Helen Levitt was a "street photographer" who worked mainly in New York City.
Postings of vintage photos from the mid 1800s through World War II. Most are lightly edited.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Friday, July 12, 2013
Harris & Ewing
A get-acquainted tea at which students present their parents and friends to members of the faculty was given at Immaculata Junior College today. February 1939
Apparently happy to get back to work these three senators, Senator Warren R. Austin of Vermont, Senator Herbert E. Hitchcock of South Dakota, and Senator Hattie Caraway. November 1937
Arriving early at the Capitol today for an appearance before the
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, screen actor Robert Montgomery
was kept busy autographing until called to the stand. 1939
Brewers Girls softball team from New Orleans & Senator Ellender. 1939
California Fig Ball. April 1938
California orange week festival ball display. 1938
Crow Indian group
Daniel Boone group, 1920s
Daughters of members of the House have now organized a social
and luncheon club and meet regularly at the Capitol. March 1940
District of Columbia street car traffic, 1918
Eastern High School
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Weegee
Gold-painted stripper
Operators of a wire service arrested at their headquarters after a gambling raid, 1941
Subway Serves as Blackout Shelter, August 13, 1943
Summer on the Lower East Side, 1937
The dead man's wife arrived, and she collapsed, ca. 1940
The show's going to start any minute, ca. 1950
Then She Cries, Frank Sinatra Concert, Paramount Theater,
New York, November 5, 1944
Title unknown
Untitled [Police officer and lodge member looking at blanket-covered body of woman
trampled to death in excursion-ship stampede, New York], 1941
Vegetable Dealer, 1946
Woman signing autographs
[anyone recognize her?]
Woman sleeping in movie theater, ca. 1943
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
John Collier
Aroostook County, Maine, 1942
Around the Jukebox. Dance hall, Richwood, West Virginia, 1942
Bryant Friend and his family in their home, vicinity of Richwood, West Virginia, 1942
Children help with the work in the fields, Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, 1942
Children of Edward Daigle, near Fort Kent, Maine, 1942
Churning butter after a hard day in the saddle.
Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. 1943
Councilman and family on the stoop of their house,
FSA agricultural workers' camp. Bridgeton, New Jersey. 1942
Dancing in the recreation tent. FSA agricultural workers' camp.
Bridgeton, New Jersey. 1942
Dentist making an extraction in the clinic operated by the Taos County
cooperative health association. Questa, New Mexico. 1943
Dinner on the Daigle farm, Fort Kent, Maine, 1942
Going to the mountains for wood. Juan Lopez, the majordomo,
and his son. Trampas, New Mexico, 1943
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Peter Henry Emerson
Crusoe's Island, River Granta
East Coast Fishermen, ca. 1886
Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886
Going to market - a winter scene
In the Barley Harvest, 1888
Ricking the reed, 1886
Rowing home the Schoof, 1886
The Clay Mill
The Grafter
The Mangold Harvest
The Stickleback Catcher
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