Friday, July 20, 2012

G. G. Bain

Another set of photos from the George Grantham Bain news service.

 American Marines mobilizing at League Island, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, in February 1913, before going to Guantanamo, Cuba, in response to the Mexican Revolution

 American tennis champion Marie Wagner with Mrs. C.N. Beard, 1913

 Asbury Park, 1910-1915

 Eleanor Tierney
[this is an extremely revealing costume for the early 1900s!]
  
 Female Indian telephone switchboard operator - "Helen of Many Glacier Hotel"
26 June 1925

 Georgia Caine and Anshutz sisters going to baseball game, 1909

 Hazel Reiber probably at Long Beach, New York, 1910-1915
[I have been unable to find any information about who she was]
  
 Ice skating - Fred Flake and Flo Coine; Frank Thompson and Mrs. Matheson, 1910-1915

Indian women playing the stick game at the midsummer celebration 
on the Glacier National Park Reservation, Montana

Thursday, July 19, 2012

Frolicking at the Seashore

From Detroit Publishers, here are photos of people enjoying America's coastal playgrounds. The captions are the original ones.

 A couple of mermaids, 1905

 A race, Manhanset House, Shelter Island, New York, 1904

 An afternoon on the beach, 1900-1905

 At the seashore, 1900-1906

 Bathing beauties, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1890-1910

 Come on in, the water's fine, 1905

 Giddap, 1905

 In the good old summertime, 1905

 They were on their honeymoon, 1900-1905

 Three little maids on pleasure bent, 1905

Two strings to her beaux, 1900-1905

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

William Gottlieb

 Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, New York, 1949

 Charlie Parker and Miles Davis, 1947
[these two playing A Night in Tunisia]

 Coleman Hawkins and Miles Davis, 1947
[Coleman Hawkins playing Body and Soul]

 Count Basie

 Dancers at Nola's, New York City

 Dancers in a Jazz Club

 Dizzy Gillespie, 1948

 Dizzy Gillespie
[here he's playing Umbrella Man with Louis Armstrong!]

 Django Reinhart and David Rose

 Django Reinhart and Duke Ellington
[here's these two playing Honeysuckle Rose]

Django Reinhart

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers

Here are some of Lewis Hine's group photos of mill workers.

 A few of the doffers and sweepers in the Mollahan Mills. 
Newberry, South Carolina, 1908

 Adolescent spinners in the Suffolk (Virginia) Knitting Mills, 1911

 All 6 work in King Mill, Augusta, Georgia. 
Little girl on end has been there 1 year helping, 1909

 All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910

 All are workers in Knoxville Knitting Mills. Smallest boy "ravels." 
Smallest girl is a steady worker. Knoxville, Tennessee, 1910

 All are workers in Walker County Hosiery Mills, Lafayette, Georgia, 1913

 Boy with coat in hand is 11 years old. Been there 9 months. Started at 50 cents a day. 
Now gets 60 cents. Loray Mill. Gastonia, North Carolina, 1908

 Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Huntsville, Alabama, 1910

 Dinner-Toters waiting for the gate to open. They go around in the mill, often help tend to machines, which often run at noon, and so learn the work. Columbus, Georgia, 1913

 Dinner-Toters waiting for the gate to open. This is carried on more in Columbus than in any other city I know, and by smaller children. Columbus, Georgia, 1913

Every one of these youngsters went into work when the whistle blew, noon June 15, 1911. 
These boys and others work in the Chesapeake Knitting Mills, Berkley, Virginia, 1911

Monday, July 16, 2012

John Vachon

Here's another set from FSA photog John Vachon.

 Feeding pigs, Irwinville Farms, Georgia, 1938

 Foraging for food in the city dump, Dubuque, Iowa, 1940

 Girls in Woodbine, Iowa, 1940

Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 1941

 Migrants, Berrien County, Michigan, 1940

 Mother and daughter in shacktown, Dubuque, Iowa, 1940

 Residents of shacktown, Dubuque, Iowa, 1940

Woman and dogs, shacktown, Dubuque, Iowa, 1940