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Ballers: 1920
... 33 to 22, and a win at the Naval Club in Indian Head, Maryland, 72 to 20. The following article from The Sunday Star (Washington, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/02/2016 - 3:48pm -

Washington, D.C., 1920. "Congress Heights Yankees basketball team." Which in a few years would become an industrial squad fielded by the Palace Laundry. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. 36 and 5The record of the Congress Heights Yankees for the 1920-1921 season was 36 wins and 5 losses. They also won the District Championship for the second year in a row by defeating the Aloysius Club Churchmen two games to none in a best of three games series. The previous year the team had been known as the Y.M.C.A. Yankees. This season it also became affiliated with the Congress Heights Athletic Club. A similar photo to the one seen here was published in the Richmond Times Dispatch of February 18, 1921, and it appears to show the same players but without their sweaters. The club personnel are identified as: Top Row (left to right): Felipa, Goetz, Harvey, and Father Hortscamp; Bottom Row (left to right): Ingley, Shaffer, Catlin, Payne, and Sauber. From looking at other newspaper articles the team appears to have also had at least three other players: Atherton, Heddens, and Hager. Ray Catlin (1899 - 1974) was the team captain, and the manager was Arthur Schaffer, but it is unclear if this is a misspelling of the player named 'Shaffer' in the Richmond article. Their season opened with a win at home in the brand new Congress Heights Auditorium, against the Linworth Athletic Club on Thanksgiving Day, by a score of 95 to 13. This was the first of at least eight straight victories. In the two title games they played against the Aloysius Club they won by scores of 26 to 21 (at home) and 35 to 28 (at Gonzaga). Overall they averaged 51 points per game, and they held their opponents to an average of 24 points per game. Note that the game of basketball at the time the photo was taken was not the standardized game that it is today. Even the court size varied, and in the District Championship game against the Aloysius Club at Gonzaga the squareness of this court compared to other basketball courts was specifically mentioned as giving the Yankees a little trouble at the beginning of the game. The court size was often the size of the gym where the game was being played. After their championship game they played two more games to end the season: a loss to the Jersey Flyers in Williamsport, 33 to 22, and a win at the Naval Club in Indian Head, Maryland, 72 to 20. The following article from The Sunday Star (Washington, D.C.) of March 27, 1921 recaps their season. (The Gallery, D.C., Natl Photo, Sports)
Gable and Lombard: 1940
Baltimore, Maryland. December, 1940. Fan snapshot of the famous couple near Johns Hopkins ... 
 
Posted by Sawney Beane - 07/25/2011 - 2:17pm -

Baltimore, Maryland. December, 1940. Fan snapshot of the famous couple near Johns Hopkins Hospital. Photo acquired from a former theater projectionist in Fells Point around 1975. Gable and Lombard were both in town for checkups. Gable had oral surgery by Dr. B. Lucien Brun to remove a tooth and part of his jaw in an hour and a half operation that left the actor feeling "rotten". View full size. RareYou rarely see celebrities smiling in today's candid pictures. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Bowman Mill: 1940
Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1940. "Bowman Bros. grist mill, Gaithersburg." 8x10 inch ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/01/2019 - 7:54pm -

Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1940. "Bowman Bros. grist mill, Gaithersburg." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, Gas Stations, Theodor Horydczak)
Clean, Well-Lighted: 1953
April 24, 1953. "Goucher College, Towson, Maryland. Library interior. Moore & Hutchins, client." Large-format ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/22/2016 - 8:55pm -

April 24, 1953. "Goucher College, Towson, Maryland. Library interior. Moore & Hutchins, client." Large-format negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size. (The Gallery, Baltimore, Education, Schools, Gottscho-Schleisner)
Jennie Christa Power
... 1885, in Mound City, Kansas. She died in Prince Frederick, Maryland, in 1954. She was an accomplished cellist who played in symphony ... 
 
Posted by joemanning - 01/05/2010 - 9:21am -

Jennie was my grandmother. She was born Jennie Christa Butcher, in 1885, in Mound City, Kansas. She died in Prince Frederick, Maryland, in 1954. She was an accomplished cellist who played in symphony orchestras and vaudeville, mostly in Iowa. This photo was taken in the 1920s in Mason City, Iowa. a facefull of character and strength..very nice and thanks for sharing (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Paper Airplane 2: 1962
... done during the time he was stationed at Andrews AFB in Maryland, around 1962. View full size. Cool Diorama! I would have ... 
 
Posted by rubysshoes - 02/01/2013 - 9:02pm -

A closer look at Dad's handiwork, which I believe was done during the time he was stationed at Andrews AFB in Maryland, around 1962. View full size. Cool Diorama!I would have liked to have known your Dad. Diorama making is a lost art. re: Cool DioramaI wish everyone could have known him! A talented man, my Dad. This was just one of the things he did well. I have a good size collection of military comic panels and strips that he drew during his time in the service. Some of them were published at the time in various Officer's newsletters and other service based publications. Some are in rather rough shape..I am working on archiving and preserving them, and possibly offering them to the Air Force Museum at Wright Patterson AFB. I also have many photos of some very cool signs he made in the 60's. Some were neon, some gold leaf, most hand lettered, which is also a lost art. I hope to get some of those scanned soon and uploaded to Shorpy. I am ridiculously proud of my Dad. He would have been obsessed with Shorpy, and sharing him here with all of you is an honor, and would thrill him to the core. Thank you, Shorpy, for giving me this way to remember him. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Petroleum Panorama II
"Service station, First Street and Maryland Avenue." Spectacularly detailed view of a Washington, D.C., gas ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/26/2008 - 4:03am -

"Service station, First Street and Maryland Avenue." Spectacularly detailed view of a Washington, D.C., gas station in 1922. View full size. National Photo Company glass negative. Return to original image (with comments). (ShorpyBlog)
Master of the House: 1895
Young Willard Douglas at home in Takoma Park, Maryland, circa 1895. 5x7 glass negative by Edward M. Douglas. View full ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/20/2015 - 9:34pm -

Young Willard Douglas at home in Takoma Park, Maryland, circa 1895. 5x7 glass negative by Edward M. Douglas. View full size. (E.M. Douglas, Kids)
Wye Plantation (Colorized)
Wye Plantation, Maryland 1936 Colorized from Library of Congress photo by Frances Johnston. ... 
 
Posted by Dennis Klassen - 06/30/2012 - 12:01am -

Wye Plantation, Maryland 1936 Colorized from Library of Congress photo by Frances Johnston. View full size. (Colorized Photos)
Elm Avenue (Colorized): 1911
From Shorpy : 1921 Takoma Park, Maryland. New streets and sidewalks, the burbs. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by richland1254 - 07/13/2012 - 10:32pm -

From Shorpy: 1921 Takoma Park, Maryland. New streets and sidewalks, the burbs. View full size. (Colorized Photos)
The Nursery: 1928
Takoma Park, Maryland, circa 1928. "Washington Sanitarium nursery." National Photo Company ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/31/2012 - 7:30am -

Takoma Park, Maryland, circa 1928. "Washington Sanitarium nursery." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. (The Gallery, Medicine, Natl Photo)
Black Lads in Hyattsville
... bunch. Taken by my Uncle, Nolan Miller of Beltsville, Maryland. View full size. JD Tower This view is looking towards ... 
 
Posted by Atomiclady - 06/27/2014 - 7:25pm -

Somewhere between Hyattsville proper, and Riverdale Park just off U.S. # One. A happy looking bunch. Taken by my Uncle, Nolan Miller of Beltsville, Maryland. View full size. JD TowerThis view is looking towards Baltimore. The tracks at far right is the B&O Washington Branch. JD Tower in the background, controlled the junction here for the line down through Bladensburg to Sheppards Point and connections to Potomac Yard. The boys are standing on the double track Capitol Traction line [note the poles with crossarms supporting trolley wire...] that came out Rhode Island Ave. and entered private right of way just south of here. This line originally ran to Laurel, Md., but was cut back to Branchville, and finally to Beltsville before it was removed in the late 50's/early 60's. Much of the right of way is still quite visible. JD Tower looked very much like this until it was removed in the 1980's. This is still a very busy junction on what is now CSX, and is controlled from many miles from here. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Navy Football: 1913
1913. Annapolis, Maryland. "U.S. Naval Academy football team." Composite of two 5x7 glass ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/02/2014 - 11:56am -

1913. Annapolis, Maryland. "U.S. Naval Academy football team." Composite of two 5x7 glass negatives by Harris & Ewing. View full size. (The Gallery, Harris + Ewing, Sports)
American Dreamer (Colorized): 1942
... from this Shorpy original. June 1942, Greenbelt, Maryland. Love this picture. Wanna be a kid again! View full size. ... 
 
Posted by richland1254 - 05/03/2013 - 7:22pm -

Colorized from this Shorpy original. June 1942, Greenbelt, Maryland. Love this picture. Wanna be a kid again! View full size. (Colorized Photos)
My Father December 1918
My Father taken December 1918 in Homewood, Maryland. The Johns Hopkins campus was located there. This was before the City ... 
 
Posted by LouK - 04/21/2012 - 7:16am -

My Father taken December 1918 in Homewood, Maryland. The Johns Hopkins campus was located there. This was before the City of Baltimore expanded its borders to include the campus. He was a member of the Student Army Training Corps (a cross between ROTC and a 90 day wonder). He was a corporal in this picture (they didn't wear the chevrons on the great coat), but was mustered out within a few weeks of this picture.I have been told that he is holding an Enfield riffle. He graduated Hopkins with the Class of 1921 (Mo Udall was a classmate of his). Type of RifleThe rifle your father is holding is not an Enfield. Although the name Enfield is often used for that rifle but it is not an accurate description. It is a M1917 using the US nomenclature. The history of the rifle is this. Prior to WWI,the British were thinking of introducting a newly designed rifle to replace their Enfield SMLE. Tests were done and they settled on the Enfield Pattern 14 rifle. But then the war broke out in 1914 and it made no sense for them rearm during war and they went full capacity to make the SMLE. But they were short of rifles, so they took the P14 design to America and had several companies start to make it in 303 caliber for shipment to Britain. But when the US became involved in the war they too discovered they were short on rifles so the instructed the companies making the P14 to stop, retool it for the 30-06 cartridge and that rifle became known as the M1917. There were more M1917's used in WWI than the 1903 Springfield rifle. So, calling it an Enfield is a reflection of its origins but not its proper Model name. I hope that helps. More info can be found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_1914_Enfield (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
1923 Map: Capital Gas
... location of Capital Gasoline Station, First and Maryland Southwest. (U.S. Capitol building in lower right.) (ShorpyBlog, ... 
 
Posted by stanton_square - 07/30/2008 - 12:16pm -

Map showing location of Capital Gasoline Station, First and Maryland Southwest. (U.S. Capitol building in lower right.) (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Mom and Dad: 1941
Joseph and Betty Manning in Beltsville, Maryland, 1941. This is my favorite photo of my mom and dad. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by joemanning - 06/26/2008 - 7:57pm -

Joseph and Betty Manning in Beltsville, Maryland, 1941. This is my favorite photo of my mom and dad. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Boxing: 1910
... Carroll Weimer, circa 1910. He lived in Garrett County, Maryland and my great aunt told me that boxing was a major pastime in those ... 
 
Posted by ccorbin66 - 08/17/2012 - 8:08pm -

This is my great-grandfather, Gilbert Carroll Weimer, circa 1910. He lived in Garrett County, Maryland and my great aunt told me that boxing was a major pastime in those days. The men would make a boxing ring in town and gather to display their skills. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Kensington: 1965
Kensington, Maryland in 1965. South and Elizabeth at our grandmother's house on St Paul ... 
 
Posted by southdcx - 09/19/2011 - 1:52pm -

Kensington, Maryland in 1965. South and Elizabeth at our grandmother's house on St Paul Street. South of Plyers Mill Road across from the park. In the background is a 1955 DeSoto. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, Kids)
Trade School: 1947
Bethesda, Maryland, 1947. A teenager takes a break from a laborious day of learning the ... 
 
Posted by AmInTrbl - 10/22/2019 - 2:19pm -

Bethesda, Maryland, 1947. A teenager takes a break from a laborious day of learning the trade of becoming a brick mason. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Trade School: 1947
Bethesda, Maryland: 1947. My grandfather was a skilled brick and stone mason. He ... 
 
Posted by mintrbl - 11/07/2014 - 6:51pm -

Bethesda, Maryland: 1947. My grandfather was a skilled brick and stone mason. He insisted upon taking his son out of high school in favor of attending a trade school. His reasoning was that my father would always have a means by which he could make a decent living. Pictured is one of his weary young classmates. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Thanksgiving on the Beach: 1941
... Cornfield Harbor Beach, Potomac River, Point Lookout, Maryland. 18x24 mm Kodachrome slide. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, ... 
 
Posted by seacue - 11/26/2014 - 3:18pm -

Thanksgiving 1941. Various parents, cousins, uncles, aunts, friends. Cornfield Harbor Beach, Potomac River, Point Lookout, Maryland. 18x24 mm Kodachrome slide. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Aunt Del: 1892
... Adelle Richards was born in Waldorf, Charles County Maryland about 1870. Del, when she flew the coop, lived her entire adult ... 
 
Posted by Olde Buck - 04/13/2011 - 9:39am -

This pretty lady is my great-grandfather's kid sister. Elizabeth Adelle Richards was born in Waldorf, Charles County Maryland about 1870. Del, when she flew the coop, lived her entire adult life in Germantown, Pa. (There was no family in G'town; I never heard why she went there.) She never married and lived a simple life with few earthly distractions. Aunt Del passed away on Jan. 19, 1929. This portrait was taken in 1892. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Unknown Girl
... and letters. Location: In the Rising Sun, Elkton area of Maryland. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by Jakon - 07/27/2011 - 11:52am -

Photo was purchased at an auction in a box lot of old negatives, photos and letters. Location: In the Rising Sun, Elkton area of Maryland. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Twin Black Girls
Taken in Maryland near Hyattsville. Late 40's, I believe. Photograph by Nolan Miller, my ... 
 
Posted by Atomiclady - 06/27/2014 - 7:25pm -

Taken in Maryland near Hyattsville. Late 40's, I believe. Photograph by Nolan Miller, my Uncle. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
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