Thursday, December 22, 2016

Matthew Brady

 Doctor Mary Walker
  
 Mrs. M. Hogan
  
Probably Lucille Western, actress, ca. 1863

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Kids

Group of children at a playground, 1937
  
Group of kids on a street
  
 Hotdog stand in North End, corner of Hanover 
and Blackstone Street, Boston, 1937
  
 Little cowgirls, ca. 1954
  
North End children cool off with ice cart on Copp's Hill, Boston, ca. 1930
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Vintage SoCal

Buryl Polk breaks ground on Beverly Hills Drive, Los Angeles, 1927
  
Crowd listens to the World Series outside Sturgis radio store, Los Angeles, 1929
  
Crowds at 31st managers sale, Broadway department store, Los Angeles, 1931
  
Family outing, Los Angeles, 1935
  
 Homecroft Market, Los Angeles, 1930
  
Kern County, California, November 1938
[too late]

Monday, December 19, 2016

State Parks

Missouri State Parks, to be exact. 

 A woman stands on a wooden bridge, Wallace State Park, ca. 1960
  
 Four women hold a formation on water skis 
during a pageant, Lake of the Ozarks, 1960
  
Group of children fishing at Pershing State Park, ca. 1960
  
 Group of people on walkway near Chain of Rocks Bridge 
north of St. Louis on Mississippi River, ca. 1960
  
 Rides at the State Fair, ca. 1960
  
Ruins of castle at Ha Ha Tonka State Park, ca. 1960
  
 Two women and a man pose on rocks 
at Johnson Shut Ins State Park, 1961
  
Visitors swim, play and relax at Public Beach #1, 
Lake of the Ozarks State Park, ca. 1960
 

Sunday, December 18, 2016

War Workers, World War I

 These photos of British women in "war work" factories during World War I were taken in 1914.


 General view of brass fittings shop
  
 View of canteen at munitions factory
  
 Woman at battery drills, drilling angles and T bars for ribs of airship sheds
  
 Women copper banding t60 pdr shrapnel
  
Woman operating vertical drilling machines, drilling 
angles for connections to ribs of airship sheds
 

Saturday, December 17, 2016

Walter McClintock

 Blackfeet women by the Cutbank River
  
Brave Dogs smoking before a feast at the Eagle Tipi
  
 Grass dancers
 
 Group of tipis with Indians seated and standing around large skin
  
Heavens Peak with tipis
 
Puppy licking young Indian girl seated in small tipi
 

Friday, December 16, 2016

Arthur Griffin Collection

East Corinth, Vermont
  
 Fish pier, Boston
  
 Friday 1 P.M. At Norwich - Hanover Station, February 15, 1939
  
 Getting on the chair tramway
  
 Hildegard
[Hildegard was a cabaret singer]
  
Hollywood Theater, Charlestown, Massachusetts