Harris & Ewing

Miscellaneous views of early 20th century America.

 Alexandria airplane factory, 1918

 Harry Atwood in Wright Brothers airplane, 1911

 Fourth of July. Group on Capitol steps, 1918

 Hello Washington, 1910-1920

[I'm guessing this is a theatrical production of some kind - anyone know?]

 Nurses with babies, 1916-1919

 Paul Peck, commercial aviator, in Curtiss-type plane, 1911

 Inauguration of air mail service, Polo Field, 1918

 Street scene near Keith's Theater, Washington, DC, 1913-1918

 U.S. Army. Colored soldiers, 1917

Edna Munsey in plane, 1916

William Henry Jackson

One of the lead photographers for Detroit Publishing.

 A native sugar mill, Nassau, West Indies, 1901

 Binding department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio, 1902

 Boatmen of the St. Lawrence, 1890-1901

 Day's fishing, Palm Beach, Florida, 1894

Gathering sisal, Nassau, Bahamas, 1900

 Going to school, 1901

 Happy as the day is long, 1902

[I'm pretty sure this is in St. Augustine, Florida.]

 Market on the wharf, Nassau, Bahamas, 1900

Negro family, Grant's Town, Nassau, West Indies, 1900

Jack Delano - Color Photos

The FSA (Farm Security Administration) photographers who have been featured so prominently on this site started taking some color slide photos by the early 1940s. Here is a set of these by Jack Delano. I include the pre-edit and post-edit versions of most for comparison.

 At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941

 At the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941

Children gathering potatoes on a large farm, vicinity of Caribou, Aroostook County, Maine. 

Schools do not open until the potatoes are harvested, 1940

Children with adult in the tenement district, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1940

 Chopping cotton on rented land, near White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, 1941

Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene County, Georgia, 1941

Going to town on Saturday afternoon, Greene County, Georgia, 1941

 Commuters, who have just come off the train, waiting for the bus to go home, 

Lowell, Massachusetts, 1941

Dorothea Lange - Sharecroppers

 Colored sharecropper and his children about to leave home through the pine woods after their morning work at the tobacco farm stringing and putting up tobacco. 

Shoofly, Granville County, North Carolina, 1939

 Sharecropper's cabin and sharecropper's wife, 

ten miles south of Jackson, Mississippi, 1937

 Son of sharecropper family at work in the cotton near Chesnee, South Carolina, 1937

 The cotton sharecropper's unit is one mule and the land he can cultivate with a one-horse plow. Greene County, Georgia, 1937

 Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia, 1937

 Wife and child of tobacco sharecropper. The littlest girl comes in from outside for something to eat while mother is doing her housework. Person County, North Carolina, 1939

 Young sharecropper and his first child. Hillside Farm. Person County, North Carolina, 1939

Negro sharecropper house. Person County, North Carolina, 1939

G.G. Bain

 Cleaning streets after snow storm, New York, 1908

 Crowd gathered in front of butcher shop during meat riot, New York, 1910

 Garden party, Governor's Island, Florance Kimball and escort 

being offered food, New York, 1908

 Immigrant family at Ellis Island, New York City, March 1917

 Labor activist Mother Jones who was attending the 1915 hearings 

of the federal Commission on Industrial Relations at the New York City Hall

[Mother Jones was one of the more colorful figures in American labor history. She was once called "the most dangerous woman in America." She remains an inspiration today; there is a progressive magazine named after her.]

 Labor parade in New York, 1916

 Margaret Vale Howe, Madeleine Powell Balck, Eve Rovert Ingersoll Brown 

and Miss Marion T. Burritt, participants in a women's peace parade 

down Fifth Avenue in New York City on August 29, 1914

 Mary Garden and Indians from Glacier Park, 1910-1915

 May Day Parade, women marchers, New York, 1909

Mrs. B. Cochran, Mrs. Oscar Straus, Oscar Straus, Mrs. T. Roosevelt Jr., B. Cochran, 1912