The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[The Wiser Hatter]

Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers.

1913 September

 

[seabass]

this is too cool Ed thanks
im a train fan that must weigh close to 95 thousand lbs. very cool pic
oh yea & caps /hats too

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Che, thought it was a neat smash up on vintage photo and Star Wars Imperial Walker.

Farmers and spectators at auction, Sikeston, Missouri
Library of Congress

 

[Rabbit]

Ed, what is this vintage walker? Is this a real photograph? Looks like an awfully expensive piece of marketing thingy.

 

[rlk]

RMS Aquitania 1920's

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/across-the-atlantic-in-the-worlds-wonder-ship/query/Cherbourg

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

Ed, what is this vintage walker? Is this a real photograph? Looks like an awfully expensive piece of marketing thingy.

It is a photoshop image with several different image's composed together to look Like a steam punk version of a Star Wars Imperial Walker.

It is a very well done piece of photoshop work it would have taken quite a bit of time to get all the shading just right. As a long time photoshop user since version 1. I love to see people's work.

 

[TPD166]

My grandfather, Charles E. "Ed" Martin, Loyall, KY, about 1945 (sorry about the poor scan in the second photo).

 

[TPD166]

My grandfather, Robert L. "Bob" Kennedy, Boston, MA - about 1910 - and Bob with his father, Robert Kennedy, Boston, MA, returnig home from WW-II, about 1946.

 

[Fletch]

Messenger boy working for Mackay Telegraph Company. Said fifteen years old. Exposed to Red Light dangers.

Wonder what those were. Bawdy houses? Railroad crossings? Darkrooms?

Mackay Telegraph later became Postal Telegraph. Clarence Mackay (say "Mackey") gained a son-in-law in composer Irving Berlin. They didn't get along.

 

[randooch]

It is a photoshop image . . .

The end of veracity.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[lecky]

Sigmud Freud wearing a beautiful hat in 1938.

 

[mayserwegener]

Fantastic! It looks like an Austrian Velour. Wish I could see a color photo of it.

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Ed; Thanks for today's post and the many other posts to this thread. Yours, and the other contributers showcase some very interesting pics. They give me a glimpse to times that were very different. I try to empathise, or place context to the pics and as a result I am learning much.

I read and observe the posting son this thread frequently and with interest. It has been some time since I have said thanks. THANKS.

Enjoying being a spectator, Eric -

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

 

[Fletch]

Jazz pianist Henry Crowder, photographed by Man Ray. Paris, 1930.

 

[Brad Bowers]

A true fender bender! And a spoke breaker, to boot!

Brad

 

[Fletch]

T vs. Tree: 1920 (if Shorpy had run it)

 

[The Wiser Hatter]

College Students 1920s