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Shellubrication: 1950s

Cazzorla — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 23:56:34 +0000

From a discarded negative collection that belonged to a San Diego area barber. 120 format. View full size.

Mill Town Aughts

hj808 — Thu, 22 May 2025 00:02:24 +0000

My great-grandfather was a Textile League ball player in the little mill village of Tucapau, South Carolina, in probably the late aughts. He didn't care what the mill job was as long as he could play on their team. The story in the family is that one of his upcountry cousins was also a Textile League player -- a standout talent named Shoeless Joe. View full size.

Class Notes: 1964

ndlxs — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 21:34:24 +0000

Cucamonga, California, circa 1964. My piano teacher Mrs. Stewart, who seemed impossibly old when I was 8 years old 61 years ago, STILL seems impossibly old. Her equally old husband took a photo of her students every year with his big 1920s box camera; this is the only one of three that I still possess. I am third from the right in the front row, with the crew cut. To my right is Bruce D., with the bow tie; next to him is a kid I only know as Russell. Next to him is Patty L., and all of us boys liked her. Mrs. Stewart had quarterly recitals, and she would tape our performances and play us back our mistakes the next lesson. View full size.

Sweet Aloyse: 1943

ndlxs — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 17:44:35 +0000

A former beau of my late mother in law, Aloyse Aubrey; she did NOT marry him. I have forgotten his name, but the back of the photo says: "B-25c #42-64513, 'Rafisque' Army Air Base, Dakar, W. Africa, 4/26/43." It looks like this is one of the stops used to ferry bombers to the North African theater. It also looks like this airman didn't put a lot of time into painting the nose of his bomber. View full size.

Goodrich Grandpa: 1935

ndlxs — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 01:29:44 +0000

Employees of the Goodrich Tire Store in Pontiac, Michigan, in December 1935. My grandfather Arvid Alexis (seated at center) was the manager. According to one of my cousins, he was the man that HQ would send out to underperforming stores to fix the problems and fire the problem employees. I only knew him as an old man, and I was a bit scared of him, but he did have a subtle sense of humor that would occasionally surface. View full size.

Mrs. Claus: 1949

delworthio — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 02:40:41 +0000

Christmas 1949 in Valparaiso, Indiana. That's Grandma in a Kodachrome slide. View full size.

Our Christmas coda is this cocktail-hour Kodachrome submitted by Shorpy charter member Delworthio 16 years ago, in 2008. Cheers!

The Third Man: 1951

JeffK — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:37:45 +0000

~~Occupied Germany at the U.S.-Soviet sector~~ The East/West German border circa 1951, ten years before the Berlin Wall was built. U.S. Army soldiers Harry Manville, Dave Crosson, and Ray Kwapil (my dad). I have the Agfa Karat 35mm and Rolleicord 6x6cm Dad is dangling. Nice cameras, they are still working. Location: "Untersuhl by Eisenach, Germany, East-West German border on Autobahn" is written on the slide mount. Another of Dad's photos is here: Munich c. 1952. | View full size.

Eleanor & Mary: 1945

exm1dog — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 16:18:25 +0000

My wife's grandmother and a friend outside the family bakery in Nicetown, Philadelphia, around 1945. Located on North 15th Street. View full size.

Boys & Coils: 1910s

Sdebow — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:50:01 +0000

The Philadelphia Pipe Bending Company, founded in 1880, is still in operation today. Here we see two workers standing inside some large coils with advertising signage. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.

Margaret Combs: 1925

jgalloway — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 16:21:40 +0000

Dayton, Ohio, circa 1925. Mrs. Margaret Combs with her grandsons Arthur and Charles Neil (at left), and Robert and Edward Galloway. View full size.

Dry Docked: 1907

Sdebow — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 01:28:01 +0000

Maintenance being done on the USS Potomac (AT-50) in Dry Dock No. 1 of League Island (Philadelphia Naval Yard) in 1907. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.

Mill Spill: 1914

Sdebow — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 19:24:42 +0000

October 21, 1914. Bronx, New York. A Cross, Austin, & Ireland Lumber Co. truck accident on the trolley tracks at East 138th Street and Southern (now Bruckner) Boulevard. 8x10 inch glass negative. View full size.

Anna Jaques Hospital: 1904

Sdebow — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 20:47:24 +0000

Newburyport, Massachusetts, circa 1904. A graduating class of nurses outside the main entrance to the Anna Jaques Hospital. 6½ x 8½ inch glass negative. View full size.

Tony's Royal Lancer: 1957

Shack25PS — Wed, 29 May 2024 21:25:26 +0000

My wife's cousin, Tony Granieri, with his new 1957 Dodge Royal Lancer at his house in Salt Lake City. Tony was a WWII veteran and earned the Purple Heart for injuries to his legs. He was self-conscious about that and never wore shorts the rest of his life. View full size.

Lapping It Up: Racine Wisconsin circa 1960

JeffK — Tue, 21 May 2024 21:51:18 +0000

My brothers, circa 1960, from the family 35mm slide collection. 1018 Jones Ave, Racine Wisconsin ~~I do not know the location, it does not look like any lot we lived on. My guess is it was a neighbor's house in South Bend, Indiana, where~~ we have visited them before. | View full size.

Christmas in Miami: 1954

Dave — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 17:25:59 +0000

A holiday chestnut worth reheating over the Shorpy Duraflame.

"Christmas 1954." My grandmother Sarah Hall (1904-2000) in her living room in Miami Shores four years before I was born. She made the mantel decoration, which saw service for many years, with Brazilian pepper berries from a big tree in the backyard, mixed with pine cones, all attached to a chicken wire frame. Grandmother, handy with a needle and thread, also made the curtains. She was, needless to say, big on Christmas. 35mm Kodachrome. View full size.

Happy Halloween: 1958

Dave — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:02:06 +0000

October 1958, somewhere in Pennsylvania. Big brother is ready for a night of trick-or-treating. Rob from the rich, and share with your understudy! Our fourth selection from a batch of Kodachrome slides found on eBay. View full size.

Minnesota Munchkins, c. 1895

chrmer — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 21:28:02 +0000

This despondent looking crew are the drawn from the various Scandanavian, German, and Irish families settled in or near Wadena, Minnesota during the late 1800s. Wadena, located in the west-central part of the state, was (and is) a pretty small town, so some of these kids probably had an epic daily commute, by foot, from farm to school house. Identities are unknown except for Bernard Francis Burch (1889-1985), third from left in the first standing row. View full size.

Boomers, First Grade: 1953

tterrace — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 03:55:24 +0000

It's seventy years ago in Idyllic Larkspur™, where we find me (bottom left corner) with Bob, David, Bob, Jim, Jim, Margaret, Sandy, Donna, Rae Ann, Roberta, Virginia, Jerry, Buzzy, Fred, Gordy, Frances, Alice, Alice, Sheila, Mrs. Madeline Drew and others whose names I forget. This was taken within a month of losing nearly half our classmates, they having been siphoned off to the district's brand new school in neighboring "Twin City," almost-as-Idyllic Corte Madera. And that one was already overcrowded, for which first-wave baby boomers such as we must shoulder the blame. As for me, good old L-CM was just four blocks from our home at 9 Arch Street, and I continued to walk the round-trip every school day, rain or shine, until I graduated 8th grade. View full size.

Autocar Truck: 1922

Mach52cm — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 22:18:17 +0000

Johnson Gear & Mfg. Co., Berkeley, California, circa 1922.

Lady of Larkspur: 1955

tterrace — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 01:42:49 +0000

Frances Dorsey "Fanny" Cagwin, along with her husband George, were our neighbors in Larkspur, California, where they'd lived since 1905. Frances had been a school teacher in Virginia City, Nevada when she met George, and they married in 1887 at Carson City, where he was employed at the U.S. Mint. She was an accomplished musician, and in the living room of their Craftsman style home could be found a gleaming Steinway rosewood square grand piano. A wedding gift of her father to her mother, it had made the trip from New York by ship around Cape Horn to San Francisco, then by horse-drawn freight over the Sierras to Virginia City. Follow the link in George's name to see him and get a glimpse of his eventful life. Frances died in 1958 at the age of 92, and George in 1959 at 102. My big brother, then in high school and doing gardening work and errand-running for the Cagwins, took this Ansco Color slide with his then-new Leidolf Lordox 24x36 35mm camera. View full size.

Lionel Lines: 1946

Sparkplug — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 21:19:42 +0000

From circa 1946 comes this 35mm Kodachrome of Jim and Jack Hardman and their Christmas train set in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. View full size.

German Band in Buffalo, New York

phlyx — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 17:10:43 +0000

Frank Anneser (left) and friends decked out in lederhosen with their German Oktoberfest band. Bringing a taste of Bavarian music to Buffalo, New York, in 1925. View full size.

Senior Sneak: 1955

tterrace — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 18:55:02 +0000

Senior Sneak was the name applied to Marin Catholic High School's pre-graduation recreation getaway day, which for the class of 1955, including my brother and his roll of Tri-X film, was on May 18th that year. There was nothing particularly sneaky about it, since it was school-sponsored -- another shot depicts the principal at the refreshment counter clad in a distinctly non-priestly Hawaiian shirt. The location is Adobe Creek Lodge in Los Altos Hills, 50 miles south of the school on the San Francisco Peninsula. View full size.

Georgie: 195X

slk23 — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 18:08:49 +0000

"Georgie #2". Found 35mm Kodachrome slide. View full size.

A Saint Named Thérèse

ZoomZoom — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:17:29 +0000

My mom Thérèse Helene (Larochelle) Lavoie (1943-2019) when she was around 20 years-old in the early 1960s near Saint-Isidore, Dorchester, Québec, Canada. A similar photograph taken at the same time was captured in an oil painting.

Bill and Bobby Little Cowboys

Bobdog — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:04:36 +0000

Grand Island, Nebraska. 1951.

San Francisco: Circa 1970

Timz — Wed, 18 May 2022 15:03:51 +0000

Second Street looking NW toward Market Street, which seems to still be coping with BART construction. Far as I know, 1970 is as good a guess as any. 4x5 Ektachrome, 180 mm Symmar and a polarizer.

Headed back to Dallas via the Grand Canyon

Zone47 — Wed, 18 May 2022 11:11:17 +0000

My college buddy and I drove in a 77 Ford Pinto from Los Gatos to the south rim of the grand canyon and got there right at day break. Hours through the desert at night was brutal in trying to stay awake (and find open gas stations). We'd been up for 24 hours but I don't think it was a problem as the sun was coming up over this breath taking place. The Pinto by the way broke it's timing belt the day after we got back to Dallas.

Glass Princess: 1916

tterrace — Mon, 09 May 2022 16:00:01 +0000

My mother's older sister Mary in a glass plate negative taken about 1916 in the family home in San Francisco. She's also been seen on Shorpy here in the same room and with her Model T Roadster here. Mary's was a short life; she died from tuberculosis in 1922. View full size.