rcmerchant:

the DEATH SONG (1913)

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1907

tonsofland:

The Wreck of the Arden Craig, St Agnes, Scilly, 1911

This is one of the coolest photos I’ve ever seen.

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Philadelphia circa 1907. City Hall, Broad Street north from Locust.

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Upstate New York circa 1905. “Hunting in the Adirondacks.”

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Philadelphia circa 1910. “City Hall.” Philadelphia’s soot-stained City Hall, still the largest municipal building in the United States, was for a time the tallest building in the world, at 548 feet. Its epic scope includes the time it took to complete, with construction beginning in 1871 and dragging on well into the 20th century — the project’s main architect died in 1890; his successor’s successor expired in 1910, still on the job nine years after the building had been turned over to the city. So glacial was the pace of construction, according to one history, that a major round of revisions had to be undertaken to account for “the invention of electricity and elevators.”

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Detroit, Michigan, circa 1912. “Metzger bicycle shop. Detroit City Gas Co.” This photo of a cycle (and phonograph) shop was taken to show off the gaslight fixtures.

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Detroit, Michigan, circa 1910. “Theatre Comique.”

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turnofthecentury:

blueruins:Man in the Moon & Gentleman with Top Hat

“Sooty Philadelphia circa 1910. “The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.” Broad & Walnut.

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