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- How's Your Reception?
- Keep Your Hair
- Ford family in progress
- I had a sportcoat like that once.
- That's how I lived back then
- Product Planning
- Thing on head
- He "Still Remains" in the neighborhood
- Meant to last!
- And that's the case here
- Still there, still nice
- Both Still There
- Up the Walker ladder
- Most of those buildings are gone but,
- My dad's drink of choice
- My Neighborhood
- On the big screen
- In series
- Si, si, senor
- Canadian, eh?
- Where's the Cop?
- Location
- Cougar
- The Gilmore
- Love the fermenting
- O Canada
- What's the best cure for a Hangover
- Let me guess
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Ford Customline: 1956
Dearborn, Michigan. "1956 Ford Customline Fordor Sedan in Meadowmist Green." A stylish suburbanite and her toothpaste-toned transport. Color transparency from the Ford Motor Co. photographic archives. View full size.
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Foxley: 1910
Circa 1910. "St. Mary's Church and Ambery house ('Foxley'), Walkerville, Ontario." In the foreground, holders for the photographer's glass plates. "Foxley," designed by Detroit architect Albert Kahn, was the residence of Clayton J. Ambery, an executive of the Hiram Walker distillery. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 6 comments
- 2693 reads
Canadian Club: 1956
Los Angeles circa 1956. "Canadian Club imported whisky -- In 87 lands, the best in the house." No. 4 in a series of billboard photos from the files of Pacific Outdoor Advertising. View full size.
- 11 comments
- 3752 reads
The Malt House: 1900
Walkerville, Ontario, circa 1900. "Hiram Walker & Sons. Malt house from bottling works." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 2535 reads
Piles to New Castle: 1906
The Granite State circa 1906. "Pile bridge at New Castle, New Hampshire." You'll come for the bridge but stay for the bushes. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
- 4 comments
- 2954 reads
Let Us Have Peace: 1911
New York circa 1911. "Grant's Tomb and rubber-neck auto on Riverside Drive." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 5458 reads
Double Duty: 1955
Los Angeles circa 1955. "New Chiffon -- bathroom tissue that is facial tissue." No. 3 in a series of billboard photos from the files of Pacific Outdoor Advertising. View full size.
- 10 comments
- 5649 reads
Hotel Wendell: 1910
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, circa 1910. "North Street and Hotel Wendell from the park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 4032 reads
Ghosts of Gotham: 1910
New York circa 1910. "Riverside Drive and Riverside Park." Replete with spectral strollers. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 5134 reads
Peoples Gas Light & Coke: 1912
Chicago circa 1912. "Peoples Gas Company Building, Michigan Avenue." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 4859 reads
Tree Parking: 1910
The Detroit River circa 1910. "View at head of Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Mich." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 7 comments
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Russell House: 1900
Detroit circa 1900. "Russell House, Woodward Avenue and Cadillac Square." Razed in 1905 to make way for the Hotel Pontchartrain. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
- 8 comments
- 5416 reads
Perfect Pancakes: 195X
Los Angeles circa 1954-57. "Betty Crocker promises you perfect pancakes." No. 2 in series of billboard photos from the files of Pacific Outdoor Advertising. View full size.
- 9 comments
- 5941 reads
Tense? NERVOUS?
Los Angeles circa 1954-57. "Anacin: Faster, safer relief from tense, nervous headaches." Our first in series of billboard photos from the files of Pacific Outdoor Advertising. View full size.
- 16 comments
- 7246 reads
Twenty-One: 1980
"21 Club, Buffalo, Wyoming, 1980." 35mm color transparency from the John Margolies Roadside America photographic archive. Happy New Year from Shorpy! View full size.
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- 6215 reads
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