Monday, August 27, 2012

John Vachon

 Meeker County, Minnesota. Music supplied by two Meeker County farmers 
for dance at crossroads store, 1942

 Migrant girls working in cherry canning plant, Berrien County, Michigan, 1940

 Mildred Irwin, entertainer in saloon at North Platte, Nebraska. She entertained for twenty years in Omaha before coming to North Platte, 1938

 Mr. and Mrs. Dyson, aged FSA borrowers. Saint Mary's County, Maryland, 1940

 Parents of five children, migratory fruit workers from Arkansas. 
Berrien County, Michigan, 1940

 Spearing tobacco, Wisconsin, 1939

 Steelworker and family. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, 1941

 Street scene, Washington, DC, 1937

 Waiting for street car, Chicago, 1940

High school jazz band. Sikeston, Missouri, 1940

Friday, August 24, 2012

Edward S. Curtis - Indians of the Northwest

 Masked Dancers, Kwakiutl

 Nespilim woman standing at water's edge

 Nespilim woman

 Quamichan woman paddles canoe near rushes at river's edge

 Tlakluit woman seated with mortar and pestle, pounding fish

 Umatilla child

 Umatilla maiden

 Wishram bride

 Wishram child

Wishram girl, profile

Thursday, August 23, 2012

William Gottlieb

 Doris Day and Kitty Kallen, 1947
[Doris Day is familiar as a singer and actress. Kitty Kallen was a big band singer.]
[Kitty Kallen singing It's Been a Long, Long Time]

 Duke Ellington

 Duke Ellington

 Duke Ellington

 Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman
[that's a lot of jazz royalty in one photo]
 Ella Fitzgerald

 Ella Fitzgerald

 Ethel Waters

 Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Russell Lee - Kids

Photos of children by Russell Lee. He seems to have specialized in photographing children. There are hundreds of them.

 A migrant child in her playhouse. The rusted scales represented a clock to the little girl. 
Near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 African American boys clowning around, 1941

 Baby in crib, Earl Pauley's home near Smithland Iowa, 1936

 Boy resting on bed in attic of sharecropper shack. New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938

 Boys in front of A&P market waiting for jobs to cart home groceries of shoppers, 
Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 Boys on sacks of wool, Malheur County, Oregon, 1941

 Boys' sack race, Labor Day celebration, Ridgway, Colorado, 1940

 Child of agricultural day laborer in string bean field near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939

 Child of family encamped by the roadside near Spiro, Oklahoma. This family is doing agricultural day labor to secure funds to continue westward, 1939

 Child of farmer in cotton field, Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, 1938

 Child of migrant adding water to boiling beans on stove which was set up immediately after reaching camping grounds near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Detroit Publishing - Atlantic CIty

Photos from America's playground in the first decade of the 20th century.

 A life saver on the lookout, 1880-1906

 Along the beach, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 Atlantic City, New Jersey, on the beach, 1890-1910

 Atlantic City, New Jersey, the bathing hour, 1900-1910

 Bathers, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905-1920

 Bathing hour, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1900-1910

 Bathing hour, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1908

 Dolly's go-cart, Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1905

 Getting their picture took, 1890-1910

Hands up on the beach at Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1900-1920