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Joy Unconfined: 1915
Submitted by Ken on Wed, 06/20/2007 - 6:18am.
Summer 1915. Dancing to the tunes coming out of an Edison Home Phonograph at Broad Channel, N.Y. George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
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Beach Policeman: 1922
Submitted by Ken on Tue, 06/19/2007 - 8:24pm.
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Today marks the 90th anniversary of Officer Norton putting tape to thigh!
"June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee." National Photo Co. View full size.
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Where Elsie Met Her End
Submitted by Dave on Sat, 06/16/2007 - 1:59pm.
"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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