June 16, 1923. "Semaphore signals -- Boy Scouts at Lincoln Memorial." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

August 2, 1924. Washington, D.C. "F.R. Hudzik & H.W. Hornbrook." And that's all they wrote. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

October 23, 1959. "Bloomingdale's in Hackensack, New Jersey. Clothing, children 1 to 3. Raymond Loewy, client." This, kids, is a department in a department store, a place people went back when "shopping" meant actually leaving the house. 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

December 1940. "Children in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts." These houses, which look to have been built in the 1890s, must have been imposing in their day. Note the elaborate woodwork and intricate system of gutters and downspouts. Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.

St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1900. "Broadway north from Olive Street." A nice view of the Homeopathic Pharmacy sign. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Semmes Motor Co. -- Hellmann's truck." Back when mayonnaise delivery was a thing. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Chicago circa 1958. "Crime" is all it says on this News Archive photo -- a whodunit whose clues are a boy, a kitchen, a box and some handcuffs. View full size.

        Time flies like B-25's. Another Kodachrome from the Early Days of Shorpy, enlarged and re-restored.

October 1942. "B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City." Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the OWI. View full size.

San Francisco, 1919. "Grant Six touring car at Alta Plaza Park." Manifesting a variety of conveyances for young and old, in this latest psalm from the Shorpy Bible of Bygone Buggies. (Footnote: running-board doormat.) View full size.

        Fast-forward one year: The Detroit hard at work.

Ecorse, Michigan, 1904. "Great Lake Engineering Works. Steamer Detroit, Michigan Central Transfer, stern quarter." Or would that be Tiorted? 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1895. "Hasamaear, Washington baseball." Fan favorite William "Roaring Bill" Hasamaear keeps his eye on the ball, such as it is. 5x7 inch glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C. View full size.

    One of our first posts from 10 years ago, enlarged and re-restored.

March 1943. "Santa Fe R.R. locomotive shops at Topeka, Kansas." 4x5 inch Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano. View full size.

Columbus, Georgia, circa 1948. "Kitchen display -- Tappan stove." 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1921. "U.S. Capitol, West Front." Senate chamber on the left; House of Representatives on the right. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1915. "Dr. Thomas J. Kemp residence, 15th Street and Massachusetts Avenue N.W." The doctor had been in the news by virtue of his acquittal on charges of violating the District's pharmacy laws after he prescribed and sold morphine to an alleged drug addict. View full size.