Monday, July 29, 2013

Cabinet cards

 Banjo player, Walton, New York
 
 Bride and groom, Central Falls, Rhode Island
 
 Family portrait, Goteborg, Sweden
 
 Fashionable couple in Lowell, Massachusetts
 
 Fisherman's wife, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
 
 Joseph and Ella Francis, Chatsworth, Illinois
 
 Kemmer family portrait, Lincoln, Illinois
 
 Lady and a lab, Honesdale, Pennsylvania
 
Lena Larson, Grafton, North Dakota

Friday, July 26, 2013

Russell Lee

 Residents of Section 30. Near Winton, Minnesota, 1937
 
 Revivalist singing at rally under trees in square, 
 Saturday afternoon, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, 1939
 
 Rice farmer getting drink of water from water boy 
on farm near Crowley, Louisiana, 1938
 
 Rustan's daughter reading a Sunday paper, 
Rustan brothers' farm near Dickens, Iowa, 1936
 
 Slot machine spectators, Pilottown, 1938
  
 Southeast Missouri Farms. Negro FSA client cultivating in field of corn, 1938
 
 Spanish-American girls mixing adobe plaster with their hands, 
Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940
 
 Spanish-American women plastering an adobe house, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940
 
 Spectators at childrens' races, Labor Day celebration, Ridgway, Colorado, 1940
 
Spectators at S.W. Sparlin's auction sale, Orth, Minnesota, 1937

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Gustave Le Gray

I really like his seascapes...

 Mediterranean Sea (Sète)
 
 Northern facade of the château de Chenonceau, 1851
 
 The Beech Tree, 1855-57
 
 The Steamship
 
 The Sun at its Zenith, Ocean
 
 Train station with train and coal depot
 
 Victor Cousin
 
 View of Bas-Bréau, Forest of Fountainbleau, 1852
 
 Village by waterfront
 
 Wind Bound, Lerwick, ca. 1880
[it's hard to see but there are sheep in the foreground, on the shore]
 
Two children, 1855

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Charles Mace

These are photos of Japanese-Americans reintegrating into American society after the wartime internment. In retrospect it's hard not to see these as propaganda.

 A committee on housing is shown in session in Indianapolis. Mrs. Royal McLain (left) 
is seen discussing ways and means of finding suitable quarters for the many relocatees 
who are finding employment in Indianapolis. 1943
 
 Another American citizen has arrived at the home of Joe Takeda 
since night-riding hoodlums set fire to his house and sent five 32-caliber slugs 
crashing through the dwelling while the family slept. 1945
 
 Another freedom of considerable importance to the young feminine mind 
in America is the freedom to shop for and wear pretty clothes. 
These two Nisei girls are again enjoying that privilege. Chicago, Illinois, 1943
 
 At St. Anthony's Hospital, Rockford, Illinois, 
the Nisei and Caucasians work together. 1944
 
 Children have their own standards in their selection of friends and playmates. 
Libertyville, Illinois, 1943
 
 Eugene Kodani, from the Poston Relocation Center, now employed at the Greening Nursery Company, Monroe, Michigan, where he is engaged in budding peach trees. 1943
 
 Happy Nisei and Caucasian couples throng the dance floor of the YMCA 
at the All-American Fun Night program in Chicago this winter. 1944
 
 In the kindergarten of the McHenry, Illinois, grade school, the 6-year-old 
Okazaki twins, Sazami (left) and Toshiko (right), thumb through a 
picture-book while their teacher and a classmate look on. 1944
 
 Little Bernice Hijama, three, watches her mother pick a bucket of oranges 
from the trees surrounding their vineyard home near Fowler, California, to which 
the family has recently returned from the Gila River Relocation Center. 1945
 
 Mary Kageyama, Song Bird of Manzanar, and her younger sister, 
Tillie, at the piano, have relocated in Pasadena. Mary is a contralto 
favoring torch songs, and likes "Night and Day" the best. 1945
 
 Mary Kitano from Manzanar works for City New Service in Los Angeles. 1945
 
 Mary Nakamura is a sophomore at East High School, Rockford, Illinois. 
Biology is one of her favorite subjects, and in this picture she is shown 
receiving instructions from her teacher. 1944
 
 Mei Yamasaki, relocated in Indianapolis from the Tule Lake Center, is now employed 
as secretary and office manager of The Union, an Indiana labor paper. 1944
 
Miss Aiko Kiroki, who returned to Berkeley from Granada April 16, is seen 
in her comfortable home at 2411-1/2 Dwight Way, Berkeley. Miss Kiroki is blind, 
but has found work which she can do in her home. 1945

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Ruth Orkin

 Albert Einstein at Princeton Luncheon, 1953
 
 American girl in Italy, 1951
Orkin is perhaps best known for her photograph, American Girl in Italy, taken in 1951. The subject of the now-iconic photograph was the 23-year-old Ninalee Craig (known at that time as Jinx Allen). The photograph was conceived inadvertently when Orkin noticed the men ogling Allen as she walked down the street. Orkin asked Allen to walk down the street again, to be sure she had the shot. [Wikipedia]
 At the American Express office, Florence, Italy, 1951
 
 Central Park, 1965
 
 Comic Book Readers, 1947
 
 Couple in MG, Florence, Italy, 1951
 
 Florence, Italy, 1951
 
 Hudson River, New York, 1948
 
 Jinx and Justin Flirting at the Cafe, Florence, Italy, 1951
 
 Sandstorm, Greenwich Village, New York City, 1949
 
 Shoeshine boy getting a customer, New York, 1948
 
 Shoeshine boy getting paid, 1948
 
Tired Tourist