World War I

More photos from the First World War.

 Salvation Army worker writing for wounded soldier

 Skeleton of German Soldier at Beaumont Hamel

 Soldiers and mule wearing gas masks

 The Camel Corps at Beersheba

 The Wiltshire Regiment attacking near Thiepval

 Troops advancing through trees

 Verdun in World War I

 Vickers Machine Gun Crew with gas masks

 Wounded heroes of the Battle of Mons

 Victory parade, Paris, 1919

John Collier

John Collier (1913-1992) was a photographer with the Farm Security Administration. Later he pioneered the field of visual anthropology.

 Aroostook County, Maine. Airing wool before spinning, 1942

 Bridgeton, New Jersey. FSA (Farm Security Administration) agricultural workers' camp. 

Colored minstrels advertising their show, 1942

  Jewel Mazique, worker at the Library of Congress, speaking in church
on Negro participation in the war effort, 1942

 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Mennonite school teacher with class
of Amish, Mennonite, and Pennsylvania Dutch children, 1942

 Mennonite funeral, vicinity of Blue Ball, Pennsylvania, 1942

The high school band had been practicing up for weeks. Home guard
passes through Enterprise, Coffee County, Alabama, 1941

Detroit Publishing - New York City, ctd

 Curling in Central Park, New York, 1900-1906

[about curling - it's actually an Olympic sport]

 East River and Brooklyn Bridge, New York, 1900-1906

 Flatiron Building, New York, 1908

[one of the most recognizable buildings in the world]

 Free ice in New York, 1900

 Goat carriages in Central Park, New York, 1904

 Hotel Astor, New York, 1909

 In Central Park, New York, 1900

Italian bread peddlers, Mulberry Street, New York City, 1900

Marion Post Wolcott, ctd

Here's another set of photos by Marion Post Wolcott.

 Lee Betties, rural rehabilitation client, with sack of horse and mule feed on rear of his wagon, leaving general store at Woodville, Greene County, Georgia, 1939

 Living quarters, store, and "juke joint" for migratory laborers 

near Canal Point, Florida, 1941

 Migratory laborers playing checkers in front of jook joint during slack season for vegetable pickers. Belle Glade, Florida, 1941

 Mountain people carrying a coffin up the creek bed to the family graveyard where it will be buried. Up South Fork of the Kentucky River, 1940

 Mrs. Ellis Adkins and her youngest child. The family are rehabilitation borrowers.

Coffee County, Alabama, 1938

 One of the sharecropper's houses with sweet potatoes and cotton on the porch, 

Knowlton Plantation, Perthshire, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, 1939

 Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation borrower, and two of her children. 

Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina, 1939

Picnic at Ashwood Plantation, South Carolina, May Day health day, 1939

Frances Benjamin Johnston

 History Class at the Tuskegee Institute

 School Children on a Field Trip

 School children conducting simple experiments, Washington, DC, 1899

 School children examining wild flowers on field trip, Washington, DC, 1899

 School children learning a dance in a school yard, Washington, DC, 1899

 School children measuring and sketching at a stone building, Washington, DC, 1899

 Schoolgirls doing calisthenics

Two girls from a Washington, D.C., school on a class visit to the Library of Congress, 1899

William Henry Jackson

William Henry Jackson was a photographer who worked for the Detroit Publishing Company.

 A landing on the Tomoka, 1880-1897

[the Tomoka River is in Florida]

On the Tomoka, 1880-1897

 Across the lake, Magnolia Gardens, Charleston, SC, 1902

 In the Ormond hammock, 1880-1897

 Lovers Lane near Ormond [Florida], 1880-1897

 Ocean walk, Palm Beach, Florida, 1902

Mango trees on the jungle trail, Palm Beach, Florida, 1910-1920

The Hammock Road near Ormond, 1880-1897

Winter days in Florida on the Halifax, 1890-1897

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers, ctd

More of Lewis Hine's photos of young people (some very young) working in the mills.

 Little Fannie, 7 years old, 48 inches high, helps sister in Elk Mills. Her sister said, "Yes, she he'ps me right smart. Not all day but all she can. She started with me at six this morning." 

Fayetteville, Tennessee, 1910

 One of spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., NC. She was 51 inches high. Had been in mill 1 year, some at night. Runs 4 sides, 48 cents a day, 1908

 Spinner in Bibb Mill No. 1, Macon, Georgia. Bad lighting and ventilation in spinning room, 1909

 Spinner in Lancaster Cotton Mills, South Carolina, 1908

 Spinner in Vivian Cotton Mills, Cherryville, N.C. Been at it 2 years. 

Where will her good looks be in ten years? 1908

 Spinner, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1916

Spinners in a cotton mill, 1911