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- The Front Page
- Mystical symbolism?
- Family of readers.
- Travelin' Man
- A surfeit
- What is that apparatus?
- John Vachon Interview
- Transitional neighborhood
- Strategic Outcome of the Raid
- Let there be Light
- Life Magazine
- My Favorite Photographer
- Questionable framing
- I wouldn't call it "news"
- Step on Up
- Couldn't Mom have a chair?
- Doolittle Raid
- I sense tension in the room
- Sassy lookin'
- Doolittle Raid, James Doolittle and co-pilot Richard Cole
- Month by Month With Vachon
- New Windows-- already?
- Red Ball Boots 4 buckle arctics.
- A Familiar Theme
- Troop: 8-ball side pocket
- Proof of time travel
- All that wool.
- Galoshes
- Colder than
- Catching some rays
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Kids These Days: 1904
New York, 1904. "Goat carriages in Central Park." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Moving
Seems like Ludwig Van moved...here he appears to be close to the Mall benches facing away from the rise of the Casino (where the Bandshell is now). Today he's closer to the Sheep Meadow and faces the Bandshell.
Beethoven in the Park
"Donated by the German-American Choir Society, the bronze bust of the German composer joined the growing collection of statuary on the Mall in 1884."
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