Elvis Presley at a 1956 concert date; we're counting the minutes until someone can tell us which one. Photo by Phillip Harrington for Look. View full size.
Columbus Discovers Elvis Here's some contemporary coverage including the multi-h ...
Circa 1956-57. "Urbanism -- USA. Mid-Island Plaza in Long Island, New York." So where's the Cinnabon? 35mm color transparency, Paul Rudolph Archive. View full size.
Will-o'-the-Wisp "A Will-o’-the-wisp is a phantom light that hov ...
Columbus, Ohio, circa 1909. "Aerial view from courthouse." Shorpy, who knows how to have a good time, is celebrating Columbus Day with this detailed panorama made from three 8x10 glass negatives. View full size.
The Trolley Follies Loo ...
Columbus, Ohio, circa 1905. "Great Southern Hotel." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Still there This is the one hotel from the late 1800s they did not tear down. It is still in operation a ...
Summer of 1938. "Underpass in central Ohio, Route 40. Roadside does not at first present a definite or meaningful picture. Closer investigation begins to reveal the character of the place." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn. ...
Circa 1910. "Union Station, Columbus, Ohio." Your headquarters for the Garden City Self Feeder, whatever that is. Continuing our tour of Columbus on Columbus Day. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.
Many mysteries ...
September 1943. "Washington Court House, Ohio. Passenger boarding Greyhound bus." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
The Mack Bus Possibly 1931, a challenge for the same makers as the Mack truck. M ...
Circa 1908. "High Street at night, Arch City, Columbus, Ohio." If you can't get into Bliss College, there's always Professor Rader's Academy of Dancing next door. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. ...
Circa 1910. "Columbus, Ohio, from Great Southern Hotel." Photobombed by the Mail Pouch Tobacco horse. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
Everything's Up To Date In Kansas City And in Columbus, Ohio as well. In the background ...
The Jersey shore circa 1904. "Young's Hotel and Boardwalk, Atlantic City." Where strollers confront a plenitude of amusements, confections and refreshments. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Th ...
August 1938. "Citizens of Columbus, Ohio." View full size. Photograph by Ben Shahn. Image scanned from 35mm nitrate negative.
I'll bet the comment... ...was about how the Malt Company has apparently gone out of business. (They shou ...
Columbus, Ohio, circa 1910. "High Street, south from State." Where strollers have, among many available choices, a 3-cent lunchroom, the Imperial Tonsorial Parlor and Baths, "base ball scores received by innings" and swastika sporting goods. 8x10 ...
Circa 1908. "Franklin Park, Columbus, Ohio." Where something's up, or maybe not. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
My take There is something there - or rather, two somethings. It looks to me lik ...
Completed in 1905, the Columbus Savings & Trust Building, known today as the Atlas Building, counted among its amenities "seven elevators, complete refrigerating plant, its own power plant to furnish electric li ...
June 12, 1935. "Newark passenger station, Pennsylvania Railroad. Waiting room, sunlight and passengers. McKim, Mead & White, client." Waiting for someone to explain the plane. Large format negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size. ...
Circa 1910. "High Street south from Chestnut, Columbus, Ohio." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Enigma I'm glad tterrace included a "g" in the noun. As for how I do it, Dave was right - I ...
Columbus, Ohio, circa 1910. "High Street north from State." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
+94 Same view from July of 2009.
Arches Were those arches really only for street lighting ...
April 1939. "Front of hardware store. Enterprise, Alabama." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
The view today
Work or Play? You see a display full of h ...
Ann Arbor, Michigan, circa 1910. "Michigan Central railroad station." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Ann Arbor Lineman Up a pole off in the distance.
The Same View Today ...
Columbus, Ohio, 1904. "Chittenden Hotel." Opened 1895, razed 1973. The final installment of our Columbus Day trilogy. 8x10 glass negative. View full size.
Third time is a charm. The first two had a fire problem. Read more .
An od ...
August 1938. "Itinerant photographer in Columbus, Ohio." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative. Photograph by Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration.
Excellent One of the better portraits that Shahn completed while working for the FSA, ...
September 1943. "Columbus, Ohio. A Greyhound bus driver off duty." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Double straw in a Coke Had almost forgotten that this used to be a thing.
Jukebox Seebur ...
Circa 1908. "City Hall -- Columbus, Ohio." Populated by a cast of ectoplasmic pedestrians. Added bonus: windowsill milk bottles! View full size.
Looks like soot I was just thinking how the building looks like many we saw in Europe, in t ...
My great-great uncle Henry Kruger in his office, Columbus, Ohio December, 1908. He accompanied his sister, Augusta, and her three children from Hamburg, Germany, to Westfield, NY, to join her husband, William Granewitsch. Henry and William were bo ...
C&O 2-8-4 #2717 at Parsons engine terminal, Columbus, Ohio in July, 1946. Built by American Locomotive Company, Schenectady, NY 1943. Due to the road's southern headquarters, the C&O refused to call their 2-8-4's Berkshire types, opting ...
Columbus, Ohio, circa 1910. "State Capitol and McKinley monument." And birdhouses. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
For the birds As someone who sets up half a dozen nesting boxes for tree ...
Summer 1938. "Scene at Buckeye Lake Amusement Park, near Columbus, Ohio." View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Ben Shahn for the FSA.
I Wanna Ride! So I can sit next to the barefooted lass in the tree.
(The Gallery, Ben Shahn, S ...