Beach time

It's been a long hard winter for many people, so maybe this will lift your spirits a bit. These are from the Leslie Jones Collection.

 Baby and dog on blanket at Nantasket Beach

  

 1919

  

 1919

  

 1920

  

 1920

  

 Malibu Beach, Dorchester

  

 Revere Beach, 1937

  

 Three girls at the beach, ca. 1940

  

 Wading woman finds the water at the beach a little cold, 1937

  

 Who wouldn't be a life saver? 1917-34

  

Woman at the beach, 1937

 

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Leslie Jones Collection

More from this Boston photographer - pictures of kids.

 Baby and dog

  

 Benson's Zoo, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1931

  

 Black kids and white kids on street in South End, ca. 1950

  

 Black kids bringing coal home on sled, South End, ca. 1939

  

 Boys in Frog Pond, Boston Common

  

 Boys on cannon on Boston Common

  

 Child and dog in the Public Garden, 1934

  

 Girls at water fountain in park

  

 Group of children (at camp?), 1937

  

Group of kids in backyard of tenement, ca. 1935

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Arthur Siegel

 Detroit, Michigan. Little girl with ice cream cone in the zoological park, 1942

  

 Detroit, Michigan. Little girls wheeling baby brother in a carriage, 1942

  

 Detroit, Michigan. Marchers in the Labor Day parade, 1942

  

 Detroit, Michigan. Radio broadcast in the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941

  

 Detroit, Michigan. Sailors and girls at zoological park, 1942

  

 Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the 

Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds, 1942

  

 Detroit, Michigan. War worker and family strolling through the zoological park, 1942

  

 Detroit, Michigan. Woman holding a harness strap 

to prevent child from getting lost in zoological park, 1942

  

Detroit, Michigan. Young mother with her own and neighbor's child, 1942

Dad

In memory of my father, who died yesterday at age 99, I'm posting some vintage photos of him.

 1932. His high school picture

 

 December 1941. With army buddies. He's at back left.

 

 1942. With my mother (pre-marriage) in San Antonio, Texas

 

 1942. After the wedding

 

 1943. In Fort Myers, Florida

 

 1944. Fort Myers, Florida

 

 1944

  

 1946. A family now (that's my sister in the middle)

 

 1950-52. In Delaware. 

 

 1955. Yes, that's me he's holding

 

1956. At Atlantic City or thereabouts

Georgetown College

More photos from this college in Kentucky.

 Group gathered at the counter of a soda fountain, 1948

  

 Group of students sitting in a booth at a cafe, 1948

 

 Group of women performing gymnastics, 1948

  

 Group of women playing basketball, 1948

  

 Group of women standing next to a carnival booth, 1949

  

 Group standing next to a jukebox, 1948

  

 Group standing with records in hand, 1948

  

 Homecoming, football spectators, 1947

  

 Homecoming, people with balloons, 1947

  

 People in the cafeteria food line, 1948

  

 Students socializing, 1949

  

Women exercising, 1948