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Fountain of Frogs: 1897
... Augustine, Florida, circa 1897. "Fountain at Ponce de Leon Hotel." A phantasmagoria of Edison bulbs and expectorating amphibians. 8x10 ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/05/2018 - 2:18pm -

St. Augustine, Florida, circa 1897. "Fountain at Ponce de Leon Hotel." A phantasmagoria of Edison bulbs and expectorating amphibians. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson. View full size. Still there!Now part of the Flagler College campus: Frogs Powered DownLooks like the frogs are no longer hitting as high up on the fountain as in the old days. (The Gallery, DPC, Florida, W.H. Jackson)
The Old P.O. (Colorized):1911
... I'd take a crack at it in anticipation of the Trump Hotel renovation when he stamps his brand on it. I'm hopeful Trump will ... 
 
Posted by Deborah - 01/26/2013 - 7:54am -

This is a recolor of the Shorpy image here. Thought I'd take a crack at it in anticipation of the Trump Hotel renovation when he stamps his brand on it. I'm hopeful Trump will maintain the integrity and look of the one-of-a-kind exterior. It is after-all on the National Register of Historic places. I used a 1911 Renault Parisian taxi (the green car) and the 1910 Ford Model T Limo for the burgundy car. The black one looks larger more elegant Model T Limo. I found one postcard reference for a regular streetcar, not the mail car referenced in a previous comment on the original image. View full size. FantasticDeborah, You've done an absolutely cracking job on this, this is one of my favourite colourisations on Shorpy. The little details like the signage on the right and the fire hydrant along with the pitch perfect sky and stonework are remarkable. Thank you! I'm honored and encouraged by your comment! Your Texaco colorization inspired me to pull back and be gentle with the colors. (Colorized Photos)
Dinner Dance: 1950
... 28th Annual Dinner Dance, March 11,1950 at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago. Photo by Burke & Dean Photo, Chicago. I did a little ... 
 
Posted by jonnyfixit - 08/31/2012 - 8:47pm -

Harmony Club of Chicago, 28th Annual Dinner Dance, March 11,1950 at the Stevens Hotel, Chicago. Photo by Burke & Dean Photo, Chicago. I did a little research and discovered that the Harmony Club of Chicago still exists and their mission is "to promote cooperation in the electrical trade." In particular, they are associated with IBEW Local 134. This is a panoramic photo. I have been at similar events, and the way it works is: A photographer with a special camera comes in and offers to take a panoramic shot of the whole crowd, and he takes orders for copies afterwards. He pans the camera across the crowd slowly and everyone tries to move as little as possible. It takes several seconds to pan across the crowd. This is a scan of a 12x20 photo I bought in an antique store recently. View full size. No wayThere's no way in the world so many people would (or could, looking at some of the wine carafes in the room) hold absolutely still while a camera panned across the room. This shot had to have been taken as one wide photo by a camera with a panoramic lens. Panning a still camera creates a "wiped" or blurred image. [These types of photographs were popular enough that the cameras used were commonly called "banquet cameras," large-format view cameras that had a motor-driven rotating lens, hence the need for the crowd to remain still for the duration of the exposure. They used sheet film that ranged in size up to 12x20 inches, exactly the size of the photo that jonnyfixit scanned; so this is a contact print made from such a negative. - tterrace] Well, once again my place has had me put in it. However, I repeat my belief there was no way that big crowd and those musicians stayed perfectly motionless for such a photo. Impossible. ThanksTterrace, thanks for the details on how the camera worked. Both times when I was in a convention where they took our picture with a banquet camera, the photographer gave a brief explanation beforehand but I don't remember him going into detail about the rotating lens or that kind of detail, so I never knew how it moved or what moved. I don't think I was close enough to get a good look at the camera, other than it was Big! It was in the early 1990s that those pictures took place. I bought copies of both of them. I wish I knew where they went. Ours were in color. Hope I find them one of these days. -Jonnyfixit Banquet Camerawas used, and not a moving lens Panoram or Circuit camera. A careful look at the distortion seen in the faces near the edges and corners shows that this was shot with a rather conventional 12x20 Banquet Camera, as was common in the day. These cameras used a somewhat wide angle lens and a wide aspect ratio film/plate format. The Panoram (moving lens with fixed position curved film) and Cirkut (whole camera rotated during exposure) do not produce this type of distortion. They do produce a different alteration in the image. The Kodak Panoram swung the lens and moved a traveling slit across the pre-curved fixed position film. The Cirkut cameras rotated as a unit with the film moving past a slit. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Smoking Rooms: 1904
... the ground by a massive fire in 1950. Circa 1904. "Hotel Ausable Chasm, Ausable Chasm, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/21/2020 - 4:31pm -

        Completed in 1897; burned to the ground by a massive fire in 1950. Circa 1904. "Hotel Ausable Chasm, Ausable Chasm, N.Y." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size. With all that woodSurprised it made its 53rd birthday! So many of those late 19th century wood buildings didn't make their 20th. Lots of 53 and 63 year old buildings in use today, but by comparison to today's architecture they still look completely modern and are of much more fire proof construction. A 19th century structure in 1950 looked, well, just Victorian and completely out of date and had appeared that way since the 1920's. A sad loss, though. Burnout and the demise of large summer hotelsSo many of these grand, imposing Victorian style summer hotels were either taken down by kitchen fires or by suspicious fires when, with improved highways in later years, people started building vacation cottages on nearby lakes resulting in fewer reservations at these large resort hotels that required a lot of money to stay open. (The Gallery, DPC)
Coconut Alley: 1894
Palm Beach, Fla., circa 1894. "Hotel Royal Poinciana, Lake Worth." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/23/2015 - 9:44am -

Palm Beach, Fla., circa 1894. "Hotel Royal Poinciana, Lake Worth." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size. Must have been heaven!Florida must have been heaven in 1894. Some photos are like a tranquilizer. Thank you, Shorpy! (The Gallery, DPC, Florida, W.H. Jackson)
Castles in the Air: 1933
... in the Air" costume ball held Feb. 6, 1933, at the Willard Hotel. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/08/2014 - 8:50pm -

"1932 or 1933. No caption -- dancers in ballroom." The Shorpy Research Department has determined this to be the Washington Arts Club's annual Bal Boheme, specifically the "Castles in the Air" costume ball held Feb. 6, 1933, at the Willard Hotel. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size. Available lightThis photograph is rather grainy, a result of it being shot on emulsion fast enough to capture action in rather low light compared to most of the photos we see here from that time period. [The balloon shadows would seem to indicate flash powder was used. - Dave] The OverlookI do believe I see Jack Torrance there on the floor. What a shining caretaker he was at the time. (The Gallery, D.C., Harris + Ewing)
Detroit Police and RCMP: 1951
... a parade. Both groups stand in front of the old Statler hotel (since demolished) located on Washington Blvd, near Grand Circus Park in ... 
 
Posted by DetroitScott - 06/07/2013 - 6:08pm -

On July 24, 1951, the city of Detroit celebrated its 250th anniversary. To honor the occasion, a number of special events were held. This photo, shot by my grandfather, Howard McGraw of the Detroit News, depicts the Detroit police on horseback with the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) standing in front, likely part of a parade. Both groups stand in front of the old Statler hotel (since demolished) located on Washington Blvd, near Grand Circus Park in downtown Detroit. View full size. RCMP uniformsCertainly haven't changed much in the past six decades. Dress/parade uniformTheir working uniform (they still are the local police force in a lot of places up here ) is much like any other current police working uniform. About the only time I have ever seen them out and about daily in their dress uniforms is in Banff, mostly for the tourists. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Polite Vaudeville: 1900
... building now bearing the name of Trump International Hotel. At right, Chase's "Polite Vaudeville" Theater in the former Grand Opera ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 03/13/2017 - 7:39am -

November 1900. Washington, D.C. "Pennsylvania Avenue from Treasury building." Landmarks on view include the U.S. Capitol as well as the Post Office building now bearing the name of Trump International Hotel. At right, Chase's "Polite Vaudeville" Theater in the former Grand Opera House. View full size. +98Below is the same view from 1998 (when I was using black and white film). A pretty good view of the sceneCan be had from the prolific DC architect office seen second floor screen left of Paul Pelz, fresh off his design of the Library of Congress and many other buildings, some still extant. Luckily his plan for a White House replacement got shelved. (The Gallery, D.C., DPC, Streetcars)
White Castle: 1910
Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Bienville Hotel, Bienville Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/13/2018 - 12:40pm -

Mobile, Alabama, circa 1910. "Bienville Hotel, Bienville Square." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Taken down, brick by brickStory here. Hot Time in the City!My experience with Mobile was brief, and it was a long time ago, but it was enough to convince me that I would not like to have to walk that city's streets dressed in all those clothes in an age that didn't have air conditioning yet. (The Gallery, DPC, Mobile)
Not Far From the Tree: 1931
... National Press Building looking down 14th Street." Willard Hotel at right. Large format negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 06/20/2013 - 3:43pm -

Washington, D.C., circa 1931. "Department of Commerce under construction from top of National Press Building looking down 14th Street." Willard Hotel at right. Large format negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size. If you build it, it will comeThere's something ironic about building such a grand structure for the Department of Commerce during the Depression. (The Gallery, D.C., Theodor Horydczak)
York Beach: 1906
... in a rebuilt, post-fire (1987) form as the Union Bluff Hotel. To avoid a parking-lot view, I’ve provided a long view from the far ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/11/2018 - 8:06pm -

Circa 1906. "Bathing at York Beach, Maine." Where seaside resorts include the Fairmount and the Wahnita. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size. Short Sands BeachThe Wahnita is still there, albeit in a rebuilt, post-fire (1987) form as the Union Bluff Hotel. To avoid a parking-lot view, I’ve provided a long view from the far end of the beach, looking north-west towards Union Bluff. (The Gallery, DPC, Swimming)
Howard Furniture: 1905
... in 1892 for the Maccabees and later became the Algonquin Hotel. It was abandoned when it caught fire. Area History Fire ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 11/06/2017 - 10:37pm -

Port Huron, Michigan, circa 1905. "Armory (Charles Baer Bldg.) and Maccabees Temple." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size. The Maccabees TempleIs gone, burn down on Jan 28, 2000. Was built in 1892 for the Maccabees and later became the Algonquin Hotel. It was abandoned when it caught fire. Area History Fire Photos (The Gallery, DPC, Stores & Markets)
Neon Texaco: 1951
... 1951." Today's first Kodachrome, of the gas station at the Hotel Last Frontier, comes to us by way of the late Don Cox, 70 years after he ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/02/2021 - 3:27pm -

"Las Vegas 1951." Today's first Kodachrome, of the gas station at the Hotel Last Frontier, comes to us by way of the late Don Cox, 70 years after he snapped the shutter. View full size. (The Gallery, Kodachromes, Don Cox, Gas Stations)
Dog Wash: 1943
... bathtub in my room down the elevator and out behind the hotel to scrub the bugs off the front of my bus. (The Gallery, Cars, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/27/2014 - 9:27am -

September 1943. "Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bus serviceman washing a coach which has just come in from a run in the Greyhound garage." Photo by Esther Bubley for the Office of War Information. View full size. He might have become a driver.I drove charter buses back in the 90s. An elderly neighbor told me he had wanted to be a Greyhound driver when he was a young man, so he went to apply for the job. He said he was told he would have to start out washing buses, and at some point he could begin training as a mechanic. After a few years as a mechanic, he could learn to be a driver. This way the drivers could usually take care of whatever needed to be done on the road, would be less likely to abuse equipment, and so on. He decided to try something else. I'm pretty sure he said that was in the late 30s. Even when I was driving charters and tours (not for Greyhound), we were expected to get the job done by whatever means we could. Having been an auto mechanic myself, I carried a basic set of tools which came in handy many times. On tours, we carried an impressive selection of cleaning supplies. Mops, squeegees, 100 feet of garden hose. More than once I took five gallon buckets of warm water from the bathtub in my room down the elevator and out behind the hotel to scrub the bugs off the front of my bus. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, Esther Bubley, Pittsburgh)
Congress Square Cubed: 1905
Portland, Maine, circa 1905. "Congress Square Hotel, Congress Street and Forest Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/03/2018 - 9:40pm -

Portland, Maine, circa 1905. "Congress Square Hotel, Congress Street and Forest Avenue." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Telephone pollsWow, they'd never allow that now. Those telephone polls are stablized by putting rocks next to them. [Those kind of telephone polls raise a lot of questions, that's for sure. -tterrace] Pile It On I have no clue about any telephone polls, but the pile of rocks across the street, where there is no pole, and the workmen further down the street, suggest that those piles of cobblestones are being stored on the sidewalk, as part of street repair, rather than having anything to do with the one pole they surround. (The Gallery, DPC, Stores & Markets)
Nassau: 1904
Circa 1904. "Gardens of Colonial Hotel and the harbor, Nassau, Bahama Islands." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/15/2012 - 4:37pm -

Circa 1904. "Gardens of Colonial Hotel and the harbor, Nassau, Bahama Islands." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Beautiful sloopsThe lines of the Bahamian sloops are so graceful (as Winslow Homer reminds me whenever I look up at my office wall). Unless I am mistakenThis is approximately the area that cruise ships dock nowadays, and Atlantis would be in the horizon in about the center of the photo. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, DPC)
Rock and Roll: 1905
Florida circa 1905. "Palm Beach Hotel." Offering various modes of transport, including chairs that rock and ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/07/2014 - 10:58am -

Florida circa 1905. "Palm Beach Hotel." Offering various modes of transport, including chairs that rock and ones that roll. 8x10 glass negative. View full size. Bike tiresWhy are all the tires on the bikes and chairs a grey color? Was that standard back then? [Early tires did not have carbon black added to the rubber, which is naturally white. These have gotten dirty in use. -tterrace] (The Gallery, Bicycles, Boats & Bridges, DPC, Florida)
Fields Landing
... the Whaler's Inn was just known as the Fields Landing Hotel. That road running in front of the inn is Highway 101. They put in the ... 
 
Posted by kevhum - 05/15/2007 - 11:55pm -

This is the town of Fields Landing on north side of Humboldt Bay in Calif. The main road that goes to the foot of the bay leads to a whaling station. The large building to the front is known as the whalers inn. Postmark on this post card is dated 1912. Fields LandingGreat to see this picture. I grew up there. I can see the house where I grew up in this 1912 pic. I remember the whaling station! Talk about smell! When a whaling boat was coming in with a catch, word would spread fast. I would go with older siblings to watch them butcher the whales. We'd put handkerchiefs sprinkled with perfume over our faces to diffuse the smell. That was in the 1940's, maybe early 50's. When I was young the Whaler's Inn was just known as the Fields Landing Hotel. That road running in front of the inn is Highway 101. They put in the new freeway in 1960's. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Elk Alley: 1906
... shop, lounge, ladies writing room and an entire 150 room hotel. (The Gallery, DPC, Memphis) ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/06/2017 - 8:51pm -

Circa 1906. "Elks Club, Memphis." Antlers in the attic; wallpaper in the basement. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. The common man's private club.The Elks demolished this building in 1926 and replaced it with a mammoth new club, 12 stories high and costing 1.3 million dollars, (18 million in today's dollars). The new club for the average man included a full size gym, swimming pool, library, 6 lane bowling alley, restaurant, coffee shop, lounge, ladies writing room and an entire 150 room hotel. (The Gallery, DPC, Memphis)
Princess Issena: 1900
... photography. BTW, C. C. Post and his wife opened the hotel Princess Issena at Ormond Beach in 1908. It is likely that the Post ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/19/2017 - 6:06pm -

Circa 1900. "Ormond, Florida. Princess Issena at Tomoka landing." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. A 1905 Princess Issena ExcursionThe Princess Issena was a naphtha powered steamboat built in 1899 in Long Island City, NY with St Augustine as her home port. Her first inspection (1900) describes her as "length 81.0, width 16.0, depth 3.2". She does not look that long in the photo. (click images to enlarge) The Motor Age (Feb 2, 1905) has an engaging story of a trip up the Tomoka River. Included is a reference to difficulty of warping her around for the return trip. Here is a link to the Motor Age story. In case you missed the reference to Lazarnick taking some photos. Nathan Lazarnick, working for The Motor Age, was in Ormond Beach to photograph the 1905 speed trials. He is considered the father of automotive photography. BTW, C. C. Post and his wife opened the hotel Princess Issena at Ormond Beach in 1908. It is likely that the Post family owned the vessel as well. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, DPC, Florida)
Gingerbread Inn: 1905
... circa 1905. "Nantasket Beach casino (formerly Hotel Nantasket)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 04/11/2015 - 3:41pm -

Massachusetts circa 1905. "Nantasket Beach casino (formerly Hotel Nantasket)." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. DetailThe detail captured by 1905 lenses never ceases to amaze me. OK, so the corners are a little vignetted, but the focus does not drop off. Amazing image. (The Gallery, Bicycles, DPC)
Big Box: 1925
... The structure occupies the site of the old Richmond hotel, razing of which was started last October, and actual construction of the ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 01/09/2015 - 12:11pm -

Washington, D.C., circa 1925. "Transportation Building, corner 17th and H Sts." National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size. Transportation Building (1923-1971) Washington Post, August 19, 1923. Railroad Offices Will Concentrate in Structure Here Suitable Conference Room for Executives The imposing office building in the course of construction at Seventeenth and H streets northwest, and known as the Transportation building, will be completed by October 15, according to announcement made yesterday by the Real Estate Investment Company, managing agent for the property. The structure occupies the site of the old Richmond hotel, razing of which was started last October, and actual construction of the Transportation building was begun last January. … Washington Post, March 16, 1924. Himes Takes Title to Transportation 10-Story Building The ten-story office building at the northeast corner of Seventeenth and H streets northwest, recently completed and known as the Transportation building has been purchased by Joseph H. Himes, former member of Congress from Ohio. … The Transportation building, of the largest new office buildings in the city, is of Indiana limestone and contains 396 office rooms, in addition to a large lobby and store area on the ground floor. … The property has frontage of 120 feet on H street and 206 feet on Seventeenth street, giving a combined frontage of 326 feet, and in addition is bordered on the north and east by a public alley. … The building was erected by George A. Fuller Construction Company. Donn & Deming, and Waddy B. Wood were associate architects. Washington Post, March 13, 1971. A downtown landmark will be razed in April at the northeast corner of 17th and H Streets NW., where the 48-year-old Transportation Building will give way to a new 12-story structure designed by Weihe Black and Jeffries to have 334,000 square feet of gross space. … The new building will have four levels of interior parking. The present building was the first large downtown office building to be erected northwest of the White House. (The Gallery, Cars, Trucks, Buses, D.C., Natl Photo, Streetcars)
Carnival of Cornices: 1905
Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1905. "Hotel St. John (Mills House), Meeting Street." Demolished in 1968. 8x10 inch ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 05/24/2017 - 11:02am -

Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1905. "Hotel St. John (Mills House), Meeting Street." Demolished in 1968. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size. +105Below is the same view from May of 2010. The original structure was razed in the late 1960s. A new building was constructed on the site and opened in 1970 in the same architectural style but was two stories higher. Note that a portion of the Hibernian Hall's (1840) roof can be seen on the left in both photos. (The Gallery, Charleston, DPC)
Toronto Skyline: 1979
... building just in front of the Royal Bank is the Royal York Hotel, only 28 floors high, but at the time of its completion in 1929 the ... 
 
Posted by Islander800 - 04/24/2015 - 7:22pm -

The last of three submissions on a trip to Toronto on the QEW, Labour Day 1979. Now I'm on the Gardiner Expressway, an elevated waterfront highway opened in the late 1950s. Downtown Toronto and the CN Tower are center of view, a scene that looks dramatically changed from this Gardiner view today. View full size. Toronto buildingsThe white tower left of centre, First Canadian Place, at Bay and King, is Canada's tallest building (72 floors), completed in 1975. Originally clad in white Carrara marble, the 45,000 stone panels were replaced with glass in 2012 after a slab of marble fell off the building in 2007. The black towers are part of the Toronto-Dominion Centre, designed by Mies van der Rohe, with the first building in the complex completed in 1967. The two golden towers on the right are the Royal Bank Plaza, finished in 1979, and the glass used to clad them was colored with 2,500 ounces of gold. When the sun hits those towers at certain angles during the day, the effect is both magnificent and blinding. The old green-capped building just in front of the Royal Bank is the Royal York Hotel, only 28 floors high, but at the time of its completion in 1929 the tallest building in the British Empire. The CN Tower, on the far right, was the world's tallest free-standing structure when it was completed in 1976 and held the title until 2010. The Inglis sign, by the way, was there until July 2014. Installed in 1975 on Strachan Avenue on the site of the appliance manufacturer (since incorporated into Whirlpool), it was no longer visible to the Gardiner Expressway, having become lost in a forest of condo towers. Along its lower edge, the sign displayed various "inspirational" messages to motorists, such as "Live while you are alive" and "To reach the fruit, one must go out on a limb" and "The greatest remedy for anger is delay." (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
Reno: 1959
... looked nothing like this. --Jim Still there The Hotel Riverside is still there, now apartments, and listed on the National ... Historic Places http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Hotel_(Reno) (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery) ... 
 
Posted by Rute Boye - 10/05/2012 - 8:44pm -

It looks like Billy De Wolfe is playing in the Olympic Room of the Riverside Casino. I guess the mob is gone from the scene today. I wonder how much of what we see is still standing? View full size. Nothing Like I ImaginedThanks for posting this photo. I've always had an image of Reno in my head, in a vague sort of way, and it looked nothing like this. --Jim Still thereThe Hotel Riverside is still there, now apartments, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_Hotel_(Reno) (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery)
The Sheldon: 1907
Circa 1907. "Hotel Sheldon, Wildwood, New Jersey." Streetlight photobomb. 8x10 inch dry ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/03/2016 - 12:34pm -

Circa 1907. "Hotel Sheldon, Wildwood, New Jersey." Streetlight photobomb. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. A parking lot, now.The house to the right in the back is still there, so... at least there's that! [Also the house to the left. -tterrace] (The Gallery, DPC)
Blinds, Frames: 1940
... and Revenue Cutter Windom, the interior of the Willard Hotel in Washington, and the outer doors of the main chambers of the U.S. ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 09/01/2010 - 8:17pm -

April 1940. "Dubuque, Iowa. Sash and door mill." 35mm nitrate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. It's a Vachon-a-rama here at Shorpy, thanks to high-resolution versions of this photographer's 35mm work being recently made available online by the Library of Congress. View full size. A good smokeI'm old enough to recall the billowing smokestack being a symbol of prosperity. Farley & LoetscherThis is the Farley & Loetscher Manufacturing Company at 750 White Street. The building is still standing, but the original parapet has been covered over, along with the tops of the upper row of windows, and the painted wording on the upper edifice has been sandblasted off leaving a row or lighter colored bricks encircling the structure. A recent photo of the building is below. Farley & Loetscher was originally founded by Christian Loetscher in 1875. By 1879 Jesse Farley had joined the firm, and he had invested $85,000 for the firm's new building. The company grew to such an extent that it eventually had it's own electrical plant and telephone system. The wood, shavings, and sawdust leftover from the manufacturing processes was gathered up, shredded, and then fed into a furnace to heat the various plants. Their buildings, except for a few warehouses, were all interconnected by a series of bridges over the city roads. Employment eventually peaked at 1,250, but increasing wages and lower demand for millwork eventually caused the firm to be purchased in 1960 by Clear Fir Sales Company. The firm ended production in April 1962. An advertisement form the 1939 Dubuque city directory below shows the wide array of products available from the firm. The Encyclopedia Dubuque states that the firm made the millwork for the Navy torpedo boat Ericsson and Revenue Cutter Windom, the interior of the Willard Hotel in Washington, and the outer doors of the main chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, in addition to many other structures. (The Gallery, John Vachon)
Royal Victoria: 1900
Circa 1900. "Royal Victoria Hotel, Nassau, West Indies." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 08/22/2017 - 11:54am -

Circa 1900. "Royal Victoria Hotel, Nassau, West Indies." 8x10 inch glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size. You Know What HappenedBeautiful place in its day, but I'm sure you already guessed it, it was closed 1971, sat abandoned for years and it burned down in the mid 1990s. I'm surprised it made it that long. (The Gallery, DPC, W.H. Jackson)
On Vacation 1962
... and father are standing at the corner of the Schlageter Hotel, built around 1859-1866, while I'm across the street taking this shot on ... 
 
Posted by tterrace - 07/31/2017 - 10:03pm -

Summer 1962. We stopped in the historic Gold Rush town of Mariposa, California on our way to Yosemite. My mother, grandmother and father are standing at the corner of the Schlageter Hotel, built around 1859-1866, while I'm across the street taking this shot on 127 Kodacolor with my Brownie Starmite. I was about to turn 16, and later that year I finally graduated to 35mm. Neither the 1959 Ford wagon or the fabulous 1957 Oldsmobile hardtop belonged to us. Our 1956 Rambler wagon is parked out of sight somewhere. View full size. (ShorpyBlog, Member Gallery, Travel & Vacation, tterrapix)
The Wayne: 1910
Detroit circa 1910. "Wayne Hotel pavilion, Third Street, Detroit River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass ... 
 
Posted by Dave - 10/26/2018 - 12:40pm -

Detroit circa 1910. "Wayne Hotel pavilion, Third Street, Detroit River." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size. Yo, brah.Is that a brassiere on the sidewalk? Not the last one lost on the way to, from, or at Belle Isle. (The Gallery, Boats & Bridges, Detroit Photos, DPC)
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