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.
- Famous Hollywood faces
- Not just S&P
- re: Those things in the jar
- Up In Smoke
- Medical Smoking
- Quick fix
- A Quink Comment
- If You’re Like Me, Never
- Delivering the News
- U.S.A.
- S&P
- 1940 Zenith radio model 6G601
- Quality goes in before the name goes on!
- Snazzy skirt
- Carbon Arc Lamps
- Illuminate us
- I remember it well
- I can't prove it
- Complicated then, forgotten now
- Bryan-Stevenson
- Skinny is as skinny does
- How do you rest in peace
- Riding the footboards
- Alas, hidden from view
- Baldwin Diesels
- Exclusive pump
- Bananas, Oysters and Smokey Joe
- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
Photos submitted by Shorpy members!
Print Emporium
Drive Slow: 1925
"C & P Tel. Co." The Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. garage in Washington circa 1925. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Look at the truck...
Look at the truck on the left side, third one down. You see the axle grease leaking out and getting splashed on the tire? I guess when you have a job to do you don't have time to do repairs. "Get out there and run that copper!"
C&P
We've seen just about everything else at C&PT - are there any pictures of switchboards or switching equipment?
[Unfortunately no. At least not at C&P. - Dave]
Parking Garage
I didn't know they were invented before the '50s, but according to Wikipedia multi-story garages were around at this time. I always picture old cars parked outside in the dust. It took me aback to see a picture of an indoor garage, which is such a banal thing, with '20s vehicles. This picture is so ordinary that it could have been taken today, if it weren't for the trucks!
Fascinating
A very interesting website. Nicely done. I like the data you provide on many of the photos. History has a human face here.
-- Robert Arthur Smith (www.duckparade.com)
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