Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Steffano Webb

 Billiards Championship, Christchurch, 1909
  
 Cannery at Christchurch Meat Company, 1880s-1920s
  
 Children and men beside a large traction engine with 
two boys sitting on a large stack of firewood, 1880s-1920s
  
 Christ's College 1st XV rugby team, 1911
[they look like an old-time chain gang]
  
 Group of men and women cycling along a road in Christchurch, 1907
  
 King's Theatre, Christchurch, ca. 1910
  
 Miss Symonds in a gig decorated with flowers, 
New Zealand International Exhibition of 1906-1907, Christchurch
  
 Motor cars and unidentified drivers outside the business premises of David Crozier Limited, motor car importers and engineers, Christchurch, ca. 1920s
  
 Motorcycles and riders at a show, probably Christchurch region, ca. 1926
  
Mr Broomfield and Kahu in a buckboard wagon, ca. 1910
["Kahu"?]

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Monday, August 18, 2014

George Robert Bull

George Robert Bull was a New Zealander photographing their troops in the European theater during World War II.

 'Spud barbers' at work near the cookhouse at 
Hove Supply Dump in the Cassino area, Italy, 29 April 1944
  
 A group of New Zealand Provosts attached to HQ 5 NZ Infantry Brigade 
at Hove Dump in the Cassino area, Italy, 29 April 1944
  
 A typical Regimental Aid post truck in the New Zealand 
Divisional Headquarters area in Casale, Italy, 23 April 1944
  
 Air force personnel talking over performance of a night bomber 
on an aerodrome at Caserta, Italy, 13 May 1944
  
 American medium bombers on way to join Allied attack 
on the Monte Cassino front, Italy, 15 March 1944
  
 Canine mascot Spandau loosening tent guy rope at the 
NZ LOB Camp near Capua, Italy, 20 February 1944
[LOB = "Left Out of Battle"; perhaps a convalescent camp for wounded?]
  
 Grace Douglas talking to Trooper D M Urquhart and Coporal A T Dewer at Maadi Camp, Egypt, after a performance by George Formby, circa 1 October 1943
[I've tried without success to find out who this Grace Douglas is]
  
 Members of the American Field Service at Aquafondata, Italy, 6 May 1944
  
 Men of NZ Division opening first mails since cessation 
of North African hostilities, Maadi, Egypt, 10 June 1943
  
New Zealand armoured vehicles in cover beside road 
near enemy in next village of Vicalvi, Italy, 29 May 1944

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Sunday, August 17, 2014

Adam MacLay

 Family group outside their home, probably Christchurch 
district, includes two women with bicycles, 1905-26
  
 Five men in riding attire standing with Singer motorbikes on stands, 1905-26
  
 Group of bird and rabbit hunters, probably Christchurch 
district, showing men and boys with their catch and rifles, ca. 1915
  
 Group of men and women outside a tent, possibly Sumner, Christchurch, 1905-26
  
 Group of women and children outdoors, sitting 
in the branches of a fallen pine tree, ca. 1910s
  
 Large group of men, women and children, some 
holding musical instruments including a harp, 1905-26
  
 Men and women in formal clothes, 1905-26
  
 Men sitting and smoking at a camp site, 1905-26
  
 Portrait of a small girl, 1905-26
  
Two couples wearing similar clothing outdoors, 1905-26
 
Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Louis Edward Nollau

 4-H Debating team from Chaplin, Kentucky in Nelson County, 1926
  
 A woman swinging next to two men in front of Buell Armory, 1956
  
 Costume party, Engineering ball
  
 Eleanor Roosevelt in car, 1934
   
 Eleanor Roosevelt with group of children at Maxwell Place, 1934
  
 Field hockey players
  
 First battalion staff, 1931
  
 Group at Maxwell Place, 1935
[Maxwell Place is the official residence of the President of the University of Kentucky]
  
 Group picture of female band members
  
Gymnastics practice

Friday, August 15, 2014

Garth High School

This school is in Georgetown, Kentucky (it's now an elementary school). Photos by Lafayette Studio.

 8th grade, 1944
  
 Cheerleaders, 1949
   
 Pep club, 1944
  
Girl's gym, 1945
  
 Girls' gym class, 1945
  
 Home economics class, 1944
  
News staff group gathered in library, 1945

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Albert Percy Godber

Albert Percy Godber was an early 20th-century New Zealand photographer who focused much of his work on the backcountry.

 A bullock team hauling logs near the timber mill at Piha, 1915-16
  
 A bush saw-doctor sharpening a cross-cut saw for use in logging near Piha, 1915-16
  
 Bullock team, Piha, 1915-16
  
 Deadman's Point Footbridge, 1926
  
 Horse-drawn wagon carrying sawn timber, on the 
railway track of the Piha to Karekare tramway, 1915-16
  
 Horse-drawn wagonette on the West Coast Road, North Auckland, 1915-16
  
 S S Albatross, ferry, at Home Bay, Motutapu Island, taking firemen to their picnic, 1909
  
 Tangarakau Gorge road, surrounded by native bush. A four-horse carriage is coming towards the camera, and the Tangarakau River is visible on the right, 1915-16
  
Three men on horseback on the Karekare Road, 1915-16

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand