Friday, February 20, 2015

William Archer Price

 Cobb and Co coach on board a punt on the Buller River, ca. 1910
  
 Crowd in the vicinity of Shortland Wharf, Thames, ca. 1910
  
 Four Maori girls on a home-made raft paddling down the Kai Iwi Creek, ca. 1910
  
 View of a bus which ran between Blockhouse Bay, 
Avondale and Pitt Street, Auckland, ca. 1910s
  
View of adults and children swimming and 
playing at Shelly Beach, Auckland, ca. 1914
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Marion Post Wolcott

 "That's what you wanna see and that's what you will see and don't 
bring bashful with you 'cause he can't take it." An outdoor carnival comes 
once a year to the mining section. Granville, West Virginia, September 1938
 
 A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can. September 1939
 
 Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Playing checkers outside 
a service station on a Saturday afternoon, June 1939
  
 Group of sixth and seventh grade boys constructing poultry yard fence. 
Brooder was built in their shop class at school. Flint River Farms, Georgia, May 1939
  
People at the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair 
eating a picnic lunch. Shelbyville, Kentucky, August 1940

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Frederick Nelson Jones

 A Ford motor car, ca. 1916
  
 Crowd walking along Nelson wharf during farewell to 
25th New Zealand Regiment, World War I, 9 January 1917
  
 Hospital supplies being packed and sent to Egypt and 
England from the Nelson Red Cross depot, ca. 1915
  
 Regatta (?) at a Nelson wharf, ca. 1910
  
Road damaged by earthquake and flood, Tahuna Hillside, Nelson, 1929
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Lafayette Studio

 Miss Kentucky beauty contest, 1935
  
 Packard Motor Cars, group of people gathered outside of building, 1936
  
 S. Karpen & Brothers, workers upholstering furniture, 1941
  
 Scabbard and Blade military ball, 1935
  
Southeastern Greyhound Lines, banquet for drivers and families, 1939

Monday, February 16, 2015

Adam MacLay

 Family in front lawn of single story wooden house, 1905-26
  
 Group of men, women and girls outside a tent, 
possibly Sumner, Christchurch, 1905-26
  
 Group portrait of two men and two women dressed in finery, 1905-26
  
 Men playing cards and musical instruments, 
next to tents at a camp site, 1905-26
  
Portrait of a young girl standing on sacking in a lace dress 
with a large collar, with a black Cocker Spaniel dog, 1905-26
 
Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Saturday, February 14, 2015

Mack Hughes

From Mack Hughes, these look like photos of a Valentine's Day dance in the 1950s. Only caption is "Lebus" - completely opaque to me!





Friday, February 13, 2015

Dorothea Lange

 8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day." Near Meloland, Imperial County, California, February 1939
 
 Contra Costa County, California. Bringing cattle in from the range. 
Common sight on California highways, November 1938
  
 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars monthly. February 1936
  
 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum. February 1936
  
 Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County. This family was hungry. They lost a two-year-old baby as the result of exposure during the winter. Holtville, California. March 1937
  
 Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, California. Father is home after a day in the pea fields. Note tent platform, standard equipment in FSA camps. February 1939
  
 Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages, fourteen cents per crate 
of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California, February 1939
  
Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, March 1937