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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
Vintage photos of:
Washington circa 1917. This is, as far as we know, our final glimpse of the Haynes roadster before it motors on its way down 14th Street into eternity. If the darn umbrella ever changes. Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.
New York City circa 1908. "Luncheon -- Cripple School, Henry Street." Dining room at the East Side Free School for Crippled Children, which we saw earlier today. 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
August 1956. "Attendees at the Republican National Convention, San Francisco, California." They liked Ike, and Richard Nixon too. Photograph by Thomas J. O'Halloran, U.S. News & World Report. View full size.
Washington, 1911. "Post Office Department mail box." In front of the Old Post Office building. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Washington, 1925. "Ford Motor Company. Capitol bedding truck." In a rare stab at whimsy or wit or whatever you want to call it, National Photo shot this Capitol Mattress truck in front of the actual Capitol. Tee hee! View full size.
"Mentally Retarded children in E.S.F.S. for Crippled Children." New York circa 1908. "Feeble-minded in cripple school" is the non-PC caption written on this classroom scene showing the East Side Free School for Crippled Children, 155-157 Henry Street. George Grantham Bain Collection glass negative. View full size.
May 1909. Somersworth, New Hampshire. "Lefthand boy Zeke Gosselin, 95 Main Street. Been in mill one year. Other boy Philip Lesard, 68 Elm Street. Been in mill three years. Working in Great Falls Manufacturing Co." View full size.
Circa 1928. "Washington Sanitarium, dietetic kitchen. Takoma Park, Maryland." Bon appetit! National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.