Samuel J. Hood Studio

Sam Hood was an Australian photographer. Much of his work had a maritime theme.

 Children's kindergarten, ca. 1930s

  

 Girls dancing, ca. 1930s

  

 Inspectors of Schools and Swimming watch Stewart House 

swimming exercises on the beach, South Curl, 10 January 1935

  

 Man and woman on a Malvern Star abreast tandem bicycle, ca. 1930s

  

 Men and boys swim and play in canoes in a beach rock pool

 

 Pitt Street in Sydney

  

 Start of a relay race showing five swimmers diving in, 

Colleges swimming at Drummoyne, 13 March 1935

  

 Swimming carnival, Roseville Baths, ca. 1930s

  

 Swimming class for girls, ca. 1930s

  

The Women Co. girls on Tamarama beach, 2 February 1939

Amusement Park

Charles Fenno Jacobs was recruited for the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit in World War II. He spent part of May 1942 in Southington, Connecticut, photographing home-front life in "an American town." These are part of that series.

Vintage Aviation

From  the Leslie Jones collection.

 Aeroplane flying over beach

  

 Amelia Earhart arrives at East Boston Airport in Ford Trimotor, 1920

  

 Army air meet - Carson Beach, 1931

  

Bathing girls go flying, 1932

  

 Bleriot monoplane down in Lynn Marshes, Saugus, ca. 1912

  

 Crew of Army blimp TC-5 at East Boston Airport

  

 Crowd at East Boston Airport, ca. 1930

  

 Famous aviator Atwood takes a passenger at Squantum, 1910

  

 First passenger plane to run between Boston and New York, East Boston Airport, 1929

  

Flying boat at Nantasket, Pemberton, taking passengers for $1.00 a minute, 1919

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

World War II

 Captain of the 1st Army of USA Earl J. Topley looks at a German soldier 

who had killed before the death of three of his colleagues. Dead German 

soldier is last defender  of the French city of Cherbourg, Normandy

  

 Eisenhower talks to paratroopers before D-Day

[one of the most famous images to come out of the war]

  

 F4U's and F6F's fly in formation during surrender ceremonies, Tokyo, August 1945

  

 French resistance fighters putting up posters

  

 GI machine gun crew in Aachen, 1944

  

 Lieutenant Colonel George, commanding officer of troops, 

talking with his men somewhere in New Caledonia, 1942

  

 Marines hit three feet of rough water as they leave their LST 

to take the beach at Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 1943

  

 Marines under bombardment, Pacific theater

  

 Task Force 58 raid on Japan, 40mm guns firing aboard USS Hornet, 1945

  

 TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan, July 1945

  

 U.S. Army soldiers on Bougainville, 1944

  

Yanks of 60th Infantry Regiment advance into a Belgian town 

under the protection of a heavy tank, 1944

Henry Clay High School

 From Lafayette Studios, here are photos from Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky. Their web site calls it "the oldest public high school in Lexington."

 Henry Clay High School group, 1931

  

 Henry Clay High School orchestra with Miss Fox, 1933

  

 Henry Clay High School play, 1935

  

 Henry Clay High School, 1934

  

 Henry Clay High School, girls gymnastics class, 1934

  

 Henry Clay High School, harmonica group, 1933

  

 Henry Clay High School, harmonicas & kazoos, 1936

  

 Henry Clay High School, operetta (Pirates of Penzance?), 1933

  

 Henry Clay High School, orchestra, 1933

  

Henry Clay School, group of girls, 1935