Born in Slavery

More photos of former slaves taken in the 1930s.

 Charity Grigsby, age 85, 1936-38

 Fred Brown, ex-slave, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1937

 Gabe Hines, 1936-38

 James Green, ex-slave, San Antonio, Texas, 1937

 Josephine Hill, 1930-40

 Katie Darling, age about 88, Marshall, Texas, 1937

 

 Laura Clark, age 87, 1936-38

 Rev. Bill Green, ex-slave, San Antonio, Texas, 1937

 Sarah Frances Shaw Graves, age 87, 1936-38

 Siney Bonner, 1936-38

Valmar Cormier, Beaumont, Texas, 1937

Detroit Publishing - Canadian scenery

Here are some pictures of the Canadian wilderness from the early 1900s.

 Bow River Valley down from Banff Springs Hotel, 

Canadian National Park, Alberta, 1902

 Eagle Peak and Sir Donald, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, 1902

[modern photo of these peaks]

 Head of Lake Louise, Alberta, 1900-1906

 Illecillewaet Glacier from Glacier House, 

Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, 1902

 Lake Minnewanka, Alberta, 1901-1906

[modern photo from slightly different perspective but showing some of the same landforms]

 Looking down Spray Valley, Alberta, Canada, 1900-1906

 Looking up Illecillewaet Valley, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, 1902

 Marion Lake on Mount Abbott, Selkirk Mountains, British Columbia, 1900-1910

[modern photo of Marion Lake]

 Moraine Lake, Alberta, 1903

[modern photo of Moraine Lake]

 Mt. Assiniboine showing a mountain camp, Alberta, 1902

 Mt. Assiniboine, Alberta, 1902

[here's a modern photo of this peak]

Mt. Rundle, from Bow River, Banff, Alberta, 1902

[modern photo of Mt. Rundle]

Ben Shahn - Ohio

 Repairing Route 40, central Ohio, 1938

 Sideshow, county fair, central Ohio, 1938

 Spectators at county fair in central Ohio, 1938

 Spectators at county fair in central Ohio, 1938

 Spectators at county fair in central Ohio, 1938

 The Thaxton family, near Mechanicsburg, Ohio, 1938

 Visiting World War Veterans' homecoming and carnival. London, Ohio, 1938

 Washing up before dinner during wheat harvest, central Ohio, 1938

 Weight-pulling contest, county fair, central Ohio, 1938

 Wheat harvest in the field, feeding the thresher, central Ohio, 1938

William A. Swift, once a farmer, now a resident of Circleville's "Hooverville." 

When he returned from the war he went West. 1938

Russell Lee - Migrants

 Making lunch along the roadside, near Henryetta, Oklahoma. 

This is a migrant family en route to California. 1939

 Migrant cane chair maker and wife in front of their automobile home, 

near Paradis, Louisiana, 1938

 Migrant family saying grace before noonday meal by the side of the road 

east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Migrant mother and child near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Migrant mother feeding her baby while the family was stopped by the roadside for lunch, 

east of Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Migrant's car stopped along the road, with part of migrant family in rear seat of truck, under a tree to await the rain's passing, near Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939

 Migratory worker playing guitar on front porch of his metal shelter 

in the Agua Fria Labor Camp, Arizona, 1940

 Negro intrastate migrant boy picking strawberries near Hammond, Louisiana, 1939

 Tent home of migrants near Harlingen, Texas, 1939

 Tent of migrant stove maker and repairer on U.S. 90 near Jeanerette, Louisiana, 1938

 Veteran migrant agricultural worker examining contents of his trunk, 

camped on Arkansas River in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1939

 Wife and baby of itinerant cane furniture maker and agricultural day laborer 

camped in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, 1939

Young migratory couple living at the Agua Fria Migratory Labor Camp, Arizona, 1940

Alexander Bassano

Alexander Bassano was a photographer of high society in Victorian England.

 King Cetshwayo

[King Cetshwayo was a 19th century Zulu king.]
 

 Marie Tempest

[She was a singer and actress.]

 Phyllis Bedells

[She was an English ballerina.]
 

 Princess Helena Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein with her two eldest children

 Queen Mary with her mother and brothers

 Queen Victoria

 Baroness Emma Orczy (ca. 1910)

 Royal Family Group

[which royal family?]

The Bassano family

Miss Barnett; Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber (née Bassano); 

Camilla Teresa Serjeant (née Bassano)

Adelaide Fanny Louise Barber (née Bassano); 

Camilla Teresa Serjeant (née Bassano); Miss Barnett