like

That is perhaps an "osage orange" (iirc) . When I was growing-up in Woodley Park (N.W. DC) and attending Maret School, there were a bunch of them around and we'd often roll them out into the street to be squished by passing cars.

Sure looks like an osage orange (Maclura pomifera).

"Horse apples" are dried-up horse dung. I don't think that item is one!

Horse apples is another word for the osage orange - the color in the name is because it's heartwood produces an orange dye.

I've heard them refered to as a "Hedge Apple", perhaps as the Osage Orange is also called the "hedge" around here. Perhaps the lack of horses nearby ... nope, plenty of horses...buggies..Amish. Mid Missouri they are osage oranges or hedge apples.

The mirroring of headstones, buildings and smokestacks is just a compositional masterpiece. Always loved this and used a reference image when I taught black and white photography classes in college.

Now home of a Sands Casino (as of Memorial Day weekend 2009). www.pasands.com/default.aspx

What a statement this photo makes. It is a prophecy of the AMERICAN FUTURE IN INDUSTRY...

There is a story to tell here, a story about the greatest generation, a story about the life and death of America's steel industry, a story too, about crosses and the ACLU's efforts to remove them. Don't let the ACLU mess with Christianity, please--or any other religion. We are a free country with freedom to believe what we want. I don't believe we need a religious police force or a group of GOD COPS censoring our spirituality. Amen...

The name of this cemetery is St. Micheal's. It lies on the sloping side of a low moutain on the south side of Bethlehem Pennsylvania. This was the side of the town where the mill stood. It was the side that the workers lived on as you can see by the row homes in the picture. As the plant closed and the jobs disappeared many families were forced to leave. Shops and lunch counters closed with no noon rush to keep them open. The south side became run down, buildings sat empty and this cemetery was neglected and vandalized. Behind where Evans stood to shoot this image, the graves continue up into the tree line. Many do not contain a word of English, baring testament to the various ethnic groups that had come here to work at the steel. Some, such as a plain cross cut from sheet metal show just how hard some people were struggling.

Looks like some sort of road equipment, maybe something to keep tar hot.

bellas épocas hermosos años

I am pretty certain that the woman in this photo is my mother who was at that time a City of Richmond official (the highest-ranking female at that time) working in the City Manager's office. The comment made by Seth Gaines that it looks like some kind of road equipment would make sense since she often dealt with various city departments.