Tuesday, May 29, 2012

A few Civil War pictures

 Bealeton, Virginia. Capt. Cunningham of Gen. T.F. Meagher's staff, 1863

 Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte McLaughlen and staff, Washington, DC, 1865

 Group at headquarters, Provost Marshal Department, Petersburg, Virginia, 1864

 Group of mechanics of 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, Petersburg, Virginia, 1864

 Group of officers at headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Petersburg, Virginia, 1864

William Morris Smith: Headquarters of Gen. Gershom Mott, 
vicinity of Washington, DC, 1865

Friday, May 25, 2012

Arthur Rothstein

Another set from Arthur Rothstein.

 Clearing the snow off the streets of Chillicothe, Ohio, 1940

 Cornhusking contest, Marshall County, Iowa, 1939

 Cranberry picker, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1938

 Cranberry pickers, Burlington County, New Jersey, 1938

 Crowds watching children's parade, part of Charro Days celebration, 
Brownsville, Texas, 1942

Cutting ice on the Ottaqueechee River, Coos County, New Hampshire, 1936

 Daughters of a migratory family who are now working in the packinghouse 
at Belle Glade, Florida, 1937

 Daughters of resettlement clients who have formed 4-H Club, 
Western Slope Farms, Colorado, 1939

 Evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1939

Family of evicted sharecroppers along Highway 60, 
New Madrid County, Missouri, 1939

 Family from Italian section of Philadelphia working in cranberry bog, 1938

Thursday, May 24, 2012

World War I, ctd

Another set of photos from the First World War.

 Canadian machine gun squad on Vimy Ridge

 Canadians in captured German trench at the Battle of Hill 70

 Destroyed German trench at the Battle of Messines

 Five soldiers silhouetted at the Battle of Broodseinde

 Football in No-Man's-Land during 1914 Christmas Truce

 French and American soldiers advancing through No-Man's Land, 1918

 French army cyclists

 French assault on German positions

 French couple in Brieulles-sur-Bar welcoming British soldiers

 French troops near the Marne

German infantry attacking at Verdun

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Southwest Indians, ctd

More photos of Southwest Indians by Edward S. Curtis.

 A Navajo Woman

 Acoma Roadway

 Acoma Water Carriers

 Apache Babe in Carrier

 At the Ford, Apaches

Jicarilla Girl in Feast Dress

 Maricopa Water Girl

 Mizheh and Babe, Apache

 Navaho matron

 Papago Indian woman

Qahatika Girl

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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