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Well, that article you linked does make that statement but it has no evidence to back it up. I don't believe there is an underground cable powering the above tram, its easy to see that all three rails are just that, rails, with nothing under the ground. You can even see a gap between the center...

That trench in the street full of cobblestones reminds me of this other picture... New York circa 1908. Presbyterian Building, Fifth Avenue and West 20th Street. In which they are digging a trench and filling it with similar cobblestones. I don't believe it was for drainage, as the one above is...

I'm no expert on scaffolding, having only been on some once when I had to go out the third floor window to rescue a cat, so I'll give you that one, although it seems kinda ridiculous to have that tip to one side when the worker walks over there, effectively creating a ramp to fall off of. But...

Looks like "the cruel horse Bucephalus" had pointy teeth and weird horns on its head, as well as eyes that were too far forward for a horse. In fact, of the five horses I can make out, only one does not have twisty horns on its head. I assume that's Alexander on the "horse" that's breaking its...

Unusual to see a cathedral in the background that does not have a pointy steeple to its main tower. Seems like those guys would have been stumbling over all that cloth. A sign of wealth?

Interesting. They really had some faith in that old ruin staying up, to put that house right there. At least some of the people seem to have been added later; the guy on the left is practically a ghost and the donkey seems see-through as well as the two guys on the right.

Another detailed shot of a building with a giant of a doorway. Can't tell why they're digging up the street on the left, burying a pipe maybe, but they're certainly not putting it back "as good as new", unless those stones are temporary.

Now that tram has no horses pulling it and no electrical wires above it. Once again the cop and the guy he's standing with are the only ones looking at the photographer. Photographers must have been pretty common at that time.

Wonderfully detailed picture. That guy coming right at us in the wagon with the white horse has his left (driver's left) wheels in the track. Seems like that could tweak those narrow wheels, I wonder if its intentional. This time the guy up on the building on the right has actual scaffolding...

The intricate design is just amazing for what could have been just a square block and once again we have guys out on the ledge cleaning the windows, but only on the third floor this time, though its a high third floor since the first floor appears to have high ceilings. Wish we could see the...

I'm surprised to read that it was a steel framed building, but even more surprised to see the guy standing outside on the eighth floor, at the window on the left, apparently cleaning the window. I don't see any safety gear. The only one who appears to be paying attention to the photographer is...

Here are a couple more pictures that relate to this series, from the Library of Congress. We can tell that these two pics are later than the ones in this series because the extra wall that has been built across the facade, above, has been torn down, though the fortification on top of the pillars...

Sure would have been cool to see what ol' Porter saw. The dimensions, particularly of the door jumped out at me. 4 1/2 ft x 4 ft x 8 inches thick. That's not even as tall as our normal doors; was it a half-door? We would have to duck to get through that. The inside dimensions are not...

The summer before last I was heading down to Utah to go out into the desert for a couple of weeks, so I did a little online sleuth work and figured out where Jon Levi's coffee shop is or was. It was out of my way but I went there and he made me a quiche, and the young lady at the counter got me...

"He evolved from it a theory of the flatness of the earth, despite all modern facts showing it to be a sphere." Ha, ha. Modern facts. I've done my own experiments and am certain we are on a flat Earth, as in the center of this map above, or as in the main map of the "1944 CBS American School of...