Monday, May 19, 2014

Adam MacLay

Adam MacLay was a New Zealand photographer. He seems to have specialized in portraits.

 Donald George McKinley, family baker, Christchurch, ca. 1908
  
 Family group camping, unidentified parents with elder daughter and sons, 
with younger son and daughter and dogs, 1905-26
  
 Group of people having a picnic outside tent in backyard of house, 1905-26
  
 Group of unidentified man and women in a [Ford Model T Tourer?] motorcar, 1905-26
  
 Group of unidentified men, women and child with bicycles in front of house, 1905-26
  
 Group photo of unidentified young women and girls, 1905-26
  
 Large social outing group portrait of unidentified men 
and women in hats with children in front, 1905-26
  
 Outdoors portrait of three unidentified men with baby in christening gown, 1905-26
  
 Three unidentified women and child, 1905-26
  
 Unidentified coxed four men's rowing team with a 
young boy coxswain on the Avon River, Christchurch, ca. 1920s
  
Unidentified man and three women having tea outdoors, 
shows table set with cups and saucers, 1905-26

Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Segregation

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















Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

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

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