Colorized from this Shorpy original.This took a long time to colorize! My biggest project yet. View full size.
Details! Details! Details Sometimes it is all in the details.
I have to say that you are among the best on this site ...
... Library of Congress. View full size.
Bridge and Boat That bridge is lovely! And it looks like there's a boat being drawn by horses in the canal on the left.
Harpers Ferry First ...
... Range'; not sure why.
We're gonna need a bigger boat Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum. Da-dum-da-dum-da-dum.
I love me some nature ... dead.
The "canoe" is an Adirondack Guide Boat. Note the rowlocks. Built light so the guide could carry it and big so ...
1921 or 1922. "Aeroplane exhibit, museum." For a closeup of the sign click here . National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
(The Gallery, Aviation, D.C., Natl Photo) ...
The Detroit River circa 1906. Steamer Tashmoo at St. Clair Flats, Michigan." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
What was he thinking? When enlarging these pictures, I often find it riveti ...
This is a group shot that appears to have been taken aboard ship. This is China, c. 1946. Grandpa was stationed in China as a U.S. Army Captain. Grandma is the Chinese lady seated in the lower right. The Chinese Nationalist officer seated in the ...
June 24, 1905. "Steamer William E. Corey, the launch, South Chicago, Ill." Seen earlier here and here . 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative. View full size.
Lean WAY back! Looks like the tug in the foreground has a funnel that ...
From original Shorpy image. This was quite a challenge for me to do; so many small images of men on the dock, so few color varieties. Someone commented that the ship partially shown on the right, the Disa, was sunk during WWI with, fortunately ...
Eights Week, 1904, Oxford. One of a series of images taken in Europe in 1904 by an unknown photographer. Scanned from the nitrocellulose negative. Spectators jockey for good viewing positions in anticipation of the sculling races. The large houseb ...
... They are simply a joy to row.
Who owns this boat? I think the man pushing the boat is the owner of this boat. He is also a married man according to the ring ...
... "Stanford University varsity crew at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., boat house." Capt. Seward, second from left. 5x7 glass negative. View full ... time to travel for a competition!
The Boys in the Boat California schools had a long-running crew rivalry with eastern ...
... — N.Y. Times
May 1919. "The NC-4 Curtiss flying boat, designed by Glenn Curtiss, at Rockaway Beach, Long Island, New York. The ... No wonder it took so long. No Propellers!
Flying Boat Technically, the NC-4 was a flying boat, not a seaplane. Seaplanes were ...
... photo is almost a hundred years old.
The Boys, the Boat & the Book Though taken 20 years earlier, this image reminds me of ... and inspiring books I've read recently, The Boys in the Boat, which is about the hardscrabble group of young men who comprised the 1936 ...
... the Blues Brothers bridge is a different one.
The odd boat I believe that's the top of a mobile caisson used for underwater ... or handkerchief, too, on the side by the strange "turtle boat."
[I think the camera is in the same spot. This photo has been ...
... scheduled. That will account for the fact that the small boat passing under these spans appeared to have sufficient clearance without ... is much safer when one rail is longer than the other.
Boat Too bad we can't see more of the boat other than the 'scape pipes and ...
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[Steeped in history! - Dave]
This Detroit boat looks so modern Just I wanted to write. Very modern boat as almost 110 years old. Very streamlined.
Happy Days Q: What are ...
... Alabama rivers. Her last trip was in 1928.
The second boat is the _y Staples.
[James T. Staples. - Dave]
Show Boat One can almost hear a rich voice start to sing "Old Man River"
The ...