Vintage Sweden

Man and woman by a carriage, Sweden, ca. 1915

  

Midsummer dance, Rättvik, Dalarna, Sweden, 1931

  

Midsummer Day excursion at Svartsvall 

in Omberg mountain area, ca. 1890

  

Oxen pulling a car, Sweden, 1917

  

People at Villa Schwarzwald, Svartsvall, Omberg, Sweden, ca. 1890

 

Source: Swedish Heritage Board

Paul Stang

 A group of people having a picnic at a mountain 

farm in the Stongfjorden area, ca. 1910

  

 Brother and sisters Paul, Amalie and Jørgina Stang hiking in the 

mountains together with an unidentified woman, ca. 1910

  

 Coffee in the garden, ca. 1910

  

 Farm work, Yndestad, 1916

  

Group portrait at Lushågen, ca. 1910

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Edwin Levick

Mr. Levick took these photographs of Ellis Island, America's great immigration port, between 1902 and 1913.

 Buildings near Ellis Island pier; immigrants 

can be seen with trunks and luggage

  

 Immigrants undergoing medical examination

  

 Passed and waiting to be taken off Ellis Island

  

 Ready for travel and going north, south and west. Immigrants with 

baggage lined up at teller's windows marked money exchange.

  

 The pens at Ellis Island Registry Room or Great Hall. 

These people have passed the first mental inspection.

  

Uncle Sam, host. Immigrants being served a free meal at Ellis Island.

G. G. Bain

 Columbus and Marie Iselin, Dorothy Iselin, Eva Dahlgren, Louise and Ernest Iselin

  

 Craven family

  

 Farrar and Gerryflappers

[back in the day when opera singers - in this case Geraldine Farrar - had groupies]

  

 Frances Alda sings Star Spangled Banner

  

French theater company at play, ca. 1918

Vintage Ireland

 A holy well and wayside shrine, on the shore of 

charming Lough Hill, Sligo, Ireland, ca. 1901

  

 A letter from Pat in America, ca. 1902

  

 A mountain turf car bound for the village market, County Kerry, Ireland, 1902

  

 A street in the little village of Fairhead, near Galway, Ireland, ca. 1902

  

 

 A typical Irish street in Cork, Ireland, ca. 1902

 

 An old Irish bag-pipe, once popular in the Emerald Isle - 

in a home in Cork, Ireland, ca. 1904

  

 Country village, Ireland, 1877

 

Source: Library of Congress Stereograph Collection

Gordon Burt

 

Boy writing on a blackboard, ca 1940

 

Boy, with his home built trolley, shopping in a 

Self Help Co-operative grocery store, ca 1920s-1930s

 

Cars parked outside General Motors plant in Petone, Wellington, ca 1940s

  

Modelling women's bathing costumes, ca 1940s

 

Photograph taken for an advertisement for Atwater Kent radios. 

Shows a "family" group in a living room. 

 

Two unidentified women working on military 

helmets in a factory during World War 2

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

First Nations

Blue Bird and her sister, near Banff, Alberta, 1930

  

Cree and Métis men performing the Pipe Ceremony,

Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan, 1931

  

Cree girl playing with a child suspended in a small hammock,

 Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan, 1931

  

Cree men, women and children participating in a ceremony,

 Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan, 1931

  

Cree men, women and children participating in a ceremony,

 Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan, 1931

   

Cree woman carrying domestic supplies,

Waterhen River, Northern Saskatchewan, 1931

 

 Dancers going to a pow-wow, 1931

  

Source: Provincial Archives of Alberta