The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Rmccamey]

From the Traces of Texas website:
A meeting of the "Spit and Whittle" club on the steps of the bank in downtown Memphis, Texas, 1938.
Photo taken by Dorothea Lange.

 

[Rmccamey]

Some mighty wide brims on those Rangers.

 

[Frunobulax]

From the Traces of Texas website:
A meeting of the "Spit and Whittle" club on the steps of the bank in downtown Memphis, Texas, 1938.
Photo taken by Dorothea Lange.

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Looks like one of those fellas whittled himself some crutches!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Subject of photographic portrait identified as W. Spalding & taken in New York City by photographer Rufus Anson c. 1860's. Not known if Spalding could be related to Wilbur Spalding, maybe the father of the early game of baseball in New York City.

Unknown pre Civil War baseball player in New York City.

What a piece of lumber!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

1850's unknown. Note the bib cavalry shirt.

 

[carouselvic]

Another whip-stitch kind of guy. Pedal car. 1949.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

1920's barbershop, Turkish bath, & hats for gentlemen.

 

[Michael A]

From today's Guardian,

Ted Croner, Sharpie in a Cafeteria, 1946
Croner was born in Baltimore but grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. During the second world war he worked as an aerial photographer with the US Army Air Corps. In 1946, he enrolled in Alexey Brodovitch’s photography class at the New School for Social Research. Towards the end of the 1940s, his work was successfully exhibited at MoMA in New York. Alongside commercial assignments for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, he pursued his own photography, producing experimental, cinematic images of cafeterias, solitary diners and the city after dark.
Photograph: © Catherine Croner, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

 

[Michael A]

Also from the Guardian

Helen Levitt, New York, 1942
Born and raised in New York, Levitt made most of her photographs in the city’s streets. Her interest in photography began in 1931; she learned darkroom technique while working for a portrait photographer and by 16 had decided to become a professional. She was especially inspired by the photographs of Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson, both of whom became friends. Following Cartier-Bresson’s lead, Levitt bought a 35mm camera and settled on the subject matter she would pursue for the next 40 years: community street life.
Photograph: © Estate of Helen Lewitt, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

 

[Rmccamey]

There is a hat somewhere in the paper...and it fits the thread. At any rate, it is the holiday season and if you are wondering what to get your loved one for Christmas in 1886, may I make a suggestion...

 

[carouselvic]

Macy's window display, New York, December 1946.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Photograph by William C. Odiorne (1881–1978) taken in the 1920's, Paris.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Women in hats.

1917

2017

 

[Cornelius]

Yikes! Ms.1917 needs a Jasbeschermer to prevent some serious road rash

 

[Zombie_61]

Yikes! Ms.1917 needs a Jasbeschermer to prevent some serious road rash

Why? She's not even looking where she's going. That Jasbeschermer won't help her when she rear-ends that Hupmobile.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Unknown

 

[steur]

From today's Guardian,

Ted Croner, Sharpie in a Cafeteria, 1946
Croner was born in Baltimore but grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. During the second world war he worked as an aerial photographer with the US Army Air Corps. In 1946, he enrolled in Alexey Brodovitch’s photography class at the New School for Social Research. Towards the end of the 1940s, his work was successfully exhibited at MoMA in New York. Alongside commercial assignments for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, he pursued his own photography, producing experimental, cinematic images of cafeterias, solitary diners and the city after dark.
Photograph: © Catherine Croner, Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

That is certainly a sharp looking homburg he's wearing.

 

[steur]

Women in hats.

1917

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2017

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That should be considered unfair competition (or too fair?).

 

[steur]

Unknown greek man, 1930's. Love that hat.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

That should be considered unfair competition (or too fair?).

What a difference a hundred yrs makes!