Monday, September 21, 2015

Samuel J. Hood Studio

 Baby ballet show, ca. 1935
  
 Child performers
  
 Chorus girls in swimsuits
  
 Hubert Opperman and woman, possibly 
Edna Sayers, on tandem bicycle, ca. 1936
  
Mug of milk, ca. 1930

Sunday, September 20, 2015

New Hampshire

These photos of Keene, New Hampshire come from this Flickr set.

 Children of Fred E. Kingsbury in a pony cart, Keene, New Hampshire
  
 Group in old car, Keene, New Hampshire
  
 Line up of automobiles, Keene, New Hampshire
  
 Men on bicycles, Keene, New Hampshire
  
 Milk Delivery, Keene, New Hampshire
  
 Old carriage, new car Keene, New Hampshire

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Vintage Japan

These historical photos of Japan are from the National Museum of Denmark Flickr site; they were part of a collection which belonged to a journalist named Holger Rosenberg.






Friday, September 18, 2015

Costică Acsinte

Costică Acsinte was a Romanian photographer. His career began during World War I and continued through the 1940s. He established a studio in the town of Slobozia. The photos posted here are from this archive. Many of them are in poor condition, but still constitute an amazing documentation of life in small-town Romania.







Thursday, September 17, 2015

Ian Mackley

Mr. Mackley photographed New Zealand troops in the Korean War.

5 pounders of 162 Battery, 16th NZ Field Regiment, 
in action in Korea, 8 November 1951
  
Australian and New Zealand troops at concert by 
band of US 1st Cavalry Division, Korea, 25 July 1952
   
Australian and NZ personnel alongside their notice outside 
Anzac Park, a new playing field they have built alongside forward 
defensive positions. Rugby, soccer, athletics and other sports October 1951
  
Gun crew in action, Korea, 1 April 1952
  
Kiwis at 10 Coy RNZASC gather around their 
Xmas tree at Coy HQ, December 1951
  
New Zealand gunners sitting around a 
space heater, Korea, 6 October 1951
  
New Zealand sappers having a beer outside their hut, Korea, 1951-52
  
Sergeant J M Bragg, Gunner D J Humphries and Gunner D J Kelly operating a 25 pounder during the first major offensive of the 1st British Commonwealth Division, Korea, October 1951
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Marion Post Wolcott

Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a Farm Security Administration cooperative, vicinity of Natchitoches, La. Three Negro children sitting on the porch of a house, August 1940
  
Boys fishing in a bayou, Schriever, Louisiana, June 1940
  
Burley tobacco is placed on sticks to wilt after cutting, before it is taken into the barn for drying and curing, on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky, September 1940
  
Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi, November 1939
  
Houses which have been condemned by the Board of Health but are still 
occupied by Negro migratory workers, Belle Glade, Florida, January 1941
  
International C30 truck transporting people who 
might be farm workers, southern US, ca. 1940
  
Negroes fishing in creek near cotton plantations 
outside Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, October 1939
  
Oat field, possibly Georgia, ca. 1940
  
 Taking Burley tobacco in from the fields, after it has been cut, to dry and cure 
in the barn, Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Ky, September 1940

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Tasmania


Federal Coffee Palace, Lower Murray Street, Hobart, ca. 1890
  
Grubb's tramway, Tasmania, ca. 1900
  
Huon coach and buildings, Huonville, ca. 1900
  
Man with monkey and children, ca. 1900
  
Murray Street, Hobart, ca. 1880
  
Royal Hobart Regattas - ca. 1920s to 1938