Marion Post Wolcott - Kids

Marion Post Wolcott was an FSA photographer. These are some of her pictures of children

 Child of coal miner, Jere, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1938

 Children at May Day Picnic at Irwinville Farms, Georgia, 1939

 Children in a cotton field, Statesville, North Carolina, 1939

 Children in bedroom of their home. Mother has TB, father is on WPA, 

Charleston, West Virginia, 1938

 Children of WPA worker, South Charleston, West Virginia, 1938

Children ride on sleds almost all winter, Woodstock, Vermont, 1940

 J.A. Johnson's youngest son picking cotton, Statesville, North Carolina, 1939

 Migrant laborer's children. Mother was thirty-two years old, had had eleven children, two sets of twins, six are now living. Belle Glade, Florida, 1939

 Mountaineer's daughter enjoying the sorghum syrup at a neighbor's home during a "syrupping off," Breathitt County, Kentucky, 1940

 Primary class in new school, Prairie Farms, Montgomery, Alabama, 1939

 School choir led by Robert Pierce, school principal. They won state championship. 

Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1939

Singing and music for agricultural workers' children in new day nursery at Okeechobee migratory labor camp. Belle Glade, Florida, 1941

Esther Bubley

Esther Bubley worked as a photographer for the War Information Office during World War II. She took pictures of ordinary people on the "home front".

 In the canteen for enlisted men at the United Nations service center on a Saturday night, 

Washington, DC, 1943

In the officers' lounge at the United Nations service center, Washington, DC, 1943

 In the officers' lounge at the United Nations service center, a hostess introduces a young officer to one of the volunteer hostesses, Washington, DC, 1943

 In the officers' lounge at the United Nations service center, Washington, DC, 1943

 Miss Helen Ringwald works with the pneumatic tubes through which messages
are sent to branches in other parts of the city for delivery. Washington, DC, 1943

[Email circa 1943!]

Children playing in the nursery at the United Nations service center while their mothers make arrangements for continuing their journey, Washington, DC, 1943

 A girl Marine in her room at the United Nations service center, Washington, DC, 1943

The child of a United States Army officer being cared for in the nursery at the United Nations service center while her parents spend the day shopping, Washington, DC, 1943

A young couple picking up their child who was taken care of in the nursery at the United Nations service center while they spent the day shopping, Washington, DC, 1943

William Gottlieb

William Gottlieb photographed jazz artists. There's a big collection of his photos at the Library of Congress. This set focuses on two of the greatest: Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday.

 Billie Holiday and "Mister"

 Billie Holiday and "Mister," 1946

 Billie Holiday at Carnegie Hall

 Billie Holiday, 1946

 Billie Holiday, 1947

(probably the greatest photograph ever of a singer)

 Billie Holiday

 Billie Holiday

 Billie Holiday, 1939

 Louis Armstrong

 Louis Armstrong

 Louis Armstrong

 Louis Armstrong

 Louis Armstrong

 Louis Armstrong

 Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Dorothea Lange

Here are a few more from Dorothea Lange.

 Alabama Negro working in field near Eutaw, Alabama, 1936

 Bob Lemmons, Carrizo Springs, Texas. Born a slave about 1850, south of San Antonio. Came to Carrizo Springs during the Civil War with white cattlemen seeking new range. In 1865, with his master was one of the first settlers. Knew Billy the Kid, King Fisher, and other noted bad men of the border. 1936

 Colored family from near Houston, Texas, been in California two years, 1939

Cotton picker, Southern San Joaquin Valley, California, 1936

 Cow Hollow farmer from Oklahoma, has received FSA loan to help them establish their new place. Wife is co-signer with her husband on chattel mortgage. She signs with an "X." 

Malheur County, Oregon, 1939

 Eighty year old woman living in squatters' camp on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California. "If you lose your pluck you lose the most there is in you - all you've got to live with." 1936

 Farm family in the cut-over land, Priest River Valley, Bonner County, Idaho, 1939

Lunchtime for cotton hoers, Mississippi Delta, 1937

Editing 19th century photos, ctd

Here's another example of editing a very old photo. It's from the Civil War, of a group of Union soldiers playing cards. Photos of that time were taken on glass plates; the first image, unedited, shows a crack in the glass plate that has caused an offset in the image. This is corrected in the second image.

My philosophy for editing old photos is "the perfect is the enemy of the good." To get an image "perfect" (whatever that may mean) would be both time-consuming and, frankly, would probably burn me out pretty quickly. So I have my personal standard of "good enough."

Petersburg, Virginia. Officers of the 114th Pennsylvania Infantry 

playing cards in front of tents. 1864

GG Bain

Another set from the Bain News Service.

 Juvenile Asylum

 Protest against child labor in a labor parade, 1909

 School children outside digging, making garden, New York

Socialist meeting in Union Square, New York, 1908

 Suffragettes, preceded by policemen, leaving City Hall, New York, 1908

 Szecheny wedding crowd on 5th Avenue, New York, 1908

(from Wikipedia: "Gladys Vanderbilt married Hungarian Count László Széchenyi on 

January 27, 1908 in New York City.")

Vacation Bungalows, Rockaway, 1910