Friday, March 31, 2017

Johnstown Flood

The Johnstown Flood of 1889 basically destroyed Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The flood was due to the failure of a dam upstream from the town. It was probably the worst natural disaster in the United States up to that time; 2,208 people lost their lives.

A view of the great stone bridge, where thousands of men, women and children were buried, together with horses, cows, railroad trains, houses, stables, and everything the flood could carry
 
An ocean of mud
 
Beginning life anew, site of old home
 
Carrying body out of the wreck
 
General view of the wrecked city
 
In the path of ruin
 
Remains of crockery store
 
Ruins from Bedford Street
 
Scene of the fire at the Stone Bridge
 

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Charles Lee

 Mary feeding Sandy Lee, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1935
  
Mary Lee at a picnic in Luscar, Alberta, ca. 1935
 
Sack race during Coal Branch Sports Day, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1925
 
Sunday baseball game outside Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1925
 
Two Mountain Park baseball players and a woman 
with a fur coat, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1920

Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Andrew J. Russell

In the late 1860s, photographer Andrew J. Russell traveled west to document the construction of the Union Pacific Railway in Wyoming and Utah, including the famous “golden spike” moment on May 10, 1869, when the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads were joined in Promontory, Utah, creating the nation’s first transcontinental railroad. Russell captured images of the railway construction as well as the wide-open landscape of the American West and its inhabitants.

A gathering of Shoshone Indians
 
East and West shaking hands at laying last rail. The ceremony took place on May 10, 1869, 
marking the placement of the “golden spike” at Promontory Summit, Utah.
 
Members of the Rocky Mountain Glee Club, 1864-1869
 
Mormon Family, Great Salt Lake Valley. The man is surrounded by 
his family of wives and children, enjoying the noonday rest.
 
Officers of the Union Pacific Railroad at the laying of 
the last rail at Promontory Summit, Utah, in 1869
 
Source: The Atlantic

Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Henry Armytage Sanders

A long line of New Zealand troops digging 
trenches near Couin, France, 6 April 1918
 
A priest speaking to soldiers, who are sitting on the ground, at a New Zealand 
Brigade church service in Sapignies, France, 8 September 1918
 
New Zealand regimental aid post in a captured trench at Puisieux, France
 
New Zealand soldiers preparing a 6 inch trench mortar 
near Le Quesnoy, France, 29 October 1918
 
Soldiers eating sausage rolls, Selle, France, 1917

Monday, March 27, 2017

Indiana University

Dancing at the Band Picnic, October 1940
 
Maple Hall residents, April 1947
 
Music classroom, June 1948
 
Practice teaching, January 1949
 
Residents at West Hall listening to Stan Kenton records, January 1949
 

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Ole Tobias Olsen

Christiania. Egeberg. Hansteen and Milda, 1860-1900
 
Four people in a carriage, 1860-1900
 
Group of Junkerdalen, 1860-1900
 
Handelsmand Meyer with family, 1860-1900
 
Kvitenget. Peder Mikkelsen and family, 1860-1900
 
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Saturday, March 25, 2017

Herbert F. Cooper

Coronation scene, Strabane, ca. 1911
  
Horse-drawn Bus (in the Bowling Green), ca. 1910
  
Main street, Strabane, ca. 1920
 
Newtown-Kennedy Street, Strabane, ca. 1910
 
The Mourne, Strabane, ca. 1910
 

Friday, March 24, 2017

Harris & Ewing

Blanche Noyes, who in 1930 took John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for his first and only air ride, has been appointed an air marking pilot for the Bureau of Air Commerce, U.S. Department of Commerce
  
Performance group, 1932-33
 
Police rout Communists with tear gas at demonstration 
during congress opening, December 1930
 
Spanish dancers. Betty Ross (kneeling) and Zellah Bladen, 1929
 
Winners in National Spelling Bee received by President Coolidge, May 23, 1927

Thursday, March 23, 2017

William Letts Oliver

We are back to posting new material.

Olvina Winery, Livermore, California
  
Party in rowboat
 
Shipwreck Atlantic (whaleboat) on beach near Cliff House, San Francisco
  
Sierra Buttes Mine brass band
 
Woman standing next to World's Fair Premium Searchlight, Mt. Lowe?

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Courting Couples

A section of the crowd in Martin Place, Sydney during 
the Victory Pacific celebrations, 15 August 1945
 
Burt V. Brooks: Three couples in a field of boulders, Greenwich, Mass., ca. 1910
 
George Brassaï: The Kiss, 1935-37
 
Ray Gurney and Dora Miller skating on Squire Pond, 1903
 
Sam Hood: Royal Price Alfred Hospital Christmas kiss, Sydney, December 1944
 
The happy couple, posing in front of a house on the corner of Old Common and Bolton Station Road, prepares to take their new Hupmobile for a spin, Lancaster, Massachusetts