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June 3, 1922. New York. "Schoolgirls sailing." Recent graduates, their chaperones and a litter of fleabitten furries. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
A newly restored version of a Shorpy favorite that has collected three pages of comments since it was first posted in 2007 --
The caption for this one just says "Post Office." Thanks to our commenters we now know that the building with the statue is the Our Lady of Lourdes School at 468 W. 143rd Street in New York circa 1914. 8x10 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size | The school in 2007.
Summer 1914. "Penn varsity crew team in Poughkeepsie." Bain News Service glass negative. View full size.
April 3, 1914. San Francisco (Daly City). "Jim Clabby & Bill Murray." Middleweight champion "Jimmy" Clabby and "Billy" Murray, who fought to a draw after 20 rounds. 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
January 1914. New York. "Women's Political Union -- Suffrage dancers." On the Suffrage Ball program along with the Butterfly Dancers. Bain News Service glass negative. View full size.
The colorized Christmas tree is back, 107 years after its debut in Madison Square. Happy holidays from Shorpy!
New York, December 1913. "Christmas tree, Madison Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
January 31, 1914. New York. "Golden Butterfly Dance -- Women's Political Union Suffrage Ball, 71st Regiment Armory." 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
"Yale Varsity 4 at boathouse (1913)." As for whatever the coxswain is calling out, you can fill in the blanks in the comments below. 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
New York. May 16, 1921. The Metropolitan Opera soprano Yvonne d'Arle and friend. 8x10 inch glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Roller skating -- young man on bicycle skates." Photoprint by Hall; George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.
100 years ago saw the first trans-Atlantic flight, and it wasn’t Lindbergh’s. A giant Navy seaplane flew from Queens to the Azores in 1919, eight years before the Spirit of St. Louis. It took three weeks. It wasn’t nonstop. — N.Y. Times
May 1919. "The NC-4 Curtiss flying boat, designed by Glenn Curtiss, at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, New York. The NC-4 was the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic Ocean as part of the U.S. Navy transatlantic flight attempt." 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
Feb. 10, 1913. "Washington hikers. Suffragists on bus in New York City, part of the 'hike' to Washington, D.C., which joined the March 3, 1913, National American Woman Suffrage Association parade." 5x7 glass negative. View full size.
New York circa 1924. "Koshetz and child." The soprano Nina Koshetz and her daughter Marina Schubert. 5x7 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
January 30, 1911. New York. "New Year's decorations in Chinatown on Mott Street." 8x10 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
July 1921. New York. "Princess Fatima Sultana of Afghanistan." The "princess," whose claim to royalty was questionable, met with President Harding in Washington after a notorious impostor named Stanley Weyman (among other aliases), pretending to be a "naval liaison," tricked the State Department into arranging the interview. 8x10 glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.
The princess, it was learned, takes out her nose jewel when she goes to bed at night, as other women remove their earrings. Unlike American women, she is not afraid of rats, mice, or bats. The reason for this immunity from those customary feminine fears is that in the Mohammed religion, which she professes, not only cats but all animals are sacred. (Washington Post)