21 5 / 2012
“A woman using a Hollerith pantograph to tabulate the United States Census. Photograph, circa 1940, appears to be staged as it shows an 1890’s style Hollerith pantograph being used to record data from a 1940 census form.”
(Source: Wikimedia Commons)
05 2 / 2012
Excelsior Motor Manufacturing & Supply Company was a U.S. motorcycle manufacturer operating in Chicago from 1907 to 1931. That’s probably a 1914 model, photo taken ca. 1919.
05 2 / 2012
“Smykowski Bros. Grocery, 1922, located 31st and Herbert Street, Detroit. This is a reduced-resolution photo scanned from original. On the left is Leo Smykowski in the center is Stefan Smykowski, the person on the right is unknown. The Smykowskis, Polish immigrants, ran three stores in Detroit, the last one closed in the early 1970s.”
Author: Bill Whittaker (Source).
04 2 / 2012
The Only Flowers of Her Youth, Warsaw, 1938 by Roman Vishniac.
The circumstance captured in this photograph is quite an interesting one. Allegedly, the little girl depicted was confined to her bed all winter because she had no shoes. She was kept company only by the flowers on her wall, painted by her artist father. (Text and picture from here).
01 2 / 2012
