Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Lewis Hine

 A former chicken coop, in which during the berry season the Arnao family, 
seventeen children and five elders, live on Hitchen's farm, Seaford, Delaware, 1910

 A group of girl workers in Greenabaum's Canneries, Seaford, Delaware. These girls 
gave their ages as 10, 13 and 13. They work from 7 am to 6 pm. 1910

 About 50 persons housed in this miserable row of dilapidated shacks partly surrounded 
by a tidal marsh. Maggioni Canning Co. Port Royal, South Carolina, 1912

 All these boys are cutters in the Seacoast Canning Co., Factory #7. Ages range from 7 to 12. They live near the factory. Seven year old boy in front, Byron Hamilton, has a badly cut finger, but helps his brother regularly. 1911

 Boys linking bed-springs, Boston, 1917

 Children going through Whitman Street dump, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, 1912

 Frank Burditt and family. They rent this dilapidated shack and are trying 
to make a living off the meagre land near by. Sissonville, West Virginia, 1921

 Rose Biodo, 10 years old. Working 3 summers. Minds baby and carries berries, 
two pecks at a time. Whites Bog, Brown Mills, NJ, 1910

 Some of the young shrimp-pickers working at the Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co.
Youngest five and eight years old.  Biloxi, Mississippi, 1911

Teixiera family, Mary J., 11 years; Manuel 10 years. Mother and these two children pick 40 measures a day at 7 cents a measure. Falmouth, Plimney Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

World War II Combat

 A Marine of the 1st Marine Division draws a bead on a Japanese sniper, Okinawa, 1945

 A formation of Spitfires on interception patrol over De Djerba Island, 
off Gabes, on their way to the Mareth Line area, 1943
 A platoon of Negro troops surrounds a farm house in a town in France, 
as they prepare to eliminate a German sniper holding up an advance, 1944

 Across the litter on Iwo Jima's black sands, 
Marines of the 4th Division shell Japanese positions, 1945

 Allied bombing raid over Europe

 American Recon troops of the 83rd Infantry Division 
move up the main street in Bihain, Belgium, January, 1945

 American assault troops in a landing craft huddle behind the protective front of the craft as it nears a beachhead, D-Day, 1944

 American soldier shares water and food with 3 native island children clothed in rags following the defeat of Japanese forces occupying the island, Saipan, Marianas Islands, July 1944

 American troops marching through the streets of a British port town on their way to the docks where they will be loaded into landing craft, June 1944

 American soldier with captured Germans, 1944

 American troops of Troop E, 7th Cavalry Regiment, advance towards San Jose on Leyte Island, Philippine Islands. 20 October 1944

American troops of the 28th Infantry Division 
march down the Champs Elysees, Paris. August 1944

Monday, March 11, 2013

High School

These are high school scenes from National Photo. It doesn't appear to have been any more fun then than it is now (though the girls taking auto shop look like they're enjoying themselves), but at least it was cleaner and more orderly.

 Anacostia High School, Washington, DC, 1939, art class

 Cooking class, Bethesda, Chevy Chase High School, 1935

 High school girls learn the art of automobile mechanics. Left to right- Grace Hurd, Evelyn Harrison, and Corinna DiJiulian, with Grace Wagner (under car), at Central High, Washington DC. 1927

 Hine Junior High School girls basket ball team, 1925

 Mercerburg High School, 1924

 Montgomery Blair High School class room, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1935

 Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1935

 Tech High School students, Washington, DC, 1936

 Training table, Eastern High School, Washington, DC, 1910-20
[what's a "training table"?]
 Rockville, Maryland high school, 1936

Eastern High School students, Washington, DC, 1935

Friday, March 8, 2013

Russell Lee - Kids

 Southeast Missouri Farms. Daughter of FSA client, 
former sharecropper, leaning on hoe, 1938

 Spanish-American children waiting for a ride on the merry-go-round, 
Fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American boy weeding the garden, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American girls, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American native dance. Fiesta at Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Spanish-American people at fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

 Where the Negro and white sections on the South Side meet, the white and Negro children sometimes play together, Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 Young girl holding baby brother in her arms, community camp, Oklahoma City, 1939

 Youngsters, Vale, Oregon, 1941

Visitors to the fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Harris & Ewing

 Adelaide Henry, Council for Eastern Air Lines. March 1938

 At luncheon to English peace advocate. Washington, D.C., Jan. 9. Mrs. Roosevelt was among the distinguished guests to attend the luncheon today in honor of Dr. Maude Royden, January 1937

 Congress Heights Dramatic Club

 Horse show, 1915

 General John J. Pershing at parade, 1918

 Lee Dillard Goodsby, a member of the graduating class of the U.S. Naval Academy today, received an added thrill when his girlfriend, Betty Brougher, pinned the epaulets of ensign on his uniform. June 1939

 Mrs. Gerald M. Conkling, Mrs. Walter Rice; Congressional Club Gay 90s party. April 1938

 Native Americans with bicycle, 1938-39

 Rosalie Sutton, Assistant Secretary of Senator Claude Pepper of Florida. 
The cat wandered into the Senate office building. 1938-39

Miss Esther Cleveland
[no telling which is her, or who the other one is...]