Vintage Finland

These are taken from this Flickr set.

 May Day celebrations in Helsinki, ca. 1900

  

 Mikonkatu, Helsinki, ca. 1900

  

 Restaurant Opera Cellar, Helsinki, ca. 1900

  

 Russian military, Helsinki, ca. 1900

  

 Russian soldiers in Helsinki Senate Square, ca. 1900

  

 Seashore of Töölönlahti, Helsinki, ca. 1900

  

 Seurasaari, Helsinki, ca. 1900

  

 The Market Square, Helsinki, ca. 1900

  

 The steam ship "Östra Skärgården" outside the Market Square in Helsinki, ca. 1900

John Vachon - Color Photos

 Children playing by road near school house, Kansas, 1942-43

  

 Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942

  

 Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942

  

 Seed and feed store, Lincoln Nebraska, 1942

  

 Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

  

 Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

  

Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

Frederick Nelson Jones

 Group of Girl Guides outside the Nelson School of Music, ca. 1920s

  

 Groups alongside trams and a band rotunda, Christchurch, ca. 1910

  

 Horse drawn buggy, ca. 1914

  

 Ladies' Hockey game, England versus Nelson, 29 August, 1914

  

 McKay's ladies cricket team, Trafalgar Park, Nelson, 1925

  

 Members of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Regiment travelling 

through Nelson before leaving to fight in World War I, 18 August 1914

  

 Men and women working in a hop field in the Nelson-Marlborough Region, ca. 1910

  

 Men in a Model T Ford parked by the side of the road, 1915-16

  

 Men of the Waimea football team in a Littles Motor Service bus in Nelson, 7 April 1923

  

 Motorcade for the Duke and Duchess of York, Cuba Street, Wellington, 1927

  

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

University of Kentucky

 Elementary students working in Mrs. Haines art class at U - Hi, 1955

  

 Group portrait of Greendale students riding in a horse-drawn wagon

  

 May Day, 1926. University of Kentucky students having fun with the evolution debate

  

 The tamest game of cards ever recorded in Kentucky - 

no chips and the people around have no scared looks, 1906

[tamest even though there are two guns in the scene?]
[image quality is not very good but it's such a great picture I had to include it]

  

 Waitresses at the Jerry’s Drive-In Restaurant registered a friendly protest after hearing a report that the company was ordering new chemise uniforms for all its waitresses, 1958

  

 Watermelon feast, probably during the summer session, 1956

  

 Women waiting in line to get food, 1955

  

Women working on the assembly line at the 

National Distillers Corporation packing department in September 1944

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.