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- 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
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Coming Soon: 1903
New York circa 1903. "Detroit Photographic Company, 229 Fifth Avenue." As Paul Harvey used to say, "And now for the rest of the story" -- a more expansive view of the building seen in our previous post, answering the question of what the General was up to. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.
Perilous climb
How did the ladies gracefully make it to the top of that coach?
Faux Fire
The one on the right is a chimney. The one on the left is symmetrical brickwork to balance that gorgeous chimney. Only fire it experienced was in its architect's imagination.
I just wish they had kept that New Amsterdam style building. Between the tile and the brickwork, and the ironwork, it is the prettiest thing on the block.
The Hotel Brunswick is nothing special. That we lost it is no big deal. But that faux chimney building was a treasure.
Capital!
This photograph is a wondrous time machine.
It puts you right there on the street in 1903.
On the right is the north end of Madison Square; the view is looking southeast. This picture was probably taken from the top of a stoop.
?!
How did they get a window in the chimney? I've never seen anything like it.
Madison Square Park in the distance
The Flatiron Building (completed in 1902) would be located just past the park, just beyond the right edge of the photograph. Also, today's Museum of Sex is on the NE corner, just inside the iron fence area.
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