July 4, 1939
A photograph from the day
November 27, 1958
Photograph of the blogger as a young man
Boy chewing
A 1946 photograph
Deer on a wet red roof
Fake deer atop a pawnshop
Otis, S!ʇo
Twin gods of the upper and lower realms! (Photographs from an Otis elevator.)
One doctor's bag
Contents of a doctor's bag: photo from Life magazine
Jimmy Durante, Beat poet
Jimmy Durante and Peter Lawford do a beatnik routine, via Life magazine
Diane Arbus meets the Platters
Two moments of extraordinary weirdness from The Girl Can't Help It
"The experiment is over"
Yes, thank goodness. If you'd like to guess what happened to the man in this Alfred Eisenstadt photograph, leave your answer in a commen...
Sylvia Sweets remembered
The daughter of a Brockton, MA, restaurant owner remembers life in the restaurant
Ice cream vendor
An ice cream man delivers to a second-floor apartment by rope and pail: a 1950 photograph by Charles Cushman
Weegee in Indianapolis
Museum acquires several hundred Weegee photographs
Orange crate art
Packing oranges, a 1943 photo
Library of Congress photographs
1940s kitchenware