A Quiet Moment During the Zulu War

Timothy Reese and the Photographer, 1979
Wet-Plate Tintype

Foggy Morning

Washington Grove Forest Preserve, December 24.

The Magi of College Park

St-Cloud

More from St-Cloud

Big Gun

"Leopold" (AKA "Anzio Annie")
U.S. Army Ordnance Museum,
Aberdeen, Maryland

Bowl & Dine

New Ideal Diner, Aberdeen, Maryland.
Excellent crabcakes available, by the way.

Boy Sailor

Sixth-plate tintype, c.1865

The Joys of Space Travel

Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel - publicity still, c.1935

I Scream! Kapow! Crunch!

Washington Grove, Maryland

A Young Union Soldier

Carte de visite from
Mrs. L. A. Hicks Photograph Gallery, Brooklyn

Caped Pug

"Apellis - Athens" c.1890

In the Woods, Washington Grove

At Home with the Baltimore ID Master

Police Officer

A Dog and His Boy

Daguerreotype, c.1856

A Night in the Arctic, 1926

A nightclub or variety stage act named "A Night in the Arctic". The airship "Norge", commanded by Roald Amundsen and Umberto Nobile overflew the North Pole on May 12, 1926. The aircraft in this image represents Commander Richard Byrd's Fokker trimotor "Josephine Ford". Byrd and Floyd Bennett flew over the Pole on May 9, 1926, although some question whether or not they actually reached the Pole.

A Lady and her Steam Shovel, c.1925

Well, it was the Jazz Age, and we all did the craziest things. All of the other flappers had neat little roadsters - Stutz Speedsters and the like. And Dorothy - being Dorothy - just had to drive something different, didn't she? And the moment she saw this darling Bucyrus Model 20B, she just knew she had to have it - those treads and chains and things - just so terribly chic, you know. Of course, it did have some teensy disadvantages. For example, a jaunt over to the country club took three days. And there was that dreadful little Irishman she had to hire to shovel coal and tend the boiler and that sort of thing. But it was such fun!! I'll never forget the wild party we had in the bucket on the night that Sacco and Vanzetti were executed...

Chatham Islanders c.1860

The inhabitants of the Chatham Islands, the Moriori, had dwindled to about 100 in 1860 due to massacres by Maori warriors, transported from New Zealand on British vessels in 1835. A survivor recalled:

[The Maori] commenced to kill us like sheep.... [We] were terrified, fled to the bush, concealed ourselves in holes underground, and in any place to escape our enemies. It was of no avail; we were discovered and killed - men, women and children indiscriminately". A Maori conqueror justified their actions as follows: "We took possession... in accordance with our customs and we caught all the people. Not one escaped...." From Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies", p. 53, Jared Diamond, 1997, New York, W.W. Norton. Via Wikipedia.

Another Treasure From the Baltimore ID Master

Crossing Guard

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Soda Fountain, Goolrick's Pharmacy

Roosevelt - Devon Bull, Accokeek, Maryland

Shady Grove

Baltimore ID Master IV

Police Officer and Friend

Baltimore ID Master III

Harbor Tunnel Patrolman

Baltimore ID Master II

The Baltimore ID Master

From a stash of negatives by an unidentified Baltimore photographer.

Manipulating the Pelican

Stereoview, c.1860

Giant Hotdog with Self-Applied Condiments, Near Oshkosh

Sperryville, Virginia

Blue Heron, Capitol Hill

From "One Hundred Famous Views of Sugarloaf Mountain"

Mt. Ephraim Road

Comus Road

Off Thurston Road