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The Shorpy old photo archive, where history lives. The original old pics blog. New historic photos daily and reprints at https://t.co/PZ6quvpHXq. shorpy.com USA Joined April 2008-
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Columbus, Georgia, circa 1956. "Police cars at Muscogee County Jail." Let's be careful out there! 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. shorpy.com/node/26649
April 1942. "Los Angeles, California ... Little Tokyo." Businesses represented on East First Street include Hotel Mikado, Sho-Fu-Do confectionery, Ten-Gen restaurant, Sato Book Store, Hotel Empire, Sumida & Son hardware. Photo by Russell Lee. shorpy.com/node/26683
September 19, 1902. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. "Side view of Dan Tate, left, and Wilbur Wright flying the 1902 glider as a kite." 5x7 glass negative by Orville Wright. shorpy.com/node/26682
February 26, 1960. New York. "Incres Line Caribbean cruise ship M.S. Victoria. Dining room. Gustavo Pulitzer-Finali, designer." Acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. shorpy.com/node/26681
July 1941. "War housing. Mrs. B.J. Rogan and her small son, Bernie, in the kitchen of the Rogans' new war home at the Franklin Terrace housing project in Erie, Pennsylvania." Photo by Alfred Palmer for the U.S. Office for Emergency Management. shorpy.com/node/26680
May 1942. "Salinas, California. Tagged for evacuation. Removal of Japanese enemy aliens from San Juan Bautista and San Benito County to reception center at Salinas, California." Acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. shorpy.com/node/26679
April 1942. "Santa Anita reception center ... California. The evacuation of Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under United States Army war emergency order. Examining baggage of Japanese as they arrive ..." Photo by Russell Lee. shorpy.com/node/26678
April 1942. "Los Angeles, California. Street scene in Little Tokyo." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. shorpy.com/node/26677
November 1939. Butler County, Missouri. "Evicted sharecropper and son. Camp of makeshift homes built by white and Negro sharecroppers evicted from plantation." Medium format acetate negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Farm Security Administration. shorpy.com/node/26676
November 1960. New York. "General Motors Motorama '61 at the Waldorf-Astoria. 'Ideas for Living' exhibit features model kitchen with two-oven Frigidaire Flair range with pull-out burners, mounted on a slim pedestal rising from a bed of growing plants." shorpy.com/node/26675
Circa 1901. "St. James Street, Montreal, Quebec." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative by William Henry Jackson, Detroit Photographic Company. shorpy.com/node/26674
March 1942. "Boys. Imperial County Fair, El Centro, California." Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee for the Office of War Information. shorpy.com/node/26673
From around 1960 comes this News Archive portrait of a young paparazzo labeled "Magazine Promotion." His friends call him Flash. 4x5 inch Kodak color negative. shorpy.com/node/26672
Circa 1901. "Water tower and shops entrance -- Pullman Palace Car Co., Pullman, Ill's." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. shorpy.com/node/26671
Chicago circa 1900. "Great Northern Hotel and office building, Dearborn and Jackson Streets." Along with perhaps the earliest appearance on our site of Coca-Cola signage. Also: a "Lady Barber Shop." Detroit Photographic Company. shorpy.com/node/7502
From sometime around 1968 comes this News Archive snapshot of a cozy kitchen dinner. 4x5 inch acetate negative. shorpy.com/node/26670
Portland, Oregon, 1948. "Calvary Presbyterian Church." Completed in 1882 and now known simply as The Old Church. Acetate negative from the News Photo Archive. shorpy.com/node/26668
The Columbus, Georgia, Holiday Inn circa 1961. GOOD JOB RAY WRIGHT. This particular Inn had a swimming pool and a trampoline. 4x5 inch acetate negative. shorpy.com/node/26667
From Columbus, Georgia, circa 1957 comes this News Archive photo. Will that suitcase fit in the frunk? 4x5 inch acetate negative. shorpy.com/node/26666
"New York World's Fair (1939-40) railroad exhibit. Historic locomotives at Court of Railways." 35mm color transparency by Gottscho-Schleisner. shorpy.com/node/26665
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