Edward S. Curtis - Indians of the Southwest

Edward S. Curtis spent years, in the early part of the 20th century, traveling the American West and creating stunning, and poignant, photographic portraits of Native American people and their vanishing lifeways. There is a wealth of internet resources on Curtis, including a great feature at the Library of Congress web site. The Library of Congress also archives a substantial collection of Curtis's work, from which most of the ones I post here will be drawn.

This first set of Curtis photos is of native people of the Southwestern US.

 A Corner of Zuni

 A Navaho smile

 A Navajo man wearing blanket and headband

 An Acoma man

An Acoma woman

 Apache girl and papoose

 Child life, in the cottonwoods, Navaho

 Cohit Songwi, Tewa girl

 East Mesa girls, Hopi

Jicarilla maiden

Lewis Hine - Newsies, ctd

This is my final set of Lewis Hine's photos of newsies. It still only a small fraction of the ones he took.

 Newsies at Skeeter's Branch. They were all smoking. St. Louis, Missouri, 1910

 Newsies in cellar-room of a paper office in alley back of Main Street, waiting for evening papers, 4 PM. Conditions here vile. Rochester, New York, 1910

[Note the obscene graffiti on the wall.]

 Richard Green (with hat), 5 year old newsie.  Many of these little newsboys here. 

Richmond, Virginia, 1911

 Six year old Tony gets up at 5 AM daily to sell newspapers. He is a regular beggar. 

"P-l-e-a-s-e buy me papers." Beaumont, Texas, 1913

 Small Hartford newsboys. Some are 7 and 8 years old. Many more as small. 

Hartford, Connecticut, 1909

Some of Newark's small newsboys. Newark, New Jersey, 1909
[Love the little mobster, short kid 4th from right in the front.]

 Two 7 year old Nashville newsies, profane and smart, selling Sunday. 

Nashville, Tennessee, 1910

 Two news girls, Wilmington, Delaware, 1910

Two six-year old newsboys, Odell McDuffy and Sam Stillman. There are many other of six and seven years selling here. Dallas, Texas, 1913

 Waiting For The Signal. Newsboys, starting out with baseball extra. 5 PM, Times Star Office. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1908

Waiting for the "Forwards" - Jewish paper - at 1 am. New York, New York, 1913

Russell Lee - Musicians, ctd

More photos of musicians from Russell Lee.

 Living room in farm home of John Frost, part owner of 135 acres of semi-marginal land 

in Tehama County, California, 1940

 Musicians in Cajun band contest, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana. Most of the music was of the folk variety accompanied by singing, 1938

 Orchestra and dancers at payday dance, Mogollon, New Mexico, 1940

 Song director conducting singing of Negro spiritual at soil conservation meeting 

at Vernon, Oklahoma, 1940

 Specialty number of orchestra at the National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

Tavern on southside of Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 The band at the Savoy Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 Tulare County, California. FSA farm workers' camp. 

Hired orchestra which played at the President's birthday ball, 1942

 Wife of a homesteader with her WPA music class. These children walk eight miles for their music lessons. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Woodville, California. FSA farm workers' community. 

Musicians at the Saturday night dance, 1942

 Young lady from nearby college singing at the Jaycee buffet supper and party. 

Eufaula, Oklahoma, 1940

Young migratory agricultural workers singing at the Saturday night dance 

at the Agua Fria migratory labor camp, Arizona, 1940

Carl Mydans

Some more pics from Carl Mydans, one of the FSA photographers.

 Homeschooling, Westmoreland Homesteads, Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, 1936

 Homestead children coming home from school, Decatur Homesteads, Indiana, 1936

 Marketplace in the French Quarters of New Orleans, New Orleans, 1936

 Negro family in subdivision, Franklin Township, near Lincoln Highway, 

Bound Brook, New Jersey, 1936

Old Vermont carriage and farm family near North Hyde Park, Vermont, 1936

 Packing tomatoes for market at small packing depot at Terry, Mississippi, 1936

 Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1936

School at Skyline Farms, near Scottsboro, Alabama, 1936

 Style show of the opening of garment factory, Hightstown, New Jersey, 1936

 Woman and child with jars of produce, ca 1936

Women at the annual fair, Morrisville, Vermont, 1936

World War I

World War I, called the "Great War" by the British, lasted from 1914-1918 and was one of the most terrible conflicts in history. The horrors of trench warfare and poison gas contributed to the destruction of the greater part of an entire generation of young men in Europe.  Here are some of the photos to come out of that war.

 American soldiers advancing on a bunker

 Army wagons

 Australian infantry wearing gas masks, Garter Point

 Austrian troops executing Serbs

 Baron Manfred von Richtofen and Jasta 11

Baron von Richtofen (famously known as the "Red Baron") 

was Germany's top flying ace during World War I with 80 confirmed kills.

The Jasta 11 was Richtofen's flying squadron.

Bavarian Landsturm mortar crew with 15cm Magener Werfer

 British 55th Division troops blinded by gas

 British artillery battery at Mount Scopus

 

 British infantry advancing through gas at Loos
  

 British officers interrogating Turkish prisoners at Cape Helles

 

 British trench near Ovillers-la-Boisselle

 

 British wounded during Battle of the Somme

The Battle of the Somme was the deadliest single battle of the war.  Lasting for months and inflicting horrific casualties on both sides, the battle came to be a symbol of the futility of trench warfare, as essentially no ground was gained. It also was seen (eventually) as an example (one of many) of the incompetence of the British General Staff which planned the offensive. More than a million total casualties resulted from this battle.
There's some video footage from the Somme on YouTube.
Also a full-length documentary (over an hour long).

British tanks

World War 1 was the first conflict in which tanks were used.

 

American soldiers returning home on the Agamemnon, Hoboken, New Jersey, 1918