Workers on a Chloro boat, which was used for disinfecting large outdoor swimming areas. This photo ... Company collection, 1921. View full size.
Chloro Boat: 1921 Man, what happened to these things?
We could certainly use some mega chloro boats today.
Re: Chloro Boat Replaced by more reliable and less hazardous injection at the filter. ...
"Potomac Boat Club Sema [?] Sig," 1921, with the Key Bridge under construction in the ... size. National Photo Company Collection.
Potomac Boat Club This is upriver and from the dock of P.B.C. I have been a member of Potomac Boat Club for over twenty years, they have been around since 1869. The address ...
... know what the three objects hanging over the side of the boat are?
Appropriate Headgear For once, someone's wearing a boater in a boat. . . .
Low in the water. It would not take much to swamp this ship. ...
... pneumonia at age 37. View full size.
In the same boat They're all beautiful -- back in a time where it was healthy for women ... the oar as a guitar -- something I'd do.
Beauts in a boat Is the class clown on the end playing air ukulele? I can only imagine ...
... her head and shoulders. Neat.
Whatever floats your boat James Lee: Built in 1898 at Jeffersonville, Indiana for the Lee Line of ... 230-foot sidewheel packet. Converted to an excursion boat in 1917. Destroyed by ice, winter 1917-1918.
Harry Lee: A split ...
... man.
Norway? I can’t make out the name of the boat, and regardless it doesn’t appear that there’s a country listed, but ... a bench to check the unloading in comfort.
The banana boat is Norwegian As evidenced by the flag. It's from Bergen and its name ...
... on the edge of the building (partially obscured by the boat), so this dock was likely at the foot of Woodward, an area currently ... gasps of horror and disbelief.
Don't shake the boat! I love this picture, there are so many things to look at. But the ...
... who wants to get to the top of the greasy pole.
That Boat Is a gaff rigged schooner.
Vessel in Background is a Two-mast ... to reach the top of that post.
Can anybody I.D. the boat in the background? Or, what type is it? Ketch? Yawl?
Loved those ...
When my wife was a young lass her parents took her on a trip to Bimini and this photo was taken as she climbed up to the top deck. She bought a new purse just for the trip. I believe the year was 1964 or 65, but I could be mistaken. View full si ...
New York circa 1904. "The Submarine Boat, Coney Island." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing ... for your infant? After you take in the Submarine Boat, step right down and grab one for your ride home.
Ice cream? Yuck. ... We can get an infant incubator over by the submarine boat.
Prime Attraction At 15 cents a pop, this was the E-ticket ...
Florida circa 1902. "Waiting for the Sunday boat." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit ... hear what's being said and sung. Where will that Sunday boat carry them?
Give a guy a hat and he'll make it his own I can ...
... on the rig; Chesapeake Bay was once full of them.
Boat and more boats This is a wonderful picture. The Center For Wooden Boats ... "the only dipping lugsail to be used in an American work-boat type in the late 19th century." A plan of a New Orleans lugger is figure ...
Circa 1906. "Banana docks, New York." An interesting cast of characters. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
What is it? What is that device the man in the foreground is operating with the rop ...
... 1: "The Difference Between Oars and Sails."
1899. "Boat drill -- U.S.S. New York ." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by ... adjusting the leverage of the oarsman as the side of the boat tapers to bow or stern. There's a rule of thumb for estimating where the ...
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Let it flow, it floats back to you.
The luxe boat soon will be making another run ...
The luxe boat promises something for everyone.
Set a course for adventure, your mind ...
... vacation on the Metedeconk River, NJ, always meant a boat parade on the 4th of July. This was taken in 1941, five months before the ...
Wrong class! This was a "Seagull Class" wooden boat, #216, 18 feet long. The next boat Dad built was a Lightning, #1004. At ...
... their strange shutters and whistles.
The Gingerbread Boat The railings and detail work you see was generally factory made and ... I thought it would be nice to take a well equipped pontoon boat down the Mississippi from Minneapolis to New Orleans stopping at small ...
... is the actual subject of the shot and the ladies in the boat just happened to be there. He seems to be posing for the picture too as if ... under those things.
That guy on the roof of the boat Is looking really hard for a glimpse of wrist!
That man in the back ...
... Probably around the San Pedro area. I am not sure what the boat is towing, but it may have to do with oil drilling. View full size.
... The two white ships (and what looks like a small shore boat) are tied up to each other. No towing here.
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... another passenger, dressed his sons and took them to the boat deck. "My father entered our cabin where we were sleeping. He dressed me ... White Star ever awarded these orphans...
Toy Boat Anyone find it a little macabre that the kid orphaned by a shipwreck is ...
... [on the Yazoo River in Mississippi], was removed by a snag boat November 18-20, 1911. The cost of this work, $64.87, was reimbursed the ... the paddle wheel? Maybe it was the galley.
Working boat! Its nice to see a typical working boat instead of a showboat. Although ...
Colorized from this Shorpy original.This took a long time to colorize! My biggest project yet. View full size.
Details! Details! Details Sometimes it is all in the details.
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