Picture of the day (general)....

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Circa 1904. "The Circle -- Brooklyn, N.Y." Plaza Street West at Berkeley Place, with Grand Army Plaza at right.
8x10 inch glass transparency.

Source: Internet

 

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July 1941. "Work on streetcar tracks, Fourteenth and G Streets N.W., Washington, D.C."
Medium format negative by Martha McMillan Roberts.

Source: Internet

 

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May 1950. "University of Notre Dame football quarterback Bob Williams posed as if signing autographs for a group of
college women." 3x4 inch Kodachrome transparency by Frank Bauman for the Look magazine assignment
"Grantland Rice's Football Forecast for 1950."

Source: Internet

 

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Buffalo, New York, circa 1900. "Buffalo River and elevators, foot of Main Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative,
Detroit Publishing Company.

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October 1942. "Riveter at work at the Douglas Aircraft plant in Long Beach, California."
Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.

Source: Internet

 

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October 1942. "Woman at work on bomber motor, Douglas Aircraft Co., Long Beach, California."
Kodachrome by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.

Source: Internet

 

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October 1942. "Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach."
Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.

Source: Internet

 

[Airframes]

Some nice ( and high quality ) pics in these selections old boy - keep them coming.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Also very interesting to see life as it was post war in the US.

 

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June 1942. "Inspecting a Cyclone airplane motor at North American Aviation in Long Beach, Calif."
Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.

Source: Internet

 

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October 1942. "B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City."
Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the OWI.

Source: Internet

 

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October 1942. "The careful hands of women are trained in precise aircraft engine installation duties at
Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach, Calif." Kodachrome by Alfred Palmer, Office of War Information.

Source: Internet

 

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Los Angeles, 1957. "Trailer Life model." A model just waiting to get hitched? 5x7 acetate negative by
Watson from the News Photo Archive.

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special supplies? BEER!

 

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An early photo of Terry Airframes

1940s photo taken by my grandfather, Detroit News photographer Howard McGraw of a young man who's really just
too cool for words. Don't worry, the cigarette is not lit! Scanned from a 4x5 negative.

Source: Internet

 

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April 1942. "Hollywood, California. Sign and ticket window of a large dance palace." The Hollywood Palladium on
Sunset Boulevard. Medium format nitrate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information.

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Karl!? rochie

"Between February 1894 and February 1901; date from photographer's logbook; notation on negative sleeve: Dunn baby."
5x7 inch dry plate glass negative from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C.

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June 7, 1944. "Maser Music showroom, Mission and Washburn streets, San Francisco." On display on D-Day Plus One,
a selection of Wurlitzer jukeboxes and two Mills Panoram "Soundies" machines, a sort of early video jukebox that played
16mm film loops of musical acts for a dime.
8x10 inch acetate negative, late of the Wyland Stanley and Marilyn Blaisdell collections.

Source: Internet

 

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San Francisco, 1939. "William Corcoran showroom, Post Street." Distributor of Wurlitzer Simplex jukeboxes as well as the
Buckley Music System "Music Box," the mobile version being presented here for appraisal.
8x10 acetate negative, late of the Wyland Stanley and Marilyn Blaisdell collections.

Source: Internet

 

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What the hell!?

Oakland, Calif., circa 1918. "Orchard tractor demonstration -- Fageol Motors Co. 'Walking Tractor'." Latest entry in the
Shorpy Catalog of Agricultural Anachronisms. 8x10 inch glass negative by Cheney Photo Advertising Co.

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