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Archive: October 2015 (2 Posts)

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Tuning In to the World Series Before TV

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

The title of the 1939 Arthur Rothstein photograph below indicates that the men gathered on this Montrose, Colorado, sidewalk are watching the scoreboard, a blackboard mounted outside the entry of Daily Press Printing. But the two loudspeakers flanking the Daily Press storefront suggest the assembled may also be following a radio broadcast or perhaps very localized play-by-play call from …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Providing Context with Chronicling America

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

My initial impression of the jovial sailors pictured below was that a letter “d” must have been left out of the annotated title in the photograph’s upper left corner. This World War I era photo from the Bain News Service is one of more than 15,000 photographs (a hefty subset of the 40,000 available from …