Saturday, July 20, 2013

Alfred Cheney Johnston

More photos of those fabulous Ziegfeld girls...

 Mary Pickford
 
 Olive Ann Alcorn, 1925
 
 Peggy Shannon, 1923-26
 
 Ruth Etting, 1929
 
 Tallulah Bankhead
 
  The Dolly Sisters
 
 
 
 
 




Friday, July 19, 2013

National Photo

 Food show, Foulds Milling Co., 1921-22
 
 Four adults and six children, from Passaic, N.J., picket the White House following President Coolidge's refusal to listen to their complaints about wage cuts in the textile industry. 1926
 
 Four unidentified women on tennis court, 1922
 
 Fritzi Ridgeway, 1924
  
 George Washington University, 1916-17
 
 Girls rifle team, University of Maryland, 1910-25
 
 Group of beauties, 1922
 
 Group of debutantes, 1923
 
 Group of debutantes, 1923
 
 Group of debutantes, 1923
 
Group of women doctors at Walter Reed Hospital, 1919

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Marjory Collins

 St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942
 
 St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. A Sunday picnic in Rock Creek Park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Audience of wives watching their husbands play amateur baseball on a diamond near Lincoln Memorial on Sunday. Woman in the rear left is keeping score, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Government workers lunch outside the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington Monument park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Government workers lunch outside the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington Monument park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Municipal swimming pool on Sunday, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. On Sunday people wait as long 
as one hour to get into the municipal swimming pool, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Picnickers in East Potomac Park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Relaxing on the edge of the municipal swimming pool on Sunday, 1942
 
But what's this...?

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Neurdein Frères

The Neurdein Frères (Neurdein Brothers) were Etienne and Louis Antonin Neurdein, a pair of late 19th century French photographers whose work focused on architecture and scenes from France's North African possessions.

 Algerian woman spinning wool
 
 Biskra. Street of Ouled-Naı̈ls
["Ouled-Naı̈ls" is an Algerian mountain range, home to Berber tribesmen]
 
 Chateau de Chantilly. Deer Gallery
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. Apse of the Church
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. The Cloister
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. The Cloister
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. The Promenade
 
 Mortrée. Le Chateau d'O
 
 Varengeville-sur-Mer, France. Ango Manor
 
 Woman seated on rug on ground, facing front, using mortar and pestle, Constantine, Algeria
 
 Young girl of Ouled Naı̈ls, Algeria
 
 Young girl selling bread, Algeria
 
 The Cathedral, Carthage, Tunisia, ca. 1885
 
Tunis. La Porte de France