Thursday, November 15, 2012

Cabinet Cards

Cabinet cards were a form of portrait photography lasting from the 1870s through the second decade of the 20th century. Here's a gallery showing originals; my posted images are cropped and edited to focus on the portraits and not the medium.

 Ada Richmond, burlesque actress and impresario, New York

 Alice Marot, French courtesan, Paris

 Amy and Dexter Dodge, Keene, New Hampshire

 Angelic little girl, Dover, New Hampshire

Atalie Jean Crum, born 1890, Penn, Illinois
 Attractive couple, Holyoke, Massachusetts

 Band of musicians, Richland Center, Wisconsin

 Bessie Wynn, actress, singer and comedienne, Chicago

 Boy with tricycle, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin

 Brother and sister, Hartford, Connecticut

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Harris & Ewing - Vintage Automobiles

 Miss Corine Murphy in auto

 Miss R. Maycliffe in auto

 Mrs. Hough in auto

 Mrs. John E. Harris in auto

 Senator George P. Wetmore

 Soterios Nicholson in auto, White House in background

Theodore Roosevelt in automobile, 1914-1918

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Arthur Rothstein

 Snowbound farm, Ross County, Ohio, 1940

 Snowstorm, Parkersburg, West Virginia, 1940

 Son of a cotton sharecropper, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, 1935

 Son of sharecropper who will be resettled on the Irwinville Farms Project, Georgia, 1935

 Street band in Yorkville, New York City, 1937

 Strike pickets, New York City, 1937
[I love these stylish strikers!]
  
 Tenant farmer moving his household goods to a new farm. 
Hamilton County, Tennessee, 1937

Unloading grapefruit truck, juice plant, Weslaco, Texas, 1942

Monday, November 12, 2012

Russell Lee

 A group of flood refugees on the streets of McLeansboro, Illinois, 1937

 Cajun girl at National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

 Construction workers, Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California, 1940

 Cotton pickers resting while waiting to be paid. 
Lake Dick Project, Arkansas, 1938

 Couple playing slot machine, Raceland, Louisiana, 1938

 Crowds lined the streets and stood on top of covered sidewalks 
to see the dances at the fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

Cut-over farmer and daughter, near Northome, Minnesota, 1937
 Daughter of sharecropper pumping water, New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938

 Determining temperature of earthen oven in which bread will be baked by seeing how fast straw will be burned, Taos County, New Mexico, 1939

Drinking at the bar, crab boil night, Raceland, Louisiana, 1938

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