Shorpy | Old Photos - Vintage Photography

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1958. "Arch Street (houses) study, 527-503 Arch Street (from right to left), looking north. Taken before demolition in 1959." 5x7 inch acetate negative by Jack E. Boucher for the Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1958. "General view; east (front) elevation -- Beck-Care Warehouse, 18-20 South Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia." Details here. 5x7 inch acetate negative by Cervin Robinson for the Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.

New York circa 1900-1906. "Terminal building, Hudson River -- Erie Railway, Chambers Street Ferry Terminal." 5x7 nitrate negative, Historic American Buildings Survey. View full size.

March 1943. "Santa Fe R.R. train stopping for coal and water. Laguna, New Mexico." Kodachrome transparency by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Spring 1943. "Chacon, Mora County, New Mexico." 4x5 inch Kodachrome transparency by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.

April 1943. "Dallas, Texas. Proofreading desk of the Dallas Morning News." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

April 1943. Lufkin, Texas. "Newsprint (paper) production and use, from pine tree to Dallas Morning News. Southland Paper Mills worker with equipment used to produce 18-foot rolls of newsprint." Acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

1920. "Herald tour -- York, Pennsylvania." Our second photo in as many weeks from the Washington Herald's auto tour shows what looks to be a passel of pupils outside their schoolhouse. 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

February 1943. "New York, New York. Associated Transport Company trucking terminal on Twenty-Third Street. Mechanic checking the motor of a transport truck." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Paterson, New Jersey, ca. 1908. "Passaic Street -- anarchists live here." Paterson was a hotbed of labor unrest in the early 1900s, with the label "anarchist" seemingly applied to anyone from strike organizer to bomb thrower. 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

New York circa 1917. "Taking home milk. (Woman with baby carriage holding bottles from one of the depots set up by merchant Nathan Straus to provide pasteurized milk to poor families.)" 5x7 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.

March 29, 1935. "CHERRY BLOSSOMS COMING. Famous Japanese cherry blossoms are beginning to open around Washington's Tidal Basin. Velera Barber, left, and Anne Moffett, both of Washington, are inspecting the blossoms. They predict that the blossoms will be out by Sunday, or Monday, March 31, at the latest." Harris & Ewing glass negative. View full size.

        The B&O Ellicott City Depot is the oldest surviving railroad station in the U.S. Built in 1831, it was the terminus of the first 13 miles of Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

Howard County, Maryland, 1920. "Herald tour to Annapolis (Ellicott City railroad station)." One in a series of photos documenting the Washington Herald's "pathfinding tour" by car from one capital to another, back when inter-city automobile travel, still something of a novelty, could be a real adventure. 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1926. "Post Products Co. -- Dodge Bros. trucks at Lincoln Memorial." 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

        Inscription on the White House Zero Mile reads: POINT FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF DISTANCES FROM WASHINGTON ON HIGHWAYS OF THE UNITED STATES

Washington, D.C., 1926. "Cross Continent Trip -- Official Car, Lee Highway Association; White House in background." The "Cross Continent Trip" was a publicity stunt promoting a proposed "national highway" that would traverse the United States from New York to Southern California via Washington. 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1917. "Dodge Brothers trucks -- Lerch's van." Lerch's billed itself as "Washington's Foremost Cleansers and Dyers." 8x6 inch glass negative. View full size.

Montgomery County, Maryland, circa 1930. "Glen Echo Park." 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Rockville, Maryland, 1926. "Montgomery County Motor Co." A behind-the-scenes look at MCMC's oil-stained service bay. 8x10 inch glass negative, National Photo Co. View full size.

Rockville, Maryland, circa 1926. "Montgomery County Motor Co." A view from inside the "Used Cars" section of the Chevrolet dealership seen here a few years ago. 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Washington, D.C., circa 1926. "Ford Motor Co. -- Lincoln at Lincoln Memorial." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

Buffalo, New York, circa 1900. "Unloading grain at the Great Northern elevator." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

January 23, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Broadway producer Earl Carroll picking beauties to play in 1925 'Vanities' revue." 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company. View full size.

January 23, 1925. Washington, D.C. "Broadway producer Earl Carroll picking beauties to play in the 1925 Vanities." 4x5 inch glass negative, National Photo Company Collection. View full size.

New York circa 1908. "M.W. Littleton's, Fifth Avenue." The ivy-clad residence of lawyer Martin Wiley Littleton, future congressman and Brooklyn borough president. 8x10 inch glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. View full size.

Circa 1950. "Homemaking cover for McCall's." Meet Mr. and Mrs. Al Dente, about to indulge in that exotic Italian import known as pasta. 4x5 inch Kodachrome by Toni Frissell. View full size.

September 1947. "New England characters (girl with books). A variety of people, young and old, in photographs taken for Collier's magazine in New England states." 4x5 inch Kodachrome transparency by that prolific peripatetic polymath, Toni Frissell. View full size.

Circa 1910. "Surf bathers at crowded beach, possibly Atlantic City." Not sure if you can swim? There's always the rope! 5x7 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Sept. 11, 1900. "Chicago Masonic Temple, Randolph and State Streets." Glimpsed here two minutes later, 10 years ago. 8x10 glass transparency, Detroit Photographic Co. View full size.

We're continuing our journey through the archives with this photo from Coney Island first posted to Shorpy on August 29, 2008. Luna Park at Coney Island circa 1905. Tonight only: "Infant incubators with living infants." 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size.

From the archives. This popular image was first posted to Shorpy on March 23, 2007. Also on the menu is more waffle. And even more waffle. Entrance to the Waffle Shop at 522 10th Street NW, Washington D.C. Circa 1950 photograph by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.

From the archives. First posted here on March 20, 2016. July 1942. "Klamath Falls, Oregon. Carnival of the circus." In line for the Tilt-A-Whirl. Photo by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. View full size.