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- Bowling Green Offices: 1919
- ... vacant for many years. The grand lobby hall became a post office several years later, and the building now houses a variety of tenants. ... Building) was not built as a new building in the early 1920's, but rather had a limestone facade installed over the extant brick. ...
Posted by Dave - 05/31/2013 - 2:05am -
- Nurse Needles: 1942
- ... probationer must learn." Photo by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information. View full size.
A nurse is a nurse -- ... not know what school the nurses hat represents, from the 1920's to the 1970's Babies Hospital did major recruitment of nurses from Great ...
Posted by Dave - 07/16/2014 - 10:48am -
- Forever Young: 1915
- ... street northwest, son of the superintendent of the Senate office building, was killed yesterday morning by an automobile near Seventeenth ... or maybe a brother, because the neighboring plate is from 1920. (The name on the negative label, when the subject is a minor, or when ...
Posted by Dave - 08/14/2014 - 9:12pm -
- Third Avenue El: 1942
- ... local track." Medium format negative by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information. View full size.
Third Avenue Railway System ... Subway had been in the planning stage since the early 1920's with no work having ever been done.
The years went by with no ...
Posted by Dave - 05/19/2013 - 4:10pm -
- G Street: 1925
- ... Per display ad in the Washington Herald, April 21, 1920: The Place to Dine Well at One-Third Less Than Elsewhere. Self Service ... The "Harry B. Mason, Stamps for Collectors" office window brings back memories for me.
As a teenager back in the late ...
Posted by Dave - 11/27/2013 - 12:18pm -
- No Left Turn: 1948
- ... like a low price for a half-million square feet of Class A office space, but much of it is leased to city agencies at relatively low ... of most Queens streets were changed to numbers in the 1920's. The old street names live on in some of the older subway stations, for ...
Posted by Dave - 06/30/2013 - 12:18pm -
- Loving Cup Lovelies: 1921
- ... Suit That Changed Bathing to Swimming" introduced around 1920.
Krazy Kat Looks like a doll version of a beloved comics character ... kids in tow, standing in line at the bank, the doctor's office. This is what the vast majority of women look like.
What a nice ...
Posted by Dave - 07/06/2018 - 10:16pm -
- Personal Chemistry: 1943
- ... School. Chemistry class equipment." Photo by Philip Bonn, Office of War Information. View full size.
Breakfast? On the right I ... school in 1997, and the school I attended was built in the 1920's. The items in the picture are almost exactly like the ones we were ...
Posted by Dave - 10/16/2017 - 4:41am -
- Larry's Beer Garden: 1934
- ... after work. I wish there was a tavern in the lobby of my office building, but then I'd probably never go home.
Gloucester Schooner ... out of Nova Scotian ports such as Lunenberg). In the 1920's and 30's, many replicas of them were built on a smaller scale for use as ...
Posted by Dave - 09/13/2011 - 1:59pm -
- Washington Sleeps Here: 1922
- ... S.E. from B Street." Lodgings in this view from the House Office Building include the Potomac, Congress Hall and President hotels (sign ... the right).
Other cars at the beginning of the row:
1920-1921 Studebaker Big 6 (Model EG)
1922 Star (made by Durant Motors) ...
Posted by Dave - 05/14/2014 - 12:01pm -
- Government Connections: 1959
- ... My grandmother was a supervisor for Bell Telephone in the 1920's. She traveled around by streetcar to six exchanges. She would carry a ... switchboard and other Governmental units which have inter-office dial service. Operators will still handle all incoming calls and ...
Posted by Dave - 11/29/2013 - 8:26pm -
- Dr. Brush
- ... was a pharmacist in Bavaria. He went on become curatorial office pharmacist for the German Pharmacy Museum .
Harris ... something. ... be a calliope?
Not enough clues Would guess around 1920, but without any vehicles shown it is a challenge to put a date on this ...
Posted by BucksCountyHistory - 09/19/2011 - 9:21pm -
- Götterdämmerung: 1942
- ... shops." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Franklin Booster Looking ... does the fat lady sing?
Wood blocks During the late 1920's and early 1930's my father was the engineer who was in charge of the ...
Posted by Dave - 07/27/2015 - 12:51pm -
- Kid Dogs: 1919
- ... chalk, the foreman would like to see him in the warehouse office. 5x7 glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.
... rear wheel on, we need more bolts!
Where it was The 1920 Crocker-Langley City Directory shows Dodd Warehouses at Lombard and ...
Posted by Dave - 09/22/2014 - 9:18am -
- Michigan Avenue: 1942
- ... Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Conrad Hilton Hotel on the ... "smoke-filled room" at the Republican Convention of 1920, where Warren G. Harding was chosen to run for President. With very few ...
Posted by Dave - 08/20/2021 - 10:52am -
- Agnes the Operator: 1942
- ... Hartford, Connecticut." Photo by Andreas Feininger for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Andreas Feininger This ... an Agnes.
Daughter of Irish immigrants Found in 1920 census in New Haven with father John J, mother Alice. Both born Ireland. ...
Posted by Dave - 10/08/2015 - 9:04am -
- ¿Dónde Está Pancho: 1916
- ... after Villa, 1916." Gelatin silver print, U.S. Copyright Office. View full size.
What a surprise I swear, until seeing this ... Villa, meanwhile, had agreed to lay down his arms in July 1920. But after three years of working his farmland, he was murdered as part of ...
Posted by Dave - 04/20/2021 - 1:48am -
- Welcome D.U. Bathrick: 1946
- ... U.S. Marine Corps during World War I. At the time of the 1920 Census, he was living in Houston, Texas, and working as a sales manager ... Motors. He also served as the head of General Motors' office in Washington, D.C., during World War II. He died September 24, 1972, ...
Posted by Dave - 04/19/2015 - 7:45pm -
- Movers & Shakers: 1922
- ... became part of the U.S. Constitution on August 18, 1920: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied ... heels.
(The Gallery, D.C., Natl Photo, Politics, The Office) ...
Posted by Dave - 08/16/2019 - 8:56am -
- The Fight: 1913
- ... and ran a music publishing firm in the early 1900s. By the 1920's, Feist was among the seven largest publishers of sheet music in the ... in a bordello, where the heroine (campaigning for public office) accuses her opponents of corrupting young women and the community for ...
Posted by Dave - 03/09/2015 - 1:42pm -
- York Village: 1908
- ... Village and with just a little bit of work the Post Office could easily have a drive through window.
The trolley tracks ... that connected York Harbor to Dover, New Hampshire. On a 1920 topographic map the line's tracks are shown running down the main street ...
Posted by Dave - 09/18/2012 - 11:45am -
- With Relish: 1942
- ... probably would have been better. Photo by Edward Gruber, Office of War Information. View full size.
"A Coke with ... (3), the third of the quintet, was launched in 1920 but not delivered until 1922 due to a shortage of materials, and built by ...
Posted by Dave - 05/19/2014 - 12:15pm -
- DOJ: 1915
- ... building at the nearby corner of 15th and Vermont.
In 1920, the building was purchased by George Washington University to house their ... January 1926 to make way for the construction of a "modern office building" to house the real estate firm of Shannon & Luchs, Inc.
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Posted by Dave - 08/22/2012 - 8:37pm -
- Road Tripping: 1952
- ... born in 1900, was living in Blue Springs, Missouri, in 1920. In 1940, he was in St. Louis. Perhaps Ollie ended up at this roadside ... the address on the Death Certificate is a U.S. Post Office mailing address (not a highway route). It's doubtful *Missouri T* ever ...
Posted by Dave - 09/02/2014 - 3:09pm -
- Cars on California: 1921
- ... in some area of insurance, could not be found. His office moved many times over the next 25 years, but always remained in the ... the business from his mother.
The Cole shown was a 1920 Aero-Eight Tourster. The company literature said it had the following ...
Posted by Dave - 09/21/2016 - 11:45am -
- Tailgater: 1943
- ... Iowa." Medium-format negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Coordination? I wonder ... Pennsylvania. The locomotives were built between 1917 and 1920, and delivered in batches, with 3286 being the next to last delivered. ...
Posted by Dave - 04/25/2015 - 9:35pm -
- Après-Launch: 1900
- ... in signage. Seems to have flourished until about 1920 or so.
By the way, that steam yacht in the background is lovely. I ... and many have the mystery period on their signage, e.g. "OFFICE." in large carved granite block letters above the entrance. Does anyone ...
Posted by Dave - 02/26/2015 - 1:24pm -
- The Buick Building: 1921
- ... branch, Buick Motor Company's new assembling plant and office building, will be erected on site of the Unitarian Church property at ... rental of over $300,000. (Washington Post, April 18, 1920)
(The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, D.C., Factories, Natl Photo) ...
Posted by Dave - 12/05/2020 - 2:18pm -
- Irving Trust: 1931
- ... be seen in the profiles of buildings constructed in the 1920's and 1930's, for example the Irving Trust (now Bank of New York Mellon) ... were so small that the building was obsolete for modern office uses.
(The Gallery, Irving Underhill, NYC) ...
Posted by Dave - 08/15/2013 - 11:23am -
- Hatty's Hats: 1943
- ... Medium format nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Now and Then Garment ... and from 35th to 40th streets. During its heyday in the 1920's it housed over 600 hatmakers with a total of 15,000 employees. It ...
Posted by Dave - 06/26/2014 - 10:42am -