Hole in the Clouds

Tag: 1923

Eye in the Sky

Jul 16, 2014

Photographer Artie Leonard snags a shot for the National Photo Company in 1923.

sky work photographers b&w A. W. Leonard 1923 pole light pole telephone pole wires (Image credit: National Photo Company, via Shorpy)

Footwear #1: Pedestrian

Mar 13, 2016

It has been suggested that here in this Washington, D.C., intersection in 1923, Officer Banks developed the protopye for a kind of traffic signaling that is still with us today.

When you see the shoe: Walk. No shoe: Don't walk.

Washington, DC streetscape police traffic signage 1923 shoe (Image credit: National Photo Company via Shorpy)