Monday, May 12, 2014

Esther Bubley

Final set of photos taken of people traveling by bus in 1943.


 Passengers, who have struck up a friendship on a Greyhound bus en route 
from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to St. Louis, Missouri, telling "moron" jokes
  
 People boarding a Greyhound bus at a small town 
between Chicago, Illinois and Cincinnati, Ohio
  
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A charwoman who cleans buses 
mopping the floor of a bus at the Greyhound garage
  
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Passengers in the waiting room of the Greyhound bus terminal
  
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Passengers waiting for a bus 
to pull up to the loading platform at the Greyhound bus terminal
  
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. People buying tickets at the Greyhound bus terminal
  
 Private D.N. Danielson, stationed in North Carolina, and Mrs. Danielson, from Minnesota, in the waiting room of the Greyhound bus terminal. They met in Chicago to save time for his furlough.
 
 Soldier and sailor waiting at the Greyhound bus terminal, Washington, DC
  
 Waiting to board one of the special buses for servicemen leaving the Greyhound 
terminal on Sunday nights. Girls stand in line with soldiers and sailors.
  
 Waiting in line to board a bus at the Greyhound terminal, Washington, DC
 
Washington Court House, Ohio. Mothers with their babies waiting at the bus depot

Saturday, May 10, 2014

Frank Denton

Mr. Denton was a photographer for Tesla Studio in New Zealand.

 Class at Mrs Ramsay's School, Wanganui, 1919
  
 Crowd at the Wanganui racecourse, with members 
of a brass band in the foreground, ca. 1910
  
 Maori woman and child, 1904
  
 Men outside Emeny and Lampitt brick kiln, Wanganui, 1909
  
 Paddle steamers on the Whanganui River, transporting spectators watching the sculling race between New Zealander William Webb, and Australian Richard Tresidder, on 25 February 1908
  
 Two unidentified Maori women, ca. 1900
  
Unidentified Maori group, circa 1900s

Friday, May 9, 2014

BFD

Boston Fire Department, of course (you were thinking it meant something else? :) Photos by Leslie Jones of firefighters in action.

 Boston firemen at Bristol St. Headquarters show their skill at drill, 1919
  
 Dump fire out of control in Brighton. Firemen put it out.
  
 Engine 18 - fire horses on the jump, 1917-34
  
 Fire department rescue team, 1917-34
  
 Fire engines parade down Tremont Street, Boston, ca. 1930
  
 Fire fighters battle three alarm blaze in Boston and Maine train sheds, 1930
  
 Five alarm fire, Charlestown, 1930
  
 Four alarm blaze at Pier 45 in Charlestown, 1942
  
 Four alarm Charlestown fire, 1930
  
 Four alarm fire in South Boston, 1922
  
 High pressure test, Boston Common, 1927
  
 Savin Hill Bath House fire, 1933
  
Three alarm fire on Thayer Street, South End, near Fire headquarters, 1923

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Thursday, May 8, 2014

UC Berkeley

More from their archives.

 Couple in garden
  
 Family in front of house in farm region
  
 Fred Cotton and bicycle
  
 Grand Army of the Republic parade, San Francisco
  
 Grand Army of the Republic parade, San Francisco
  
 Longshoremen burning company union books after winning 
short strike against Matson, September 1933
  
 Native Sons of the Golden West Parade, September 9, 1920
  
 Poetry, 1926
  
 The merry tramps
  
Two young women at summer house, Rancho Bella Vista, Martinez, California

Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Joseph Pennell

 Group of men working on roadbed, 1912
  
 Group of students on lawn, 1910
  
 Group of women and girls at swimming pool, 1913-1914
  
 Hammond Laundry - Group of people in front of building, 
Junction City, Kansas, 1903
  
 High School orchestra holding instruments, 1914
  
 Miss Clark's School, Junction City, Kansas, 1909
  
 Miss Crook and Miss Mickey at telephone switchboard, Junction City, Kansas, 1900
  
 Miss Terrell in horse-drawn carriage, 1895
  
 Pauley wedding party, Junction City, Kansas, 1901
  
Portrait of Jesse Jackson, 1898