Wednesday, September 11, 2013

National Photo

 Horseback riders on the trail of Indian Henry's, Mt. Rainier National Park, Washington
  
 Horseshow, 1924
  
 Intoxicated ducks, 1925
  
 John Uslie, 1922
LOSES $5,000 HE SAVED WRITING WITH HIS TEETH
Armless Orphan, 20, Charges Partner Stole Money He Laid By to Start Business.
        "My life savings are gone," John Uslie, 20-year-old orphan who lost both his arms in a railroad accident, told the police last night, as he reported that he had been robbed of $5,000. Uslie was taken before Clerk Robert B. Gott, and by placing a pen between his teeth signed a warrant charging Theodore Phillips, who conducts a business at 331 H street northeast, with taking his money. Detectives Bradley, Cox and O'Brien arrested Phillips on charges of larceny after trust. He was released on $2,500 bond.
        Uslie said he lost his parents when he was 15 years old, and the following year suffered the loss of both arms, but taught himself to write by holding a pen in his mouth and a year later started out in the world, traveling about the country making a living by writing cards and selling drawings.
        During his travels, he said, he met Phillips and the two became friends, traveling together, Phillips at night taking the money from his pockets, counting it and caring for it.
        "My earnings averaged about $25 a day," said Uslie, "but some days I would make as high as $50. Phillips and I came to Washington in March, and since then I have made more than $900.
        "We went into business at 331 H street northeast. Last week I learned that Phillips was going to turn the business over to a relative, and when I asked for an accounting I was turned out of the house and my clothes thrown after me." [Washington Post, June 9, 1922]
 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes on 85th birthday, March 8, 1926
  
 Louise flower shop auto, 1922
  
 Lulu McGrath, 1922
  
 Mack Sennett's bathing beauties posed on automobile, Washington, DC, area, ca. 1919
  
 Madam Hanahara, 1923
  
 Madam Kawamura and children, 1924
  
 Madame Nano, 1923
  
Margaret Little, Earl Columbus & Blanche Lehman, 1926

Monday, September 9, 2013

Julia Margaret Cameron

Portrait of Christina Spartali, 1865-70
  
 Sadness, 1864
  
 Sir Henry Taylor
  
 Sir John Herschel with cap
  
 Summer Days, 1866
  
 The Communion, ca. 1870
  
 The Mountain Nymph, Sweet Liberty, 1866
  
 The Parting of Lancelot and Guinevere
  
 The Rosebud garden of girls
  
Untitled (Ceylon). ca. 1875-79

Sunday, September 8, 2013

Charles Mace

These are photos of Japanese-Americans reintegrating into society after the wartime internment.

 Michiko Kataoka, a freshman, and Meriko Hoshiyama, a junior, both from Manzanar 
(left to right in picture), with fellow students at the entrance to the campus library 
at the University of California at Los Angeles. 1945
  
 Michiko Kataoka, a freshman, and Meriko Hoshiyama, a junior, both from Manzanar, 
with fellow students on the University of California campus at Los Angeles. 1945
    
Nisei students arriving on the campus at the 
University of California in Los Angeles. 1945
 
 Miss Irene Eiko Yonemura works in the Peoria, Illinois, public library, where 
she has found work much to her liking and her training. Miss Yonemura is from 
the Poston center and came to Peoria in the summer of 1943. 1944
  
 Miss Julie Sugimoto (l) and her sister June (r), work in the home of the Burchette family 
in Peoria, Illinois. June, plus her work at the home, is learning to be a photo retoucher. 1944
[photo retouching by hand? thank god for the photoshop era!!]
  
 Miss Susie Yuasa, 18, a former evacuee from the Jerome Relocation Center, 
now employed in a Chicago candy factory, turns from her task momentarily 
to display the familiar symbol of victory. 1943
  
 Mr. and Mrs. Toshio Kimura have reopened their large house in San Jose, and have as their 
guests two other families who are sharing the dwelling pending finding places of their own. 1945
  
 Naomi Asakura, age 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Taki Asakura, 
who returned to Santa Barbara from Gila River on March 17, is seen 
enjoying the company of a puppy given to her by a neighbor. 1945

 No discrimination in this huddle. Akshi Alan Asakora plays football in the yard 
of the Lincoln School in Santa Barbara, where he has resumed studies since 
his family returned to their former home from the Gila River Center. 1945
   
 The honored American custom of raiding the icebox is especially pleasurable 
to the Yamadas after life in a relocation center. Peoria, Illinois, 1944
  
 The Oda sisters like to entertain their friends in their apartment in Rockford, Illinois. 1944
  
 The Taki Asakuras, who arrived in Santa Barbara from Gila River are seen escorting two 
veterans of the 100th Infantry Battalion on a tour of Santa Barbara's scenic spots. 1945
  
When the Nisei get together for social entertainment in Chicago, their Caucasian friends also participate in the general fun. At the mike is a popular Chicago night club singer who has just presented one of her specialties. 1944

Saturday, September 7, 2013

August Sander

He was a German portrait and documentary photographer.

 Anna Sander
  
 Circus artist, 1926
  
 Circus people, 1926
  
 Blind children
 
 Blind children, ca. 1930
 
 Boys celebrating the Kaiser's birthday, 1915
  
 Courtyard musicians, 1928
  
 Farm portrait, girl and boy with sheep
  
 Kids
 
 Portrait of an officer
  
 The fighter, or revolutionary, 1912
  
Three generations of the family, 1912

Friday, September 6, 2013

John Collier

 Natani family, near Ganado, Arizona 1948
  
 Navajo family, Arizona, 1948
  
 Navajo girl handspinning, near Ganado, Arizona, 1948
  
 Navajo girls learn first to weave by observation. Near Navajo Mountain, Utah, 1948
  
 Navajo man plowing land near White House Ruins. 
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, 1948
  
 Navajo Mountain School, Arizona, 1948
  
 On the Frances and Marion, a Portuguese trawler. Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942
  
 Picking berries on the Gagnon family farm, Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine 1942
  
 Polish immigrant husking corn, near Greenfield, Connecticut, 1941
  
 Portuguese dory fisherman and his grandaughter, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942
  
Portuguese dory fishermen gossiping in the sun, Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1942