Vintage Bathing Beauties

From National Photo.

 Women in bathing suits with ukuleles, 1926

 At Arlington Beach, Hazel Watson, Eleanor Howell and Marjie Peacock, July 1924

 Bathing beach contest, 1922

 Bath costume contest, 1921

 Bathing beach parade, July 1919

 Beauty show, 1922

 Bathing beach, June 1922

 Betty Byrne and someone else, 1923

 Five women in swimsuits on icy beach, 1924

 Bathing beach, 1921

Bathing beach, 1921b

[same duo as previous picture]

Cabinet Cards - Entertainers

 Lizzie Webster, theater actress

 Mabel Trunelle, stage and silent film actress, Fort Wayne, Indiana

 Mary Beebe, stage actress, New York

[to me she looks a bit like a young Barbra Streisand]

 Mary Anderson, stage actress, Philadelphia

 Mrs James Brown Potter, socialite and theater actress, New York

 Netty Hunter, theater actress, New York, 1895

 Rosalba Beecher, opera singer, New York

 Rosina Vokes, stage actress, and her sisters

 Violet Lloyd, English stage actress and singing comedienne, New York

 Maude Branscombe, popular stage beauty and light opera singer, New York

Pauline Markham, singer and burlesque dancer, New York

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

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

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