Vintage Car Wrecks

Another set of accident photos from Leslie Jones. Previous set here. These shots are particularly interesting for their portrayal of the rubberneckers.

 Big auto wreck at Waltham, 1921

  

 Car accident near statue of the Virgin Mary, 1936

  

 Car and truck collide, Back Bay, 1932

  

 Car crashes through fence

  

 Car flips on to sidewalk, 1931

  

 Firemen, police and press around wrecked auto, 1952

  

 Malden. Many injured in auto accident, 1931

  

 One killed in Brighton, 1928

  

 Taxi accident in Boston, ca. 1930

  

 Three killed when auto is hit by fire engine. Somerville, Massachusetts, 1933

  

Wrecked auto

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Charles Fenno Jacobs

 Southington, Connecticut. Bocci, an Italian game somewhat like bowling, 

is another popular outdoor sport in Southington, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Dancing at the Old Mill, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Instruction in dress making, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Kitchen scene, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Members of the youth drum corps, May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. Mrs. Ethel Oxley, in the drugstore which she runs on the town's main street. Her family has had a business on this same corner for more than 200 years. May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. School children, half of Polish and 

half of Italian descent, at a festival in May 1942

  

 Southington, Connecticut. School class, May 1942

  

Southington, Connecticut. School girl studying, May 1942

Albert Freeman

Albert Freeman took pictures of homefront life for the War Information Office during World War II.

 Christening five cargo-carrying ships built for Britain 

at the mass launching in Portland, Maine, August 16, 1942

  

 Common sense health rules must prevail in America's homes this winter so that lower room temperatures will entail no health risks. Before bathing youngsters, keep the bathroom door and window closed for an hour so that the room will retain all heat.

  

 Down goes the thermometer and out comes flannel nightclothes, almost like the kind grandpa used to wear, as government workers in Washington D.C. dress for the sixty-five degree maximum temperature recommended by the fuel oil limitation order.

  

 Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, DC, 1942

  

 Effect of gasoline shortage in Washington, DC, 1942

  

 Hardwick, Vermont. Mrs. Alice White at the Victory Store vegetable counter 

selling donated farm produce to Miss Lorraine Lavertu, October 1942

  

 Hardwick, Vermont. Mrs. Alice White at the Victory Store vegetable counter selling donated farm produce, the money from which will go to the war fund, October 1942

  

 Health measures for low home temperatures. Planning to spend a winter evening at home? Better dress for it the way these attractive government workers do, October 1942

  

 Judy Canova, star of stage and screen, opens her personal salvage drive for scrap rubber by aiming a well-placed shot at the Axis

[Judy Canova and siblings Anne and Zeke perform 

The Ballad of Frank and Jesse James in Artists and Models (1937)]

  

 Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the Vice President, learns how millions 

of American householders will register for their sugar rationing cards

  

 Mrs. Leon Henderson, wife of the Office of Price Administration's 

(OPA) head, goes through the routine of registering for her sugar rationing book

  

 Ship launching in Portland, Maine. A second gate is opened, water floods the basin and another ship takes the water at a New England shipyard at a mass launching on August 16, 1942

  

 U.S. marshals, accompanied by county police, raid the Colmar Manor, 

Maryland auto graveyard of the Lenox Motor Company. Donovan, 

the owner, has refused to sell scrap metal and rubber at established prices

  

With every ounce of steel and steel scrap vital to the war, this employee of the Boston & Maine Railroad has been assigned the job of sorting steel washers

Joseph Pennell

 Group Portrait of Miss Schimpf's Class, 1911

  

 High School band holding instruments, Junction City, Kansas, 1909

  

 Junior High School class, Junction City, Kansas, 1920

  

 Miss Monroe's School group, 1909

  

 Portrait of Hester Trott and four women, 1899

[based on a previous photo, Hester is second from right]

  

 Portrait of Juanita McKenzie wearing dance costume, 1920-21

  

 Portrait of two men and two women, Mcclure, Brown, Mr. Sawtell (on right), 1897

[the man second from left resembles Robert Picardo!]

  

 Roark Party - Large group of children and adults in front of house, 1898

  

 Soldiers washing near railing covered with riding gear, 1897

  

W. C. Dumm family in auto in front of their house, Junction City, Kansas, 1905

Vintage Finland

The photos of Finland were taken ca. 1941 by Barbara Wright, who also worked for the Farm Security Administration.