Friday, November 9, 2012

Lewis Hine - Mill Workers

 Girls working in Springstein Mills, Chester, South Carolina. Zetella Gallman (by window) has worked 2 years. Both girls in middle said they had been in mill 8 years, 1908

 Group of card-room hands in Richmond Spinning Mills. Smallest girl in the middle is a doffer. Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1910

 Group of girls and women working in Aragon Mill, Rock Hill, South Carolina, 1912

 Group of workers going to work at 6;45 A.M. In Spring Village Mill, 
Winchendon, Massachusetts, 1911

 Lizzie Davis, smallest, been in mill 2 years. Nettie Arnet, been in mill 8 years. 
Monnie McCraney, been in mill 3 years. Vater Arnet, been in mill 8 years. 
Mattie Connor, spinners and Winders. Dillon, SC, 1908

 Noon hour. All are working here. Newberry, South Carolina, 1908

 Operatives in Indianapolis Cotton Mill, noon hour, 1908

 Some of doffers and the Superintendent, Catawba Cotton Mill, Newton, NC. Ten small boys and girls about this size out of a force of 40 employees, 1908

 Some of the girls working at the Priscilla Knitting Mills, Meridian, Mississippi, 1911

Some of the spinners in Pell City Cotton Mills. Pell City, Alabama, 1910

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Joe McClelland - Japanese Internment

 A view of the Granada center looking west from the water tower, 
Amache, Colorado, 1943

 Although music for the Bon Odori held August 14 was furnished by phonograph records 
and a loud speaker, it was supplemented by the two drummers shown. 
The Bon Odori was sponsored by the Granada Buddhist Church. 1943

 Amache high school national honor society members. 1943

 Carnival shots taken at night. Amache, Colorado, 1943

 Carnival shots taken at night. Amache, Colorado, 1943

 Close-up of registration procedure. Amache, Colorado, 1943

 Evacuee and appointed personnel office workers assisting in the onion harvest on the 
Project farm during the volunteer farm harvest program. Amache, Colorado, 1944

 High School commencement. Amache, Colorado, 1943

 High school assembly showing flag-raising ceremony, Amache, Colorado, 1943

 High school band marching. Amache, Colorado, 1943

High school girls' glee club. Amache, Colorado, 1943
 Tuleans locating their baggage. Amache, Colorado, 1943

 View of evacuee children playing, Amache, Colorado, 1943

View showing elementary children landscaping the grounds in front of their barracks school. Amache, Colorado, 1943

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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

 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

 Moraine Lake, Alberta, 1903

 Mt. Assiniboine showing a mountain camp, Alberta, 1902

 Mt. Assiniboine, Alberta, 1902

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

Monday, November 5, 2012

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