Frances Benjamin Johnston

Some more from this early 20th century American photographer.

 Cooking Class

 Elementary School Class on Native American Culture

 Female students exercising with dumbbells, Western High School, 

Washington, DC, 1899

 Frances Benjamin Johnston having tea with Elbert Hubbard and an unidentified man at her studio in Washington, DC, 1900

 Geography Class at the Hampton Institute

[what was the Hampton Institute?]

 Girls in a science laboratory at Eastern High School, Washington, DC, 1899

 Girls on the playground, 1899

Group portrait of friends at social gathering, seated and standing with tea cups

Composers

Here are some photos of classical composers.

 Aaron Copland

[Fanfare for the Common Man]

 Cesar Franck

[Organ Prelude, Fugue, and Variation]

 Clara Schumann

[Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7]

 Claude Debussy

[Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun]

 Antonín Dvořák

[Symphony No. 9, "New World"]

 Edward Grieg

[In the Hall of the Mountain King, from Peer Gynt Suite]

 Edward Grieg

 

 Sir Edward Elgar

[Enigma Variations]

 Franz Liszt 

[Grande Etude No. 8]

Frederic Chopin

[Polonaise in A flat major]

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