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Saturday in the Park: 1905
Onondaga County, New York, circa 1905. "Long Branch Park, Syracuse." At the right, a banner ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/21/2012 - 12:01pm -

Onondaga County, New York, circa 1905. "Long Branch Park, Syracuse." At the right, a banner advertising "moving pictures." 8x10 glass neg. View full size. (The Gallery, DPC, Syracuse)
Step Right Up: 1917
New York, 1917. "Examination on Recruit ." Our inductee gets weighed aboard ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/19/2012 - 3:33pm -

New York, 1917. "Examination on Recruit." Our inductee gets weighed aboard the "landship" in Union Square. View full size. Geo. Grantham Bain Collection. The Measure of a ManLooks like the paper is a height-weight chart. I was right about it being a scale. Of course you could never do this in a real Navy ship of the day, the ceilings were pretty low. (The Gallery, G.G. Bain, NYC, WWI)
Laughter and Tears: 1942
... nursery school at Queensbridge housing project in Queens, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June 1942. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Ken - 09/08/2011 - 7:05pm -

Children get milk or tomato juice after their nap at the nursery school at Queensbridge housing project in Queens, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June 1942. View full size. That's how I look whenThat's how I look when someone wakes me up! (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Kids, NYC)
Rake's Progress: 1941
December 1941. "Raking leaves. New York City suburbs." Where the bamboo meets the oak. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/23/2017 - 10:30am -

December 1941. "Raking leaves. New York City suburbs." Where the bamboo meets the oak. Photo by Arthur Rothstein, Office of War Information. View full size. Best headline ever?If not, "Rake's Progress" must be in the top 10. [Please, no applause. Just throw money! - Dave] (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Handsome Rakes, NYC)
Medical/Shopping Center: 1956
... 1956. "Cross County Center. Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Medical building." 4x5 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/12/2018 - 9:14pm -

June 6, 1956. "Cross County Center. Yonkers, Westchester County, New York. Medical building." 4x5 acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size. Soviet Bloc HousingIs what the hospital reminds me of. Changing of the guard...........There was a time when you actually got 'dressed up' to go shopping. You can see both extremes, on the left and right sides of the picture. The First Sopping CenterWhen it was built it was the first shopping center in Westchester County. (The Gallery, Gottscho-Schleisner, Stores & Markets)
Jazz Arms: 1930
April 25, 1930. New York. "Choreographer Sarah Mildred Strauss and pupils." Cue "Rhapsody in Gray." ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/03/2014 - 8:09pm -

April 25, 1930. New York. "Choreographer Sarah Mildred Strauss and pupils." Cue "Rhapsody in Gray." Nitrate negative by Arnold Genthe. View full size. Crepuscular MorphologyI am always interested (hush) in the fact that women back then had SHAPES. I've heard tell that there was a game then where the men were blindfolded and had to identify their dates by touch. I don't see how that would be possible today. (The Gallery, Arnold Genthe, Dance)
You Auto Be in Pictures: 1934
Back of photo has typed: "A-550-9, NEW YORK CITY- Police Commissioner's Car Showing Insignia. Received from New York March 1, 1934." Below that are two rubber stamps: a blue one: ... 
 
Posted by aenthal - 04/01/2016 - 6:26pm -

Back of photo has typed: "A-550-9, NEW YORK CITY- Police Commissioner's Car Showing Insignia. Received from New York March 1, 1934." Below that are two rubber stamps: a blue one: "Warner Bros. Pictures Inc Burbank, Calif. Property of Research Department" which is crossed out, and above it a purple stamp: "Columbia Pictures Corporation Research Department." View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
A Place in the Country: 1940
... F. Willcox residence in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. Axis view, entrance facade. Moore & Hutchins, architect." ... options noted in the link. I like this house, with its new additions, very much. (The Gallery, Gottscho-Schleisner) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 02/25/2018 - 8:24pm -

May 30, 1940. "Bertram F. Willcox residence in Pound Ridge, Westchester County, New York. Axis view, entrance facade. Moore & Hutchins, architect." Large-format acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size. Front yard tree.That tree and that telephone wire are going to have it out one day in the future. Some more informationHere is some more info on the house and its architect. Before I read that I was going to just comment that this looks to me like a mid-century modern designed and built on a budget. I think that it was quite successful. I guess there are some differing options noted in the link. I like this house, with its new additions, very much. (The Gallery, Gottscho-Schleisner)
Warbler on the Roof: 1922
July 12, 1922. New York. The soprano and vocal coach Estelle Liebling, instructor of Beverly Sills ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/07/2016 - 6:27pm -

July 12, 1922. New York. The soprano and vocal coach Estelle Liebling, instructor of Beverly Sills and a young Meryl Streep. 5x7 glass negative. View full size. ClutterDid anyone else have trouble finding the subject in this photo? Almost impossible I thinkEstelle died in 1970 & Meryl was born in 1969. Could she really have worked with a one year old? [Meryl Streep was born in 1949, not 1969. -tterrace] DUH!! Of course she was, my apologies! Glad I wasn't "snarky"!! (The Gallery, G.G. Bain, Music, NYC)
Fire Horses: 1913
New York, December 1913. "Hook & Ladder Company No. 7, Third Avenue and 15th ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/04/2016 - 12:41am -

New York, December 1913. "Hook & Ladder Company No. 7, Third Avenue and 15th Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size. 3LThat's the 3rd Avenue "L" elevated subway line in the background. (The Gallery, Fires, Floods etc., G.G. Bain, Horses, NYC)
Wedding Day: 1953
... father on their wedding day, June 1953, at City Hall, in New York City. As Mom was living in Canada and there was a Dominion-wide holiday ... 
 
Posted by Mudhooks - 06/28/2010 - 12:09pm -

My mother and birth father on their wedding day, June 1953, at City Hall, in New York City. As Mom was living in Canada and there was a Dominion-wide holiday for the Queen's coronation, she was able to travel to New York where my father was living to get married. Dad was an artist living in Greenwich Village at the time. The next day, they packed all his belongings and he came up to Canada. He died in 1988, a month to the day before my step-dad died. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Sunshine & Shadow: 1916
June 5, 1916. New York. "Miss Mackay's pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow (with the hoop ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/16/2018 - 7:57pm -

June 5, 1916. New York. "Miss Mackay's pageant Children of Sunshine and Shadow (with the hoop symbolizing 'Play') as presented at Washington Irving High School." Glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine. View full size. The pageant explainedLittle Girls' Pageant Hits at Child Labor Re: The pageant explainedWell I'll be darned! When first I saw this post, I was going to attempt humor by submitting a comment saying that I wondered if LWH was taking a break this day from photographing exploited children. And there's my answer! (The Gallery, Kids, Lewis Hine, NYC)
In a Jiffy: 1942
November 1942. New York. "Nurse training. Hospital preparations for air raids involve the training ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 07/24/2016 - 2:22pm -

November 1942. New York. "Nurse training. Hospital preparations for air raids involve the training of street accident units for increased efficiency. Nurses wear coat and skirt that can be put on over uniform in a jiffy." Medium format nitrate negative by Fritz Henle for the Office of War Information. View full size. Street accident units?I minored in Emergency Health Services in college and somehow never heard anything about street accident units or anything similar during WWII. Can't find anything meaningful about them online either. Seems like one of the many forgotten stories from the homefront efforts in the war. Blackouts = AccidentsI don't know how prevalent they were, but they were definitely needed in many areas owing to the blackout regulations in the early part of the war. Imagine driving in Manhattan traffic with no streetlights, all buildings dark, and it being illegal to turn on your headlights. (The Gallery, Fritz Henle, NYC, WW2)
Bat Nelson: 1911
Battling ("Bat") Nelson in New York in 1911. Our second look at the scrappy lightweight boxing champ. G.G. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/09/2012 - 5:50am -

Battling ("Bat") Nelson in New York in 1911. Our second look at the scrappy lightweight boxing champ. G.G. Bain Collection glass negative. View full size. Daddy Did Him WellFather's Estate He Took A Dummy As a Partner (The Gallery, G.G. Bain, NYC, Sports)
High Office: 1909
New York in 1909. "Metropolitan Life Insurance Building and Madison Square." The ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/07/2014 - 4:07pm -

New York in 1909. "Metropolitan Life Insurance Building and Madison Square." The Met Life tower in the final stages of construction, with various scaffolds and platforms attached. 8x10 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size. Prestige over efficiency It looks like the skinny tower part is more for height and prestige than practicality and business efficiency. They could have gotten more useful floor space per dollar building fewer but wider floors. Inadequate space per floor is what doomed the Singer Building. Like ClockworkThere appears to be scaffolding of some sort across the clocks. It's too early in the 20th Century for a Daylight Savings Time change. Perhaps some other sort of timepiece maintenance is happening. Too bad we can't see the clocks on the south and east sides of the building. [Note the absence of hands on the clocks. -tterrace] (The Gallery, DPC, NYC)
Girls High School: 1911
New York circa 1911. "Girls' High School, Nostrand Avenue and Macon Street, ... plus the sliver of the building on the left, and we find a new / old building slapped onto the right flank of the high school, which is ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/06/2019 - 4:12pm -

New York circa 1911. "Girls' High School, Nostrand Avenue and Macon Street, Brooklyn." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Nostrand Macon BrooklynWorth putting into google maps, because you’ll see the girls high school is still there, plus the sliver of the building on the left, and we find a new / old building slapped onto the right flank of the high school, which is now the Brooklyn Adult Learning Center. Now the Brooklyn Adult Learning Centerhttps://www.superpages.com/gallery/2062034528 (The Gallery, DPC, Education, Schools, NYC)
Out for Delivery: 1912
... Yes, it means "ever upward" and is the motto of New York State. It is also the name of all the "wood wool" or wood shavings which ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/27/2012 - 3:21pm -

A gray 1912 day in Washington, D.C. "Woodward & Lothrop department store trucks." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size. Excelsior!Yes, it means "ever upward" and is the motto of New York State. It is also the name of all the "wood wool" or wood shavings which were used before little vinyl airbags and styrofoam were the choices for packing material. Not only was it a fire hazard, but heavier and more costly than today's packing filler. They still do use it though not too often and most people recycled it, as they did with the baskets instead of cardboard boxes. Very industrious people pictured here but inventory control must have been a mess. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, D.C., Harris + Ewing, Stores & Markets)
Teddy Bear Stuffer: 1908
New York, 1908. "Stuffing a Teddy Bear." View full size. 8x10 glass negative, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/09/2011 - 7:58pm -

New York, 1908. "Stuffing a Teddy Bear." View full size. 8x10 glass negative, G.G. Bain Collection. One of several bear-stuffing photos from the Bain archive. Build a BearShe'd be shocked to know that people will pay good money to do her job in another hundred years. (The Gallery, G.G. Bain, NYC)
Mother and Son: 1902
This cabinet photo was taken in 1902 in Brooklyn, New York. That's my paternal grandmother, Margaret Dunlap McNeal Wilson, who was ... 
 
Posted by wilso127 - 09/09/2010 - 7:46am -

This cabinet photo was taken in 1902 in Brooklyn, New York. That's my paternal grandmother, Margaret Dunlap McNeal Wilson, who was born in Newburgh, New York in 1865 and died there in 1950. The toddler is her only child and my father, Robert John Wilson (1901-1986). Sadly, she lost her husband and he, his father, Samuel Hugh Wilson (1855-1903), in April, 1903, after only four days of illness (pneumonia). View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
The Butler: 1952
New York, 1952. "Martha Raye and Arthur Treacher on the set of her television show ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/18/2013 - 2:47pm -

New York, 1952. "Martha Raye and Arthur Treacher on the set of her television show All-Star Revue." The sketch was called "The Butler." Photo by Charlotte Brooks for the Look magazine article "Perpetual Commotion." View full size. Excuse me, ArthurI'd like a large order of fish and chips, please. Billy SandsFifth from right, a familiar face on 1950s-60s TV, Billy Sands, best known as Sgt. Dino Paparelli on The Phil Silvers Show (aka Sgt. Bilko) and Harrison "Tinker" Bell on McHale's Navy. (LOOK, TV)
Grand Canyon: 1912
New York circa 1912. "Wall Street with view of Bankers Trust Building and Trinity ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/24/2014 - 12:21pm -

New York circa 1912. "Wall Street with view of Bankers Trust Building and Trinity Church." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. +102Below is (almost) the same view from September of 2014 (it was taken as a modern view of a similar image from about 1915). My favorite!Then and now pictures of nearly any kind are my favorites! The comparison of these photos is fascinating to me! (The Gallery, DPC, NYC)
Utopian Picnic: 1936
... from Arkansas, organized in 1935 by Sherwood Eddy, a New York writer and reformer." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/07/2018 - 11:57am -

July 1936. "Hillhouse, Mississippi. Girls with food for Fourth of July celebration at Delta Cooperative Farm settled by evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas, organized in 1935 by Sherwood Eddy, a New York writer and reformer." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size. That HaircutMom, who was born in 1930, had a haircut like the girl on the right for most of her childhood. "How I hated that haircut!" she'd always say when looking at old pictures. That was one of few styles for little girls during the Great Depression. (The Gallery, Agriculture, Dorothea Lange, Kids, Rural America)
Kindergarten: 1965
... photo. Floral Park Bellerose Elementary in Floral Park, New York. View full size. Which one are you? I Know She's sitting ... 
 
Posted by pattiayan - 11/18/2010 - 1:08pm -

My Kindergarten class photo. Floral Park Bellerose Elementary in Floral Park, New York. View full size. Which oneare you? I KnowShe's sitting on the floor on the left. I know that because I'm standing in the second row from the back, fifth from the left. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Irene and Florence: 1897
... In 1960 my father, working for the USDA on Long Island, New York, was looking through a dump one day and found this fat packet of old film ... 
 
Posted by drawsing - 01/16/2015 - 7:43pm -

In 1960 my father, working for the USDA on Long Island, New York, was looking through a dump one day and found this fat packet of old film negatives. He brought them home with him and kept them in a box. They are 3.5 inch square film negatives. Some had writing on their paper sleeves, and it is from this that I determined the place and time. Most of the images appear to be from Malone, New York. This photo was labeled "Irene and Florence." View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Family: 1900
... her first marriage. My great Grandmother was an actress in New York City. She died during childbirth when my Uncle Thomas was born. My ... 
 
Posted by nybroome - 01/06/2011 - 8:28am -

At left is my Great Grandmother, Aunt Kathryn is center and Aunt Margaret is at right. The girl is Sadie, my Great Grandmother's daughter from her first marriage. My great Grandmother was an actress in New York City. She died during childbirth when my Uncle Thomas was born. My Grandfather and Uncle Thomas were raised by their Aunts, three of whom never married. Sadie moved to upstate New York with my Great Grandmother's family. They kept in touch throughout their lives. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
3-Story Marilyn: 1953
Globe Theatre New York City. Taken in New York City on November 11, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by FrankJinglewski - 01/02/2015 - 7:45pm -

Globe Theatre New York City. Taken in New York City on November 11, 1953 by Peter Jingeleski. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Happy New Year: 1943
January 1, 1943. "New York. Blowing horns on Bleecker Street on New Year's Day." Photo by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information. View ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/01/2014 - 1:52pm -

January 1, 1943. "New York. Blowing horns on Bleecker Street on New Year's Day." Photo by Marjory Collins, Office of War Information. View full size. A Fine Fanfare. . . . . . to preface my belated Happy 1943 and 2014 to all the Shorpy time travelers! (The Gallery, Kids, Marjory Collins, New Year, NYC)
Still in the Game: 1919
New York circa 1919. "Cripples at baseball." Victor Cassiere at left. 5x7 glass ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/11/2011 - 9:32pm -

New York circa 1919. "Cripples at baseball." Victor Cassiere at left. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size. I'm impressed.Catching is hard enough with two legs, but this fellow seems to be enjoying the game. (The Gallery, G.G. Bain, NYC, Sports)
A Little Privacy, Please II
... school at the Queensbridge housing project in Queens, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June, 1942. View full size. What ... 
 
Posted by Ken - 09/08/2011 - 9:05pm -

A child washes before lunch at the nursery school at the Queensbridge housing project in Queens, New York. Photograph by Arthur Rothstein, June, 1942. View full size. What a doll!Wonder if she's got any granddaughters? Notice the slanted mirror so the little ones can see themselves. (The Gallery, Arthur Rothstein, Kids, NYC)
BRB LOL: 1940
... telegraph wire at a truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue)." So the place was something of an Internet cafe, without the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/23/2012 - 11:40pm -

June 1940. Washington, D.C. "Direct postal telegraph wire at a truck service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue)." So the place was something of an Internet cafe, without the lattes or wifi. 35mm negative by Jack Delano. View full size. Before cell phones and textingMy one cousin is mostly deaf and had something similar hooked up to their phone while he was growing up from the phone company I believe. I'm sure the operator had a fair amount of amusement from his conversations being the go-between. teletype?Both of my parents were deaf. Growing up in the (pre texting and Skype) 70's my parents and most deaf folks used government surplus teletype machines communicate with friends and family on the phone. I didn't know of anyone in my parents circle who didn't have one. Every one knew of someone who squirreled away parts for these loud, rumbly and gigantic beasts who repaired them in the basement . Are these things the same machines? They look much smaller than i remember. (Technology, The Gallery, D.C., Jack Delano)
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