Segregation

The age of segregation in America is documented by these depressing photos (from here).

The Babcocks

Meet the Babcocks, "an American family." Photos by Ralph Amdursky, a photographer for the War Information Office. These were taken in 1943. Mr. Amdursky died in 2013, just shy of 100 years of age. His bio and a eulogy are here.

 Rochester, New York. The Babcocks, an American family

 

 The Babcocks at the dinner table

  

 Mr. and Mrs. Babcock enjoy their garden and grow most of their own vegetables

  

 Earl Babcock watching while Howard, his brother, 

in his Boy Scout uniform, practices tying knots

  

 Howard Babcock hard at work on one of his model airplanes

  

 Howard and Earl Babcock playing in front of their house with their cycles

  

 Mr. Babcock and his two sons, Earl and Howard, fishing on Sunday afternoon
 

 Mr. Babcock explaining an operation to one of the men whom he supervises at the plant

  

 Mr. Babcock using the suggestion box at the plant to submit an idea for saving time

  

 Mr. Babcock leaving the plant for home at the end of the day

  

 Shirley Babcock is very handy at the sewing machine
and she helps her mother with the family sewing

  

Shirley helps Mrs. Babcock with the shopping

Winter wonderland

Here are some more shots of Boston in winter, from Leslie Jones.

 Children make snowman in Fenway

  

 Colored man digging out horse and cart, ca. 1939

  

 Dartmouth carnival, 1931

  

 Girls roll snow for snowman

  

 Horse pulling wagon slips in snow

  

 Horse slips on Tremont Street, 1925

  

 Ice skating, Public Garden

  

 Ice storm, Charles River

  

 Ice-coated railing at Esplanade, 1930

  

 Iced over falls in Winchester

  

 Irene Hesenuis, champion swimmer, takes dip in 

icy water at Orient Heights, East Boston, 1930
[better her than me]

  

 Kids playing in Roxbury Park, 1930

  

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

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

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