One dreary-looking city

Panorama photograph of Vicksburg, Miss., riverfront, 1909

http://www.shorpy.com/node/17034

Alice B. Miller on right side was originally Frank B. Hane, renamed in 1908.

http://nutrias.org/~nopl/photos/fischer/fischer_steamboats.htm

After an agreeable return on the Alice B. Miller, Google decided I wanted to see boat and kayak rental places from Boston to Chicago, so there is nothing else on the Charley H. and the Falls City.

Live back then? No, thank you.

Shorpy has hundreds of B&W photographs, many from 8x10-inch glass negatives. That size, a photographer can get a whole lot of subjects in his picture, and sharpness beats anything in 35mm or digital.

The last time I went through all the aviation pictures, Shorpy had a color photograph of 19-year-old machinist Norma Jean Baker, I think at the Douglas factory in San Diego.