Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Harris & Ewing - Kids

 Blanka Brejska, daughter of the Czechoslovakian Counselor and Mme. Brejska, 1938

 Congressional children broadcast, NBC, April 1938

 Children in a theater, 1940

 Congressional children's party Washington, D.C. May 29, 1937

 Diane Stern, November 1938
[a strong entry in the cutest kid competition]
 Didi Rajamaitri, 3-year-old daughter of the Siamese Minister and Mme. Rajamaitri received at a reception with her parents in celebration of the 12 birthday of King Amanda Mahidol of Siam. 1937

 Diplomatic broadcast, 1937

 Foundling Hospital. Playroom

 Foundling Hospital. Playroom

 Four year old Nancy Anderson, daughter of Rep. and Mrs. John Z. Anderson, 
will make her radio debut Saturday on the third annual Congressional Children's Broadcast 
over a national NBC hook-up. 1939

 Countess Scherr-Thoss

Monday, January 7, 2013

Russell Lee

 John Frost and daughter listening to radio in their home, Tehama County, California, 1940

 Loading groceries into buggy, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1938

 Members of the Pentecostal church praising the Lord, Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 Miner's family on top of truck watching Labor Day contests, Silverton, Colorado, 1940

 Mexican boy and girl playing phonograph. San Antonio, Texas. 
The Mexicans love all forms of music, 1939

 Molding hats in the millinery department of the cooperative garment factory 
at Jersey Homesteads, 1936

 Mother with two children with popcorn, National Rice Festival, 
Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

 Mother of FSA client, Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938

 Lumberjack with bandaged head after being beaten up and "rolled" 
in a saloon on Saturday night in Craigsville, Minnesota, 1937

Miners with their children at the Labor Day celebration, Silverton, Colorado, 1940

Friday, January 4, 2013

Tom Parker - Japanese Internment

 A story hour in a nursery class conducted by Miss Sumi Kashiwagi. 
Amache, Colorado, 1942

 A truck load of young evacuees leaving the Granada railroad station bound for the relocation center 2-1/2 miles away. Amache, Colorado, 1942

 A young artist of Japanese parentage, correcting a poster in the Poster Shop 
at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Wyoming, 1943

 A temporary timekeeping office is a busy spot as the first contingent of workers set about preparing and organizing the center for the arrival of its first residents. Amache, Colorado, 1942

 A young nisei family, Howard Uno, his wife and baby. Howard, a former Los Angeles vegetable producer, has volunteered in the United States Army and is now stationed at Camp Savage, Minnesota. Amache, Colorado, 1942

 A young technician in the hospital laboratory, preparing a blood count. Amache, Colorado, 1942

 A young enthusiast working on a pair of book ends in a center craft shop. 
Craft shops are popular recreation for old as well as young residents of 
Japanese ancestry at this relocation center. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1943

 An adult education class in pattern drafting. The teacher (r) is Miss Okimoto. 
Amache, Colorado, 1942

 As a part of their commercial courses, the high school students operate a cooperative store which carries the normal school requirements, Amache, Colorado, 1942

 An exterior view of the Field Clinic in one of the barracks buildings. 
Denson, Arkansas, 1942

 Christmas at the Granada Relocation Center. Amache, Colorado, 1943

 Dinner is served cafeteria style to young and old in the mess halls 
at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. 1942

 Evacuee High School students are here shown changing classes. 
McGehee, Arkansas, 1942

 Cold Wyoming winters make for hard solid ice, and residents at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center were quick to construct ice skating ponds. The two lads shown were learning to skate the hard way. 1943

 First arrivals at this relocation center are registering for housing. Amache, Colorado, 1942

 Grade school boys playing touch football during the recess play period. Amache, Colorado, 1942

After a mock ceremony of presenting a visiting photographer with transportation, 
members of the Brenda Starrs, a group of young girl reporters pose 
to record the event. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1943
[For those unaware, Brenda Starr was a vintage comic about an intrepid female reporter.]

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Ben Shahn

 Homeless children, Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

 Medicine show, Huntingdon, Tennessee, 1935

 Scene in lower Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

 Street musicians, Maynardville, Tennessee, 1935

 Sunday school picnic, Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1937

 Sunday school, Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1937

 Three Negro children, Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

 Two women walking along street, Natchez, Mississippi, 1935

Women doing needlework, 1937

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

National Photo

 Anthracite Sextelle, 1922
[I've been unable to find out anything about this group of musical coal miners.]
 
 Applicants to Paramount Motion Picture School, 1925

 Auto accident, 1918-20

 Automobile wreck, 1918-20

 Babe Ruth, 1919
[still in a Sox uniform, pre-"Curse of the Bambino"]
 
 Beauty contestants, November 1923

 Blizzard, January 1922

 Blizzard, cars buried in snow, January 1922

 Broadway producer Earl Carroll judging Washington, D.C., women to play in the 1925 Vanities

Camping party of men and women cooking at campfire and eating near tent in Indian Henry, 
Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington, 1911-20