Vivian Maier Self-Portraits

Vivian Maier was an amazing photographer who worked most of her life as a nanny, photographing as a hobby. Her work was unknown until 2007. She turns out to have had a discerning eye and a prodigious talent, as these self-portraits from the 1950s indicate.

Scrap Drives

A big way for Americans on the home front to contribute to the war effort in World War II was to collect scrap - metal, rubber, etc. - for repurposing into war materiel. These photos from Leslie Jones show some of those efforts in the Boston area.

Cabinet Cards

 Alfred C. Thurston and H. Thurston, Columbus, Ohio

  

 Couple, Junction City, Kansas, 1885-95

  

 Family portrait, Germany

  

 Family portrait, Nagyvárad, Hungary

   

 Family portrait, Sutton, Nebraska

  

 Gentleman with Dalmation

  

 Ice skating scene

  

 Siri, Edvard and Viva Wallensköld, Helsinki, Finland, 1908

[so that's what Siri looks like :)]

  

 Two women playing, and wearing, cards, Newport, Vermont

[o-kaaay]

  

Two young girls, London, England

High School

These photos of Kentucky high schools are from Lafayette Photo Studio.

 Dunbar High School cheerleaders and gymnasts, 1931

  

 Dunbar High School group, 1931

  

 Dunbar High School group, 1934

  

 Dunbar High School group, 1934

  

 Dunbar High School, Miss Dunbar, 1931

  

 North Middletown High School, pep club, 1941

  

 North Middletown High, 1st Grade, 1941

  

 North Middletown High, pep club, 1942

  

 North Middletown School, Junior Glee Club, 1940

  

North Middletown School, view of dancers on the dance floor from above, 1940

[one of my favorite pictures ever]

George Frederick Kaye

George Frederick Kaye was a photographer from New Zealand who photographed "Kiwi" troops in the North African and Italian theaters during World War II.

 After the enemy's retreat, an Italian civilian searches among the ruins 

of his home in the town of Atessa, Italy, 29 November 1943

  

 Allied infantrymen make their way over the ruins of Cassino in Italy, 

on the day that it fell to the Allied attack, 18 May 1944

  

 Children carrying water through the streets of Gessopalena, Italy, 16 December 1943

  

 D O Long packing machine gun ammunition into a gun carrier 

during the advance to Florence, Italy, 21 August 1944

  

 Dog by the door of a demolished house in Gessopalena, Italy, 

surrounded by rubble, 16 December 1943

  

 Italian musicians and singers performing in the New Zealand 

Forces Club in Florence, Italy, 8 October 1944

  

 Local women and girls fill their containers at the 

community pump in Bari, Italy, ca. October 1943

  

 New Zealand officers watching the Kiwi Concert Party, Volturno Valley, Italy, 12 May 1944

  

 Soldiers examining a knocked out Sherman tank, amongst the ruins 

at Cassino, Italy, 18 May 1944, the day it fell to the Allies

  

Soldiers of the Maori Battalion prepare to move up 

into the line in the Faenza sector, 10 December 1944