Net Mole: December 2008

A Collection Of Lighthouses.

Annisquam Light, Gloucester, Massachusetts. Taken sometime between 1900 and 1920 by the Detroit Publishing Co.

White Island Light and dwelling, New Hampshire, 1888, by H.G. Peabody.

Old Cape Florida Light House, circa 1920.

View of the lighthouse from the beach, Duluth, Minnesota 1903.

The harbour entrance, Cleveland, Ohio, 1905, by the Detroit publishing Co.

Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, Boston, Massachusetts 1880-99.

Sunset and upper light, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan 1908.

Harbor entrance and lights, Buffalo, N.Y. Sometime between 1910 and 1920 by the Detroit Publishing Co.

Harbour entrance and light house, Charlevoix, Michigan, by the Detroit Publishing Co.

Charleston Light, Sullivan's Island, Charleston, South Carolina, 1962. Image courtesy U.S. Coastguard.

Fire Island lighthouse 1952. Image courtesy of the World Telegram & Sun.

The Delaware breakwater 1891.

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Annisquam Harbor Light

Samuel Gottscho's New York City Views.

A selection of photographs by American architectural, landscape, and nature photographer Samuel Gottscho (1875-1971)

View from the Empire State Building, New York City, to the Chrysler Building and the Queensboro Bridge January 1932.

Looking north from the Empire State Building, September 11 1933.

Views to New York Hospital and Queens from 515 Madison Avenue, January 1933.

Plaza buildings, reflected in open lake February 1933.

425 Park Avenue from northwest II, January 1957.

Plaza buildings 1933.

A Pier in Brooklyn, With views to Manhattan over East River, April 1934.

Looking down South Street II, November 1933.

The United Nations Building, taken from Welfare Island, 1957.

Times Square at night, December 1953.

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Samuel H. Gottscho

Elevated Railway 1895

A view of an elevated railway, New York city 1895.

A curve on the elevated railroad, N.Y. by A. Loeffler, Tompkinsville, N.Y. 1895.

Image courtesy of the Library Of Congress At Washington D.C.

A Collection Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show Posters

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World. South-American Gauchos, the World Famous Bolas Throwers 1899.

Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world. A squad of genuine Cuban insurgents,1898.

I am coming - Col. W.F. Cody 1900.

Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world. The Cossacks of the Caucasus 1899.

Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world. The real sons of the Sudan 1899.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World 1896.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Wild rivalries of savage, barbarous and civilized races 1896.

Buffalo Bill's wild west and congress of rough riders of the world. A company of wild west cowboys 1899.

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and congress of rough riders of the world. A congress of American Indians 1899.

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Buffalo Bill

An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by William Frederick Cody at Project Gutenberg

The Manger

The Manger by Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934).

Image Credit: The Manger by Gertrude Kasebier 1900, picture courtesy of the Library Of Congress at Washington D.C.

Tillamook Rock and lighthouse 1891

Tillamook Rock and lighthouse taken by S. B. Crow, Oregon, 1891.

The lighthouse was built in 1881 and soon nicknamed "Terrible Tilly" after the harsh Pacific storms it endured. Storms continually damaged the structure, leading it to become the most expensive U.S. lighthouse to operate. The lighthouse was finally shut down in 1957 and replaced with a whistle buoy.

Railroad And Country

Image Credit: National Photo Company Collection (Library of Congress)

A Railroad and country scene evoking the old west, taken sometime between 1910 and 1935.

The New East River bridge.

The new East River bridge (Williamsburg Bridge) from Brooklyn, taken sometime between 1900-03 by the Detroit Publishing Co.

Monitor and Merrimack

The Battle of Hampton Roads, illustrated by Prang and Co. showing the engagement of the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (formally Merrimack). The principal confrontations took place on March 8 and 9, 1862.

The Monitor and Merrimac

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Battle of Hampton Roads

USS Monitor

CSS Virginia

The leveling of the hills

Photograph showing the scale of the leveling of ground in Seattle during construction works around Denny Hill at the start of the twentieth century. The project cleared and levelled an area of around 27 city blocks and used 20,000,000 US gallons of water per day to blast away the hillside.

The leveling of the hills (Denny Hill) to make Seattle by Asahel Curtis 1910.

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Seattle

Regrading in Seattle

More Buildings Of Old New York.

A further selection of buildings from old New York, mostly taken between 1900 and 1920.

Exterior of state capitol building, Albany, New York 1913 by Irving Underhill.

The Capitol building was constructed between 1867 and 1899, Completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million, it was the most expensive government building of its time.