National Photo

 Herbert Hoover and presidential party standing, with men 

holding their hats, at opening baseball game. 1929

  

 Hope Hampton, 1922

  

 Marion Newton and Ruth Williams preparing to wade in Rock Creek, after suffering with 

the intense heat of the past two days, when the thermometer recorded 104 degrees

  

 Maryland State University coeds, 1923

  

 Military band members playing instruments, 1923

  

 Miss Blanche Lehman and Miss Tereta Sheaffer in dance number 

of the second edition of Uncle Sams Follies. 1920s

  

 Miss Dorothy Brautigam of National American Ballet, 1925

  

 Miss DuBois Ferguson, who has been judged physically perfect. 1920s

  

 Miss Mary C. Foley, Artist at Department of Agriculture, 1926

  

 Miss Mary Virginia Yellott and Miss Mary Carolyn Henry 

walking their ducks in Washington, DC

  

 Miss Riggs, 1923

  

Miss Vivian Marinelli giving Charleston dancing lessons to basketball players of the 

Palace Club, the Washington, D.C., entry in the American basketball league. 1926

Robert Doisneau

 Les beaux jeudis, 1957

  

 Madame Titine campe sur le quai de l'Arsenal, Paris, 1950

  

 On the shore, 1951

  

 Parc Monceau, Paris, 1953

  

 Picasso and Françoise Gilot, 1952

  

 Picasso's bread, Vallauris, 1952

  

 Tango in the East End, London, 1954

  

 The accordionist, rue Mouffetard, Paris, 1951

  

 The cardboard house, 1957

  

 The dogs of the Marquis de Cuevas, Bois de Boulogne, 1953

  

 The Tobacconist’s Dog, 14th arrondissement, 1953

  

 Trépidante Wanda, 1953

  

Venice Ball, Besteigui, 1951

Rudolf Dührkoop

Rudolf Dührkoop (1848-1918) was a pioneering German photographer.

 Self-portrait, 1912

 

 Clotilde von Derp, 1912

  

 Diaper rash

  

 Gertrude und Ursula Falke, 1906

  

 Rudolf Eucken, 1908 Nobel Laureate in Literature

  

 Unidentified woman, 1900

  

 Woman at a writing desk, 1909

  

 Woman at the Piano, 1910

  

Woman next to window, 1904

Harris & Ewing

 Gunston Hall group

  

 Gunston Hall. Preparatory Department

[Gunston Hall was a "finishing school" for well-bred (i.e., rich) young ladies]

  

 Liberty Loans. Liberty Bond sales car, John Stevenson 

as Uncle Sam and girl in star-spangled dress, 1918

  

 Martin H. Glynn, Governor of New York, 1914

  

 Miss M. Mawhimey

  

 Miss Virginia Chang, star of the Chinese Cultural Theater, yesterday changed her role 

to that of bride. She was married in the beautiful Gardens of Twin Oaks, 

the Chinese Embassy, to Kien-Wen Yu, second secretary of the embassy. May 1939

  

 National Beagle Club of America. Judging dogs, 1914

  

 National Citrus Week got off to a good start today when beauties from the citrus-growing states presented Vice President Garner with baskets of the luscious fruit. January 1939

  

 National Emergency War Gardens Committee. Farmerettes, 1919

  

National Guard of DC returning from camp at Colonial Beach, 1916

Russell Lee

This is it for my Russell Lee collection! He has to rank as one of my favorites - he did so much good work.

 Wife of FSA client shelling peas on porch of old shack home, 

New Madrid County, Missouri, 1938

  

 Wife of FSA client, former sharecropper, washing on back porch of old home, 

Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938

  

 Winner of largest family contest, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938

 Wives of FSA Negro clients listening to speech by 

visiting public health official, Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938

[they don't look like they're buying it]

  

 Woman and children headed home from picking cotton, Texas

  

 Women at 4-H Club fair, Cimarron, Kansas, 1939

  

 Women waiting for streetcar at terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939

[these midwestern ladies have a real "don't mess with me" vibe going, don't they?]

  

 Young Mexican boy cutting spinach, La Pryor, Texas. 

Child labor is an accepted condition in the spinach fields, 1939

  

Young people at the Imperial County Fair, California, 1942