Joliet, Illinois, circa 1901. "Chicago & Alton Railroad. Track elevating at grade crossing." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1903. "Old French courtyard." Shabby chic alfresco. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Three years after the first Botts dots were installed on a California highway, I took this Kodachrome going south on US 101 at the Alto interchange in Marin County, California. This was when it was still a full cloverleaf, with its hair-raisingly overlapping entry and exit lanes below the overpass. Off to the left, Belvedere and Tiburon; to the right, Mill Valley. Again, this is the era of Volkswagen Beetle ubiquity: there are at least three visible here, one in its favorite habitat, the fast lane. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1906. "Old Absinthe House -- the bar." No obvious patrons except for a number of barflies. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1903. "Unloading bananas at New Orleans, Louisiana." An alternate view of this scene. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size.

"Steamer loading grain from floating elevator." Continuing our visit to the New Orleans waterfront circa 1906. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

New Orleans circa 1906. "Payday on the levee." Don't spend it all in one place. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Wyandotte, Michigan, circa 1915. "Foundry, Detroit Shipbuilding Co." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Chelsea, Michigan, circa 1901. "Glazier Stove Company shipping room." Heated by a Round Oak No. 20 stove. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1906. "Oyster luggers at New Orleans." A continuation of the scene shown in the previous post. Random observation: The masts here remind me of violin bows. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Along the Mississippi circa 1906. "Oyster luggers at New Orleans." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Circa 1910. "New Orleans and Mississippi River from Hotel Grunewald." The business side of the Big Easy. Detroit Publishing glass negative. View full size.

Circa 1896. "U.S.S. Massachusetts buglers and drummer." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

New York circa 1909. "East River and Blackwell's Island Bridge," a.k.a. the Queensboro Bridge or the 59th Street Bridge, around the time of its completion. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "Queenie Ladovitch." Possibly the daughter of Ernest (Ernst) Vladimir Ladovitch, president of the Washington Conservatory of Music. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.