- Grandmother
- Indian Gas
- Keystone State
- "Service station run by former resident of Oklahoma"
- Just wondering
- Child's play
- 413 Sullivan Street.
- Outlived his obituary by 22 years
- Fun playgrounds
- Daisy Luke
- Rough playground
- Looking up to your father
- No adult supervision
- I Did My Part
- Re: True Confessions
- Soft surface
- Nice as aways, Sir
- Moonscape
- Lima Locomotive
- It's a mini-steam plant!
- Playground equipment
- $9,600
- Bullying.
- Recess the way I remember it!
- Even after using Photoshop
- Busty lady of shady lane
- Big Bucks!
- Wincharger
- Fior D'Italia boarding house
- Got a dime?
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Top Dog: 1865
March 1865. "City Point, Virginia. General U.S. Grant's horse Cincinnati." Wet plate glass negative, left half of stereograph pair. View full size.
- 6 comments
- 23314 reads
Bridge in Progress: 1908
New York, July 15, 1908. "Temporary footpath, Manhattan Bridge." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 27794 reads
In Surgery: 1922
- 5 comments
- 13449 reads
Shorthanded: 1920
1920. "Washington School for Secretaries classroom." Our second look at the school's facilities. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
- 6 comments
- 10247 reads
Girls' Hoops: 1917
Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Friends School. Girls basketball team." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
- 24 comments
- 23452 reads
Maryland Packers: 1909
July 1909. "Some of the workers in a Maryland packing company." Photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size.
- 12 comments
- 27660 reads
We Are the Champions: 1913
Washington, D.C., 1913. "Technical High School. Football team." Some of the nicest chaps you'd ever want to meet. Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
- 10 comments
- 18689 reads
Gramma and Grampa: 1948
I've always been really fond of this picture. It was taken on the day of my grandparents' wedding in 1948. My grandmother was 21 at the time and my grandfather was 22. View full size.
- 27 comments
- 20339 reads
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