MAY CONTAIN NUTS
HOME
Home

Search Shorpy

SEARCH TIP: Click the tags above a photo to find more of same:
Mandatory field.

Search results -- 30 results per page

West 31st Street: Circa 1930s
... Circa 1930s. West 31st Street alongside the Post Office in New York City. The building on the next corner is where Madison Square Garden sits ... 
 
Posted by Bobby Cole - 09/26/2018 - 8:04am -

Circa 1930s. West 31st Street alongside the Post Office in New York City. The building on the next corner is where Madison Square Garden sits today. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Me and Mom: 1930
1930. New York City on an upper eastside apartment roof. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, ... 
 
Posted by mporta1929 - 10/12/2011 - 11:24am -

1930. New York City on an upper eastside apartment roof. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Marie, Rocker, Issar, Cigar: 1921
... brother Benny who invited the teenage Issar to join him in New York City around 1905. They subsequently formed Weinstein Brothers Cloak and ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 07/07/2017 - 6:59pm -

This photo shows my mother’s parents (Marie was last seen here) two years before they were wed if the date hand-written on the picture margin is correct. In 1921 both would have been approximately age 30. He was born in Bialystok (which is now part of Poland) in 1891, supposedly under the name of Issar Derrish which became Americanized to Isadore Weinstein, probably at the behest of his older brother Benny who invited the teenage Issar to join him in New York City around 1905. They subsequently formed Weinstein Brothers Cloak and Suits, with “Izzy” as the craftsman and Benny as the salesman. When Benny suddenly died in the 1930s that company fell apart. My guess is that this picture is at some vacation resort hotel, possibly in the Catskills. Beyond that, I have no clue. I would not consider sitting in a rocking chair and reading while a guy smoking a cigar was sitting on that chair’s arm with cigar smoke inches from my face to be a wonderful dating activity. I know for a fact that they married in 1923. That makes me question if this is a honeymoon photo, and not a dating photo. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Botany Bay Ballyhoo: 1953
Taken in New York City on November 8, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:45pm -

Taken in New York City on November 8, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Issar in America: 1905
... Hurwitz’s Photographic Art Studio, 273 E Houston Street, New York City. At the time he spoke no English and had little formal education, but ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 09/30/2017 - 11:20am -

At the behest of his older brother Benny, my mother’s future father, Issar, left his home in what is now Poland, for America. There he had his picture taken at Hurwitz’s Photographic Art Studio, 273 E Houston Street, New York City. At the time he spoke no English and had little formal education, but he had been apprenticed in the garment trade. Together the brothers formed Weinstein Brothers Cloak and Suits in NYC. Exactly when his name was changed from his birth name of Issar Derrish to his “American” name of Isadore Weinstein I do not know. I never met him to ask, though if I had, I would have asked which dumb cluck brother thought that very Eastern European ethnic name was American. My mother describes her Uncle Benny as an outgoing life of the party kind of fellow and says he was “the outside man” of the company. Her more reserved father was the “inside man” making the patterns and supervising whatever employees the company had. I translate that as being the salesman and the craftsman. When Benny died suddenly during the 1930's, the company folded, leaving Issar to freelance from company to company, making each one a pattern so that they would have new product for the coming season and stay in business during those hard times. Reportedly Issar loved children, opera, and cigars. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Girls vs Boy: about 1938
Location is Brooklyn New York City. The event is a birthday party that my approximately eight year old future ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 11/03/2017 - 7:08pm -

Location is Brooklyn New York City. The event is a birthday party that my approximately eight year old future mother, Arlene (in the light coat) attended. It was supposed to be a picture of the girls at the party, but somebody’s little brother snuck into the frame. The coat my mother is wearing might have been a coat her father made for her. He made at least one of her childhood winter coats. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Baby See, Baby Do: 1956
... both worked in the garment trade and she was a graduate of New York City’s FIT (a college for clothing design). There are several pictures ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 07/14/2017 - 7:47pm -

My mother was very into fashion design and sewing. Her parents had both worked in the garment trade and she was a graduate of New York City’s FIT (a college for clothing design). There are several pictures in my family’s albums of me at the sewing machine, but this is the earliest of those. I was so small I could not even sit in the chair. But I do appear to be actually sewing, just like I saw my mother do. The bizarre boy-cut hair I have was done to me by (an adult) neighbor, much to my mother’s displeasure, who wrote to her mother that the best thing about it was that my hair would grow and make it go away. Photo was probably taken by my mother on an Argus 75 box camera. Scan was made from a negative. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Astor Theatre Marquee: 1951
September 20, 1951 New York City. Taken by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:42pm -

September 20, 1951 New York City. Taken by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Ella in Person: 1953
Paramount Theatre New York City Taken August 9, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:45pm -

Paramount Theatre New York City Taken August 9, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Get This Boy Away From Me: 1957
... the star of this photo is a 1956 Chrysler parked on his New York City Street that we happen to be blocking. Why, oh, why couldn’t we have ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 12/01/2017 - 8:07pm -

I am the three-year-old child overly bundled up in the red snow suit and trying to get away from the older boy (who was a son of my father’s sister). He kept pushing my cheeks together to give me a funny face, and I kept trying to stop him. But the star of this photo is a 1956 Chrysler parked on his New York City Street that we happen to be blocking. Why, oh, why couldn’t we have been standing three feet further back to give us a better view of the car? (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Marie in America: 1913
... on her papers to Jacobson. In this photo, taken in New York City soon after she arrived in the USA, she was 22 years old. Marie ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 06/09/2017 - 7:01pm -

Marie was born in Lithuania on July 15, 1891. Her last name was pronounced Zah-COOB-en-zin, but when she came to the United States the officials translated the non-English alphabet on her papers to Jacobson. In this photo, taken in New York City soon after she arrived in the USA, she was 22 years old. Marie was college educated before she left Lithuania and worked in the millinery trade until she married in 1923 at the (then considered) ripe old age of 32. She gave birth to my aunt Harriet in 1924 and my mother Arlene in late 1929. She died at age 88 in March 1979. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Howie and the Belvedere: 195x
... We had a 1952 Studebaker at that time. Abe lived in a New York City apartment that had no place to park a car. Location is probably some ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 12/08/2017 - 7:29pm -

My father (left) chats with his brother-in-law Abe, who was the husband of his oldest sister, in a set of Adirondack chairs, blocking full view of a perfectly lovely, two-tone, 1956 Plymouth Belvedere. I haven’t a clue who owned the Plymouth. We had a 1952 Studebaker at that time. Abe lived in a New York City apartment that had no place to park a car. Location is probably some Catskills resort hotel. Date is late 1950's. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Curious About the Dress Form: 1957
... graduated from FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York City. She designed and made her clothes. She designed and made my clothes. ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 03/02/2018 - 8:41pm -

My mother’s whole life was (and to an extent still is) seen through a lens of apparel. Her mother was a milliner (made women’s hats during the first quarter of the 20th century, when everybody wore hats). Her father was a pattern-maker. My mother graduated from FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology) in New York City. She designed and made her clothes. She designed and made my clothes. She never bought a curtain, bedspread, or furniture slip cover in her life. She made them. If you were looking for her in the house, she would not be doing heavy duty cleaning. We had hired help for that. But she might be making fashion sketches, or sitting at the sewing machine. Here, three-year-old me stands on a seat cushion she made, which is on one of our Paul McCobb mid-century modern chairs, to examine to polka dot fabric she has draped on her dress form, as she starts the pattern-making process for another dress. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
30 Rock Christmas: 1952
Taken in New York City on December 14, 1952 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:41pm -

Taken in New York City on December 14, 1952 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Issar and Marie: 1951
... years after the cigar and rocker photo, visiting the New Brunswick, New Jersey garden apartment where my own, then newly-wed, future ... 1913, and met while working in the garment trade of New York City. They married in 1923. I never met him; he died the year before I was ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 07/07/2017 - 6:59pm -

These are my mother’s parents Issar and Marie, thirty years after the cigar and rocker photo, visiting the New Brunswick, New Jersey garden apartment where my own, then newly-wed, future parents lived from late 1951 until 1953. (A photo of my parents taken on this same day is here). They had both come from eastern Europe, he around 1905 and she around 1913, and met while working in the garment trade of New York City. They married in 1923. I never met him; he died the year before I was born. She seems to stand so tall and proud in her fur collar coat. The woman I met could not stand straight due to severe osteoporosis, which gave her a hunched back. Photo was probably taken by my mother. Scan was made from a print. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Hubert Blanc: 1965
... in Belgium. Hubert was born in France, grew up in New York City, moved to Saskatchewan to farm with his family, and ended up back in ... 
 
Posted by davidk - 11/11/2017 - 12:44pm -

The grave of my great-uncle Hubert Blanc who died at Passchendaele a hundred years ago at the age of 24. His younger sister, my maternal grandmother, took this photo on May 16, 1965, at the Lijssenthoek Cemetery in Belgium. Hubert was born in France, grew up in New York City, moved to Saskatchewan to farm with his family, and ended up back in the continent of his birth where he fought and died in the First World War. View full size. Hubert Blanc (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Cape Collar Coat: late 1940's
... mother posing in coats in her pre-marriage photos. Either New York City was having a mini ice age during the 1940's, or she had a thing for ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 11/03/2017 - 7:08pm -

There are picture after picture of my mother posing in coats in her pre-marriage photos. Either New York City was having a mini ice age during the 1940's, or she had a thing for coats. When I asked her about this one, she said that she bought it with money from her first job. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Manhattan Parade 5
Parade in New York City in the 1920s. Last of five shots of the parade from an envelope of ... 
 
Posted by mhallack - 09/10/2016 - 9:56am -

Parade in New York City in the 1920s. Last of five shots of the parade from an envelope of negatives I bought recently. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
School photo
... School, 143rd St between Amsterdam Ave & Convent Ave, New York City, late 50s. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by jfoster48 - 11/13/2015 - 7:39pm -

Photo of Joyce Foster, Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary Catholic School, 143rd St between Amsterdam Ave & Convent Ave, New York City, late 50s. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Manhattan Parade 2
Parade in New York City in the 1920s. Shot 2 of 5 of the parade from an envelope of negatives I ... 
 
Posted by mhallack - 09/10/2016 - 9:57am -

Parade in New York City in the 1920s. Shot 2 of 5 of the parade from an envelope of negatives I bought recently. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Manhattan Parade 3
Parade in New York City in the 1920s. Shot 3 of 5 of the parade from an envelope of negatives I ... 
 
Posted by mhallack - 09/10/2016 - 9:57am -

Parade in New York City in the 1920s. Shot 3 of 5 of the parade from an envelope of negatives I bought recently. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
« first‹ prev…3435 [36]
Syndicate content  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.