Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New York City. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 20, 2025

S.S. Drottningholm

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  The S.S. Drottningholm was built in 1904 by Alexander Stephen and Sons in Scotland.   Her first owner was the Allan Line and was named the...
Thursday, February 16, 2023

Nicky Blair's Carnival

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  It's been a while since I've posted one of these souvenir photo folders.   So, I was able to find out a few things about Nicky Bla...
Tuesday, August 16, 2022

Have a Pepsi

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  I've always been rather fascinated by the idea of a World's Fair, and it's one of the regrets of my life that I've never b...
Monday, March 23, 2020

Music To My Ears 5

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Stamped on the back, "PLEASE CREDIT Kerr 43 west 51st street new york, n. y. eldoarado 5-3178."  And yes, they did use lower c...
Wednesday, March 20, 2019

Woman on Horseback

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I got tired of having my desk covered in loose photographs and old postcards, so I bought a plastic box and shoved everything in and was...
Thursday, October 25, 2018

The Singer Building

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Perhaps it's my age.  Perhaps it's my mother making clothes for the family on her sewing machine.  For whatever reason, say Sing...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Stony Point

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Another undivided back postcard, this one never used.  There are a lot of Stony Points in the United States, but I think this is the one...
Friday, June 9, 2017

The Lucky Crocodile

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Not very lucky, considering he's dead, stuffed, and mounted on a wall.  This is another one from the studio of Lehnert & Landroc...
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Friday, December 23, 2016

The U.N. Restored

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I like playing with the color restoration setting on the scanner.  Sometimes it works well, sometimes not.
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Visiting the United Nations

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I'm not going to write much about the United Nations.  There's a ton of written material about the U.N., both on ...
Friday, March 11, 2016

New York (And a bit of the fair) 1939

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As I mentioned in the last post, the Czechoslovakian Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair closed after the Ge...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016

More From the 1939 New York World's Fair

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It must have been an interesting time at the fair.  Even though all the countries of Europe were invited to submit a pavi...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

The 1939 New York World's Fair

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I just picked up an envelope of photos of New York from 1939.  It reminded me that I already had some photos from the 1939 New York Worl...
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Rose & Neddy In Brooklyn

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Written on the back, "Rose L age 16, March 26 1922-1115 40th St Bkyn Neddy C. 15"  I can't remember how many times I'v...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Meet Me At the Fair

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Remember World's Fairs?  When I was a kid I desperately wanted to go to a World's Fair.  Seattle was the one I wanted to visit t...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

Leo Rosenthal, Photographer 5

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The last of the Leo Rosenthal photographs.
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Leo Rosenthal, Photographer 4

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A heated discussion at the U.N?  As I noted in an earlier post, I'm just pulling these out of the envelope at random.  When...
Thursday, August 6, 2015

Leo Rosenthal, Photographer 3

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Once again I'm posting the backs of the prints because I'm baffled by Leo Rosenthal's handwriting.  I can mak...