Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Harris & Ewing

 Taylor Imogene Fairchild

 Theta Pi girls

 United Daughters of the Confederacy, 1912

 William Howard Taft and family, 1910-1921

 William Howard Taft, 1913-1917

 William Jennings Bryan speaking at Sibley Memorial Hospital, 1913

 Women's Christian Temperance Union, Mrs. Lillian Stevens and Mrs. Anna Gordon, 1911

Woodrow Wilson at professional baseball game, 1913

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

The Lovings

In honor of two American heroes, Richard and Mildred Loving, who asked only to be allowed to marry despite being of two races - and ultimately prevailed - here is a set of photos of them and their beautiful family.






 [this one says it all]







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