Monday, October 15, 2012

Russell Lee

 Family of agricultural day laborers living in tent near Spiro, Oklahoma, 1939

 Family who will be resettled, Transylvania Project, Louisiana, 1939

 Farm family in town, Caruthersville, Missouri, 1938

 Farm mother with children in town during the National Rice Festival, 
Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

 Farm woman using songbook as sunshade during dinner at all day community sing, 
Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 Farmer crossing the main street of town, Eufaula, Oklahoma, 1940

 Farmer in town, Saturday afternoon, Steele, Missouri, 1938

 Farmer's wife grinding meat to make sausage, Lakeview Project, Arkansas, 1938

 Ferry to Tennessee from New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938

 Front porch of tenant farmer's house near Warner, Oklahoma, 1939

Getting barbecue and coffee at the free barbecue at Ridgway, Colorado, on Labor Day, 1940

Friday, October 12, 2012

Ben Shahn - Louisiana

 Amite City, Louisiana, 1935

 Children of unemployed trapper, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935

Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935
 
 Levee workers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935
[black guys working, white guys watching...]
 
 Street scene, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1935

 Sugarcane worker, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935

Trische family, tenant farmers, Plaquemines Parish, Louisianas, 1935

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Civil War era portraits

 Brigadier General Charles Pomeroy Stone and daughter Hettie, 1863

 Gertrude Mercer Hubbard, Roberta Wolcott Hubbard, and Mabel Hubbard, 1860

 Portrait of an African American woman holding a basket

 Portrait of an unidentified soldier

 Sisters Lucretia Electa and Louisa Ellen Crossett

 Susie King Taylor, who assisted the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops

 Unidentified soldier in Union uniform and two women

 Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with canteen and bayoneted musket

Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with knitted stole
 Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with unidentified woman in dress

 Unidentified woman sitting with her arm resting on a table

Unidentified woman, half length portrait, 1850s

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

FSA color photos

Here are some more of the color photos from the 1940s. Corrected and uncorrected images are shown.

 Marion Post Wolcott: A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, Louisiana, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Bayou Bourbeau plantation, a FSA cooperative, 
Natchitoches, Louisiana. A Negro family seated on the porch of a house, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Cutting Burley tobacco and putting it on sticks to wilt before taking it into the curing and drying barn on the Russell Spears' farm, vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, 1940

 Marion Post Wolcott: Migratory laborers outside of a "juke joint" during a slack season, 
Belle Glade, Florida, 1941

 Marion Post Wolcott: Natchez, Mississippi, 1940

Two little girls in a park near Union Station, Washington, DC, 1943
[photographer unknown]

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Detroit Publishing - Kids

 Around a bubbling cup, Lincoln Park, Illinois, 1910-1920

 Boys posed with dog carts in field, 1900-1920

 Children and women in front of house, possibly school children and teachers, 1900-1920

 Four black children in yard, 1890-1910

 Midwinter carnival, children's parade, dog sleds, Upper Saranac Lake, New York, 1909

 Paddlers at Wildwood, White Bear Lake, St. Paul, Minnesota, ca. 1905

 Sheba, elephant and cart, 1915-1925

 The School at Pinehurst, Summerville, SC, 1900-1906

 A Goat team, Highland Park, Rochester, New York, 1900-1910

Girls' playground, Harriet Island, St. Paul, Minnesota, ca. 1905