Matty McIntyre, left fielder, Philadelphia A’s, 1901. Probably taken at Columbia Park in Philadelphia, the first home of the A’s. (via George Eastman House)
Columbia Park, Philadelphia, 1901
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Photo of the Day
Bronx snow melter. Photo by Joseph O. Holmes.
Mannahatta, 1609
Mannahatta, 1609, as Henry Hudson found it. Reminds me of this:
Most of the big shore places were closed now and there were hardly any lights except the shadowy, moving glow of a ferryboat across the Sound. And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors’ eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.
More about The Mannahatta Project here and here.
Great Moments in Publishing
Babe Ruth, 1919
Via Shorpy
Back Bay, 1904
Commonwealth Avenue, Back Bay, Boston, ca. 1904. (via)
Polo Grounds, 1916
Army-Navy game, Polo Grounds, New York, 1916. (via)
Book Cover of the Day
Brilliant cover art for Walter Benjamin’s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Designed by David Pearson for Penguin’s Great Ideas series, vol. 3 (2008). (Via Flickr.) Perfect.