Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Esther Bubley

More photos of bus travel, taken in 1943.

 Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Girl baggage clerk loading newspapers onto a bus at Knoxville, Tennessee. These will be left at small towns along the way.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Soldier
saying goodbye to his wife and child at small town in Tennessee.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C.
Bus passengers at Knoxville, Tennessee.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C.
Girl agent checking bag at Knoxville.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C. Passengers boarding bus at Knoxville.
 
Passengers freshening up in the ladies' restroom at the Greyhound bus terminal, Chicago
 
Passengers in the waiting room at the Greyhound bus terminal at five am, Chicago
 
Passengers leaving a Greyhound bus in a small town in Pennsylvania
 
Passengers on a Greyhound bus going from Washington, DC to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 
Passengers on the Greyhound bus going from Washington, D.C. to
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, some of which were standing all the way
 
Passengers waiting for a Greyhound bus driver to start
loading them on the bus at a small town in Pennsylvania

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

USC

 In Los Angeles' 'Little Tokyo,' news of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor left shocked silence yesterday
  
 Mrs. Southern California, 6 September 1951. Mrs. Ruth Poger
  
 Posture Queen, Rosemead High School, 1960
[wow. high school has changed pretty radically in the last 50 years!]
  
 Riverside County Fair (Hemet), 26 August 1953. 
Jerra Lynne Tyler ("Farmer's Daughter of 1953")
  
 Santa Barbara road races, 1958
[hard to imagine a more iconic image of 1950s Southern California]
[my subtitle for this: "Fast and Furious: The Prequel" :)]
  
 Santa Monica beach, 1952
  
 USC sorority women gathered around a telephone, 1949
  
 USC sorority women pillow fight
  
Zeta Tau Alpha members costumed for a Halloween party, 1912

Monday, April 7, 2014

Frank Hohenberger

 Anderson and Carpenter crossing Raccoon Creek on tree, 1927
  
 Boys on stilts, April 7, 1912, Easter
  
 Paul Percifield at auto wreck, Columbus Road, 1922
  
 Row of boys at Byron Huff's, 1924
  
 School picture, Nashville, Indiana, 1946
  
 Sign at Mrs. Shields', Bean Blossom, Indiana, 1942
  
 Sorghum mill on Schooner, boiling syrup, 1937
  
 Susan Thompson Bailey (seated) and Betty Osterbur Fish at Sconce home, wedding gown, 1949
  
 Tarvia truck and driver, 1928
  
 Threshing scene near top of Hamman's hill, 1927
  
Tim Brickey and old Chevrolet, 1931

Sunday, April 6, 2014

Arnold Genthe

Final batch of Genthe's photos of Japan.










This is an enlargement of the sign posted on the beach in the above picture. 
Can anyone who reads Japanese translate it for us? My guess is it's 
something like "Men only to the right, women only to the left."

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Joseph Pennell

 Four people playing cards, 1899
  
 Girls of High School Club, Junction City, Kansas, 1901
  
 Group of children and women on lawn at Montgomery baby party, 1905
  
 Literary Society Group in Schoolroom, Junction City, Kansas, 1901
  
 Miss Mitchell's School group, 1909
  
 Portrait of Bunning baby in decorated baby carriage, 1909
  
 Portrait of Hester Trott, 1898
  
 Soldier, Bazek, A Battery and three friends sitting in cart with dog, 1909
  
 Soldiers playing mandolin and banjo and standing near small cannon, 1903
  
Wagons and Mule Teams in Quartermaster Corral, Fort Riley, 1898-99