lunedì 22 giugno 2020

Lincoln Ford roadster


Washington, D.C., 1924.
Lincoln roadster at Ford Motor Building, Pennsylvania Avenue.
National Photo Company.
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Lincoln è la divisione di lusso del costruttore di automobili Ford.
È stata fondata da Henry M. Leland nel 1917 e acquistata dalla Ford nel 1922.
Venne così denominata per onorare la memoria del presidente statunitense Abramo Lincoln .


1930 Lincoln Model L Convertible Roadster


1932 Lincoln roadster



1930 Lincoln Sport Roaster



1934 Lincoln Model KB Convertible roadster



1935 Lincoln Model K Convertible roadster

giovedì 18 giugno 2020

Stein's Dixie Jass Band


STEIN'S DIXIE JASS BAND 
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Stein’s Dixie Jass Band, Chicago, c. March 1916
Questa è la prima fotografia conosciuta della band destinata 
nel giro in pochi mesi a diventare l'Original Dixieland Jazz Band.
Arrivati a Chicago all'inizio di marzo 1916
 con un ingaggio di dieci settimane allo Schiller Cafe,
 tutti i membri della band,compreso il batterista Johnny Stein, 
si dimisero per la mancanza di un aumento di stipendio
 e si trasferirono al Del'Abe Cafe nell'Hotel Normandy, 
diventando la Original Dixieland Jass Band.
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Da sinistra a destra
Alcide Nunez, Eddie Edwards, Henry Ragas, Nick La Rocca, Johnny Stein.
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Questa foto è stata data da Nick La Rocca al discografico Brian Rust,
 il cui gatto ha successivamente cercato di triturarla!

mercoledì 17 giugno 2020

Bunk Johnson


Portrait of Bunk Johnson and Maude Johnson,

Stuyvesant Casino, New York, N.Y., ca. June 1946.



Bunk Johnson 
Rare & Unissued Masters: Volume One (1943-1945)
ORGM-2101

This long awaited release presents over a dozen previously unissued masters of surprisingly high quality from the premier artist on the American Music label, Bunk Johnson. The venues for the recording sessions varied between the legendary 1944 sound of the San Jacinto Hall to the homes of Bertha Gonsoulin in San Francisco and George Lewis in New Orleans.

The album receives its first ever vinyl pressing, spread across two LPs, on transparent blue color vinyl for Record Store Day 2018. The recording were remastered for vinyl at Infrasonic Mastering and pressed at Pallas Group in Germany. The inside spread of the gatefold jacket features extensive liner notes.

Track Listing

SIDE A
Ballin’ the Jack
Careless Love
Panama
Good Morning Blues

SIDE B
Royal Garden
(I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My) Sister Kate
Ole Miss
Oh! Didn’t He Ramble

SIDE C
Just a Closer Walk with Thee
St. Louis Blues
Basin Street Blues
Maple Leaf Rag

SIDE D
Bunk’s Blues in F
Slow Drag’s Boogie Woogie
Don’t Fence Me In
Milenberg Joys


Vintage New Orleans


St. Charles Avenue from Canal Street 
New Orleans. 1910.

Canal Street. New Orleans, Louisiana. 1910.
 Large building is the Maison Blanche department store.



New Orleans circa 1906. 
"Italian headquarters, Madison Street"
Detroit Publishing Company


New Orleans circa 1906. 
"Royal Street from Canal Street."
Where the ice man goeth. 
Detroit Publishing Co


New Orleans tra il 1900 e il 1910



The Mississippi River circa 1906. 
"Steamboat landing at Vicksburg.
 Sternwheeler Belle of Calhoun
 and sidewheeler Belle of the Bends."



New Orleans circa 1903.
"Old Absinthe House and Bourbon Street."
Detroit Publishing Company.


New Orleans circa 1905.
"Napoleon House, Chartres Street." 
Detroit Publishing Company.


New Orleans circa 1890. 
"St. Charles Hotel from Canal Street."
 Photo by William Henry Jackson


Circa 1890s.
"The old French Market, New Orleans." 
Points of interest include many horsecars and an arc lamp on a boom.
Ship Chandler's Grocer wagon and Deutsche Grocery at left. 
Photo by William Henry Jackson

lunedì 15 giugno 2020

Fotografie Vintage New York 2



New York circa 1904.
 "Ansonia Apartments." 
This Beaux-Arts wedding cake, which still stands at Broadway and West 73rd Street,
 was last glimpsed  Detroit Publishing Company


New York circa 1912.
"Plaza Hotel, Fifth Avenue at 59th Street." 
The original "big box."


New York circa 1900.
"Gillender Building."
This improbably slender tower at the corner 
of Nassau and Wall Streets, 
one of the tallest buildings in the city 
when it was completed in 1897, 
met the wrecking ball in 1910



Crowd outside Grand Central Station, returning from summer vacations.
 Sept. 8, 1908. 
George Grantham Bain Collection.

1910 Irving Underhill photo of the 22-story 
Flatiron (Fuller) Building at 175 Fifth Avenue,
one of the earliest (1902) buildings in New York 
to attain such heights.


The New York Public Library 
as seen from the intersection of East 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue.
 July 14, 1915. 
Copyright Office Collection.


New York circa 1908.
"The Singer Building."
 Shortly after its completion.


New York, 1920.
 Exchange Court Building at 52 Broadway and Exchange Place.
   Photograph by Irving Underhill. 
Completed in 1898, the structure was rebuilt with
 additional floors and a modern facade in 1980-82.


New York, 1916.
 Heckscher Building at 50 East 42nd Street and Madison Avenue.
  Irving Underhill photo.
 The building, which still stands, 
used to have a squash court on the 23rd floor. 
Nowadays it's


The original Waldorf-Astoria hotel, 
Fifth Avenue and 34th Street, NYC, 1902


The Dewey Arch, Fifth Avenue, New York City, 1900

Fifth Avenue hotels north from 51st Street, 
Manhattan NYC circa 1908


Fifth Avenue Stage, New York around 1906


Easter 1911.
 St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
 George Grantham Bain Collection.
  Note the pair of Hansom cabs, named after the inventor (Joseph Hansom)
and the type of carriage (cabriolet).
 Hansom cabriolets fitted with taximeters became known as taxicabs. 
Note the "curtain" in front of the cab --
 to keep the passenger from having to see the horse do what horses do.


"Auto Rides for Crippled Children"
 New York. May 25, 1908.
  George Grantham Bain Collection



Famous Lost Battalion of the 77th division's Argonne Campaign
of October 1918,march up New York's Fifth Avenue



Celebrazioni per la resa della Germania


Traffic Squad Parade, November 5, 1908.
 Mayor George McClellan alighting from auto on the plaza at Union Square.
  George Grantham Bain Collection.
"Max" McClellan, New York mayor from 1904 to 1909,
 was the son of Civil War general George B. McClellan.

Work Horse Parade obstacle course on Union Square,
 New York City. June 13, 1908.
   George Grantham Bain Collection.
Borden team, 
winner of the obstacle test in the Work Horse Parade on Union Square. June 13, 1908.
  George Grantham Bain Collection.


On the left, champion wrestler and vaudeville impresario Ernst Roeber (1861-1944) 
and his Manhattan saloon at 499 Sixth Avenue around Easter 1908. 
 George Grantham Bain Collection. 
Roeber (aka Ernest or Ernie) also operated a cafe in the Ridgewood section of Brooklyn.


Another bird's-eye view of Eleventh Avenue, a.k.a "Death Avenue,"
 on New York's West Side as captured by the Bain News Service circa 1911.
 George Grantham Bain Collection



A detailed circa 1910 Manhattan streetscape
of rail cars at West 26th Street and Eleventh Avenue,
 known as "Death Avenue" for the many pedestrians
 killed along the New York Central's freight line there. 
 Removal of the street-level tracks commenced on December 31, 1929. 
 George Grantham Bain Collection. 

Automobile Row: 
Broadway at West 55th Street. 
Another view of the January 6, 1915, subway fire in New York.
 George Grantham Bain Collection


Yonkers, New York
1920s


New York. 57th Street 1916

Mulberry Street.
New York City. 1900

Banana docks, New York
c. 1906



New York, Broad Street, 1900

Lower Manhattan circa 1903.
 "Wall Street and Trinity Church, New York." 
 Detroit Publishing Company.



Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. 1905.

Cafe Martin, Fifth Avenue and 26th Street, New York City, 1908.



New York City, looking north up Fifth Avenue
toward newly-built Plaza Hotel & Central Park, between


New York circa 1905.
"City Hall Post Office."
Designed by Alfred Mullett, completed in 1880 and demolished in 1939,
 the building was derided as "Mullett's Monstrosity" by its numerous critics.
Detroit Publishing Co.