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History in HD
One site I've been visiting on almost a daily basis for several years is a vintage photo blog called Shorpy.com. Their motto: "Always something Interesting." In my opinion at least it is one of the best of its kind online and features thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago. Most of the photos on this site were extracted from high-resolution reference images, many from the Library of Congress research archive, and digitized for display online.
Of particular interest to Elvis fans, several of their recent postings have included unpublished photos by Phil Harrington taken while on assignment to cover Elvis in May of 1956 for Look Magazine. Harrington, along with writer Gereon Zimmerman first connected with the boys in Detroit, Michigan on May 25, 1956. They then followed them to Columbus and Dayton, OH and then home to Memphis, along with another writer and photographer in Dayton that were doing a piece for Seventeen Magazine.
Shorpy has a lot of faithful followers (some are members others lurkers) often identifying locations of the photos displayed and /or supplying addition info, facts and photos. One viewer of Harrington's photos commented:
A lot of Harrington's images were previously uncovered by Mike Rose, presented here, and published in his book Elvis Presley - A Moment in Time, 4 Days in '56, though these here were not previously published. As of December 2014 we have been informed that all of Phil Harrington's photos are now and only licensed through Corbis. Evan Harrington, Phil's son, has created an account with Fine Art America for the sale and distribution of individual prints. Page added March 15, 2013 *The Tap - The picture with Gene and Elvis between shows in Dayton has elicited several responses speculating what Elvis may be doing, none serious. My take is this: When the boys were touring on the road regularly they often did things to break the monotony. One thing they did was play a game where if one of them was talking and one of the others tapped them on the head they would have to immediately change the subject and start talking about something else without completing their thought. This I believe is what Elvis is doing to Gene.
The King at the gas station One further comment, and photo, from a viewer we thought we would include was:
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