May 10, 1912. "Gas holder, Station A, Detroit City Gas Company." Yet another gasometer abuilding. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

April 28, 1909. Wyandotte, Michigan. "Launching party, steamer Benj. Noble." Early on the morning of April 28, 1914, five years to the day after she slid down the ways of the Detroit Shipbuilding Company, the freighter Benjamin Noble went down in a squall on Lake Superior with the loss of all hands. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

        UPDATE: This is the Boulevard Sanitarium, founded in 1903 at 251 West 25th Street. Hat tip to Shorpy member William Lafferty.

Detroit circa 1908. "No caption (automobile parked in front of three-story house with side porch)." At the construction site next door: "These lots for sale. Enquire W.S. Pocock." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Detroit or thereabouts circa 1910. "Boy and girl seated in rustic arbor ('Donald Fuller' on negative)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

May 9, 1913. "Detroit City Gas Company, north end of gas holder." (Some assembly required.) 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1900. "Château Frontenac & Dufferin Terrace, Quebec City." This majestic hotel, constructed by the Canadian Pacific Railway on a bluff overlooking the St. Lawrence River, opened in 1893. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Atlantic City, 1906. "A Sand Man." The fellow last seen here. Also the bottom half of Kite Guy. Don't Forget the Worker! 5x7 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1904. "Brooklyn Bridge and East River." The Williamsburg Bridge in the distance. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Circa 1904. "Havana, Cuba -- Calle Galleano." Where ropa y sederia beckon at The Big Store. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

Havana, Cuba, circa 1904. "Courtyard of Hotel Florida, Calle Obispo." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

March 1942. "Chicago, Illinois. Provident Hospital, a Negro institution. Laboratory technician." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Detroit. "Summer 1941. Group of girls." Three of the young ladies from that card game, and three more who evidently didn't make the cut. Acetate negative by Arthur Siegel. View full size.

Here we have the latest installment in a curious series of photos taken by Arthur Siegel in Detroit in the summer of 1941, with the Library of Congress filing annotation "Killed" (not to be used). Their card game over, these girls seem to be settling in for the night. View full size.

My wife's cousin, Tony Granieri, with his new 1957 Dodge Royal Lancer at his house in Salt Lake City. Tony was a WWII veteran and earned the Purple Heart for injuries to his legs. He was self-conscious about that and never wore shorts the rest of his life. View full size.

May 13, 1942. "Detroit, Michigan. Style show presented by Chrysler Girls' Club at Saks Fifth Avenue store and scenes at plant. Chrysler Corporation office workers (one powdering her chin) typing various forms." Photo by Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information. View full size.