Adventures of the Blackgang

Baltimore, U.S.A.: 1943

“Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where this Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. Douglass, the noted orator and abolitionist leader, worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dockhouse is rivet heater Willie Smith.” 4x5 inch nitrate negative by Roger Smith for the Office of War Information. View full size.

Langell Boys: 1908 (detail)

Named for the seven sons of shipbuilder Simon Langell, the steam barge “Langell Boys”, launched in 1890, hauled lumber until she burned and sank in Lake Huron in 1931.

Circa 1908. “Lumber hooker Langell Boys unloading at Saginaw, Michigan.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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Through to Morgantown: 1905

Circa 1905. “Pittsburgh, Penna. – the Monongahela wharves.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Photographic Company. View full size on Shorpy

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Two sheets to the wind circa 1900. “Sailing on the beach. Ormond, Florida.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

Circa 1910. “Bathing at West Palm Beach, Florida.” 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company.

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A Hasty Lunch: 1905

Coney Island, New York, circa 1905. “Picnicing on the beach – a hasty lunch.” 8½ x 6½ inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

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Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, circa 1908. “Diver repairing a lock gate.” Detroit Publishing Company glass negative. View full size.

Locked gate… now that’s something with which I have recent experience.

*Professionals have advised me to refrain from further comment on my pending legal situation in a public forum.

Eyes on the prize.

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On the Atlantic circa 1905. “An afternoon on the beach.” 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co

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mudwerks:

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Gladys Wagner posing at the beach in San Francisco during the 1920s when she was modeling and dancing on the stage. View full size.

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“I could stay in Atlantic City forever.” A Kodak moment circa 1912 at the New Jersey resort. 5x7 glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co

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[for all Boardwalk Empire fans;]

so, a naval store isn’t where you go to get a new belly button?

mudwerks:

(via Piney Goods: 1904 | Shorpy Historic Photo Archive)

Georgia circa 1904. “Naval stores, Chesnutt & O’Neill, Savannah.” A center of the resin and turpentine, or naval stores, industry. View full size.

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October 1910, aboard the steamship Trent off Bermuda

Melvin Vaniman, first engineer aboard the hydrogen airship America, with the tabby cat mascot of their ill-fated attempt at the first air crossing of the Atlantic Ocean. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. (orig. from www.shorpy.com)

Wellman airship “America” seen from Trent 1910

Oct. 15, 1910. “Wellman airship seen from Trent.” Walter Wellman’s hydrogen dirigible America just before being abandoned by its crew near Bermuda, 1,370 miles into an attempt to cross the Atlantic from New Jersey. Its engines having failed, the America drifted out of sight, never to be seen again.

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Knotty Gobs: 1899 - SHORPY

July 3, 1899. “U.S.S. New York, apprentice boat crew, anniversary of Battle of Santiago.”

Photo by Edward H. Hart, Detroit Publishing Co. View full size

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Washington, D.C., circa 1919. “Sennett girls.” Producer Mack Sennett’s comedy reels featured a bevy of “bathing beauties,” among them Marvel Rea, seen here in the harlequin costume. National Photo Company. View full size.

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Washington, D.C. July 26, 1919. “Bathing beach parade at Tidal Basin.” Another glimpse of the swimsuit pageant chronicled in the comments under this post. National Photo Company Collection glass negative. View full size.

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