Monday, November 19, 2012

Francis Stewart - Japanese internment

 A pupil of the third grade is taught to read and enjoy children's books, like any other young American boy. Manzanar, California, 1943

 A young evacuee of Japanese ancestry entertains on an accordion at a dance given by the Girls' Recreation Committee for fellow evacuees. Manzanar, California, 1943

 Arriving by train at Lone Pine from Elk Grove, California. Newcomers are transported 
by bus from Lone Pine to Manzanar. 1942

 Basketball games are part of the regular scheduled recreational events, which help to fill out the lives of residents in relocation centers. Manzanar, California, 1943

 Dancing class in a girls' recreation hall at Manzanar. 1942

 Esther Naito, office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron 
in her quarters at Manzanar. 1942

 Evacuee farmers are here harvesting Daikon, a large radish like vegetable which is a great delicacy among the Japanese people. Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 Evacuee participants who marched in the Harvest Festival Parade held at this center 
on Thanksgiving day, Rivers, Arizona, 1942

 Evacuees of Japanese ancestry dance the Virginia Reel at a barn dance given by Block 12. 
No music was available so dancers sang pop goes the Weasel 
and clapped hands in time with the dance, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 Evacuees of Japanese ancestry watching Memorial Day services. Manzanar, California, 1942

 Evacuees of Japanese descent watching an outdoor musical performance 
at the War Relocation Authority center, Poston, Arizona, 1942

Florence Yamaguchi (left), and Kinu Hirashima, both from Los Angeles, 
are pictured under an apple tree at Manzanar. 1942

Friday, November 16, 2012

Harris & Ewing

 Radium Dance Group

 Return of U.S. Army soldiers, Washington DC, 1919

 Reunion of Gettysburg veterans, 1913

 Reverend James Shera Montgomery, House Chaplain, with WCTU group, 1917
[WCTU = Women's Christian Temperance Union, one of the forces behind Prohibition]
 Russell O.McGee instrumental group

 Sousa's band playing for 4th Liberty Loan drive, 1918
 The National Quartette
[Quartette...that's what the caption says, even though there are 5 people present!]
 Virginia P.I. dance at gym
[I'm guessing "Virginia P.I." is what we now call Virginia Tech]

Women at horse show, 1916

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