Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Composers

 Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

 Franz Liszt
 
 Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
 
 Giacomo Puccini

 Sergei Rachmaninoff
[Prelude in G minor, Op. 23, No. 5]
 
 Richard Wagner
 
  Camille Saint-Saëns

Dmitri Shostakovich

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

G.G. Bain - Photos of Children

 Children at May Party, Battery Park, New York, 1908

 Children on May Day in Central Park, New York, 1908

 Children ready to do Indian dance, Waldorf roof, New York, 1909

 Girls from the Washington Irving High Schools, New York City, attending a Midsummer Day Festival which was held at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx on June 23, 1911

 Girls from the Washington Irving High Schools, New York City, doing a Krakowiak dance from Krakow, Poland, at the Midsummer Day Festival which was held at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx on June 23, 1911

 Girls from the Washington Irving High Schools, New York City, having a picnic at the Midsummer Day Festival which was held at Pelham Bay Park in the Bronx on June 23, 1911

 New York City school children. Teen-aged girls dancing at May Pole, May 1913

 Olympic Athletes Reception, crowd singing "Star Spangled Banner" outside City Hall, 
New York, 1908

 School children in Central Park, New York City, with May poles

 Strike sympathizers

Syrian children playing in street, New York City

Monday, August 13, 2012

Carl Mydans

 Drying jars at canning time. A house purchased for the Lake of the Ozarks project. Missouri, 1936

 Fair day, Morrisville, Vermont, 1936

 Fair talk, Albany, Vermont, 1936

 Junk, with living quarters close by. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1936

 Miner and mule at American Radiator Mine, Mount Pleasant, 
Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, 1936

 Old horseless carriage at gasoline station near Lost River, New Hampshire, 1936

 Parade at the fair, Albany, Vermont, 1936

 School scene at Cumberland Mountain Farms (Skyline Farms) near Scottsboro, Alabama, 1936

Things saved for many a day are confided at the fair, Albany, Vermont, 1936

Friday, August 10, 2012

Harris and Ewing

 American Red Cross. Women's National Service School, 1916

 Bacteriology. Dr. George Stiles, 1912

 Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. transporting phone girls in trucks during strike, 1916

 Claudia Lyon of Texas at launching of U.S.S. Texas, 1912

 Congressional baseball team, 1912

 Congressional baseball. Lafferty of Oregon and Webb of North Carolina, 1912

 Constructive Peace Group, 1914

 Crowds watching baseball scoreboard, 1912

 Daughters of the American Revolution, New Jersey delegation, 1915

David Franklin Houston, Secretary of Agriculture, left, with Attorney General McReynolds, 1914

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Arthur Rothstein

 Farmer after shopping trip, Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937

 Homemade swimming pool built by steelworkers for their children, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1938

 Homesteaders with family, Scioto Farms, Ohio, 1938

 Inhabitants of Gees Bend, Alabama, 1937

 Mandy Handley, wife of tenant farmer, Walker County, Alabama, 1937

 Mr. and Mrs. Louis Lynch, tract no. 189, Johnston County, North Carolina, 1936

 Mrs. Louise Temple feeds some of her turkeys on their farm in Chaffee County, Colorado, 1939

 Schoolteacher at Corbin Hollow, Shenandoah National Park, Virginia, 1935

 Sheepherder with a large flock, Madison County, Montana, 1939

Shoveling snow off the sidewalk, Chillicothe, Ohio, 1940

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Plains Indians

These are all portraits of "Sioux" Indians (they prefer the term "Lakota").

 Hollow Horn Bear

 Interior of tepee, man kneeling on ground removing buffalo hide around skull on ground

 Jack Red Cloud

 Little Dog

 Mother and child, Ogalala

 Oglala War Party

 Red Elk Woman, a Sioux girl

 Slow Bull, Oglala

When winter comes, Dakota