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
May 24, 2016 | June 18, 2016 |
| 1901 | Brooklyn, NY | Brighton Beach: 1901 Brooklyn, New York, circa 1901. "Brighton Beach." Where, as noted on the sign, "Neither indecent bathing suits nor immodest deportment will be tolerated." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 2, 2011 | March 2, 2011 |
| 1901 | Buffalo, NY | Hydra: 1901 Buffalo, New York, circa 1901. "Unloading ore from whaleback carrier." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 6, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1904 | Buffalo, NY | Buffalo Rising: 1904 Buffalo, New York, circa 1904. "St. Paul's Cathedral, Episcopal." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 24, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1901 | Coney Island, NY | The Great Coal Mine: 1901 New York circa 1901. "The Great Coal Mine, Coney Island." From the book Coney Island and Astroland: "The Great Coal Mine was a 1,500-foot-long dark ride that enabled visitors to travel on coal cars through several levels of a dimly lit simulated mine. It opened in 1901 on the north side of Surf Avenue at West Tenth Street, was not very popular, and was soon replaced by L.A. Thompson's Oriental Scenic Railway." 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co.glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
March 22, 2012 | March 25, 2012 |
| 1903 | Coney Island, NY | Surf Avenue: 1903 New York circa 1903. "Surf Avenue, Coney Island." Plus: Delicious Ice Cream and Pop Corn. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 16, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Coney Island, NY | Johnstown Flood: 1905 New York circa 1905. "Johnstown Flood, Coney Island." An attraction commemorating (and profiting from) the deadly Pennsylvania disaster of 1889. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 29, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| 1904 | Despatch, NY | Merchants Despatch: 1904 Despatch, New York, circa 1904. "New cars, Merchants Despatch Transportation Co." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
May 30, 2010 | April 2, 2011 |
| 1905 | Fishkill-on-the-hudson, NY | Looking Down: 1905 Dutchess County, New York, circa 1905. "Mount Beacon Incline Railway, looking down, Fishkill-on-the-Hudson." 8x10 inch glass negative. |
May 3, 2011 | May 10, 2011 |
| 1941 | Fort Hunter, NY | A Foggy Day: 1941 October 1941. "Freight and passenger station. Fort Hunter, New York." Continuing our jaunt Upstate, courtesy of John Collier. |
November 6, 2013 | November 6, 2013 |
| 1899 | Garrison, NY | Fellow Travelers: 1899 Circa 1899. "R.R. depot at Garrison, New York." En route to their final destination. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. |
May 18, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1902 | Greene County, NY | Palenville Hotel: 1902 Greene County, N.Y., circa 1902. "Palenville Hotel, Catskill Mountains." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 14, 2016 | August 12, 2016 |
| 1900 | Ithaca, NY | Green Street: 1900 Ithaca, New York, circa 1900. "Greene Street." Hey, mister -- you missed a spot. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 21, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1941 | Little Falls, NY | Little Falls: 1941 October 1941. "Looking toward the river. Little Falls, New York." Which is at least a two-stoplight town. Medium format negative by John Collier. |
November 11, 2017 | November 12, 2017 |
| 1959 | Long Island, NY | A Diamond for Lil: 1959 March 3, 1959. "Long Island Lighting Co. trucks and men." A Diamond T truck bearing the likeness of Lilco's "Lil." Photo by Gottscho-Schleisner. |
March 10, 2014 | March 14, 2014 |
| 1941 | New Baltimore On The Hudson, NY | The Pop Shop: 1941 October 1941. New Baltimore on the Hudson, New York. "Store on the Hudson." Held together by pop signs. My favorite is the one for Nehi -- nothing goes with grape soda like a sexy pair of gams! Photo by John Collier. |
October 28, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| 1895 | New York, NY | Fresh-Cut Firs: 1895 New York circa 1895. "Cut Christmas trees at market in front of Barclay Street Station." May all your Christmases be bright and all your ceilings be tall. 6˝ x 8˝ inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 17, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1897 | New York, NY | Columbia U: 1897 "Columbia College, New York." The Low Memorial Library in a circa 1897 shot of Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus. Note the steamroller (or whatever that is) to the right. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
January 9, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | New York, NY | The Bowery: 1900 New York circa 1900. "The Bowery near Grand Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 5, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1902 | New York, NY | Flatiron Rising: 1902 "Flatiron Building, New York." The Manhattan landmark under construction circa 1902. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
December 30, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1904 | New York, NY | New York Underground: 1904 New York circa 1904. "14th Street subway station, construction." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 23, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1907 | New York, NY | Gotham Rising: 1907 New York circa 1907. "Brooklyn Bridge." Manhattan's 20th-century skyline takes shape. At left, the Singer Building under construction. |
December 29, 2010 | December 31, 2010 |
| 1916 | New York, NY | W.T. Grant Fire: 1916 W.T. Grant department store fire at New York's Sixth Avenue and 18th Street in April 1916. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection. |
October 12, 2007 | April 17, 2011 |
| 1906 | Newburgh, NY | Newburgh P.O.: 1906 Newburgh, New York, circa 1906. "Post Office and Second Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 30, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Newburgh, NY | Newburgh: 1906 Newburgh, New York, circa 1906. "Water Street." Get your cloaks and mattings to-day! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
May 12, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Niagara Falls, NY | Spray Beer: 1908 Niagara Falls, New York, circa 1908. "Imperial Hotel." Where the thirsty traveler could partake of the evocatively named Spray Beer. Around the corner was a Temperance House, whose amenities might have included a milk bar. At left, a political banner advertises the Democratic presidential ticket of William Jennings Bryan and John Kern. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
March 28, 2011 | March 28, 2011 |
| 1908 | Niagara Falls, NY | Stop Bryan-Kern: 1908 Niagara Falls, New York, in 1908. "Niagara Street." Presided over by a banner advertising the Democratic presidential ticket of William Jennings Bryan and John Kern. Or advising against them if you take the streetcar sign into account. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 8, 2011 | June 8, 2011 |
| 1908 | Niagara Falls, NY | Talking Pictures: 1908 Niagara Falls, New York, circa 1908. "Falls Street at Night." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 25, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Niagara Falls, NY | The Clifton: 1910 Niagara Falls, new York, circa 1910. "Clifton Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 14, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1907 | Plattsburgh, NY | Margaret Street: 1907 Circa 1907. "Margaret Street -- Plattsburgh, New York." Once again, it's 8:17. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 15, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1907 | Plattsburgh, NY | Next Stop, Willoughby: 1907 Plattsburgh, New York, circa 1907. "Brinkerhoff Street, west from Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 28, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Poughkeepsie, NY | Poughkeepsie Bridge: 1905 New York circa 1905. "Poughkeepsie Bridge." Another look at the giant railroad bridge over the Hudson River. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
March 26, 2011 | April 2, 2011 |
| 1906 | Poughkeepsie, NY | Poughkeepsie Panorama: 1906 Circa 1906. "Main Street. Poughkeepsie, New York." Behold the Queen City of the Hudson. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 17, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Poughkeepsie, NY | Prosperous Poughkeepsie: 1906 1906. "Columbus Institute, Poughkeepsie, N.Y." With a tailor, cycle shop, dentist and chewing gum close at hand. Along with whatever it is the Columbus Institute does. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 10, 2014 | July 23, 2014 |
| 1906 | Poughkeepsie, NY | YWCA: 1906 Poughkeepsie, New York, circa 1906. "Young Women's Christian Association." And, presumably, a young Christian woman at the door. |
March 21, 2011 | April 2, 2011 |
| 1915 | Queens County, NY | Drop Me a Line: 1915 Queens County, New York, circa 1915. "At Broad Channel -- fishing at your front door." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. |
June 5, 2011 | June 8, 2011 |
| 1905 | Rochester, NY | New York Central: 1905 Circa 1905. "New York Central railroad station, Rochester." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 26, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1906 | Saranac Lake, NY | Street View: 1906 Circa 1906. Saranac Lake, N.Y. "Street view looking west." Back when the Google-Wagon used glass negatives. 8x10 inch dry plate. |
December 30, 2012 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1909 | Saranac Lake, NY | Good Coal and Wood: 1909 New York circa 1909. "Broadway -- Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 28, 2011 | March 28, 2011 |
| 1905 | Syracuse, NY | Clinton Square: 1905 Syracuse, New York, circa 1905. "Clinton Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 23, 2011 | November 23, 2011 |
| 1905 | Utica, NY | This Smoky Eden: 1905 Circa 1905. "Erie Canal and Mohawk Valley, Utica, N.Y." Panorama of two 8x10 inch glass negatives, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 3, 2018 | January 7, 2018 |
| 1910 | Utica, NY | Hotel Utica: 1910 Utica, New York, circa 1910. "Hotel Utica." Playing next door at the Majestic: "The Fortune Hunter." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
October 15, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1910 | Utica, NY | St. James Hotel: 1910 Circa 1910. "St. James Hotel -- Utica, New York." Continuing our tour of the Handshake City. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
September 29, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| 1905 | Cincinnati, OH | Central Union Station: 1905 Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1905. "Central Union Station." You there in the window -- get to work! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
October 13, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Cincinnati, OH | Elm Street: 1905 The Queen City circa 1905. "Elm Street, Cincinnati, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 10, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Cincinnati, OH | Up the Incline: 1905 Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1905. "Up the hill by trolley." On one of the city's famous incline railways. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. |
May 26, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Cincinnati, OH | Eden Park: 1906 Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1906. "Main entrance to Eden Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 18, 2011 | July 18, 2011 |
| 1906 | Cincinnati, OH | Garfield: 1906 Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1906. "Garfield statue." Our 20th president, cut down by an assassin's bullet and put up on a pedestal. 8x10 glass negative. |
December 20, 2010 | December 21, 2010 |
| 1906 | Cincinnati, OH | Rookwood Pottery: 1906 Cincinnati circa 1906. "Rookwood Pottery," noted maker of artsy mass-market ceramics. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 10, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Cincinnati, OH | The Underwear Railroad: 1906 Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1906. "Mount Adams incline." A closeup of one of Cincy's famous incline railway lines, and of a lesser-known clothesline. Also: Moxie! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 24, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1909 | Cincinnati, OH | The Tickler: 1909 Cincinnati circa 1909. "Chester Park -- the Tickler." Now "not as rough." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 2, 2010 | April 2, 2011 |
| 1915 | Cincinnati, OH | Cincinnati: 1915 Cincinnati, Ohio, circa 1915. "View from Mount Adams." At right, a streetcar on the incline railway; the Union Central Insurance tower rises in the distance. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 1, 2011 | May 10, 2011 |
| 1900 | Cleveland, OH | Perry-Payne: 1900 Cleveland circa 1900. "Perry-Payne Building, Superior Avenue." This fine old structure, completed in 1888, survives today as an apartment building; the Brown Jug next door has, alas, evaporated along with its "Fine Old Whiskies." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 13, 2017 | January 18, 2017 |
| 1900 | Cleveland, OH | Rheumatic Liberator: 1900 Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1900. "Epworth Memorial Church." The title for this post, continuing today's mini-trend, comes from some barely visible signage. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 1, 2011 | November 1, 2011 |
| 1910 | Cleveland, OH | Cuyahoga: 1910 Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1910. "Lift bridge and Superior Street viaduct, Cuyahoga River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
October 27, 2010 | March 24, 2011 |
| 1910 | Cleveland, OH | State of New York: 1910 Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1910. "Cuyahoga River from the viaduct." Sidewheeler State of New York at the Detroit & Cleveland Navigation Co. docks. |
October 30, 2012 | January 30, 2014 |
| 1910 | Cleveland, OH | Tumbler: 1910 Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1910. "Rotary coal car unloader." Don't try this at home. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 27, 2011 | January 28, 2011 |
| 1904 | Columbus, OH | The Chittenden: 1904 Columbus, Ohio, 1904. "Chittenden Hotel." Opened 1895, razed 1973. The final installment of our Columbus Day trilogy. 8x10 glass negative. |
October 14, 2013 | October 15, 2013 |
| 1910 | Columbus, OH | High Street: 1910 Columbus, Ohio, circa 1910. "High Street, south from State." Where strollers have, among many available choices, a 3-cent lunchroom, the Imperial Tonsorial Parlor and Baths, "base ball scores received by innings" and swastika sporting goods. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 4, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Columbus, OH | Mail Pouch: 1910 Circa 1910. "Columbus, Ohio, from Great Southern Hotel." Photobombed by the Mail Pouch Tobacco horse. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
July 25, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1902 | Dayton, OH | Third Street Presbyterian: 1902 Dayton, Ohio, circa 1902. "Third Street Presbyterian Church." Scrolling top to bottom in Full Size mode, you get a nice visual allegory: Heaven to Earthy. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 25, 2014 | April 26, 2014 |
| 1938 | Greenhills, OH | Greenhills: 1938 October 1938. Fire station at Greenhills, Ohio, a planned community built by the federal government (Suburban Division of the Resettlement Administration) during the Depression. The image, scanned from a print, is a composite, with the utility pole and fire alarm superimposed; the asphalt was retouched with an airbrush. The fire station photo is by John Vachon. |
January 3, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1899 | Toledo, OH | Toledo: 1899 Circa 1899. "Toledo, Ohio. Produce Exchange." Playing next door: The Mutoscope blockbuster "Animal Photographs." |
September 26, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1900 | Toledo, OH | Boody House: 1900 Circa 1900. "Boody House, Toledo, Ohio." The Boody House hotel at St. Clair and Madison. Dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 29, 2009 | May 14, 2011 |
| 1910 | Toledo, OH | Big Tipper: 1910 Toledo, Ohio, circa 1910. "Brown hoist, Ohio Central coal dock." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 10, 2011 | January 11, 2011 |
| 1943 | Washington Court House, OH | ColumBus: 1943 September 1943. "Washington Court House, Ohio. Passenger boarding Greyhound bus." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. |
September 7, 2014 | September 30, 2014 |
| 1899 | Walkerville, Ontario | Whisky Warehouse: 1899 Circa 1899. "Hiram Walker & Sons, Walkerville, Ontario." Premises of the venerable Canadian distillery. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
August 11, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1900 | Walkerville, Ontario | Walkerville: 1900 Walkerville, Ontario, circa 1900. "Warehouses from R.R., Walker distillery." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 20, 2011 | May 10, 2011 |
| 1905 | Walkerville, Ontario | Distill of the Day: 1905 Walkerville, Ontario, circa 1905. "General offices, Hiram Walker & Sons." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 30, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1939 | Dead Ox Flat, OR | Dead Ox Flat: 1939 October 1939. "Mr. and Mrs. Wardlaw at entrance to their dugout basement home. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange for the Resettlement Administration. |
June 9, 2010 | April 10, 2011 |
| 1939 | Josephine County, OR | Technocracy Inc.: 1939 August 1939. Josephine County, Oregon. "New sign, erected seven years after Howard Scott talked of a survey of North America and formation of 'energy units,' which had widespread vogue in the early years of Depression." Another of Dorothea Lange's quirky-sign photos. |
February 27, 2014 | March 7, 2014 |
| 1905 | PA | PA Flyer: 1905 Circa 1905. "Pennsylvania Flyer, eastbound." Heading past Telegraph Pole National Forest. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
April 24, 2014 | April 26, 2014 |
| 1901 | Danville, PA | Hanging Rock: 1901 Circa 1901. "Hanging rock on the Susquehanna near Danville, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 11, 2012 | January 30, 2012 |
| 1905 | Delaware Water Gap, PA | Kittatinny House: 1905 Circa 1905. "Kittatinny House, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 18, 2012 | January 30, 2012 |
| 1905 | Delaware Water Gap, PA | Souvenirs & Curios: 1905 Circa 1905. "Street view, Delaware Water Gap, Pennsylvania." Where the architectural aesthetic seems to be Rustic Twig. 8x10 glass negative. |
July 28, 2014 | August 22, 2014 |
| 1905 | Homestead, PA | Carnegie Steel: 1905 Circa 1905. "Carnegie Steel Plant, Homestead, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 1, 2014 | July 6, 2014 |
| 1908 | Homestead, PA | Steelhenge: 1908 Circa 1908. "Steel ingots, Homestead Steel Works, Homestead, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 5, 2016 | June 18, 2016 |
| 1900 | Philadelphia, PA | Birthplace of Old Glory: 1900 Circa 1900. "Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia." Our second look at Jack the horse. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 28, 2013 | June 13, 2013 |
| 1905 | Philadelphia, PA | 36th Street Station: 1905 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1908. "The Elevated station at 36th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 17, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Philadelphia, PA | Ferry Terminal: 1905 Philadelphia circa 1905. "Pennsylvania Railroad ferry terminal, Market Street." There's a lot going on in this bustling street scene. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 14, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Philadelphia, PA | Riding High: 1905 Philadelphia circa 1905. "The elevated railway at Delaware & South Streets." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 16, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Philadelphia, PA | Turnaround Time: 1905 Philadelphia circa 1905. "Pennsylvania Railroad ferry terminal, Market Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
July 23, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Philadelphia, PA | Addams Family Birdhouse: 1908 Philadelphia circa 1908. "Dormitories, University of Pennsylvania." Extracurricular highlights include the gargling goose, an impressive carbon-arc streetlight and of course the Second Empire birdhouse with a little mansard roof. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 7, 2011 | March 7, 2011 |
| 1910 | Philadelphia, PA | Edifice Drex: 1900 Circa 1900. "Drexel Institute, Philadelphia." Attended by an assortment of superannuated streetlights. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. |
November 14, 2017 | November 18, 2017 |
| 1949 | Philadelphia, PA | Southwark Plumbing: 1949 "Southwark Plumbing & Heating Supply, Philadelphia, 1949." 4x5 acetate negative from the archives of Signal Corps photographer Lt. Joseph Zinni. |
November 3, 2017 | November 12, 2017 |
| 1908 | Pittsburgh, PA | Over and Up: 1908 Continuing our tour of Pittsburgh circa 1908. "Pittsburgh & Lake Erie R.R. station and Mount Washington -- Smithfield Street Bridge and Monongahela Incline." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 27, 2012 | January 30, 2012 |
| 1908 | Pittsburgh, PA | The Electric Faucet: 1908 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1908. "Wood Street, looking east." Showing a rare example of the Edison Spigot. 8x10 inch glass negative |
April 19, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1910 | Pittsburgh, PA | Double Play: 1910 Circa 1910. "Pittsburgh waterfront, Allegheny River." Something for everyone here: Bridges, riverboats, a rail yard and two baseball games. And a high-rise natatorium. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
October 10, 2011 | October 26, 2011 |
| 1901 | Scranton, PA | Riding the Rails: 1901 Circa 1901. "On the Lackawanna near Scranton, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 20, 2012 | January 30, 2012 |
| 1901 | Scranton, PA | The Electric Building: 1901 Scranton, Pennsylvania, circa 1901. "Board of Trade and Linden Street." Completed in 1896, this precursor to the city's Chamber of Commerce, known as the Electric Building for almost a century, is a landmark for the giant SCRANTON THE ELECTRIC CITY sign on its roof since the 1920s. |
November 29, 2014 | December 27, 2014 |
| 1905 | Wilmerding, PA | Westinghouse Air-Brake: 1905 Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, circa 1905. "Machine shop, Westinghouse Air-Brake Co." Company namesake George Westinghouse invented the railway air brake in 1869 and was a rival of Thomas Edison in the early electrical industry. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
June 16, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1941 | San Juan, PR | Calle de Coca-Cola: 1941 Street in San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 1941. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano, who moved to Puerto Rico permanently in 1946. The cross street is Calle de Rafael Cordero and the street we're looking down is Calle de Dr. Jose C. Barb-- with the last few letters obscured. |
May 31, 2007 | April 2, 2011 |
| 1900 | Montreal, Quebec | Montreal: 1900 Quebec circa 1900. "Jacques Cartier Square, Montreal." One of relatively few Canadian scenes in the archive. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
June 25, 2009 | May 23, 2011 |
| 1906 | Newport, RI | Newport: 1906 Newport, Rhode Island, circa 1906. "Bellevue Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 11, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1906 | Providence, RI | Crawford Street Bridge: 1906 Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1906. "Crawford Street bridge." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 30, 2010 | April 10, 2011 |
| 1906 | Providence, RI | Gorham: The Sequel 1906 Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1906. "Gorham Manufacturing Co." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 19, 2011 | November 23, 2011 |
| 1865 | Charleston, SC | Vulcan Iron Works: 1865 1865. Charleston, South Carolina. Archibald McLeish's Vulcan Iron Works on Cumberland Street. Left half of glass-plate stereograph, from photographs of the Federal Navy and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, 1863-1865. |
February 3, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Charleston, SC | Carnival of Cornices: 1905 Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1905. "Hotel St. John (Mills House), Meeting Street." Demolished in 1968. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
May 24, 2017 | May 29, 2017 |
| 1905 | Charleston, SC | Meeting and Queen: 1905 Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1905. "Meeting Street and St. John Hotel," a.k.a. the Mills House. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
July 1, 2012 | September 4, 2012 |
| 1906 | Charleston, SC | Old Charleston: 1906 South Carolina circa 1906. "Old Charleston. Church Street just below Tradd Street showing Col. Robert Brewton's house -- No. 71 Church Street at left with piazza." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 27, 2015 | April 20, 2015 |
| 1906 | Charleston, SC | Peoples National: 1906 Charleston, S.C., circa 1906. "Peoples National Bank, Broad & State Sts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 16, 2013 | August 19, 2013 |
| 1910 | Charleston, SC | Charleston: 1910 Circa 1910. "Charleston, South Carolina." A back-door view of the waterfront. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 17, 2011 | March 17, 2011 |
| 1910 | Charleston, SC | King Street: 1910 Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1910. "King Street, south." Among the merchants vying for your trade are a Bible depository, Victor Talking Machines dealer and branch of the "Wide Awake" store. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
March 4, 2014 | March 7, 2014 |
| 1910 | Charleston, SC | New Charleston: 1910 Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1910. "New Charleston Hotel and Meeting Street." Close by: A bootery, office supplies and "Shaving Parlor." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
November 8, 2017 | November 12, 2017 |
| 1910 | Charleston, SC | Tradd Street: 1910 Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1910. "Tradd Street -- a bit of Old Charleston." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 19, 2011 | March 18, 2011 |
| 1911 | Charleston, SC | Chimneys of Charleston: 1911 Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1911, with a waterfront rooftop view. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 29, 2014 | May 6, 2014 |
| 1937 | Charleston, SC | Rickety Manor: 1937 1937. "Charleston, South Carolina. 727 Bay Street." Come in, and watch your step. 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
December 22, 2013 | December 23, 2013 |
| 1937 | Charleston, SC | The Quarters: 1937 1937. Charleston, South Carolina. 7-9-11 Beaufain Street, "The Quarters." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
June 18, 2010 | March 17, 2011 |
| 1912 | Port Royal, SC | Cannery Row: 1912 February 1912. Port Royal, South Carolina. "'We give them houses to live in.' About 50 persons housed in this miserable row of dilapidated shacks located on an old shell-pile and partly surrounded by a tidal marsh. Maggioni Canning Co." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
October 28, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| 1942 | TN | High Voltage: 1942 June 1942. Working on power transmission and utility lines near the TVA hydro- electric plant at Chickamauga Dam or Douglas Dam, Tennessee. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information. |
May 20, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1864 | Chattanooga, TN | Chattanooga Depot: 1864 1864. Chattanooga, Tennessee. "Boxcars and depot with Federal cavalry guard beyond. From photographs of the War in the West. Battle of Chattanooga, September-November 1863. Photograph probably taken the following year, when Chattanooga was the base for Sherman's Atlanta campaign." Wet plate glass negative, half of stereo pair, photographer unknown. |
October 16, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1907 | Chattanooga, TN | Street Gang: 1907 Circa 1907. "Oak Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 30, 2013 | June 13, 2013 |
| 1907 | Chattanooga, TN | Tenn Span: 1907 1907. "County bridge, Tennessee River, Chattanooga." The Walnut Street Bridge, now a "linear park" for pedestrians. 8x10 inch glass negative. |
March 18, 2015 | March 25, 2015 |
| 1910 | Coal Creek, TN | Coal Creek: 1910 December 1910. Coal Creek, Tennessee. "Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek. James has been there four months. Helps push these heavily loaded cars. Appears to be about 12 or 13 years old." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
August 13, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1910 | Coal Creek, TN | Winter Job: 1910 December 1910. "Hard work and dangerous for such a young boy. James O'Dell, a greaser and coupler on the tipple of the Cross Mountain Mine, Knoxville Iron Co., in the vicinity of Coal Creek, Tennessee. James has been here four months. Helps push these heavily loaded cars. Appears to be about 12 or 13 years old." Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine for the National Child Labor Committee. |
August 20, 2013 | October 15, 2013 |
| 1903 | Knoxville, TN | Gay Street: 1903 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1903. "Gay Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 24, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1903 | Knoxville, TN | The Buggy Company: 1903 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1903. Yet another view of that bustling commercial artery known as Gay Street, home to Broyles, McClellan & Lackey, dealers in Seeds, Fertilizers, Farm Machinery and Buggies, Harness and Horse Goods. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 13, 2011 | December 13, 2011 |
| 1905 | Knoxville, TN | He Makes Shirts: 1905 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1905. "Looking north on Gay Street from near Clinch Avenue." A pulsing commercial artery where Hope Jewelers, The Man's Store and East Tennessee National Bank are among the businesses vying for your trade. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 30, 2013 | October 15, 2013 |
| 1905 | Knoxville, TN | Hey There: 1905 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1905. "Cumberland Club and Walnut Street." Quick, someone call the Photobomb Squad. 8x10 glass negative. |
March 14, 2014 | March 14, 2014 |
| 1905 | Knoxville, TN | Mexican Mustang: 1905 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1905. "Gay Street looking north from Clinch Avenue." Featuring the Mayor of Gay Street, and sponsored by Mexican Mustang Liniment. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 11, 2011 | December 13, 2011 |
| 1905 | Knoxville, TN | Summer Sale: 1905 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1905. "Gay Street north from Wall Street." Where close inspection will reveal subtle indications of a mid-summer clearance at T. Tobias & Son. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 15, 2017 | February 20, 2017 |
| 1906 | Knoxville, TN | Timeless Depot: 1906 Circa 1906. "Southern Railway station, Knoxville, Tenn." What has four faces but no hands? 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
October 29, 2014 | November 8, 2014 |
| 1906 | Knoxville, TN | True Grit: 1906 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1906. "Wall Street west from Gay." Behind the smudges and fingerprints, an interesting slice of life. |
July 12, 2011 | July 17, 2011 |
| 1910 | Knoxville, TN | Colonial Hotel: 1910 Knoxville, Tennessee, circa 1910. "Gay Street looking north from Main Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
December 5, 2011 | December 13, 2011 |
| 1906 | Memphis, TN | Memphis: 1906 Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1906. "Mississippi River levee from the bluff." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 25, 2010 | March 21, 2011 |
| 1906 | Memphis, TN | Municipal Memphis: 1906 1906. "Cossitt Library and Post Office, Memphis, Tennessee." This Romanesque castle in red sandstone, at Front and Monroe on the banks of the Mississippi, was the city's first public library when it opened in 1893. |
October 16, 2014 | November 8, 2014 |
| 1906 | Memphis, TN | Work Zone: 1906 Circa 1906. "Main Street. Memphis, Tennessee." Please pardon our dust. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
March 7, 2011 | March 7, 2011 |
| 1907 | Memphis, TN | Union Depot: 1907 Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1907. "Union Depot, Calhoun Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 10, 2011 | February 10, 2011 |
| 1910 | Memphis, TN | Memphis Revisited: 1910 Memphis, Tennessee, circa 1910. "Main Street north from Gayoso Avenue." Our second look at the Hotel Gayoso and flower shop next door. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 5, 2011 | January 5, 2011 |
| 1864 | Nashville, TN | Nashville: 1864 1864. "Nashville, Tennessee. Rail yard and depot with locomotives." Wet-plate glass negative by George N. Barnard. |
July 23, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1903 | El Paso, TX | El Paso: 1903 "El Paso, Texas. 1903." Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. |
January 3, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1943 | Farwell, TX | Plains Grain: 1943 March 1943. "Farwell, Texas, at the New Mexico state line. Going through town on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad between Amarillo, Texas, and Clovis, New Mexico." Photo by Jack Delano, Office of War Information. |
April 9, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1939 | Robstown, TX | Mex-Tex: 1939 February 1939. "Housing. Mexican district in Robstown, Texas." Medium format negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 8, 2018 | January 13, 2018 |
| 1939 | San Augustine, TX | Cafe Texan: 1939 April 1939. Street scene in San Augustine, Texas. 35mm nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. |
December 2, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1939 | San Augustine, TX | Less Filling: 1939 April 1939. "Service station. San Augustine, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration |
March 20, 2018 | April 23, 2018 |
| 1913 | Waco, TX | Waco Red Light: 1913 A long shot of 12-year-old Isaac Boyett in the Red Light District of Waco. Scanned from glass-plate negative. Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
August 17, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1897 | Unknown | Motley Crew: 1897 "Hogan's Alley." Below decks aboard the U.S.S. Brooklyn circa 1897. Glass negative by Edward H. Hart, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 21, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1904 | Unknown | Dynamo Room: 1904 Circa 1904. "Dynamo room with switchboard." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
September 15, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| 1904 | Unknown | Power and Light: 1904 Circa 1904 somewhere in North America. "Switchboard in dynamo room." 8x10 inch glass negative. |
September 14, 2012 | December 13, 2012 |
| 1912 | Unknown | Inbox: 1912 "Post Office Dept. Hupp Auto Railway Service." The download part of the Hupp mail-transfer system. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. |
October 20, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1920 | Unknown | Free Air: 1920 "North Capitol Tire Shop, 1919 or 1920." Approaching the camera: A two-horsepower biofuel vehicle. National Photo Company. |
July 25, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1920 | Unknown | Wireless Telegraph: 1920 "Amateur Wireless Station" with headset circa 1920. Note photo of the young operator. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. |
July 10, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1924 | Unknown | Two Trains: 1924 "Train of 1862 & 1924 Limited - Great Northern." 5x7 glass negative. George Grantham Bain Collection. |
May 14, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1925 | Unknown | Street Life: 1925 "Rowhouses and moving company." Circa 1925, the furniture and hauling business of Sam Madeoy at 600 H Street N.E. National Photo Company. |
September 6, 2008 | April 13, 2011 |
| Undated | Unknown | Cross Connect Terminal: Undated An early telephone cross connect terminal. Location and date unknown |
December 2, 2010 | December 3, 2010 |
| Undated | Unknown | Early Telephone Linemen: Undated A lineman, circa 1890s. Location unknown. |
December 1, 2010 | December 3, 2010 |
| Undated | Unknown | Pole Raising: Undated Workers piking a pole into place. Location and date unknown. |
December 2, 2010 | December 3, 2010 |
| Undated | Unknown | Splicers: Undated Telephone splicers. Date and location unknown. |
December 3, 2010 | December 3, 2010 |
| Undated | Unknown | Telephone Linemen Posing: Undated Telephone linemen pose on a crossarms. Location and date unknown. |
December 2, 2010 | December 3, 2010 |
| 1942 | Bingham Canyon, UT | Cu Cu Train: 1942 November 1942. "Bingham Canyon, Utah. Ore trains on a trestle bridge above an open-pit mine of the Utah Copper Company." Photo by Andreas Feininger for the Office of War Information. |
October 23, 2013 | October 28, 2013 |
| 1911 | Alexandria, VA | Carrying-In Boy: 1911 June 1911."Carrying-in" boy in Alexandria Glass Factory, Alexandria, Virginia. Works on day shift one week and night shift next week. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
October 19, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1911 | Alexandria, VA | Night Shift: 1911 June 1911. Alexandria, Virginia. "Old Dominion Glass Co. A few of the young boys working on the night shift at the Alexandria glass factory. Negroes work side by side with the white workers." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
August 4, 2011 | August 4, 2011 |
| 1926 | Alexandria, VA | King Street: 1926 Alexandria, Virginia, 1926. "Citizens National Bank, King Street at St. Asaph Street." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. |
April 13, 2011 | April 13, 2011 |
| 1920 | Arlington, VA | Arlington Brewing: 1920 Arlington Brewing Co. circa 1920. An 8x10 glass negative that would leave your fancy-schmancy digtal SLR crying for its mommy. |
July 14, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1865 | City Point, VA | Ways of Going: 1865 Circa 1865. "City Point, Virginia. Railroad yard and transports." Wet plate glass negative, half of stereograph pair. Studio of Mathew Brady. |
May 31, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1862 | Culpeper, VA | Culpeper: 1862 August 1862. "Culpeper Court House, Virginia. Railroad depot." Photographs from the main Eastern theater of war, Bull Run, second Battle of Bull Run. Wet plate negative, half of stereo pair, by Timothy O'Sullivan. |
September 25, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1927 | Fredericksburg, VA | Spinning House: 1927 Fredericksburg, Virginia, circa 1927. "Spinning house, Prince Edward Street." Where wool, flax, cotton, etc., would have been made into yarns and woven fabrics. 8x10 inch acetate negative by Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
May 15, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1928 | Fredericksburg, VA | Gentlemen Callers: 1928 Fredericksburg, Va., circa 1928. "Cabin on Barton Street." 8x10 acetate negative by the architectural historian Frances Benjamin Johnston. |
March 22, 2016 | May 19, 2016 |
| 1862 | Manassas, VA | Off the Rails: 1862 March 1862. "Manassas, Va. Orange & Alexandria Railroad wrecked by retreating Confederates." Wet plate glass negative by George N. Barnard. |
July 21, 2012 | September 4, 2012 |
| 1905 | Newport News, VA | Newport News: 1905 1905. "Washington Avenue, Newport News, Virginia." A lesson in receding lines of perspective. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
September 3, 2015 | October 16, 2015 |
| 1905 | Newport News, VA | Noon Whistle: 1905 Newport News, Virginia, circa 1905. "Noon hour at the shipyard." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 7, 2011 | August 14, 2011 |
| 1905 | Newport News, VA | Wash Ave: 1905 Newport News, Virginia, circa 1905. "Washington Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
May 10, 2011 | May 10, 2011 |
| 1906 | Norfolk, VA | Atlantic Hotel: 1906 Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1906. "Atlantic Hotel, Granby Street." Demolished 1970s. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
February 20, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1910 | Norfolk, VA | Our Confederate Dead: 1910 Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1910. "Confederate Monument." Our third look at Norfolk this week reveals another MacDonald's Luncheon & Cigar, as well the Stag Hotel and terminals for the Portsmouth and Berkley ferries. And: Clam Broth Served Daily. Whew! 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
August 25, 2011 | September 12, 2011 |
| 1917 | Norfolk, VA | Central Y: 1917 Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1917. "Central Y.M.C.A." And another example of the light bulb arches that were in vogue a century ago. 8x10 glass negative. |
September 9, 2011 | September 12, 2011 |
| 1917 | Norfolk, VA | Main Street: 1917 Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1917. "Main Street." The port city's bustling business district. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 24, 2011 | September 12, 2011 |
| 1917 | Norfolk, VA | Naval Y.M.C.A.: 1917 Norfolk, Virginia, circa 1917. "Naval Y.M.C.A." Everyone knows the words, right? 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 22, 2011 | September 12, 2011 |
| 1941 | Norfolk, VA | The Plod Thickens: 1941 March 1941. "Backed up storm sewer in Negro slum district. Norfolk, Virginia." Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. |
February 7, 2018 | February 8, 2018 |
| 1864 | Petersburg, VA | Telegraph Corps: 1864 1864. Petersburg, Virginia. "Maj. Thomas T. Eckert (seated, left) and others of U.S. Military Telegraph Corps." Wet plate glass negative. |
April 7, 2010 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1865 | Richmond, VA | Libby Prison: 1865 April 1865. "Richmond, Virginia. Libby Prison." The infamous Confederate jail. Composite of two stereograph wet plate glass negatives. |
January 30, 2014 | January 30, 2014 |
| 1865 | Richmond, VA | The Horrors of Pandemonium: 1865 Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865 showing the burned district along the James River. From photographs of the main Eastern theater of war and fallen Richmond compiled by Hirst Milhollen and Donald Mugridge. |
January 19, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1905 | Richmond, VA | Murphy's Hotel: 1905 Richmond, Virginia, circa 1905. "Murphy's Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
April 14, 2011 | April 14, 2011 |
| 1910 | Richmond, VA | Filling Station: 1910 Richmond, Virginia, circa 1910. "Masonic Temple." Note the horse fountain with electric illumination. Detroit Publishing glass negative. |
June 15, 2011 | June 16, 2011 |
| 1937 | Rosslyn, VA | Fresh Up: 1937 September 1937. "Icehouse. Rosslyn, Virginia." Just across the Potomac from Washington, the home of beer, wine and 7-Up from 7 to 7, as well as one cool cat. Medium-format nitrate negative by John Vachon. |
March 13, 2013 | April 17, 2013 |
| 1937 | Rosslyn, VA | Poles Apart: 1937 July 1937. "Electrical and telephone wires. Rosslyn, Virginia." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 19, 2018 | January 26, 2018 |
| 1909 | Tye River, VA | Digging Out the Engineer: 1909 March 3, 1909. Southern Railway wreck at Tye River, Virginia. A tampered switch derailed Southern No. 35, a mail train. Engineer H.C. Linn was slightly injured. George Grantham Bain Collection. |
May 29, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1865 | Yorktown, VA | Yorktown: 1865 Yorktown, Virginia (vicinity), circa 1865. "Federal troops at Confederate winter quarters near Yorktown." |
November 14, 2009 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1907 | Burlington, VT | Streetlight in Vermont: 1907 Burlington, Vermont, circa 1907. "Church Street looking north from College Street." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
August 7, 2013 | August 12, 2013 |
| 1911 | Burlington, VT | Church Street: 1911 Burlington, Vermont, circa 1911. "Church Street north from Bank Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
February 18, 2014 | February 20, 2014 |
| 1937 | Hyde Park, VT | Small Government: 1937 September 1937. "Town clerk's office. Hyde Park, Vermont." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. |
November 27, 2017 | November 29, 2017 |
| 1904 | Montpelier, VT | The Pavilion: 1904 Circa 1904. "State Street and Pavilion Hotel, Montpelier, Vermont." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 20, 2014 | January 22, 2014 |
| 1904 | Rutland, VT | Rutland: 1904 Rutland, Vermont circa 1904. "Merchants' Row." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. |
January 30, 2010 | April 19, 2011 |
| 1905 | Rutland, VT | U Want a Lunch: 1905 Circa 1905. "Rutland, Vermont -- Center Street." Our title comes from the eatery on the right. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
October 10, 2013 | October 15, 2013 |
| 1900 | Milwaukee, WI | City Hall: 1900 Circa 1900. "City Hall, Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Overhead, a tracery of streetcar wires. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. |
February 10, 2010 | January 30, 2014 |
| 1908 | Brown, WV | Drivers and Trapper: 1908 September 1908. Young mule drivers and trapper boy at the Brown Mine near Brown, West Virginia. Underground from 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. |
July 26, 2007 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1908 | Grafton, WV | Scared of School: 1908 September 1908. Grafton, West Virginia. Tipple Boy and Drivers. Maryland Coal Co. mine near Sand Lick. Boy with mule was afraid at first to be in the picture; another boy said he feared we might make him go to school. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
September 25, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1935 | Kimball, WV | Kimball: 1935 October 1935. The coal mining center of Kimball, West Virginia. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the Farm Security Administration. |
January 6, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
| 1942 | Richwood, WV | Northward Bound: 1942 September 1942. "Richwood, W. Va. Station scene at departure of men to help in the harvest in upstate New York." Photo by John Collier. |
April 6, 2014 | April 7, 2014 |
| 1908 | Wheeling, WV | Central Glass: 1908 October 1908. "Central Glass Company. Wheeling, West Virginia. Dozens of small boys here." Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine. |
August 25, 2008 | November 26, 2010 |
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