Lunch time at Klamath Falls

Oregon

1942

(via Play It as It Lays: 1943 | Shorpy)

January 1943. "Penasco, New Mexico. Marjorie Muller, Red Cross resident nurse of the clinic operated by the Taos County cooperative health association, playing bridge at the forest ranger's house." Photo by John Collier for the Office of War Information. View full size.

May 1943. "Stockton, California. Mexican agricultural laborers who have come to help harvest beets eating their lunch." Medium format nitrate negative by Marjory Collins for the Office of War Information.

Ice fountain, Washington Boulevard, Detroit, ca. 1917 - Shorpy

Philip Johnson | Shorpy | The Modernist Collection

[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.

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1954

"December 1940. 'Winter Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. A Syrian neighborhood near the shipyards. Slum area where many shipyard workers live.' Photo by Jack Delano."

This is one of those SHORPYs that you see and can't stop thinking about a train layout...

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.

The Louisville & Cincinnati Line sidewheeler City of Cincinnati on the Ohio River circa 1906. It was unclear from the caption whether the city it's passing is Cincinnati or not. Regardless, its details are pretty fascinating to ponder almost 120 years later--it's a hi-res image so you can get a good look.

Image by Detroit Publishing Company via shorpy.com

(via Esso Extra: 1942 | Shorpy)

December 1942. "New York, New York. Girl at gasoline pump." Medium format acetate negative by Royden J. Dixon for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Circa 1902. "Richmond & Backus Co. office, Detroit." Our sixth glimpse behind the scenes at this printing, binding and office supply business.

Russell Lee | Shorpy

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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