Griffith Observatory doors
A photograph.
Orange stem art
At Farmers Market, Los Angeles.
Harry Truman with pencil
It looks like a Mongol.
Autumn Rhythm
A 1959 photograph.
Labor Day
Watts Bar Dam, Tennessee, 1942.
HIgh school, 1950
There’s a sense of maturity and purpose in this photograph that I find difficult to reconcile with “high school.”
A new Dickinson daguerreotype?
“Should the new image stand up to scrutiny and verification, it will become only the second existing photographic likeness of the reclusive Amherst poet.”
The Fourth of July
1942 Dorothea Lange photograph, “American children of Japanese, German and Italian heritage pledging allegiance to the flag.”
Ice-cream cones
It’s hot, as this photograph illustrates.
Automat beverage section
Automat coffee dispensers, same as they ever were.
Happy Mother's Day
A photograph, 1958?
Bicycle safety, 1954
From Life magazine.
Contrapuntalism
A new site from the creator of Blackwing Pages.
As exams approach
A 1951 Life photograph of a novel way to study.
Inappropriate stock photo accompanies news item
“Female healthy lifestyle.”
Dick Clark (1929–2012)
A 1958 photograph.
Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby, CH2-5097
The photographer Rudy Burckhardt and the dance critic and poet Edwin Denby, in the 1940 New York City telephone directory.
Billy Wilder in an Eames chair
A Peter Stackpole photograph.
Stripes
A sign (on the side of a tractor-trailer), reminding me of the Italian cookies I have known from childhood as stripes.
John Gardner, Nothing to say
Photographs of empty signs in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Valentine’s Day
A 1936 photograph by Berenice Abbott.
From the Life Photo Archive
A mask for lips.
NYPL Stereogranimator
You too can create animated GIFs and 3D images with the New York Public Library’s Stereogranimator.
SSNs
A 1938 photograph.
Awesome People Reading
Awesome People Reading collects photographs of just that.
Lost mitten
It’s been waiting on this telephone pole for at least a month.
As exams approach
Elizabeth Taylor, sitting at a desk.
Canned goods
Life magazine photograph, 1941.
Dennis Stock, camera
Photograph of Dennis Stock holding a camera to his face.
Project Neon
“A project to document the best of New York City’s neon signs.”