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New Kenmore: 1906
Submitted by Dave on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:24pm.
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. View full size.
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Submitted by Mr Mel on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 6:35pm.
If it were 50 years later we could see and hear the Three Sons.
The daily double!
Submitted by Maniak Productions on Wed, 06/15/2011 - 8:49am.
Two distro rings in this one. One is almost hidden by the arc lamp on the left, the other sports the sinage for The Kenmore.
It also seem s the street sweepers missed a lot of horse "exhaust"!
Wagon wheel telephone distribution
Submitted by MEGGAHURTZ on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 9:39pm.
I can't get over the feeling looking at these wheels that they remind me of the Peter Breughel paintings of the middle ages with the wagon wheels mounted on poles with people or skeletons on them of people who had been "broken on the wheel" maybe I am just morbid ?
She's a Grand Old Flag
Submitted by Hillary on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 3:12pm.
Nice photo for Flag Day! One wonders if the Kenmore was possessed of an overabundance of everyday patriotism, or if it was Independence Day. (The Internet tells me that Flag Day wasn't established until 1916.)
Flag Day
Submitted by Downer on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 2:36pm.
Quite appropriate photo considering today is Flag Day.
Stars and Stripes
Submitted by 19thCenturyGirl on Tue, 06/14/2011 - 1:40pm.
It is either Flag Day or around the Fourth of July. I count about 39 flags. Great photo!
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