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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Fringe Group: 1917
Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Dulin & Martin Co. lamps." Back when fringed shades were the thing. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
I think I played that chair
The artwork on the chair back looks like a screen shot from some sort of 8-bit video game from the 1980's.
Socket to me
Electrical delivery was much different in 1917.
Early home electricity
Also, back when there were no wall power sockets. Note the Edison screw connectors (i.e. lightbulb bases) on the ends of the cords.
As domestic electricity came into being, homes were wired first for permanent lighting fixtures only. People spent a couple of decades tacking all their other appliances precariously onto the lightbulb sockets before the idea of "convenience outlets" came along.
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