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November 1940. "Corner store in Lexington, Kentucky." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York, 1905. "Piles of snow on Broadway after storm." Funny-sign photobomb! 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Keene, New Hampshire, circa 1905. "Main Street, looking north." The portrait version of this earlier view. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Circa 1904. "Trinity Church, Toledo, O." At the intersection of Adams and St. Clair streets. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Circa 1905. "Upper Genesee Street, Utica, N.Y." A scene framed by elms, hitching posts and streetcars. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.
Boston, 1906. "Bird's eye view of Charlestown Navy Yard." After 175 years of military service, Boston Navy Yard (originally called Charlestown Navy Yard) was decommissioned in 1974. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Manchester, Massachusetts, circa 1906. "Baker's Island from harbor." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Providence, Rhode Island, circa 1906. "River steamers at Crawford Street Bridge." Today's post is brought to you by U.S. Club Ginger Ale, fine product of the Phenix Nerve Beverage Co. of Boston. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
The Jersey Shore circa 1907. "Lifesavers on the lookout." The Atlantic City Beach Patrol is watching you. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
September 1954. "Actress Betty White rehearsing and performing on her local Los Angeles daytime television show." Look magazine photo archive. View full size.
Betty White, who created two of the most memorable characters in sitcom history -- the nymphomaniacal Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and the sweet but dim Rose Nylund on “The Golden Girls” -- died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles. She was 99.
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Washington, D.C., circa 1928. "NO CAPTION" is all it says here. Whatever this is, wires are involved. 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
January 1922. Washington, D.C. "Machinists' Association -- printers." Activities relating to the International Association of Machinists. National Photo Co. glass negative. View full size.
In a tragic twist of fate, Senator Schall -- whose blindness was the result of being shocked by an electric cigar lighter in 1907 -- died seven years after this picture was made, struck by a car while crossing the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
January 1928. "CANINE CHAPERONE. Senator Thomas D. Schall, blind solon from Minnesota, is now able to get around the Capitol without an attendant since his specially trained German police dog has arrived to lead him around. The dog, 2 years old, has been specially trained for the purpose." 4x5 inch glass negative, Harris & Ewing Collection. View full size.
"Xmas 1951." Christmas Past, and Christmas presents. Our 12th slide from this batch of 35mm Kodachromes found on eBay. Most of them seem to have been taken in or near Pinconning, Michigan. View full size.
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