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September 29, 1924. "Mrs. La Follette at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland." Belle La Follette campaigning for husband Robert La Follette, a senator from Wisconsin who ran for president as the nominee of his own Progressive Party in 1924. Eight months after winning 17 percent of the vote in the general election, he died. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
September 29, 1924. "Mrs. LaFollette at Mountain Lake Park, Maryland." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
"Harbor entrance and light house, Charlevoix, Michigan," circa 1900. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
"New York tenement yard c. 1900-10." A washday wonderland in this uncropped version of yesterday's post. Detroit Publishing Co. glass negative. View full size.
The Brooklyn Bridge Promenade and Manhattan Terminal in 1907 amid a forest of billboards facing the trains. The domed structure is the New York World building. Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.
December 1908. Dillon, South Carolina. Johnnie, works at Maple Mills. 8 years old. Said "Ain't got no last name" when asked for it. Beginning to "help sister spin." View full size. Photograph and caption by Lewis Wickes Hine.
"New York tenement yard c. 1900-10." One of the better surviving images of turn of the century tenement life. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.
August 7, 1924. "Warren Kealoha, Hawaiian Olympic swimmer, at Tidal Basin bathing pavilion." National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
August 7, 1924. "Warren Kealoha, Hawaiian Olympic swimmer, at Tidal Basin." Warren, closest to the camera, won the gold in the men's 100-meter backstroke in 1920 and 1924. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
"Strobel Motor Co." New Model T in a Washington, D.C., Ford showroom circa 1924. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.
Poolside at a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge in Austin, Texas, 1967. 35mm Kodachrome transparency by Hugh Mason Ayer. View full size.
1924. "Fletcher, guard, George Washington University." National Photo Company Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
"People's Drug Store No. 2, Seventh and E Street, Night." 1919 or 1920 in Washington, D.C. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.
"University of Michigan library reading room, Ann Arbor, 1901." Detroit Publishing Company glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
"1925. Bob Grody & manager Ray Kennedy, Palace Laundry." The Palace Club, the Washington, D.C., franchise of the American Professional Basketball League, was sponsored by the Palace Laundry and existed as a team from the league's formation in 1925 to 1928, when it was sold to the Metropolitan League's Brooklyn Visitation club. National Photo Company glass negative. View full size.