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[mudwerks]

(via Trini & Molly: 1943 | Shorpy)

March 1943. "San Bernardino, California. Trinidad Gutierrez (left) and Molly Alcanto, women 'suppliers' who work at the Santa Fe roundhouse. Their job is replacing lamps and oil cans on incoming locomotives. Mrs. Gutierrez has four children. Her husband is in the hospital after an injury at the Kaiser Fontana steel mill. Miss Alcanto's boyfriend is in the Army." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Office of War Information. View full size.

[route22ny]

Pennsylvania Station, New York. East facade view along Seventh Avenue.

1912 photo by Detroit Publishing Company via shorpy.com.

[blondebrainpowered]

Flatiron Building, New York, 1902

[vintagecamping]

Lunch time at Klamath Falls

Oregon

1942

[guy60660]

Philip Johnson | Shorpy | The Modernist Collection

[heracliteanfire]

May 1943. "Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyard, Baltimore, Maryland. The shipways at evening." Acetate negative by Arthur Siegel for the Office of War Information.

(via Fairfield Shipyard: 1943 | Shorpy Old Photos)

[tilbageidanmark]

April 1939. Coffee County, Alabama.

"Mrs. Peacock and daughter Mary, Rural Rehabilitation clients for four years, getting some of their supply of canned foods for dinner. Many families keep their jars on shelves along wall in bedroom and living room."

Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[Dorothea Lange - Children of Oklahoma drought refugee in migratory camp in California, November 1936] [via Shorpy]

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Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on. It is this philosophy by which we measure out our days, and by which we advertise to all about us the man, or woman, that we are… It takes but a brief time to scent the life philosophy of anyone. It is defined in the conversation, in the look of the eye, and in the general mien of the person. It has no hiding place. It’s like the perfume of a flower – unseen, but known almost instantly. It is the possession of the successful, and the happy. And it can be greatly embellished by the absorption of ideas and experiences of the useful of this earth.

- George Matthew Adams :: [alive on all channels]

[alex-vncnt]

Stoney. This was made using a photo reference I found in Shorpy.com

[tomthefanboy]

Copper Hopper September 1942. Deer Lodge County, Montana. "Anaconda smelter, Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Cars containing 50 tons of copper ore are dumped by an unloading mechanism into a 200-ton hopper." Acetate negative by Russell Lee, Office of War Information. [ via Shorpy ]

I love this thing. Why bother ordering complicated train cars that can dump the ore for you, when instead you just by open top train cars from any old plave and let the COPPER HOPPER flip them over!

This makes me imagine an MRI machine on the Isle of Sodor.

[apuntapres]

Una de las pocas tradiciones navideñas que me gustan es la que mantiene el sitio shorpy.com desde hace años de compartir esta fotografía de una celebración de empresa de 1925. Ese tipo de fiestas siguen produciendo imágenes similares, pero esta tiene, en mi opinión, el encanto de lo primigenio y parece recordar a los celebrantes de hoy la cruda realidad de la repetición de esas caras fatigadas.

El texto que la acompaña dice:

«Faltan dos viernes para Navidad y es hora de una sagrada tradición navideña aquí en Shorpy: ¡La fiesta de Navidad en la oficina! Lo cual lleva sucediendo desde hace 98 años. ¿Alguna vez Clarence, de Ventas, tendrá el valor de invitar a salir a Hermione de Contabilidad? ¿Hay ginebra en esa aceitera? Pregúntale al oso.

»Diciembre de 1925. 'Washington, D.C. - Grupo Western Electric Co.'. Aquí se están desarrollando suficientes pequeños dramas como para mantener ocupados a los fiestólogos forenses hasta el Día de la Marmota.

»Negativo de vidrio de la colección National Photo Company.»

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[mudwerks]

(via Midtown Modern: 1958 | Shorpy)

May 1958. "Girl Scouts of U.S.A. building, Third Avenue and E. 51st Street, New York City. Exterior at night." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Gottscho-Schleisner. View full size.

[lackadaisycats]

Some insight into the designs and fashion of the 20s would be so cool, especially since it's kinda hard these days to sift through just costume listing :'0

Yeah, sadly, the usefulness of a Google search is greatly diminished these days. You can still find articles written by actual human beings and genuine historical garments, but you have to wade through a lot of junky costumes and AI bullshit to get there. I can't possibly fully explain 1920s fashion here, though. It's a broad enough topic to write a sizable book about...which is why people have written many books about it. Check out some books. There are things you can get pretty cheap from resellers, everything from academic screeds about the politics behind the fashion trends of the time, to clothing catalogue compilations from the 20s, to giant coffee table books full of glorious photos.

Here's a PDF version of one of those clothing catalog collections. There's an entire preface about 1920s fashion in general too.

There are some pretty well made blogs about the topic out there as well. Vintage Dancer is one of them. The front of the site is unfortunately kind of cluttered with ads for costume apparel and modern clothing inspired by the 20s, but scroll past that to the historical bits and you'll find pertinent things.

There are some great fashion YouTubers too, like Karolina Zebrowska. Although she's not focused heavily on 1920s fashion, she talks a lot about early 20th century fashion in general. She also talks a lot about the historical context of those fashions.

Also, try online museum displays. The Met Museum has a searchable collection, for instance. Look up 1920s fashion, 1920s dresses, 1920s suits, etc.

Cameras were popular and accessible in the 1920s. Look at pictures of what people actually wore. You can find these images in free government photo archives, or licensing libraries like Getty Images (you don't have to license anything to look at it). And there's always Shorpy. Poor old, underappreciated Shorpy. Their archive is searchable.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

D-Day services at Congregation Emunath Israel on West 23rd Street, June 6, 1944.

Photo: Howard Hollem et al. for the Office of War Information via Shorpy

[mitchipedia]

September 1918. "Base Hospital 41, Saint-Denis, France. 'I'm Joe from Missouri. Please tell my girl I'm all right.' The Red Cross Lady lends a hand -- Red Cross nurse writes a letter for an American soldier whose right arm is disabled." 5x7 inch glass negative by Lewis Wickes Hine for the American National Red Cross.

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