At the Beach

More summer fun from Leslie Jones.

 Bathing girl at Revere Beach, 1919

  

 Bathing girl Gertrude Fuller, Revere Beach, ca. 1930

  

 Bathing girls at Revere Beach, ca. 1920

  

 Beach crowd at Revere, 1937

  

 Children and dog playing in sand

  

 Crowded beach at City Point, South Boston, 1930

  

 Girls at the beach

  

 Girls frolic in the water, 1937

  

 Kids at the beach

  

 Revere Beach, 1937

  

 Three girls on beach

  

Two bathing beauties

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Lafayette Studio

 Coca-Cola Bottling trucks in Mt. Sterling, 1936

  

 Coca-Cola Bottling Works, employee placing bottles in washing machine, 1938

  

 College Catering Company, interior view of cafe with diners, 1939

  

 Colonel Paul Hausier and group with airplane, 1935

  

 Deboor Laundry & Dry Cleaning, workers operating presses, 1941

  

 Drake Cleaners, two men operating cleaning machinery for rugs, 1940

  

 Drum and Bugle Corps with Man O' War, 1933

[the famous racehorse again]

  

 Earl M. Carr Filling Station, 1939

  

 Ellis Drug, window with war posters and stationary display, 1943

  

 Fayette Company, Future Farmers of America parade, 1933

  

 Female cadets, University of Kentucky, 1946

  

Flood view, Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky, 1928

Frederick Nelson Jones

Astronomers at the observatory camp in Cawthron Park, Nelson, 1914

  

 Bell-ringers, ca. 1910

  

 Business of George A. Day, Bridge Street, Nelson. Standing are Adam Day 

and his wife Nell who is holding her first child Rona, ca. 1915

  

 Cadillac car with passengers, ca. 1907

  

 Car accident, Rocks Road, Nelson, ca. 1930

  

 Car on a country road, surrounded by a drover's sheep, ca. 1920s

  

 Children at a penny scramble on Trafalgar Street, Nelson, ca. 1905

  

 Children boating, Maitai River, Nelson, ca. 1910

  

 Church service at a 10th Nelson Mounted Rifles camp in Tapawera, 1914

  

 Crowd at Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, ca. 1928

  

 Crowd greeting bandsmen returning home on the Arahura, Nelson, 20 March, 1921

  

Group in a Cadillac service car photographed ca. 1915 outside the Nelson post office

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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