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[REV 25-NOV-2014]
We are looking north on Peachtree Street in downtown Atlanta on August 30, 1957. On the left is one of Atlanta's two principal department stores, Davidson's; also, the Roxy Theater that ran second runs. I remember seeing "Grapes of Wrath" there. The clowns on the tiny motorcycle are part of the annual Shriners' convention. Kodachrome slide by me, William D. Volkmer. View full size.
San Francisco. "Hudson roadster at Lafayette Park, 1928." With a boy and his basket bringing up the rear. 5x7 glass negative by Chris Helin. View full size.
The comic: "The Circus and Sue," by Claire S. Moe.
April 1939. San Augustine, Texas. "Grade-school boys making books of comic strips." Photo by Russell Lee, Farm Security Administration. View full size.
April 1939. "Service station. San Augustine, Texas." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
New York circa 1906. "B. Altman store, Fifth Avenue and East 35th Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Circa 1907. "Main Street, Northampton, Massachusetts." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
Our Michigan mom (last seen here) is back with the kids and Grandpa, paging through the Sunday comics. 35mm Kodachrome slide dated 1947. View full size.
April 15, 1960. "New York City skyline, aerial view of Financial District. Chase Manhattan headquarters under construction." Photo by Al Ravenna for the New York World-Telegram & Sun. View full size.
Anyone who's ever been to New Orleans in the summer knows that it rains about once per hour, followed by hot, sunny, humid weather. On June 15, 1957, I made a short stopover in New Orleans en route to ROTC Summer Camp. Shooting the original Kodachrome I at ASA 10, most of the slides I took in the rain came out overexposed, something practically unheard of in those days of slow speed film. But somehow I lucked out on this particular exposure, catching the pedestrians dashing between the raindrops with the sun peeking out overhead on Canal Street at St. Charles. 35mm Kodachrome by William D. Volkmer. View full size.
Washington, D.C., circa 1930. "Rowhouses in Petworth." 8x10 inch acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
August 19, 1912. "Hump pusher, L.S. & M.S. R.R." On verso: "Made by J. Inbody, Elkhart, Indiana. Home Phone 500." A postcard showing trainmen of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway and Locomotive 4595. View full size.
1963. "Parking garage, New Haven, Connecticut. Interior looking down ramp. Paul Rudolph, architect." Photo by Ezra Stoller. Paul Rudolph Collection, Library of Congress. View full size.
Newburgh, New York, circa 1906. "Palatine Hotel and Grant Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.