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Field Music: 1912
... two of the band are wearing their hats in the Army's new "Montana peak" style (3rd and 7th from the left) while the others have run free ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/04/2009 - 1:06am -

Circa 1912. Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania. "National Guard camp. Field music band from Trenton, N.J." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size. Don't make me hit you with this cornet!"Mongo the enforcer," behind the back row, ensures that every spectator applauds heartily. RequestsA little Sousa if you please, say "Stars and Sripes Forever"? I don't know what has more character...the hats, or the guys wearing them. The different styles of creasing is amazing. I would really like to hear what they might have sounded like. Another great image from the past. Another OldieThey were out standing in their field. Pre-MayberryThere's Goober in his first band, standing just right of the drum. Old soldiersThe Old Soldier of this bunch keeps to himself on the left. He could have seen the end days of the Indian Wars and declares he is the real soldier by wearing a sharpshooter badge. 1912 was the beginning of the new headgear and two of the band are wearing their hats in the Army's new "Montana peak" style (3rd and 7th from the left) while the others have run free in the individualistic slouch hat style. Mongo wins the prize for the best headgear. What about the guy with the polka dot necktie! Sixth from left looks like a young Ronald Reagan. (The Gallery, Music, Natl Photo)
Skill Ball: 1939
1939. "Night street scene in Butte, Montana." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/08/2010 - 12:46am -

1939. "Night street scene in Butte, Montana." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Corner of Main and GraniteThe arcade appears to have been repurposed, but overall the scene is still the same. View Larger Map Ladies NightAccording to the book "Mining Cultures: Men, Women and Leisure in Butte, 1914-1941," skill ball was the sort of game a woman could play without risking her good name. No poker for these ladies! Light the NightNeon lighting is so effective. Understand it's making a comeback. Good. Suggestion for next ShorpyTVI think Ken should get cracking on a film noir. HopperesqueIt looks like a painting by Edward Hopper -- Nighthawks revisited! (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein)
Starting Over: 1936
July 1936. "South Dakota drought refugees in Montana." Medium-format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/04/2012 - 5:10am -

July 1936. "South Dakota drought refugees in Montana." Medium-format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. View full size. Beautiful FaceStarting over = she will make it !! Any one know the history of this family? A Face Full of HopeShe's still beautiful, and judging from her side-button trousers she has a sense of style; she's known far better days. Things are bad, but she can still muster a smile. She's not beaten yet. I'd love to know where she and her family ended up, and what the coming years brought her. The only words I can imagineare Intestinal Fortitude. Memories of my grandma.My grandmother was born and raised in North Central Missouri during the depression. She would tell how her father often spoke of his dream of moving the family West to California, but couldn't because they had no transportation for a family of eight. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Dust Bowl, Kids)
Uneasy Rider: 1936
July 1936. "Drought refugees from North Dakota in Montana." The lad last seen here getting a drink. 3¼ x 4¼ negative by ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/18/2012 - 1:52pm -

July 1936. "Drought refugees from North Dakota in Montana." The lad last seen here getting a drink. 3¼ x 4¼ negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size. Well now we knowhow he got a broken arm! It could be worse!This series is most interesting. Thank you. Most of us never experienced such difficult times and yet part of us know it could happen again. [It could indeed be worse -- he could be strapped to the roof of the car. - Dave] Come Herefor the photos, stay here for the humor! You're hilarious, Dave! Now we know how all those kids fit in the carI was wondering where the stuff for those seven kids went, seeing as they would fill up the entire back seat of the car. GutsyThe old saying goes that you can't tell a book by its cover but that is one onery looking little kid. If a person were able to go by looks only, I would bet you that this young man made it in life. He just looks like "intestinal fortitude" personified. Make a trailer outta junk for nothin'!I have my copy of The Grapes of Wrath near to hand, but still can't seem to find the reference to the family who, unable to afford a car, built a trailer out of spare parts, and hitched rides by buying gas for the owner of the tow vehicle (I do recommend reading Chapter 7, a journey inside the mind of a crooked used-car salesman). Steinbeck did several years of research before publishing, and Darryl Zanuck sent private investigators out to make sure Steinbeck was telling the truth before making Grapes into a movie, so I see no reason to doubt it happened. A kid posing on the tongue of a trailer is no reason to suppose he rode there. I can remember being fascinated by the tongue of the trailer in 1976, and there was a surplus of seats in our Chevrolet Beauville van. We had it good, I know. We still do. I do remember my uncle some years ago recounting the days of cotton mattresses, which had to be brought out into the sun in the spring to kill the vermin. He's old enough to remember the Depression. Fortunately, our family was well-off enough that they never had to leave East Texas. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Cars, Trucks, Buses, Dust Bowl, Kids)
Special Deluxe: 1941
September 1941. "Dude at rodeo in Ashland, Montana." Whose ponies are all under the hood. Medium format negative by Marion ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/23/2015 - 8:06pm -

September 1941. "Dude at rodeo in Ashland, Montana." Whose ponies are all under the hood. Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size. Tough in the HoodRemember those old cars where you could actually sit on the hood without leaving a dent? Dude?I think she's a Dudette! [That's "dude" in the sense of a non-cowboy of either gender dressed up in faux-cowboy fashion. Hence "dude ranches" that catered to city slickers. -tterrace] Boots Dudette -- get those boots off my fender. Even if it is big enough to be a dance floor. Girls on the HoodThe Good Old Days neatly defined: The people were thinner, the metal was thicker. Paint, not so muchYes, the metal was thick and tough (which was why the car weighed 4000 lbs and had the overall agility of a dump truck) and transferred crash energy to the "crumple zone" AKA the driver and passengers! But seeing the girl on it doesn't make me think of the metal, it makes me look at the paint. She's scratching the heck out of it. And that way some sort of lacquer, which is absurdly fragile compared to modern paint. At least it's easy to fix. [For the record, a 1941 Chevrolet Special Deluxe weighed about 3,200 pounds. A 2015 Chevrolet Impala tips the scales at 3,800. - Dave] Very fashionableHer jeans are made from expensive and highly sought after selvedge denim (you can tell by the seam edge where she has them turned up); common in those days - fashion buzz word in 2015. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, M.P. Wolcott)
Law for Tombstone: 1939
... cowboys." In the early 1950s, my great-uncle, a Montana rancher, took a number of us, his grand-nieces and nephews, to see Gene ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/06/2012 - 12:13pm -

October 1939. Memphis, Tennessee. "Entrance to a movie house on Beale Street." The double feature: "Rhythm of the Saddle" and Buck Jones in "Law for Tombstone." 35mm nitrate negative by Marion Post Wolcott. View full size. Stay away.More than fifty years ago my late grand mother, a belle of the South from a different era, once told me, "Boy, if you ever go to Memphis stay away from Beale Street." Too much blues music I guess! I hear it is the place to go to in 2012. Cowboy HeroBuck Jones, was wounded, in 1907, while serving in the US Army during the Moro Rebellion in the Phillipines. He died, at age 51, in November 1942, during a tragic nightclub fire in Boston. He was one of 492 patrons of the Cocoanut Grove when he was trapped as guests tried to flee, many of them were there at a party honoring him. Attached is a better view of the movie poster. Pastime TheaterI think this is the Pastime Theatre at 324 Beale St. Also SeenAbove the big poster for "Law Of Tombstone" is a poster for "Rhythm Of The Saddle" which starred Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette and Pert Kelton. Burnette was famous for being Gene's comedy relief sidekick and when Gene went into the Army Air Force he worked with other on screen partners at Republic Studios including nine movies with Roy Rogers. A later generation knew him as Charley Pratt, the engineer of the Hooterville Cannonball on "Petticoat Junction" until his death in 1967. Pert Kelton is probably most famous for being the original Alice Kramden in the Honeymooners sketches opposite Jackie Gleason of the "Cavalcade Of Stars." The nightly feature, seen in the postere in the background is "St. Louis Blues" with Dorothy Lamour and Lloyd Nolan. Lower down on the cast list was William Frawley, probably best known to us today as Fred Mertz from "I Love Lucy," or Grandpa Bub from the episodes of "My Three Sons" that are never syndicated anymore because they're in Black & White. Gene AutryRhythm of the Saddle is a 1938 American Western film directed by George Sherman and starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, and Pert Kelton. Gene Autry, of course, competed with Roy Rogers and Tex Ritter as "singing cowboys." In the early 1950s, my great-uncle, a Montana rancher, took a number of us, his grand-nieces and nephews, to see Gene Autry at the Big Timber rodeo. The star was too drunk to get on his horse. A couple of cowboys threw him into the saddle and he made the grand entry, but a few young cowboy hearts were broken that day. Segregated theaters could be strangeWhen I was a kid in the fifties and sixties, I frequently spent long stretches of my summer vacation in Mississippi visiting my grandparents and various other relatives. An older cousin went to college at Mississippi State in the fifties, long before the school was desegregated. He and his roomates were on good terms with an African engineering student who lived in their (segregated, of course) dorm, and one night they all went downtown to see a Movie; dialog is approximate! Ticket clerk: "I am sorry, sir, we do not admit Negroes." College kids: "He's not a Negro, he's from Ghana." Ticket clerk: "Oh, OK." This was a smooth and familiar situation, and there was no issue at all! (The Gallery, M.P. Wolcott, Memphis, Movies)
Pat Crowe: 1921
... capture. He finally surrendered voluntarily in Butte, Montana. Although he admitted the crime, Crowe was acquitted on December 18, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/31/2012 - 8:20pm -

Pat Crowe, "former outlaw," in 1921. According to newspaper accounts of the day, Mr. Crowe's résumé included bank holdups, train robbery and kidnapping. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. Pat Crowe 1859-1938Famed Bandit Dies, Aged 79 [From the Daily Mail, Hagerstown, Maryland. October 31, 1938.] Pat Crowe, the ex-convict who lectured in Hagerstown several years ago on the theme that "Crime Doesn't Pay," died Saturday in a New York hospital, aged 79. Crowe, once sought in a nationwide hunt as the kidnaper of Edward J. Cudahy, Jr., son of the millionaire meat packer, in Nebraska in the late nineties, was taken to the Harlem Hospital last Thursday after a heart attack in his furnished room. A man of many aliases, Crowe was one of the most colorful figures in American criminal history. Once the object of a manhunt with a price of $50,000 on his head, he later became a reformer and preached to sideshow crowds against the evils of crime. Jewel thief, train-robber, kidnaper and burglar, Crowe first appeared in police records under the name of Frank Roberts in Chicago, on July 5, 1890, when he was sentenced to eight years in Joliet prison for robbery. He sprang into notoriety in the kidnaping of meatpacking heir Cudahy in Omaha just before the turn of the century. A country-wide hue and cry went up for the capture of the perpetrator of the kidnaping. Posters throughout the nation screamed a then almost unheard of reward of $50,000 for his capture. Despite intensity of the search, Crowe eluded capture. He finally surrendered voluntarily in Butte, Montana. Although he admitted the crime, Crowe was acquitted on December 18, 1900. Crowe and his confederate, Jim Callahan, received $25,000 ransom for the return of the 16-year-old Cudahy heir unharmed. Crowe served time in many Mid-Western prisons, including a sentence in Missouri for train robbery. In 1906, after acquittal on a robbery charge, Crowe decided to mend his ways. He gave up his life as "an enemy of society," as he dubbed himself, and only once after that was arrested for any offense. That was about nine years ago on a wintry day when, broke and hungry, he was arrested for begging. He went to jail for five days. ================================ INVESTIGATION INTO DEATH OF PAT CROWE New York, October 31, 1938. -- Police today closed an investigation into the death of Pat Crowe, 79, old-time desperado who became an evangelist. He died Saturday in Harlem hospital, apparently of heart disease. Detectives said a fractured skull discovered in a post-mortem examination had been incurred when Crowe toppled over a banister and fell eight feet into a hallway during a heart seizure last week. SaddleInteresting...he appears to be on a M1904 McClellan military saddle. SaddleGood thing I checked comments first, funny enough I was going to remark on the McClellan too. Although my guess is they were fairly common around that time as refurbished/sale items from soldiers returning from duty. Perhaps not. I rode in one during a week of cavalry demos a few years ago, not so comfy for a female pelvis. (The Gallery, Horses, Natl Photo)
Chick Magnet: 1942
April 1942. "Hamilton, Montana. Son of Ted Barkhoefer , crawling on the kitchen floor." Acetate ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/23/2021 - 11:09am -

April 1942. "Hamilton, Montana. Son of Ted Barkhoefer, crawling on the kitchen floor." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size. Modern TimesTaylor Tot stroller and Sunbeam MixMaster. (The Gallery, John Vachon, Kids, Kitchens etc.)
Washstand Cowboy: 1939
... roller towel. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, Big Horn County, Montana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full size. Pith ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/23/2018 - 3:18pm -

June 1939. "Cowhand using roller towel. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, Big Horn County, Montana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full size. Pith HelmetsThat type of pith helmet was strongly identified with the Marine Corps during WWII...I believe it was model of 1936. It was heavily used in training to protect the recruits from sunstroke, and seems to have been worn at war anyplace hot and slightly behind the risk of death. Marine ones can be distinguished from the also popular civilian ones by an extra vent grommet at front center to hold the globe and anchor emblem. Inside is dark green, because the unpainted inside on some civilian types made the thing into a very efficient solar cooker for the head if the occupant was on a reflective surface like sand or concrete. The inverted bowl shape makes the thing highly resistant to blowing away...the aerodynamics provide the downforce that most broad rimmed hats lack. They left the service in 1963, and with some gray paint became a commonly seen hat for Post Office letter carriers. Rolling alongAgh, roller towels, one of the banes of my existence when I was young! I can't count the number of times I would pull the towel along only to find it grey, grimy-looking and wrinkled. The first time that happened I thought I must have pulled it the wrong direction, but no. Roller towels, gah! No frillsI suspect this "roller towel" just kept going around with everyone using the same one until it was just too wet to use. Talk about a spartan existence; I don't see a single thing in this bunkhouse that is in pristine or even sanitary condition and I can't even guess what the community teaspoon below the windowsill was for. Eye to EyeRoller towels! And their cousin, the towel with the grommet on a spindle. It's all fun and games until somebody gets pinkeye! Shabby chicAll of this décor, with the exception of the disgusting and unsanitary roller towel (I just barely remember those things) has now been repurposed in some nearby tiny house or vardo or yurt or log cabin, to rent at $400 per night to tourists from LA and San Francisco, flying in for a week to "slow down". 1939 must have been a year for pith helmetsHere and on the Colorado farmer from last week. Would like to see what type rifle that is under it. Down with rollingRoller towels. Didn't feed enough towel or not at all. That's one device I don't miss, even in the age of electric hand dryers! (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein)
Boundary County: 1939
... So named because it is bordered by Canada, Washington and Montana. My Favorite. I think Dorothea Lange is my favorite ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/05/2009 - 2:14am -

October 1939. "Father and son have cleared thirty acres of raw stump land in three years. Boundary County, Idaho." View full size. Photo by Dorothea Lange. StumpedBoundary County is the northernmost county in Idaho. So named because it is bordered by Canada, Washington and Montana. My Favorite.I think Dorothea Lange is my favorite photographer. (The Gallery, Dorothea Lange, Great Depression, Landscapes)
Bat Nelson: 1911
... fight history to plague him. He faces a charge in Butte, Montana, of stealing the motion pictures of that fight and bringing them here. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/09/2012 - 5:52am -

Lightweight boxing champ "Bat" Nelson in 1911. After retiring from the ring, Bat (short for Battling; aka the Durable Dane, born Oscar Nielsen) dabbled in fight promotion and vaudeville. In January 1954, "a pathetic little man of 80 pounds, his mind a complete blank," Bat was committed to the Chicago State Hospital; a month later he was dead of lung cancer at age 71. With 68 wins, 19 draws and 19 losses, Bat once said that although he had "lost several fights," he had never been beaten. 8x10 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size. The Durable Dane"Bat" was a real brawler, evidently. More here, including great tales and quotes. Batty NelsonIt also proves you can only take so many hits before your mind quits. Anyone can brag all they want to about how tough they are but it gets you soon enough. How many of his 71 years were spent in a mindless state? I don't see how anyone could call boxing a sport when the goal was to knock someone senseless. If this Extreme Boxing fad that now exists goes any further we'll see even more of it. [Bat was put under psychiatric observation in 1927 for stealing a fight film and resisting arrest. He was released after doctors at the Psychopathic Hospital found him to be not insane, just "a trifle eccentric." - Dave] From the New York Times, 2-26-1927: CHICAGO, Feb. 25 -- Oscar "Battling" Nelson, the famed "Durable Dane" of Hegewisch, Ill., former world lightweight champion and one of pugilism's outstanding characters, tonight is under psychopathic observation, with a charge of grand larceny hanging over him. The Dane's greatest ring contest -- his battle seventeen years ago in which he lost the championship to Ad Wolgast -- has risen from fight history to plague him. He faces a charge in Butte, Montana, of stealing the motion pictures of that fight and bringing them here. Nelson has developed numerous idiosyncrasies since his ring days. He often gesticulates with rights and lefts, his posture while talking often becomes a weaving, swaying motion, like a crafty ringman in battle, and he has eccentricities which, his friends say, may be traced to the terrific punishment he took while battering his way to a world title. When officers went to Nelson's home to serve the warrant the Dane barricaded himself and surrendered only after some discussion. When Nelson was taken into court to face extradition proceedings today, his unusual demeanor caught the attention of Judge Max Luster, who ordered him under psychopathic examination. Battling Nelson vs Eddie LangMy great-uncle Eddie Lang fought Battling Nelson for the title in Nelson's last fight before losing his title to Ad Wolgast in about 40 brutal rounds. My grandfather (father's father) and Eddie's brother was in his corner -- he gave Nelson a scrappy fight and was KO'd in the 8th from body blows. The crowd actually cheered my great-uncle on for mixing it up and the papers called him "The Ghetto Captain." He fought the best around, and his brother Ira Lang (under the name Young Sweeney) did as well -- another great-uncle. (The Gallery, G.G. Bain, Sports)
Sleet Street: 1940
... full size view to the full size view of Stillwater County Montana 1942. still broke. still broke. [Fixed - Ken] (The ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 12/26/2007 - 8:06am -

February 1940. A snowy street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. View full size. 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. Wrong Full Size View LinkHi Dave. You can delete this comment once you've seen it , but you're linking the Sleet Street 1940 full size view to the full size view of Stillwater County Montana 1942. still broke.still broke. [Fixed - Ken] (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Cars, Trucks, Buses)
Ghost House: 1939
... mine owners built substantial homes in ghost town of Pony, Montana." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/22/2018 - 11:04am -

June 1939. "Gold mine owners built substantial homes in ghost town of Pony, Montana." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein. View full size. Modern Day WyethesqueThere's no Street View of Pony, but a search turns up a Wyethesque photo of this house with poppies growing in the yard, taken in June 2015: Not a wise investmentWhy would they build homes in a ghost town? Door to where?As curious as I am about the design for the weather vane I'm more perplexed by the door to nowhere on the second floor. My initial thought is that they must have intended to add a porch on at some point in the future, but that wouldn't flow with the design of the home. Having experienced challenges of moving furniture in and out of older homes more times that I would like to remember this seems like a great way to get larger items, such as the bed, upstairs without scuffing up any wallpaper. My only other theory is that this would be a place to put the husband instead of the doghouse. Thoughts? [It's a tiny porch. Note the newel posts on either side of the door. - Dave] The jigsawGod's gift to the mid-Victorian home builder. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Mining, Small Towns)
Pony Ballet: 1925
... I want to learn to rope and ride. --Patsy Montana, "Cowboy's Sweetheart" Cowbow Cowboy was be a history lol, just ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/03/2012 - 10:43am -

December 22, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Dick Nash, Pony Ballet." (My first thought on seeing this: How did my vacation photos end up on the Internet?) 4x5 glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size. Pony BalletI want to be a cowboy's sweetheart; I want to learn to rope and ride. --Patsy Montana, "Cowboy's Sweetheart" CowbowCowboy was be a history lol, just be kind ordinary person :) [Indeed. Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowbows. - Dave] Pony BalletWould this have been at a theater? Or at some outdoor festival? [The Pony Ballet was part of "Uncle Sam's Follies," presented at the President Theater by the D.C. Federation of Federal Employees. - Dave] Lariat StuntsDick Nash's performance was part of a production called "Uncle Sam's Follies." He was billed as a "local Will Rogers, who did jokes and lariat stunts." (The Gallery, D.C., Natl Photo)
Stillwater County: 1942
... Metal Reserves chromite development in Stillwater County, Montana. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/05/2012 - 6:35pm -

September 1942. An early snow at the Benbow Mill of the Metal Reserves chromite development in Stillwater County, Montana. View full size. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. Just incredibleThis site continues to blow my mind with the amazing selection of photographs ... This has made my jaw drop. [Aw shucks. And thanks! - Dave] (The Gallery, Kodachromes, Landscapes, Mining, Russell Lee, WW2)
Long Distance: 1941
... "Telephone sign along highway. Judith Basin, Great Falls, Montana." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/27/2021 - 12:37pm -

September 1941. "Telephone sign along highway. Judith Basin, Great Falls, Montana." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Short Distance 2021Who would have thought that 80 years hence a telephone/computer/camera thing would be owned by just about all people and rarely leave their hands? (The Gallery, Landscapes, M.P. Wolcott, Rural America)
Vista-Vision: 1939
... July 1939. "Cattle guard on railroad. Madison County, Montana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 12/17/2017 - 5:19pm -

July 1939. "Cattle guard on railroad. Madison County, Montana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. "Cattle guard" ? ?up in Alberta they are referred to as "Texas gates" Add 6 inches of snow, then --Cattle guards probably worked well from April to November at discouraging herds from trying to hoof it across the opening in the fence line, but one good heavy snow would fill in the gaps between the bars, thereby making it more tempting to trot out. Restoring its effectiveness in winter as an obstacle was probably a cowboy's unpopular chore. Cow SmartsSo, talking to someone from out west years ago, they explained that once a cow has experienced a real cattle guard (as shown in the Shorpy pic)--ya can just PAINT them on the road, and they work just as well. See below. The beeves come gamboling down the highway, and when they see the painted lines, they're like 'whoa, whoa, whoa! Stop! Can't cross THAT!' Explaining, I guess, the lack of bovine Nobel Prize winners. One Shorpy-Starawarded to zvbxrpl for the proper plural of beef. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Frontier Life, Railroads)
Black Butte: 1942
August 1942 in Madison County, Montana. Sheep grazing the Gravelly Range at the foot of Black Butte. View ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/25/2012 - 6:57pm -

August 1942 in Madison County, Montana. Sheep grazing the Gravelly Range at the foot of Black Butte. View full size. Gorgeous 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. Sheep, close-up and in the distanceThis shot reaffirms and gives authentication to my ideal of what sheep look like in their grazing land. Completely different from that digitized stuff that Ang Lee tried to pass off on viewers in Brokeback Mountain. (The Gallery, Kodachromes, Agriculture, Landscapes, Russell Lee)
Christmas in August: 1942
... Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Farm Security ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/15/2021 - 4:53pm -

August 1942. "First snow of the season in the foothills of the Little Belt Mountains. Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. (The Gallery, Kodachromes, Landscapes, Russell Lee)
Clack Elevator: 1941
August 1941. "Grain storage elevators. Havre, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/11/2019 - 2:42pm -

August 1941. "Grain storage elevators. Havre, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Vintage CoachThat handsome arch-window passenger car was practically an antique by 1941, especially on a Class I railroad such as the Great Northern. Obsolete passenger equipment was sometimes used by railroads for maintenance-of-way crews; maybe that's the case here. Perhaps a Great Northern expert can shed some light. Safe HarborIt seems about the same today. Also in the oil business"Clack entered the Spokane market in 1922, setting up tanks, distribution and new stations. He watched as competition grew and his profit margin dropped. In desperation, he tried a new idea. He placed a second gas pump next to his first and labeled it “Hi Power,” charging a penny more per gallon. Sure enough, customers bought 6 gallons of “Hi Power” for every gallon of regular. “Salesmanship is a better avenue to success than price-cutting,” he told a reporter." (Source) Great Northern 805... Rail motel for linemen's overnights. Marion does it again with her unique eye and point of view coupled with perfect exposures -- literally and figuratively. That freebie landscape and all the technical information is a work of art. She's the best. By the way, the town's name, Havre, in Norwegian means "oats." (The Gallery, Agriculture, M.P. Wolcott, Railroads)
Rosebudweiser: 1939
June 1939. "Bartender in Birney, Rosebud County, Montana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/21/2018 - 12:23pm -

June 1939. "Bartender in Birney, Rosebud County, Montana." Photo by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Calendar IllustrationLooks like a Boris Artzybasheff work, can you embiggen the calendar any more? Thanks. [The artist is Lawson Wood. - Dave] A lemonade stand for adultsYou could not get simpler. Sheridan Iron WorksThe business was founded in 1904 (or 1906), and the building and iconic sign were built in 1910. After first being sold in 1988, the business was sold again two years later, then was closed in 2014. "Lucky Strike Goes to War" Lucky Strikes used to be in a green pack as they would be in this 1939 photo. When the war started the green dyes, paint and ink were redirected to the military. Luck Strike then switched to the red and white design and took out ads with the slogan, "Lucky Strike Goes to War!", I believe they were also included with the standard K-rations. The fire extinguisher on the wall was an old brass style hand pump that had a twist lock and was filled with water. My father had one for years in our basement. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein)
Winter Wonderland: 1915
... extravaganza was designed for the Copper King of Montana by Lord, Hewlett & Hull, with a little help from the Parisian ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/28/2014 - 6:58pm -

Dec. 14, 1915. "New York. Central Park at 72nd Street after blizzard." 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size. Cool Buildings you can see here include two that are gone: The slender tower just left of center belongs to the Senator William A. Clark House at the NE corner of Fifth Avenue and 77th Street. This Beaux-Arts extravaganza was designed for the Copper King of Montana by Lord, Hewlett & Hull, with a little help from the Parisian architect Henri Deglane; it was completed in 1907 and torn down for an apartment building in 1927. A bit further to the right at the SE corner of 76th Street is the bulbous dome of Temple Beth-El, a Moorish Revival synagogue designed by Arnold Brunner. Built in 1891, it was demolished in 1947, some years after the congregation had merged with the even more prestigious Temple Emanu-El, which built a new building at 65th Street. Eerie SmokestacksThe twin smokestacks on the horizon look eerily like the World Trade Center. Vive la France...The very distinctive hood shape of the car to the right identifies it as a Renault. (The Gallery, G.G. Bain, NYC)
Choices: 1939
... June 1939. "Signs at highway intersection. Three Forks, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/15/2019 - 1:51pm -

June 1939. "Signs at highway intersection. Three Forks, Montana." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. What's the third fork?Two roads diverged on the lone prairie, and if you made a hard left, you'd eventually end up in Yellowstone, which I guess is the third fork, assuming you've put Bozeman behind you. (I know the name of the town refers to the river drainage, but that was my first thought.) Side note: I had to listen to this song to decide whether it's in or on "the lone prairie". It's on. That's the difference between Robert Frost's forest landscape, and a rather treeless one. You are in one, and on the other. I got a quarterThose signs remind me of the Jo Dee Messina song from the '90s ... Heads Carolina, tails California Somewhere greener, somewhere warmer Up in the mountains, down by the ocean Where don't matter long as we're goin' Somewhere together, I got a quarter Heads Carolina, tails California ... Three ForksThree Forks is named after the three forks of the Missouri River. The Gallatin, Madison, & Jefferson Rivers. A less exciting sign of the times.At least the hills are still there. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, On the Road)
Cleo Cola: 1941
... on main street of ghost town. Judith Basin County, Montana." Another look at the hamlet of Geyser, which seems to have an affinity ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/13/2019 - 3:01pm -

September 1941. "Buildings on main street of ghost town. Judith Basin County, Montana." Another look at the hamlet of Geyser, which seems to have an affinity for "Kandy." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Cleo-sed for business. Well, at least road is paved. All this and --Kandy too! Barely thereYou can just barely see the "S" of "SUNDRIES" in the ghost sign on the side of that building today. (The Gallery, M.P. Wolcott, Stores & Markets)
Big Sky: 1939
... "Cowboy at Quarter Circle U roundup, Big Horn County, Montana." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/28/2017 - 10:37pm -

June 1939. "Cowboy at Quarter Circle U roundup, Big Horn County, Montana." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full size. Not LonelyThat Cowpoke looks so content in his element. What a wonderful capture. Rule of ThirdsMastery. AmericanaI love the pictures here on Shorpy of the cityscapes - street pictures of large cities like Detroit, San Fran, Washington DC, etc. for the detail of the people and old buildings. But I think this picture might be the best I have ever seen. I mean, I am just mesmerized by everything in this picture - and everything that isn't: What is he looking at? Where is he going? Where is he from? What is he doing? All of it - I just love this picture. It is so Americana. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Horses)
Never Excelled: 1939
June 1939. "Old livery stable in Virginia City, Montana." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/27/2018 - 9:56am -

June 1939. "Old livery stable in Virginia City, Montana." Medium format negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Negative SpaceA clever advertising hook is shown in that many of the adverts on the left are mimicked on the right. The big main door is suspended from a sliding rail above, so when opened the commercial message would still show, and when closed gave a double-down. Notice some of the bills on the right side are torn horizontally, caught by a spur on the door as it slide by. The three no doubt fragrant piles suggest that business was still being done here. Never Excelled But In Color      The Hyde Park beer brand was a major player in the early 1900s prior to prohibition and again after prohibition for many years. In the 1940’s they hit their zenith of sales and immediately started to lose market share to Anheuser-Busch and Griesedieck Bros breweries.     In the 1950s on their 75th year anniversary the brewery introduced Hyde Park 75 to try to secure some new market share with female drinkers, but after a few years, the brand was not a huge hit, and the brewery was sold. Shortly after the purchase the Hyde Park brand was eliminated once and for all.     Hike, Pete and Sam Siebrand owned one of the largest combined circus and carnivals in the north and southwest.     In the beginning the Siebrands were farmers and never dreamed that they soon would be in show business. More     In 1938 the co-owned Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows was experiencing labor problems which ultimately led to the circus being closed after performances in Scranton, Pennsylvania on June 22.[5] After regrouping at the circus winter quarters in Sarasota, Florida the Ringling-Barnum circus trains were dispatched to Redfield, South Dakota where the two circuses met and were combined into a yet larger circus featuring many of the major stars from Ringling-Barnum. The circus toured from July 11 until November 27, 1938 as "Al G. Barnes and Sells-Floto Circus Presenting Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Stupendous New Features. More     Wonder what is the Guinness world record for coughs in a carload? Need A Good Horse ... Cheap?Government records indicate Johanson Livery Company of Virginia City formed on March 5, 1910 and was dissolved in 1950. The photo indicates that business may not have been booming sometime well before that year. The Siebrand Brothers Circus lasted a longer spell, from the late 19th century well into the 1960s, with their traveling show and carnival. The brothers hailed from Northwood, North Dakota. No word on whether the show wintered there. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Frontier Life)
City Ice Delivery
... in remote areas of northern states like Minnesota, Montana and Maine. Collecting ice. I remember my Grandmother telling me ... 
 
Posted by kevhum - 12/27/2007 - 12:15am -

Delivering ice in a Ford truck with hard rubber tires on the front. Most likely a slow bumpy ride. A thing of the past people forget aboutI just love pictures like this, showing a formerly common occurrence that most people forget about. I've seen movies and TV shows that depicted people living in the wilderness, who are using ice boxes. I guess the writers of those shows didn't realize that, in order to keep anything cool, it had to have blocks of ice in it, that were replaced regularly. I'm sure that areas 1,000 miles west were not part of this guy's route! An aspect of rural life people forget aboutnoelani -- The writers of those shows did OK. People "living in the wilderness" didn't rely on the ice man regularly bringing them blocks of ice for their iceboxes, they relied on themselves. In deep winter, rural people sawed large blocks of ice from frozen northern lakes, streams and rivers, and stowed them away in their own private ice-houses in anticipation of summer heat. A block of ice from the ice-house would last a week or ten days in the kitchen icebox. Even today, people who live far off the grid (and thus have no access to electricity) continue this practice, especially in remote areas of northern states like Minnesota, Montana and Maine. Collecting ice.I remember my Grandmother telling me A story of when my Grandfather would collect ice in the north part of Minnesota in the winter.They would go out onto the lakes in the dead of winter with saws and cut blocks of ice from the frozen lakes.They would then take the ice and store it in A barn and cover it with straw to insulate it so it wouldn't melt once it warmed up. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Coca-Cola Cowgirl: 1941
... the rodeo at the Crow Agency Indian fair. Big Horn County, Montana." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/27/2018 - 8:45pm -

August 1941. "Dude from Quarter Circle U Ranch watching the rodeo at the Crow Agency Indian fair. Big Horn County, Montana." Medium format negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. Brand Identity is everything. Dudette!That’s no dude. And, she appears to be sitting on the bumper of a Lincoln Zephyr. Can we get a Pretty Girls tag, pretty please? ["Dude" applied to any paying guest at the ranch; dudes of both sexes could take part in ranch work. -tterrace] [That's no Zephyr. - Dave] Mona Lisa smile---sitting on the front bumpber of a 1940 Lincoln Continental ---my 5th grade teacher had us design our initial monograms like the one on her shirt [What would Teacher have to say about "bumpber"? - Dave] (The Gallery, M.P. Wolcott)
Carnival Atmosphere: 1939
... Summer 1939. "Amusements on the carnival midway. Bozeman, Montana." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 7:10pm -

Summer 1939. "Amusements on the carnival midway. Bozeman, Montana." 35mm nitrate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the FSA. View full size. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Sports)
Home of Eva: 1939
More from the 1939 carnival in Bozeman, Montana. View full size. 35mm negative by Arthur Rothstein, who by the time ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 11:13am -

More from the 1939 carnival in Bozeman, Montana. View full size. 35mm negative by Arthur Rothstein, who by the time the decade was out had photo- graphed pretty much every square inch of North America. Anyone got a dime? CompositionMaybe a dime to peek at Eva, but lots more for this frame. What a spectacular photograph. This is a really exciting composition. Thanks for digging up this one! Excellent!Wow, this will come in handy for me. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Small Towns, Sports)
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