Framed or unframed, desk size to sofa size, printed by us in Arizona and Alabama since 2007. Explore now.
Shorpy is funded by you. Patreon contributors get an ad-free experience.
Learn more.
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
Photos submitted by Shorpy members!
Print Emporium
A Ton of Bricks: 1904
Circa 1904. "The Philadelphia Bourse, Fourth and Ranstead Sts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Aliens Were Here
Yes, you can see the symbols they left behind.
Another Buteful Building
Butful Building, not like modern crap, such as Boston City Hall
[The First Lamp of Architecture. - Dave]
Another Buteful Building
Butful Building, not like modern crap, such as Boston City Hall
[The Second Lamp of Architecture. - Dave]
Another Buteful Building
Butful Building, not like modern crap, such as Boston City Hall
[I'm thinking of having these bronzed. - Dave]
Connections
Something I have never figured out is how those arc lights, with their apparently exposed connections, worked in the rain. I'd think those lights would have all shorted out. Or have I missed something?
AT&T at the Bourse
My maternal grandfather worked in the Bourse from the mid-'20s until after WWII for AT&T, which had a large interchange there.
After Work
We can run down to the Entertainment Bureau or the My Little Bourse Saloon, your choice, I'm open to whatever.
Is that an antenna?
Or is it some sort of a brace for wires? There wouldn't be too much wireless reception of any kind in those days.
[Wireless telegraphy was going strong then, and many urban skyscrapers had such masts. Search "wireless" here on Shorpy for more examples. -tterrace]
[The function of the tower seems to be meteorological-horological. - Dave]
Shorpy.com is a vintage photography site featuring thousands of high-definition images. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago. Contact us | Privacy policy | Accessibility Statement | Site © 2024 Shorpy Inc.
On Shorpy:
Today’s Top 5