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WWII Signal Corps photographer Lt. Robert F. Tacey. An example of his photography can be seen on this blog.

Taken for the US Senate Appropriations Committee's photo album of their fall tour of Europe and the Middle East. The photo was taken by Lt. Robert F. Tacey of the Army Signal Corps. View full size.

An Army motor transport company at Camp Hancock in Augusta, Georgia, in 1916.

Sam Lippman went to Germany in the early 1930's to study medicine and left some fabulous images of his stay there. Here he visits the Graf Zeppelin in its hangar at Friedrichshafen in June of 1933.

Related to discussion of this post is the pie chart above ("Results of Diagnoses of 1,000 Cases") from the Sept. 28, 1913, New York Times article linked here.

From new Shorpy member Paola:

Dear Shorpy,

I discovered today your website and I in the past two hours I have been looking at it. It's an amazing site. I recognize many pictures from the wonderful collection of Library of Congress. I was sick at home this weekend and I spent all my time losing myself in the library Print and Photography website. The collection is huge and your website for me is like a travel guide.

I am Italian, I live in Milano. I graduated in Bologna University in art history. I am journalist and my current work is photo editor of Geo magazine.

Thank you Shorpy for your work and keep on.

Best wishes. Paola

Grazie, Paola! Hope you are feeling better soon.

A 1920 reunion of the 30th Infantry Division (The Hickory Division) of WWI AEF fame. The old guy in gray is my great-great-grandfather Noah Frady, possibly the oldest American Civil War vet alive in Asheville at the time.
Also present are his son-in-law (in doorway, wearing white suit at left) and his grandsons... the smallest one running alongside is my grandfather, Max Rhodes.

Picture of 3 women, March 1937, in front of the Berlin Reichs Sports Arena (in 1939 known as Olympia Stadium)

From a private photo album with "When Dewey Came to Boston - Oct 14, 1899 - Photo By 'Fritz'" embossed on the cover.

Great photo taken by a sailor from the USS California visiting San Francisco in 1939 of Benny Goodman and his band. Fletcher Henderson on the piano, Nick Fatool on drums and Louise Tobin sitting next to the piano.

Benny Goodman, photographed by a sailor from the USS California at the Golden Gate Exposition of 1939. Great shot showing Benny and singer Louise Tobin.

This house still stands at 34 West Monteray Road in Oakwood, Ohio - a suburb of Dayton. It's currently occupied by a prominent local realtor.

The Superior, Wisconsin, YMCA Men's basketball team from either 1923 or 1924. My grandfather - Floyd E. Anderson - is in the back row, far left.

Every December 12 my grandmother would pull out the family album and we'd look at the picture of the Crawford Colorado school house that burned 12-12-12.

They heard the fire bell and all ran to where the smoke was. She said "T'weren't nothin' to do but take pictures" and that's just what they did.

1942 Kodachrome (Andreas Feininger) before & after correction. View full size.