The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[InsolentPuppy]

Bad day at the office.

 

[moontheloon]

The Gadget was the first atomic bomb ever made and was tested at Trinity Site, New Mexico, near Alamogordo on July 16th, 1945. It was the first detonation in the Manhattan Project.

This isn’t a prop, but a real gun that used to be commonly used in commercial waterfowl hunting. They were called “punt guns,” because they were used in a kind of boat called a “punt.” The guns fired almost a pound of shot, and could kill fifty birds in one shot. Unsurprisingly, they were outlawed when they devastated wild bird populations.

testing a football helmet 1912

This photo was taken during the Civil War. it shows Union prisoners getting rations at Fort Sumter in 1864.

Two women shown delivering ice in 1918.

Disney brothers and their wives and mother gather on the day they opened their studio in 1923. The Walt Disney Company started in 1923 in the rear of a small office occupied by Holly-Vermont Realty in Los Angeles. It was there that Walt Disney, and his brother Roy, produced a series of short live-action/animated films collectively called the ALICE COMEDIES.

Established as a national forest in 1909, Superior is located in far northern Minnesota. Here, loggers are setting up camp.

 

[Redfokker]

Some more from the OSU Archives:

Armory "Slats" Gill c1938 One of most famous OSU Basketball coaches. 1928 to 1966 and a great hat!

1909 Pacific Logging Conference attendees in Seattle WA

After WWI, returning veterans who were wounded in war formed the OAC "Crip Club" photo is 1920.

 

[Bob Roberts]

The Gadget was the first atomic bomb ever made and was tested at Trinity Site, New Mexico, near Alamogordo on July 16th, 1945. It was the first detonation in the Manhattan Project.

This isn’t a prop, but a real gun that used to be commonly used in commercial waterfowl hunting. They were called “punt guns,” because they were used in a kind of boat called a “punt.” The guns fired almost a pound of shot, and could kill fifty birds in one shot. Unsurprisingly, they were outlawed when they devastated wild bird populations.

testing a football helmet 1912

This photo was taken during the Civil War. it shows Union prisoners getting rations at Fort Sumter in 1864.

Two women shown delivering ice in 1918.

Disney brothers and their wives and mother gather on the day they opened their studio in 1923. The Walt Disney Company started in 1923 in the rear of a small office occupied by Holly-Vermont Realty in Los Angeles. It was there that Walt Disney, and his brother Roy, produced a series of short live-action/animated films collectively called the ALICE COMEDIES.

Established as a national forest in 1909, Superior is located in far northern Minnesota. Here, loggers are setting up camp.

Mixmaster Moon.

 

[Zombie_61]

...This photo was taken during the Civil War. it shows Union prisoners getting rations at Fort Sumter in 1864.

That looks more like Camp Sumter, a.k.a. Andersonville, one of the most notoriously atrocious P.O.W. camps in recorded history.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

That looks more like Camp Sumter, a.k.a. Andersonville, one of the most notoriously atrocious P.O.W. camps in recorded history.

Yep.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Tucson's John Dillinger Days.

 

[Frunobulax]

Tucson's John Dillinger Days.

That's cool. Did anybody bring a soap gun?


Sent directly from my mind to yours

 

[buler]

A few hats at Pimlico raceway, 1938.

 

[RJR]

A few hats at Pimlico raceway, 1938.

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Amazing.

 

[InsolentPuppy]

Jane, stop this crazy thing!

 

[InsolentPuppy]

Astonishing

 

[InsolentPuppy]

 

[InsolentPuppy]

Annie Oakley, 1888.

 

[InsolentPuppy]

La Fonda Hotel, Santa Fe, NM. 1930s

 

[Redfokker]

The agricultural colleges found innovative ways to get their research and knowledge out to the farmers in rural America. In 1914, Oregon Agricultural College and the newly formed OAC Extension Service put together a "demonstration train" and toured the state, promoting the latest in farming. This group, as they left Corvallis sported a variety of hats of the early teens. The third guy from the left is wearing a fedora much like we see in later decades. Also a good illustration of brim variations...

 

[InsolentPuppy]

Carmen Miranda with her fruit hat. 1941

 

[InsolentPuppy]

Construction of the Hoover Dam.

 

[InsolentPuppy]

Venice before 1900.

 

[buler]

Listed as hat salesmen, 1936