Shorpy photographs
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| The original electronic source of the photos is [http://www.shorpy.com www.shorpy.com]. | The original electronic source of the photos is [http://www.shorpy.com www.shorpy.com]. | ||
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| - | | year = 1864 | ||
| - | | title = Nashville | ||
| - | | url = http://www.shorpy.com/node/6548 | ||
| - | | description = A longer description can go here | ||
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| - | | year = 1865 | ||
| - | | title = Paint Your Wagon | ||
| - | | url = http://www.shorpy.com/node/8544 | ||
| - | | description = Talk about wagons, etc. You can put a longer description here | ||
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| - | {{Shorpy |year=2010|title=Carlisle, MA|url=http://www.shorpy.com/node/6548|description=A longer description can go here but this shows the template all on one line. You can choose which format is the best. This long line also makes the cell wrap, so we can view different table and cell layout formats.}} | ||
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| * [http://www.shorpy.com/node/4535?size=_original Culpeper: 1862] ([http://www.shorpy.com/node/4535 Small size image]) | * [http://www.shorpy.com/node/4535?size=_original Culpeper: 1862] ([http://www.shorpy.com/node/4535 Small size image]) | ||
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| * [http://www.shorpy.com/node/9338?size=_original Splicers: Undated] ([http://www.shorpy.com/node/9338 Small size image]) | * [http://www.shorpy.com/node/9338?size=_original Splicers: Undated] ([http://www.shorpy.com/node/9338 Small size image]) | ||
| * [http://www.shorpy.com/node/9325?size=_original Telephone Linemen Posing: Undated] ([http://www.shorpy.com/node/9325 Small size image]) | * [http://www.shorpy.com/node/9325?size=_original Telephone Linemen Posing: Undated] ([http://www.shorpy.com/node/9325 Small size image]) | ||
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| + | '''This is a prototype table. Please ignore it for now''' | ||
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| + | {| | ||
| + | {{Shorpy | ||
| + | | year = 1864 | ||
| + | | title = Nashville | ||
| + | | url = http://www.shorpy.com/node/6548 | ||
| + | | description = A longer description can go here | ||
| + | }} | ||
| + | {{Shorpy | ||
| + | | year = 1865 | ||
| + | | title = Paint Your Wagon | ||
| + | | url = http://www.shorpy.com/node/8544 | ||
| + | | description = Talk about wagons, etc. You can put a longer description here | ||
| + | }} | ||
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| + | <!-- and example with all the parameters on one line --> | ||
| + | {{Shorpy |year=2010|title=Carlisle, MA|url=http://www.shorpy.com/node/6548|description=A longer description can go here but this shows the template all on one line. You can choose which format is the best. This long line also makes the cell wrap, so we can view different table and cell layout formats.}} | ||
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Revision as of 04:44, 8 December 2010
This is an archive of large format photographs taken of ordinary daily life where insulators just so happen to be in the pictures. These provide interesting insight into line construction of the day, especially in large cities.
Special thanks to Pat Barkwell who has found a vast majority of these. Compiled by David Wiecek.
The original electronic source of the photos is www.shorpy.com.
- Culpeper: 1862 (Small size image)
- Chattanooga Depot: 1864 (Small size image)
- Nashville: 1864 (Small size image)
- Telegraph Corps: 1864 (Small size image)
- Paint Your Wagon: 1865 (Small size image)
- The Horrors of Pandemonium: 1865 (Small size image)
- Vulcan Iron Works: 1865 (Small size image)
- Ways of Going: 1865 (Small size image)
- Yorktown: 1865 (Small size image)
- Boston: 1890s (Small size image)
- St. George Street: 1894 (Small size image)
- Columbia U: 1897 (Small size image)
- Motley Crew: 1897 (Small size image)
- Toledo: 1899 (Small size image)
- A Streetcar Named Clio: 1900 (Small size image)
- Esplanade Avenue: 1900 (Small size image)
- Gold Coin Mine: 1900 (Small size image)
- Green Street: 1900 (Small size image)
- Mardi Gras: 1900 (Small size image)
- St. Louis: 1900 (Small size image)
- The Bowery: 1900 (Small size image)
- West Chunk: 1900 (Small size image)
- Battle House: 1901 (Small size image)
- Factoryville: 1901 (Small size image)
- Hydra: 1901 (Small size image)
- The Stovemakers: 1901 (Small size image)
- Flatiron Rising: 1902 (Small size image)
- El Paso: 1903 (Small size image)
- Gay Street: 1903 (Small size image)
- Levee Work: 1903 (Small size image)
- Lexington Market: 1903 (Small size image)
- Surf Avenue: 1903 (Small size image)
- Buffalo Rising: 1904 (Small size image)
- Hotel Velvet: 1904 (Small size image)
- New York Underground: 1904 (Small size image)
- 36th Street Station: 1905 (Small size image)
- Atlantic Avenue: 1905 (Small size image)
- Atlantis: 1905 (Small size image)
- Brew House: 1905 (Small size image)
- Central Union Station: 1905 (Small size image)
- City Gas: 1905 (Small size image)
- Devine's Place: 1905 (Small size image)
- Elm Street: 1905 (Small size image)
- Ferry Terminal: 1905 (Small size image)
- Front Street: 1905 (Small size image)
- King Copper: 1905 (Small size image)
- Riding High: 1905 (Small size image)
- Savannah: 1905 (Small size image)
- Savannah Electric: 1905 (Small size image)
- The Boardwalk: 1905 (Small size image)
- Turnaround Time: 1905 (Small size image)
- Westinghouse Air-Brake: 1905 (Small size image)
- Up the Incline: 1905 (Small size image)
- Birmingham P.O.: 1906 (Small size image)
- Montgomery: 1906 (Small size image)
- Municipal Castle: 1906 (Small size image)
- Newburgh: 1906 (Small size image)
- Newburgh P.O.: 1906 (Small size image)
- Newport: 1906 (Small size image)
- Poughkeepsie Panorama: 1906 (Small size image)
- Rookwood Pottery: 1906 (Small size image)
- The Underwear Railroad: 1906 (Small size image)
- Walnut Street: 1906 (Small size image)
- What This Country Needs: 1906 (Small size image)
- Incline Saloon: 1907 (Small size image)
- Next Stop, Willoughby: 1907 (Small size image)
- Cadillac: 1908 (Small size image)
- Central Glass: 1908 (Small size image)
- Drivers and Trapper: 1908 (Small size image)
- Miami, Florida: 1908 (Small size image)
- Olds Motor Works: 1908 (Small size image)
- Scared of School: 1908 (Small size image)
- Talking Pictures: 1908 (Small size image)
- Cumberland Glass Works: 1909 (Small size image)
- Digging Out the Engineer: 1909 (Small size image)
- Train Wreck: 1909 (Small size image)
- Coal Creek: 1910 (Small size image)
- Dearborn Street Station: 1910 (Small size image)
- Electro-Motive: 1910 (Small size image)
- French Market: 1910 (Small size image)
- High Street: 1910 (Small size image)
- Jacksonville: 1910 (Small size image)
- Main Street: 1910 (Small size image)
- Sinking the Tunnel: 1910 (Small size image)
- Smoke on the Water: 1910 (Small size image)
- Wildwood Casino: 1910 (Small size image)
- Working Boys: 1910 (Small size image)
- Carrying-In Boy: 1911 (Small size image)
- The Wild, Wild East: 1911 (Small size image)
- Coal Weather: 1912 (Small size image)
- Inbox: 1912 (Small size image)
- What Goes Around: 1912 (Small size image)
- Streetcar to the Sky: 1913 (Small size image)
- Waco Red Light: 1913 (Small size image)
- Ye Alpine Tavern: 1913 (Small size image)
- Back Alley: 1914 (Small size image)
- Pick-up' in the Park: 1916 (Small size image)
- Dial D for Danger: 1919 (Small size image)
- Hooked Up: 1919 (Small size image)
- Arlington Brewing: 1920 (Small size image)
- Dead Man's Curve: 1920 (Small size image)
- Free Air: 1920 (Small size image)
- Gas Shack: 1920 (Small size image)
- Wireless Telegraph: 1920 (Small size image)
- Derailed: 1922 (Small size image)
- Two Trains: 1924 (Small size image)
- Minute Service No. 6: 1925 (Small size image)
- Mass Transit: 1926 (Small size image)
- Chicken Dinner Here: 1927 (Small size image)
- The Polesters: 1928 (Small size image)
- Throwing the Switch: 1929 (Small size image)
- Kimball: 1935 (Small size image)
- Sweet Home Alabama: 1935 (Small size image)
- New Deal: 1936 (Small size image)
- Dark Passage: 1937 (Small size image)
- Last Chance Texaco: 1937 (Small size image)
- Greenhills: 1938 (Small size image)
- Nehi Guy: 1938 (Small size image)
- Cafe Texan: 1939 (Small size image)
- Pause ... Drink: 1939 (Small size image)
- Pop Kola: 1939 (Small size image)
- Set a Spell: 1939 (Small size image)
- 125 Pleasant Street: 1941 (Small size image)
- High Voltage: 1942 (Small size image)
- Cross Connect Terminal: Undated (Small size image)
- Early Telephone Linemen: Undated (Small size image)
- Pole Raising: Undated (Small size image)
- Splicers: Undated (Small size image)
- Telephone Linemen Posing: Undated (Small size image)
This is a prototype table. Please ignore it for now
| Nashville: 1864 | [small] | A longer description can go here |
| Paint Your Wagon: 1865 | [small] | Talk about wagons, etc. You can put a longer description here |
| Carlisle, MA: 2010 | [small] | A longer description can go here but this shows the template all on one line. You can choose which format is the best. This long line also makes the cell wrap, so we can view different table and cell layout formats. |
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