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Where Elsie Met Her End
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 1:59pm.
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"House in which Miss Sigel was killed." The building at 782 Eighth Avenue in New York where the body of Elsie Sigel was found in a trunk. Click here for another view (of different buildings?) and more information on a very cold case from 1909. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Young FDR: 1911
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 1:57pm.
Franklin Roosevelt in a portrait dated February 3, 1911, a few days after his 29th birthday. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
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Vacancy
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 9:40pm.
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No Vacancy
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 9:28pm.
Another Kodachrome slide from the Shorpy shoebox, labeled "Florida 1960." View full size. Could there be a postcard on eBay showing the same motel?
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Dirigible of Baron deMarcay
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 3:32am.
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Flint Mill: 1912
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 3:31am.
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January 1912. "The Flint Cotton Mill spinning room. Small girls are employed here but not in evidence this noon. Fall River, Massachusetts." View full size.
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New York to Paris: 1908
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 06/15/2007 - 3:30am.
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February 1908. "Lelouvier and driver in Werner car, at start of New York to Paris automobile race." The course was from Times Square to the Eiffel Tower via Alaska and Siberia. George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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