Friday, December 14, 2012

Russell Lee - Japanese Internment

 Baggage of Japanese-Americans being inspected as they arrive from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order, 1942

 Japanese-American child waiting for a train to take her and her parents to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American child who is being evacuated with his parents to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American child who will go with her parents to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American child who will go with his parents to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American children waiting for a train to take them and their parents to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American children waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station for a train to take them to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American evacuees leaving for Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American evacuees leaving for Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station 
for a train to take them to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American evacuees waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station 
for a train to take them to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-American family waiting for train to take them to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-Americans waiting for a train which will take them to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-Americans waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station 
for a train which will take them to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-Americans waiting with their luggage at the old Santa Fe station 
for a train which will take them to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-Americans watching train taking their friends and relatives to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-Americans watching train taking their friends and relatives to Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-Americans waving good-bye to friends and relatives 
who are leaving for Owens Valley, 1942

 Japanese-Americans waving good-bye to friends and relatives 
who are leaving for Owens Valley, 1942

Japanese-Americans with their baggage waiting for trains 
which will take them to Owens Valley, 1942

Thursday, December 13, 2012

Edward S. Curtis

 Buffalo Berry Gatherers, Mandan

 By the River, Flathead

 Cooking acorns, upper Lake Pomo

 Duck-skin parkas, Nunivak

 Hupa man with spear, standing on rock midstream

 Hupa mother holding baby

A family group, Noatak
 Inuit Woman

Woman and child, Nunivak

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Harris & Ewing

 Sweet Briar College. May Day exercises

 Thayer Studio

 The Boy Scout's motto of "do a good turn daily" was well observed by John Kleinnheksel and Dave Matthews, as they ride their girl friends across Arlington Memorial bridge. June 1937

 The bouncing boy born to the Red Sox manager and Mrs. Joe Cronin a week ago posed for his first picture today at Garfield Hospital. The beaming gent on the left is Grandpappy Clark Griffith, owner of the Washington Senators. 1938

 These girls, members of the delegation of three hundred hosiery workers from Philadelphia who paraded to the White House today in protest against the Japanese Silk boycott. January 1938

 U.S. Public Health Service uses trailer clinic in war against syphilis. 
Washington, D.C. Aug. 23, 1937

 Washington youngster solves parking problem. Washington, D.C., March 30, 1937

 Washington's newest supper club opened last night with celebrities and stars in attendance. Here, Hopkins, Secretary of Commerce, movie star Errol Flynn and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wealthy socialite, found their way to fun. 1939

 When Miss Harriot Daley was appointed telephone operator at the United States Capitol in 1898 there were only 51 stations on the switchboard. Today Miss Daley is Chief Operator. 1937

Y.W.C.A. at Silver Spring

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Walker Evans

 Alabama feed store front, 1936

 Alabama miners' houses near Birmingham, Alabama, 1935

 Auto parts shop. Atlanta, Georgia, 1936

 Bud Fields in his cotton patch. Hale County, Alabama, 1935-36

 Circus poster, Alabama, 1936

 Cornbread. Food for flood refugees at the Forrest City concentration camp. Arkansas, 1937

 Ferry and river men. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1936

Flood refugees at mealtime, Forrest City, Arkansas, 1937

Monday, December 10, 2012

Dorothea Lange - Migrants

 He came from an Oklahoma farm in April, 1938. 
Became a migratory farm worker in California.

 Mexican migrant woman harvesting tomatoes. 
Santa Clara Valley, California, 1938

 Migrant workers' camp, outskirts of Marysville, California, 1935

 Migratory boy, aged eleven, and his grandmother work side by side picking hops. Started work at five a.m. Photograph made at noon. Temperature 105 degrees. Oregon, Polk County, 1939

 Oklahoma sharecropper and family entering California. 
Stalled on the desert near Indio, California, 1937

 Old time professional migratory laborer camping on the outskirts of Perryton, Texas at opening of wheat harvest. He has been on the road since marriage, thirteen years ago, 1938

 Son of destitute migrant, American River camp, near Sacramento, California. 
The boy has dysentery. 1936

Water supply, American River camp, California, San Joaquin Valley, 1936