Friday, July 18, 2014

Charles Fenno Jacobs

 Southington, Connecticut. A one-room school, May 1942
  
 Southington, Connecticut. May 1942
  
 Southington, Connecticut. Southington school children 
staging a patriotic demonstration, May 1942
  
 Southington, Connecticut. Southington school children 
staging a patriotic demonstration, May 1942
  
 Southington, Connecticut. The family of Ralph Hurlbut. A Sunday dinner honoring Corporal Robert Hurlbut, twenty-one, home on his first furlough from the army, May 1942
  
Southington, Connecticut. The Memorial Day parade moving down the main street. The small number of spectators is accounted for by the fact that the town's war factories are in operation.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Harold Gear Paton

More photos of New Zealand troops in the Middle East during the recent unpleasantness (World War II).

 Game of soccer in progress in the Western Desert between a NZ Battery and an English Mediterranean Battery. The English won 4 - 0. November 1942
  
 Members of NZ Divisional Cavalry with children 
during a visit to villagers in the Syrian hills, 26 May 1942
  
 Members of the Maori Battalion in the last stages of 
their journey from Alamein, Egypt, to Tripoli, Libya, 8 February 1943
  
 Men of NZ Engineers who played important part in the NZ Division's move against Tripoli meet children of an Italian colonist at a village past Tahuna, Libya, January 1942
  
 New Zealand officer, identified as Lieutenant C Smith, doing 
his own washing on the Alamein front in Egypt, September 1942
  
 New Zealand trucks passing through Maadi, Egypt, during World War 2, 
at the end of the North African campaign, 10 June 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

TVA - Knoxville

These are from a set by Barbara Wright, all labeled simply "TVA - Knoxville." They are dated 1941.










Monday, July 14, 2014

Joseph Pennell

 Miss Walker's School group, 1910
  
 People in costumes at Officers' barn dance, 1913
  
 Portrait of class in front of school, Junction City, Kansas, 1903
  
 Portrait of John Edward's girl with photographs, 1895
  
 Portrait of Nellie Jackson, 1898
[this looks like a really risque pose for 1898]
  
 Sam Ziegler with three women in his Studebaker;
Contestant at the Lyric Cup Run Race, 1909
  
 Soldiers of 7th Battery Glee Club sitting on beds 
playing guitars and mandolins, Fort Riley, 1906
  
 Soldiers reading in front of billiard table, Fort Riley, 1897
  
 Soldiers with shovels standing near wagon loaded with dirt, Fort Riley, 1903
  
Wetzig in REO Auto - The Official Lyric Cup Race Pathfinder, 1909

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Lafayette Studio

 Kawneer Company bowling team, 1949
  
 Kentucky Central Life & Accident Insurance Company, banquet, 1945
  
 Kentucky Coach Company, fair tents, 1929
  
 Kentucky Houses of Reform, group on stage in costume, 1943
[it took several viewings to notice the unusual twist in the crossed legs]
  
 Kentucky Theatre, "Hell's Angels," three men sitting outside theater with signs, 1930
  
 Kentucky Theatre, awning and promotional car 
decorated for "Fayssoux the Hypnotist", 1932
  
 Kentucky Theatre, indoor golf course to promote "Follow Thru", 1930
  
 Kentucky Theatre, ushers, 1931
  
 Kentucky Utilities Company, office workers, 1942
  
 Kentucky Utilities Company, woman demonstrating wringer-type washing machine, 1943
  
 Kroger, people shopping in store, 1947
  
Kroger, people shopping in store, 1947