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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
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- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
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- 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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Illuminations: 1913
Washington, D.C. March 3, 1913. "Illuminations on Pennsylvania Avenue for Wilson inauguration." View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection.
Film
I must say, this is a great example of the effect of halation on a thick film emulsion - and, in the streetlight on the very far right, an example of the sabbatier effect, as well. Sorry, just being a vintage photography nerd.
[No film was used in the making of this photograph. Film as we know it today did not exist in 1913. This picture was exposed on a glass plate. - Dave]
Electric lights? Bah!
I love the light up advertisement "Use Electric Light". I guess that was for all those people in 1913 that still didn't think that the whole "electric lights" thing was going to take off.
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