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- Bright Eyes
- On the Grids
- Ford V8 passing a Chevy
- Those black dots on the wall
- Different genre
- Are YOU using unregistered restrooms?
- Well Documented
- Planning Ahead
- Grapes Of Some ...
- Latchis Theatre
- Vehicle IDs
- She's not there
- We have a winner
- Anomie Farm?
- Creative Parking
- Gifts of Shorpy
- That thing in the deer's antlers
- Fireproof! What a selling point!!
- Penn Central Airlines
- Finally
- "Pine Camp expansion area"
- Moved out because of Fort Drum
- More Than 30 Comics!
- Nice shine
- 1940 Census
- Father of 11
- Mystery Cars
- Conceptual Art
- Where's #11?
- This lad is not in on the fix
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Vintage photos of:
Company Town: 1937
February 1937. "Company steel town. Jefferson County, Alabama." The stomping grounds of our namesake Shorpy Higginbotham, killed in a mining accident in 1928. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Resettlement Administration. View full size.
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- 12056 reads
Cow Boy: 1942
July 1942. East Montpelier, Vermont. "Conrad Ormsbee with automatic electric milkers. His father agreed to increase his Jersey herd from 25 to 30 milkers to aid in the Food for Freedom program." Photo by Fritz Henle. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 8561 reads
Kingfish Airflow: 1935
Washington, D.C., 1935. "Sen. Huey P. Long." The former Louisiana governor and future assassinated senator with a shiny DeSoto Airflow. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 11283 reads
Ghosts of New York: 1907
New York circa 1907. "Marble Collegiate Church, Fifth Avenue." Surrounded by a host of ectoplasmic pedestrians. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
- 3 comments
- 8114 reads
The Courtyard: 1903
New Orleans circa 1903. "Old Spanish courtyard." Is the bar open yet? 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
- 2 comments
- 9472 reads
Meat Market: 1936
April 1936. "Group of houses in 600 block on East Detroit Street. Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Plus: One kid, one cat and the Joseph D. Frinzi meat market. Photo by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 13144 reads
A New Angle: 1903
New York circa 1903. "The Flatiron Building." Where, as we like to say, there are three sides to every story. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.
- 5 comments
- 13400 reads
Jackson Street: 1936
April 1936. "House at 437 North Jackson Street. Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Photo by Carl Mydans for the Resettlement Administration. View full size.
- 7 comments
- 9807 reads
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