Ms. Reynolds, who held her own at 19 dancing with Gene Kelly in "Singin' in the Rain," died one day after her daughter, the actress Carrie Fisher. -- New York Times

May 1954. "Debbie Reynolds with Jane Powell in dance scene from the MGM musical Athena." Kodachrome by Maurice Terrell for the Look magazine assignment "Behind the Scenes -- A Day With the Stars." View full size.

San Francisco circa 1927. "Paige Landau Coupe at Lafayette Park." Latest contestant in the Shorpy Pageant of Automotive Obscurities. 5x7 inch glass negative by Christopher Helin. View full size.

"Boy on bicycle ca. 1895-1916" is the improvised title of this 5x7 dry plate from the C.M. Bell portrait studio in Washington, D.C., whose legacy is a collection of some 30,000 glass negatives recently digitized and catalogued by the Library of Congress after spending the better part of a century in "a succession of basements and farm buildings." View full size.

On State Street, that great street, I just want to say
They do things they don't do on Broadway.
They have a time, the time of their life --
I saw a man who danced with his wife
In Chicago, Chicago my hometown.

Chicago circa 1912. "The busy crowd on State Street." 8x10 inch dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.

Washington, D.C., 1925. "Snow removal -- Ford Motor Co. (Fordson) tractor, Pennsylvania Avenue." National Photo glass negative. View full size.

I have no idea of the relationship between these three, but they look straight out of a Hollywood gangster film, or maybe everyone back then looked like they were in a gangster film. From a box of found Kodachrome slides. View full size.

        The colorized Christmas tree is back, 103 years after its debut in Madison Square. Happy holidays from Shorpy!

New York, December 1913. "Christmas tree, Madison Square." 8x10 inch glass negative, Bain News Service. View full size.