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

Friday, July 13, 2012

Harris & Ewing - Suffragettes

Harris & Ewing was a photographic studio that provided photos to news services in the early 20th century. Over 25,000 raw images are online at the Library of Congress (that's the source for the ones I'm posting, after editing). Shorpy has a collection of ones he has edited online also.

The women's suffrage movement, working to get women the right to vote, was very active in the first two decades of the 20th century, before its eventual success. Here are some photos from the suffrage movement.

 District of Columbia. Suffrage voting for district

 Miss Lucy Burns of C.U.W.S., left, with Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst

 Miss Phoebe Hawn, suffragette hiker, 1913

 Mrs. James Leeds Laidlaw, suffragette, 1913

 Rosalie Jones, general leader of suffragette parade, 1913
 Woman suffrage parade, 1914

 Woman suffrage parade, May 1914

 Woman suffrage, advertising parade, 1913

Woman suffrage. At White House with banners, 1914

Thursday, July 12, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Apsaroke Indians

The Apsaroke tribe (more commonly known as the Crow) lived in southern Montana and Wyoming.

 Apsaroke man on horseback on snow-covered ground, 
probably in Pryor Mountains, Montana

 Apsaroke mother

 Apsaroke woman standing in snow scooping water from a stream with a can

 Chief and his Staff, Apsaroke

 Coups Well Known, Apsaroke

 Mother and child, Apsaroke

Upshaw, an Apsaroke man in full headdress