Friday, October 21, 2016

Prairie Towns

 Alameda Public School, Sasketchewan
   
Summer home on the farm of Robert Shepherd, 
Alameda, Sasketchewan, 1912
 
Centre Street, Assiniboia, Sasketchewan, ca. 1915
  
Centre Street, Assiniboia, Sasketchewan, 20 July 1921
[exact same view as previous photo, six years later;
interesting to look at the differences!]
  
Main Street, East side, Assiniboia, Sasketchewan
 
Source: Prairie Towns

Thursday, October 20, 2016

Dick Whittington

 'Buy one get one free', Western Auto Supply, Southern California, 1931
  
 'Safespot' publicity, Southern California, 1933
  
 Estelle Ettere and Goodrich Silvertowne grease guns, Southern California, 1931
  
 Helms Bakery trucks once delivered freshly baked goods to neighborhoods across Southern California. Here’s a truck and its driver in 1931, the year the bakery debuted its fleet.
  
Publicity shot for the Frank Dillon Tire Co., 1933

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Horace Warner

Here is another set of Mr. Warner's photos of London's East End street kids, who he called 'Spitalfields nippers'. 

 In this image, captioned “Quite Clean ’Nuff”, 
a boy washes his face in a Spitalfields yard
  
 Jeremiah Donovan, six, was nicknamed 
'Dick Whittington' because of his pet cat
  
 Joey Lyons and Nellie Slark - the story book
  
 The “Sisters Ellis” wear matching dresses, probably made 
by their mother, a worker in the garment trade
  
 
 Spitalfields Nippers

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Leo White

Unidentified "loggie" on Kaipara Harbour, Northland, 1938
  
 Unidentified drovers resting on a rural roadside, including cart and flock of sheep
  
Unidentified group at swimming pool, North Auckland, 1936
  
 Unidentified individuals at Piha, Auckland, includes 
view of beach, farmland and Lion Rock, 1936
  
Unidentified man in dinghy, Whangaparoa Harbour, Northland, 1930
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Monday, October 17, 2016

William James Family

 A mother and children sleep outside on a hot summer night, ca. 1911
  
 Farmerettes with harvested flax, 1917-18
  
 Fishing from dock, Oakville Harbour, 1908
  
 
 Group of children, Danforth Avenue, Toronto, ca. 1910
  
 Group of snowshoers on horse-drawn sleigh, ca. 1920
  
 High wheel bike, 1930
  
 Hikers in High Park, Toronto, 1910-12
 

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Harry Babcock Collection

 At Army Point. Benicia. 1883
  
 At Mirror Lake. Yosemite. 1883
  
 Capt. M.'s House. Army Point, Benicia. 1883
  
 Old "Colonel." 1881. Sisson Fish Pond
  
 Our old fishing Log. Picayune Lake. 1881
  
 Our Party on the Trail. Yosemite. 1883
  
 Randolph's span. 1881
  
Sisson's Fish Pond, 1881
 

Saturday, October 15, 2016

Luther Hamilton Photo Collection

 Parade
  
 Portrait of two unidentified women
  
 Twins, ca. 1900
  
 Unidentified African Americans
  
Unidentified woman standing at water well