Wonderful aerial map illustration of Manhattan in 1879 by J.W. Williams produced by the Rogers, Peet Co. Department Store. Perspective map not drawn to scale. Including indexing for points of interest. Original at 24 x 19 cm.

Photographed in 1921 by the National Photo Company on 4x5 glass plate negative. 

Mother of twenty-two children, in the Shenandoah National Park, Virginia. Photographed by Arthur Rothstein in October of 1935 on 35mm film.

Illustration by Leon Barritt created in 1898 as a chromolithograph llustration shows a bat labeled "Greed" with human head seated on nest ringed with human skulls identified as various commercial establishments.

Poster promotiong travel to Greece by Pierre Commarmond in the 1930's. Original size was 105x 75 cm and published in Paris by the L'Innovation Publicitaire. Travel poster showing ancient Greek ruins.

This poster was produced by the Alpha Litho. Co. Inc., N.Y. and sponsored by the United States Shipping Board in 1917 as a color lithograph at 71 x 52 cm. Poster showing a workman in a shipyard.

United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation.

Now this doesn't look staged does it? But still love those experssions. I've gotta find out more about the National Photo Company photographer, he really look to have a great time on shoots. This shot in May of 1931 taken on 4x5 glass plate negative.

Bata Advertisment from 1947 by Peter Birkhaüser, Basel. Published in Zurich by Wolfsberg-Druck as a color lithograph at 128.3 x 90.5 cm. Advertising poster for Bata Shoe Company showing a pair of rubber boots.

Promotional poster for the US Army Air Forces by Stan Ekman. Created in 1942 as a color lithograph at 59x41 cm. Poster showing a pilot wearing shining wings on his chest.

Published in 1920 by the National Photo Compnay from a 4x5 glass plate negative. From Left to right A.M. Green, Leon A. Compton, O.L. Curtis.

Springstein Mills, Chester, S.C. Boy with glove, Malcom Rogers. Next to him - Ben Deaton--12 years old. 52 inches high. Weaver. Runs 6 looms at $1.00 a day. 2 years in mill. I asked him if it wasn't hard work. "Hardest part if it is I have to stretch so much to reach up." (Tallest boy) John Lewis--12 years old. 1 yr. in mill. Weaves--4 looms. Got 40 cents to start. 60 cents now a day. Brother and father in mills. Nov. 28/08 Witness Sara R. Hine. Location: Chester, South Carolina Photo by Lewis W. Hine.

Interior elevator detail, United States Commerce building, Washington, D.C. photographed by Carol Highsmith in December of 2008 as a digital tiff file. 

Architect: Cass Gilbert. Built 1922-1925.
Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration.

Photographed by Mathew Brady between 1844 and 1860 as a half plate daguerreotype. Produced by Mathew Brady's studio.

It is a part of America's history. I did a double take on this one when I first saw it. Melting post or "Boiling Pot"?

The Magic Washer, was manufactured by Geo. Dee, Dixon, Illinois. "The Chinese must go". Created by Shober & Carqueville Lithograph Co. in 1886 as a color lithograph. Cartoon showing Uncle Sam, with proclamation and can of Magic Washer, kicking Chinese out of the United States.

The Flatiron Building, New York City, on a rainy night. Photographed by Edward Steichen in 1904.

One of 8 from the set of American Frohse Anatomical Wallcharts. Showing dissection of the human ear and eye. During World War I these German charts were edited by Max Brodel at John Hopkins and published in the US. Hence the American Frohse.

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus The greatest show on earth. Published in 1943 as a color lithograph at 70x53 cm. Poster showing a seated clown holding a small umbrella.

Poster created for the New York Federal Art Project between 1936 and 1938 as a color silkscreen promoting planned housing as a method to deter disease in cities, showing microorganisms.

New York City Housing Authority - Fiorello H. La Guardia, Mayor - Langdon W. Post, Commissoner.

Italia - nel paese piu bello il campo per ogni sport created by A.M. Cassandre and published in Milano : Off. Graf. Coen & C., 1935. And printeded in Italy by the ENIT at 100 x 62 cm.

Travel poster showing the equipment needed for the sports of skiing (skis), tennis (tennis racket and ball), mountain climbing (ice axe), sailing (anchor), and golf (golf club and ball) superimposed over a lake with mountains in the background in Italy.

World's fair - Chicago - 1934 Tour the world at the fair--See fifteen foreign villages poster by Weimer Pursell.
And Published in Chicago by Neely Printing Company, 1934 at 58 x 40 cm.

Summary: Poster for the 1933-34 Chicago World's Fair, showing the fairgrounds with Chicago skyline.

Football Players. Minot, North Dakota photographed by John Vachon in October of 1940 in 35mm film.

Created by Penna Art by Raymond WIlcox as part fo the FAP and Federal Art project, a color silkscreen. Poster for Philadelphia Council of Defense encouraging conservation of water as part of the war effort.

Safeguard your home - always disconnect cord when leaving iron even for a minute. This message on this Ohio, Federal Art Project from 1940. Created as a color silkscreen promoting home saftey.
Date Created/Published: Ohio : Federal Art Project, 1940.

Porte plume 'Ideal' Waterman l'arme de la paix, translated  "Carry the 'Ideal' Waterman pen, the weapon of peace". Created by Eugene Oge in 1919 and published by Vercasson, Paris as a color lithograph at 102 x 78 cm. Image shows a woman holding a giant fountain pen.

This march on Jan 15th of 1975 was around the White House. Photographed by Thomas O'Halloran. Photograph shows Jesse Jackson surrounded by marchers carrying signs advocating support for the Hawkins-Humphrey Bill for full employment.

Seven Women in Bathing attire at the beach, photographed by the National Photo Company on 4x5 glass plate negative in 1920.

This hotel is currently being renovated back to it's original grandeur. This photo taken tween 1900 and 1906 by the Detroit Publishing Company on 8x10 glass plate negative.

Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation imaged by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view of LH 95, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, reveals a region where low-mass, infant stars and their much more massive stellar neighbors reside. A shroud of blue haze gently lingers amid the stars. The image was taken in March 2006 with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

Advertising poster for the chainless Acatène Metropole bicycle with G&J tires showing the Germanic priestess, Velleda, a legendary leader of the Batavian uprising against the Romans, with a bird of prey carrying chains and the Latin motto "Vae Catenis," or "Woe to Chains," above its head. Created by Biarritz Baylac in 1898 and published by Kossuth & Cie, Paris at 156 x 118 cm.

After more than three years of inactivity, the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) has reopened its “near-infrared eyes” on the universe, snapping several breathtaking views, from the craggy interior of a star-forming cloud to a revealing look at the heart of an edge-on galaxy. Peering into our stellar backyard, NICMOS peeled back the outer layers of the Cone Nebula [above, left] to see the underlying dusty "bedrock" in this stellar "pillar of creation." The camera’s penetrating vision also sliced through the edge-on dusty disk of a galaxy, NGC 4013 [above, center], like our Milky Way to peer all the way into the galaxy's core. Astronomers were surprised to see what appears to be an edge-on ring of stars, 720 light-years across, encircling the nucleus. Though such star-rings are not uncommon in barred spiral galaxies, only NICMOS has the resolution to see the ring buried deep inside an edge-on galaxy. The camera then peered far across the universe to witness a galactic car wreck between four galaxies, which is creating a torrent of new stars. The colliding system of galaxies, called IRAS 19297-0406 [above, right], glows fiercely in infrared light because the flocks of new stars are generating a large amount of dust.

The Dana House photographed by Carol Highsmith July 6th 2007.

Notes:Springfield's Dana-Thomas House is the best preserved and most complete of Frank Lloyd Wright's early "Prairie" houses. The structure has changed little since its construction in 1902-04 for Springfield socialite and women's activist Susan Lawrence Dana.

Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds.

The festive portrait is the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus.

Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun. These hefty stars are destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years. The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years. The nebula is close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual stars, giving astronomers important information about the birth and evolution of stars in the universe. The Hubble observations were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009. The blue color is light from the hottest, most massive stars; the green from the glow of oxygen; and the red from fluorescing hydrogen.

Poster showing a man on ice skates fallen down on the ice on a pond in a park and a woman skating past on wheeled-skates on a walkway next to the pond. This advertisment for Patin-bicyclette -- Richard-Choubersky created by Jean de Paleologue in the 1890's for Impimerie Paul Dupont, Paris as a chromolithograph at 129 x 92 cm. 

Signed on lower right "PAL" (Jean de Paléoloque, 1855 (or 1860)-1942). Systéme Anderson Bte. S. Gd.G. 18 Rue du Quatre-Septembre, Paris. Atelier de l'affiche "PAL", 44 Rue St. Lazare, Paris. Lidy Montclaire directeur.

Most Amazing High Definition Image of Earth, Blue Marble taken January 25, 2012 A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth's surface taken on January 4, 2012. The NPP satellite was renamed 'Suomi NPP' on January 24, 2012 to honor the late Verner E. Suomi of the University of Wisconsin. Suomi NPP is NASA's next Earth-observing research satellite. It is the first of a new generation of satellites that will observe many facets of our changing Earth. Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS.

Vermouth Bianco, High-Life, created by artist Marcello Dudovich in 1946 for La Presse in Milan, Italy. Original is a color lithograph at 140 x 100 cm.

Advertising poster for vermouth showing a woman in a white clown suit holding grapes and a bottle of the fortified wine.

This French poster was deisgned by Leonetto Cappiello in 1907 and distributed by Etablissements Vercasson, Paris, in September 1907 as a color lithograph at 159 x 117 cm. Translates to "Celebrations of the International Congress of students, Bordeaux"

Advertising poster for a party at an international student congress in Bordeaux showing a woman squeezing grapes into a wine glass as her escort sings and dances; a crowd of men looks on.

Classic advertising poster for Chaussures Perrouin frères, Nantes: La grande marque française, created by Leonetto Cappiello and published for Etablissements Vercasson, Paris in 1909 as a 158 x 118 cm. color lithograph.

Thsi advertising poster was for the Perrouin brothers' bootmaking shop showing a man wearing a theatrical costume atop a dragon.

A classic advertising poster for Angelus, Liqueur des Salésiens de Dom Bosco created by Leonetto Cappiello for Imp. P. Vercasson, Paris in 1907 as a color lithograph at 159 x 118 cm.

Advertising poster for Angelus, liqueur of the Salesians of Dom Bosco religious order, showing an acolyte in a red cassock swinging from the clapper of a bell.

This Classic Advertising poster created for Cognac Gautier Frères by Leonetto Cappiello between 1907 and 1909 for Imp. P. Vercasson & Cie., 43, Rue de Lancry, Paris. The origional poster was 159 x 118 cm. and created as a color lithograph. 

Poster showing a woman carrying enormous bunches of grapes on her shoulders.

Classic advertisment for G. A. Jourde - Bordeaux created by Leonetto Cappiello between 1907 and 1909 for Imprimerie Publicité Établts. Vercasson, 6. Rue Martel, Paris.
The origional lithograph was created at 158 x 119 cm.

Poster showing a woman holding a bottle and grapes, against a background of grapes.

Classic liquor advertisment for Vermouth Bellardi Torino created by Leonetto Cappiello in Paris, December of 1927.

Advertisement for Bellardi vermouth showing woman holding bottle of vermouth and dancing.

Notes:Stampato in Italia.