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Madison Avenue: 1916
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 2:18am.
New York, 1916. Heckscher Building at 50 East 42nd Street and Madison Avenue. View full size. Irving Underhill photo. The building, which still stands, used to have a squash court on the 23rd floor. Nowadays it's dwarfed by its neighbors.
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Equitable Trust: 1921
Submitted by Dave on Sun, 07/15/2007 - 2:17am.
New York, 1921. Equitable Trust Building and Hotel Biltmore. View full size. Photograph by Irving Underhill.
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Bodie: 1962
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 4:49pm.
Bodie, California, July 1962. Odd Fellows Hall and Miners Union Hall on Main Street looking north. View full size. Photograph by Ronald Partridge, Historic American Buildings Survey. Bodie, a mining camp ghost town on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada between Yosemite and Tahoe, is now a state historic park.
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Memory Bank: 1962
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 4:42pm.
Vault of the Bodie Bank, July 1962. Mono County, California. View full size. Photograph by Ronald Partridge, Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Ready or Not: 1912
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 4:38am.
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"Blind children playing hide-and-seek among arcade pillars" at the Overbrook School in Philadelphia ca. 1912. View full size. Geo. Grantham Bain Collection.
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Herman Miller: 1958
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 07/14/2007 - 12:00am.
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1958. Alexander and Susan Girard at the Herman Miller show in San Francisco. View larger. 35mm Kodachrome transparency, Charles & Ray Eames collection.
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Test Chair: 1946
Submitted by Dave on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 11:40pm.
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1946. Woman (Milah Birnie?) in an experimental plywood lounge chair. View full size. 35mm Kodachrome transparency, Charles and Ray Eames collection.
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