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... the Our Lady of Lourdes School at 468 West 143rd Street in New York circa 1914. 8 x 10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View ...

Image - Dave - 07/20/2008 - 1:34pm - 126 comments

New York circa 1916. "Anna Fitziu." The Metropolitan Opera soprano and small entourage. 5x7 ...

Image - Dave - 05/01/2010 - 3:13am - 14 comments

... but there was an actress of this name who did a show in New York in 1924. She played the maid, a typical Irish role. Who knows? Looks ...

Image - Dave - 12/10/2007 - 4:05pm - 8 comments

W.T. Grant department store fire at New York's Sixth Avenue and 18th Street in April 1916. View full size. George Grantham Bain Collection. Fire in the ...

Image - Dave - 12/10/2007 - 8:02pm - 3 comments

... outside of the U.S. yet!], but I used it to find this New York Times article, which even reveals the same address on the letter in the ...

Image - Dave - 01/19/2009 - 11:09pm - 32 comments

New York circa 1916. "Opossums hanging up outside shop." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham ...

Image - Dave - 08/26/2008 - 4:30am - 21 comments

... A bargain for someone. STONE & FAIRFAX 1342 New York Ave. Washington Post, Feb 13, 1916 Admiral G.B. ...

Image - Dave - 03/23/2009 - 12:04pm - 17 comments

... During its eight months on the high seas -- after leaving New York Harbor with 2,000 tons of coal -- the converted 15,000-ton cruiser sank ...

Image - Dave - 11/18/2008 - 8:29am - 20 comments

... and the Society Circus" tells about a 1930's program in New York. Apart from that I may find information about a 1915 movie "Mrs. Jarr and ...

Image - Dave - 12/03/2008 - 1:25am - 3 comments

La Primadora cigar shop at 1153 Broadway in New York circa 1920. The owner, civic leader and entrepreneur Max Schwarz, died in ...

Image - Dave - 12/10/2007 - 8:06pm - 7 comments

... now disputed among several other buildings in Chicago and New York.) The Tacoma was also the first large building built by a general ...

Image - Dave - 02/04/2010 - 2:24pm - 20 comments

... of 1898; renamed Tecumseh; and placed in commission at New York City on 6 April 1898, Lt. G. R. Evans in command. Six days after her ...

Image - Dave - 07/25/2009 - 8:38am - 3 comments

... be c. 1916. I believe the carriage was made in Binghamton, New York as there was a wicker worker business there. The original picture is five ...

Image - Sharon King - 07/05/2009 - 5:32am - 0 comments

... whom I have never seen. My grandfather, who was born in New York,was killed in the First World War in 1916, whilst serving in the British ...

Image - GuyChallis - 07/21/2010 - 5:52pm - 0 comments

New York, 1916. Heckscher Building at 50 East 42nd Street and Madison Avenue. View full ...

Image - Dave - 12/12/2007 - 1:14pm - 3 comments

... in those days; it wasn't high-toned and sophisticated like New York. I'm not sure what "bad conditions" Mr. Tebbutt was referring to (leaving ...

Image - Dave - 12/10/2007 - 4:27pm - 1 comment

New York circa 1920. "Casino Theater playing the musical 'The Little Whopper.' " ... was inspired by a two-reel silent movie comedy released in 1916, titled "Oh! What A Whopper!" The plot revolved around a little white lie ...

Image - Dave - 02/04/2010 - 2:35pm - 13 comments

... ... she appears in magazine illustrations, and in the new salon pictures -- also on butchers' calendars, soap ads, and so on." Five ... Small town girl from Erie, Pennsylvania goes to New York to make it big. While working as a secretary, is discovered in 1914, and ...

Image - Dave - 06/15/2009 - 11:57am - 19 comments

... old possums a couple of weeks ago? [That was in New York. This is Washington. - Dave] My great grandfather This is a photo ...

Image - Dave - 12/30/2009 - 1:55am - 14 comments

... & Willard's "Mechanical Equipment of Buildings," New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1916. What made this boiler "smokeless" was an ...

Image - Dave - 02/17/2010 - 1:19pm - 7 comments

... Loewinger Brothers printers, a pool hall and Greater New York Film Rental. We also see women at two of the windows. View full size. ...

Image - Dave - 12/10/2007 - 8:13pm - 3 comments

... urbanites, no doubt in early spring. Look at those women. New York's Fifth Avenue had nothing on them! This photo depicts the plethora of ...

Image - Dave - 07/02/2009 - 2:57am - 16 comments

... "Mr. Marsh and Miss Taylor" is Legend on Doorbell. New York, Feb 20. — Pretty 21-year-old Eleanor Taylor, as attractive a girl ...

Image - Dave - 10/12/2009 - 9:24pm - 6 comments

... seconds. There's another Misfit sign shown here , in New York. - Dave] Huge It makes me dizzy looking at this now, being used ...

Image - Dave - 12/06/2008 - 7:30pm - 12 comments

... few days after the White House showing and printed in the New York American on 28 February 1915. In it, Griffith claimed that the film ...

Image - Dave - 11/05/2008 - 12:14am - 4 comments

"Hell Gate Bridge (New York Connecting Railroad Bridge)," circa 1915. This steel arch span over the East River was completed in 1916. View full size. I remember this bridge! I used to bike out on ...

Image - Dave - 10/05/2008 - 4:29pm - 7 comments

... needed to be a good sailor. The well-heeled young men of New York, including Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, went to Plattsburg NY for what was ...

Image - Dave - 01/15/2009 - 8:22pm - 8 comments

... was designed by J.R. Thomas (probably John R. Thomas) of New York. The right half of the building was added ten years later under the ...

Image - Dave - 01/01/2009 - 5:46pm - 7 comments

5 cent restaurant in New York's Bowery circa 1910. View full size. 8x10 glass negative, G.G. Bain ... ever seen Charlie Chaplin's Mutual short "The Immigrant" (1916 or 17), then you know exactly what this place was like. (Eric Campbell not ...

Image - Dave - 12/10/2007 - 7:39pm - 11 comments

January 1909. Billiard champion Calvin Demarest in New York, seven years before his prematurely reported death. From his 1916 ...

Image - Dave - 04/18/2008 - 7:50pm - 5 comments