Marion Post Wolcott

Here are some more pictures by Marion Post Wolcott.

 Behind the homemade plow in the school garden, Gees Bend, Alabama, 1939

 Canal Point (vicinity), Florida, migrant laborer's family, 1939

 Construction workers gathered around the bunkhouse stove, Camp Blanding, Florida, 1940

 Cooking fried supper for a benefit picnic supper on the grounds of St. Thomas' Church, near Bardstown, Kentucky, 1940

 Domestic servants waiting for street car on way to work early in the morning, 

Mitchell Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1939

[this photo speaks volumes about race relations]

 Graveyard in rear of church near Summerville, South Carolina, 1938

 Home economics and home management class for adults under supervision 

of Evelyn M. Driver, Flint River Farms, Georgia, 1939

Horse and sled of a garbage and rubbish collector, Woodstock, Vermont, 1940

World War I, ctd

More photos from the First World War.

 German POWs in French Prison Camp

 German machine gun crew

 German soldier giving wounded British soldier a light

 Infantry from the British Royal Naval Division training on Lemnos

 Landsturm Infanterie Ersatz Bataillon des XII Armeekorps

Men of the 23rd Infantry on the Western Front

 Public Schools Batallion at the Battle of the Somme

[what was the Public Schools Batallion? find out here]

[story of the PSB's action at the Battle of the Somme]

 Ration Party of the Royal Irish Rifles at the Battle of the Somme

 Refugee Children at Grand Val, France

Russian Troops Awaiting a German Attack

London crowd celebrating the Armistice

Lewis Hine - Tenement Workers, ctd

Another set of Lewis Hine pictures of tenement workers.

 Home-work on embroidery, New York, 1912

 Jennie Rizzandi, 9 year old girl, helping mother and father finish garments in a dilapidated tenement. New York, New York, 1913

 Making hair-brushes. Hausner family. The mother had a sore throat and wore a great rag rapped around it, but she took it off for the photo. They said they all worked until 10 pm when busy, New York, 1912

 Mrs. A.L.A. She & her 3 children - 11, 9, & 6 yrs old work at flower making, 1915

 Mrs. Larocca making willow plumes in an unlicensed tenement, New York, 1912

 Mrs. Lucy Libertine and family, picking nuts in the basement tenement, New York, 1912

 Mrs. Mary Rena, picking nuts with dirty baby in lap. Two neighbors helping. Girl is cracking nuts with her teeth, not an uncommon sight. Mr. Rena works on dock. New York, New York, 1911

 Mrs. Palontona and 13 year old daughter, Michaeline, working on "Pillow-lace" in dirty kitchen of their tenement home. New York, New York, 1911

Yetta Leider, making hair-goods for Mowshowitz, 2nd floor front in dirty and ill-kept bed-room at 81 Ridge St., NY, 1912

Edward S. Curtis - Indians of the Northwest

Here are photos by Edward S. Curtis of Indian people of the Northwest Coast and Columbia Plateau.

 A Skokomish Indian chief's daughter

[about the Skokomish Tribe]

 A mat shelter, Skokomish

 Cayuse woman on horseback, wearing beaded buckskin dress

[about the Cayuse Tribe]

 Cayuse woman

 Dusty Dress, a Kalispel Indian woman

[about the Kalispel Tribe]

 Home of the Kalispel

 Kalispel girl

 Klamath man in traditional dress squatting next to an enormous tree

[about the Klamath Tribe]

  Photograph shows a Klamath woman in a dugout canoe resting in a field of wokas, or great yellow water lilies (nymphaea polysepala) used as food, probably in the Klamath Basin area of Oregon

 Klamath woman seated in front of house thatched with rush mats

Klamath woman

Ann Rosener

Ann Rosener was one of the photographers taking pictures of home-front factory work in World War II. Most of her photos focused on women manufacturing war materiel. Here's her obituary.

 Both men and women man the machines which are turning out parts for America's bomber planes at Willow Run, Michigan, 1942

 Negro women with no previous industrial experience are reconditioning used spark plugs in a large Midwest airplane plant, Buick plant, Melrose Park, 1942

 Pioneers of the production line, these two young workers are among the first women ever to operate a centerless grinder, Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, 1942

 Reconditioning used spark plugs for reuse in testing airplane motors, Mighnon Gunn operates this small testing machine with speed and precision although she was new to the job two months ago, 1942

 Spot welding parts for the nacelle of an aircraft engine. These women work in the largest one-story building in the works, the giant bomber plant at Willow Run, Michigan, 1942

 Steady of eye and hand, women workers at the great Willow Run bomber plant are among those throughout the country who are relieving serious shortages of skilled workers by doing such semi-skilled jobs as the one shown here, 1942

Women at work for victory. These young employees of a Midwest drill and tool plant are operating cylindrical grinders which taper drills to specified size, Republic Drill and Tool Company, Chicago, 1942

Russell Lee - Pie Town, black and white

Here are some more black-and-white photos from Pie Town, New Mexico.

 Eating dinner at the all day community sing, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Farm boy playing guitar in front of the filling station and garage, 

Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Farm folks eating dinner at the all-day community sing. 

Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Farm folks, mostly homesteaders, at dinner during the all day community sing, 

Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Heaping the plates at dinner on the grounds, all day community sing. 

Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

Homesteader's wife and daughter at all day Sunday visiting, 

Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Louis Stagg who runs the cafe and her mother looking at greeting cards which the salesman has. 

Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Mrs. Leatherman, homesteader from West Texas taking up chicken and dressing at dinner during the all day community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Mrs. Whinery searches the sky for rain clouds. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Putting out the food for dinner at community sing. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 The Caudill family eating dinner in the open the day thew were moving their dugout. 

Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

The Whinery children playing. Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

[playing with fire, it looks like]