Showing posts with label building. Show all posts
Showing posts with label building. Show all posts

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Photo of a Bartender and Customer at an Outdoor Mixed Drinks Bar in St. Louis, Missouri (1880s)

Portrait of a bartender and customer at an outdoor mixed drinks bar in St. Louis, Missouri, c. 1880s. Originally published as a stereoview.

Source: New York Public Library.

Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Photo of an Unidentified Shuttered Building in a Forested Area (1870's/1880's)

 

View of a unidentified shuttered building in a forested area probably somewhere in the United States, c. 1870-1890. The building was possibly once a two-room schoolhouse considering what looks like two doors at the front of the building. Originally published as a stereoview.

Source: Library of Congress.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Photo of the County Jail in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Which Was Destroyed By a Fire in 1875 (1860s/1870s)

 

View of the Fitchburg County Jail in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, c. 1860s/1870s. It was destroyed by a fire during which no prisoners were injured or escaped in 1875. Attributed to J. C. Moulton. From the book Fitchburg Past and Present by William Andrew Emerson published in 1903.

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Three American Soldiers Posing in Front of a Building in Fort Keogh, Montana (1889)


Three American soldiers posing in front of a building in Fort Keogh, Montana, c. 1889.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration.

Friday, April 24, 2015

Thursday, October 30, 2014

Friday, July 18, 2014

The Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane During its Construction (1859)


Workers posing in front of the new Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane during its construction, Philadelphia, 1859. The well-dressed men posing in the foreground are possibly the architects, engineers, hospital administrators or some combination of those jobs. Animated stereoview.

Source.