University of Chicago

These photos are from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. The coded numbers after the picture caption are identifiers from the collection (their inclusion is requested as a condition of use).

 Dramatic production at Shakespeare Tercentennial, 1915 [apf4-03726]

  

 Men socializing in a residence hall, 1943 [apf4-02802]

 

 Pi Beta Phi south side alumni association party for servicemen, 1942-45 [apf3-02927]

  

 Residence hall Christmas party [apf4-02911]

  

 Roasting hotdogs at cookout [apf4-02131]

  

 Student golfers [apf4-00728]

  

 Studying in Harper Library [apf4-01938]

  

 Unidentified students [apf4-03602]

  

 With almost Seventy-five families occupying the "Prefabs," 

on the 61st Street and Greenwood Avenue site, there are at least 

half a dozen or more lines full of clothes every day. 1946 [apf4-02905]

  

 There is a lot of neighborliness, such as visiting in each other's houses, at the 

clothes lines, and over the fence that holds the garbage pails, 1946 [apf4-02907]

  

 Women students in evening gowns [apf4-02835r]

Charles Fenno Jacobs

More of Fenno Jacobs' photos of Southington, Connecticut.

 School children in Southington, Connecticut performing the Bellamy salute in May 1942

[This extremely creepy form of patriotic display was abandoned in favor 

of the right hand on the heart salute sometime in 1942, when people 

realized that the Bellamy salute was a lot like the Nazi salute]

 Southington, Connecticut. A bridge party, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. A group of children, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. A group of women rolling bandages 

and preparing surgical dressings, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. A highlight in the town's life 

is the annual girls' glee club recital, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

  

Southington, Connecticut. At Beecher Street School, May 1942

[interesting to have a bw and color shot of virtually the same scene]

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

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