Thursday, May 29, 2014

Leslie Jones Collection

 A jolly bunch of pleasure seekers (Tootsie in foreground) Crystal Lake, Gilmanton, NH
  
 Aftermath of fire on Seneca Street, South End
  
 Apple picking time
  
 Arlington Street traffic, Boston, ca. 1920
  
 Bathing girl, Charles River
  
 Benson Farm, NH
  
 Big freight locomotive and tender wreck, Atlantic Station, 1920
  
 Boston Bean Time on Boston Common
  
 Brockton Fair, 1938
  
 Busy corner in the Market District, ca. 1930
  
 Candlepin bowling, ca. 1954
  
Canoeing on the Charles River, 1914

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Howard Hollem

 A girl team working on a center wing section of a 
B-24E (Liberator) bomber in Ford's big Willow Run plant
  
 Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, 
now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1943
  
 Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done 
by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
  
 Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, 
is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, 
Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
  
 Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft 
Corporation plant. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
  
 Mating operation on a C-87 transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
  
 Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942
  
 Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Jesse Rhodes Waller, aviation ordnance mate third class, tries out a 30-caliber machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane, 1942
  
 Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
  
 Rita Rodriguez. Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports 
at Consolidated Aircraft, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942
  
War production worker at the Vilter Company making M5 and M7 guns for the US Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts, 1942

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Lafayette Studio

 Four-Star Restaurant, interior view of the wait staff and customer, 1942
  
 Gaidry Motor Company, new Mercury automobile, 1945
  
 Group at fancy dinner, 1931
  
 Group of children gathered around birthday cake on table, 1947
  
 Group of women shopping, 1948
  
 Group of young girls, a man, two women, and two children in costume, 1939
  
 Horse Show with rider performing, 1936
  
 Horse Show, group of people eating, 1936
  
 Horse Show, group of people eating, 1936
  
Horse Show, people preparing food, 1936

Friday, May 23, 2014

Dick Whittington

 Football kicking contest, Southern California, 1931
  
 Free lunch for dogs, Southern California, 1934
  
 Girl in surf, Southern California, 1935
  
 Girl with dog, Southern California, 1930
  
 Girls at Polytechnic High School, Southern California, 1925
  
 Girls with drawings for Valencia Orange show, Southern California, 1930
  
 Ground breaking for market at Vernon Avenue and 
Angeles Mesa Drive, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, 1928
  
 Group of dancers, Los Angeles, 1931
  
 Group of women at El Royale, Southern California, 1929
  
Harmonica band, Southern California, 1931

Thursday, May 22, 2014

Frederick Nelson Jones

Frederick Nelson Jones was a New Zealand photographer.

 A dictation session using a shorthand typewriter, 1912-25
  
 A truck filled with household items, ca. 1920
  
 At Nelson racecourse, ca. 1910
  
 Finish of the Great Road Roller Race, Cathedral Steps, Nelson, January 1923
  
 Grape vine and children, in a glasshouse, ca. 1910
  
 Group in a motor car, ca. 1910
[what a cool car! doesn't look very safe, though...]
  
 Group surrounding the first aircraft to land at Nelson, an Avro 504 K, 11 November 1921
  
 Market day at the helping hand shop, Nelson, 1916. Helping Hands Shops 
were set up to raise money for various patriotic funds during World War I.
  
 Miss Fergusson inspects Girl Guides and Brownies, 1 August 1925
  
Two storied house with Reo buggy alongside, Nelson, ca. 1905