Tuesday, December 25, 2007

A Quiet Moment During the Zulu War


Timothy Reese and the Photographer, 1979
Wet-Plate Tintype
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Foggy Morning


Washington Grove Forest Preserve, December 24.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007

Monday, November 5, 2007

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.

Friday, November 2, 2007

Boy Sailor

Sixth-plate tintype, c.1865

Friday, October 26, 2007

The Joys of Space Travel


Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel - publicity still, c.1935
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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Friday, October 19, 2007

A Young Union Soldier

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

Monday, October 15, 2007

Caped Pug

"Apellis - Athens" c.1890

Friday, October 12, 2007

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.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

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...

Monday, October 8, 2007

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.
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Another Treasure From the Baltimore ID Master

Crossing Guard
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Fredericksburg, Virginia


Soda Fountain, Goolrick's Pharmacy
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Thursday, October 4, 2007

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Baltimore ID Master III


Harbor Tunnel Patrolman
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Saturday, September 29, 2007

Tuesday, September 25, 2007

The Baltimore ID Master


From a stash of negatives by an unidentified Baltimore photographer.
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Friday, September 21, 2007

From "One Hundred Famous Views of Sugarloaf Mountain"


Mt. Ephraim Road


Comus Road


Off Thurston Road
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