Friday, September 14, 2012

G. G. Bain

 Native American chiefs with Rodman Wanamaker at the groundbreaking ceremony 
for the National American Indian Memorial (which was never built), 
Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York

 Negroes swimming, Asbury Park, 1908

 New York City, horse overcome by heat, 1910

 New York Female Giants, baseball team, 1913

 Participants in the women's peace parade down Fifth Avenue in New York City 
on August 29, 1914, shortly after the start of World War I. 
Chief marshal Portia Willis FitzGerald is in the center.

 People on Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York City, 1910-1915

 People on the U.S.S. Jason which sailed from New York on November 14, 1914 carrying about 6 million gifts for the children of Europe who were affected by World War I

 Reporters (telegraphers) at a baseball game at the Polo Grounds in New York City, 1910-1915

 Strike pickets, New York, 1910

Well-dressed family of 27 Ostrovski refugees posed on deck upon arrival in New York from Russia, Sept. 16, 1921

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Ben Shahn - West Virginia

Photos taken by FSA photographer Ben Shahn in West Virginia.

 Doped singer, "Love oh, love, oh keerless love," 
Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

 Omar, West Virginia, 1935

 Payoff at Pursglove Mine, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

 Pursglove Mine, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

 Red House, West Virginia, schoolchildren, 1935

 Scotts Run, West Virginia. Negro family living in Moose Hall, 1935

 Striking miners, Scotts Run, West Virginia, 1935

Watching a football game, Star City, West Virginia, 1935

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Russell Lee - Kids

More photos of children by Russell Lee.

 Child of migrant strawberry picker in front of tent home near Hammond, Louisiana, 1939

 Child of migrant strawberry picker, Hammond, Louisiana, 1939

 Child of sharecropper, Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938

 Children at the FSA Camelback Farms inspect the photographer's camera, 
Phoenix, Arizona, 1942

 Children in front of moving picture show, Alpine, Texas, 1939

 Children looking at posters in front of movie, Saturday, Steele, Missouri, 1938

 Children of Bodray family playing. Near Tipler, Wisconsin, 1937

 Children of Mrs. Bodray's daughter in their shack near Tipler, Wisconsin. 
A sheet separates the front part of their one-room shack from the rear, 1937

 Children of farm workers living at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) labor camp. 
Caldwell, Idaho, 1941

 Children of farmer sitting in automobile waiting for father to come out of general store. 
Jarreau, Louisiana, 1938

 Children of migrants from west Texas sitting on mattresses just unloaded from trailer. 
Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Children of migratory laborers asleep at the Work Projects Administration nursery school at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona, 1940

Children of miners, Silverton, Colorado, 1940

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Ansel Adams - Manzanar

More of Ansel Adams's photos of Japanese-Americans interned at Manzanar.

 Girl and volley ball, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

 Guayule Field, Manzanar Relocation Center

 High school recess period, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

 In biology class, high school, Kiyo Yoshida, Lillian Watkatsuki, Yoshiko Yamasaki, 
Manzanar Relocation Center

 Line crew at work in Manzanar, Manzanar Relocation Center

 Little boys huddled around a book, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

 Loading bus, leaving Manzanar for relocation

 Manzanar street scene, clouds

Manzanar street scene, spring

Monday, September 10, 2012

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