Sunday, September 21, 2014

Russell Lee

 7:45 a.m. Tip Estes' children watch their mother 
make a pie. Near Fowler, Indiana, Mar 1937
  
 7:10 p.m. Tip Estes and family eating dinner. The day's work 
has been finished. Tip Estes has washed up and dinner is served, Mar 1937
  
 7:40 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man, with the youngest of his nine children. After dinner the family sits around until 8-00 or 8-30, when they go to bed. There is no reading matter in the house, Mar 1937
    
 
Tip Estes' children boarding a school bus near Fowler, Indiana, April 1937
   
 A drink on the house. Lumberjacks, proprietor and 
lady attendant in saloon. Craigville, Minnesota, August 1937
  
 A mother and her children, refugees from the 1937 flood, 
encamped at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois
  
 A quilting party in an Alvin, Wisconsin, home, April 1937
  
 Agricultural workers wait in the clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers community, Woodville, California, Mar 1942
  
 Child at the FSA Camelback Farms, Phoenix, Arizona, Feb-Mar 1942
  
 Group of colored flood refugees housed in the 
Baptist church at Sikeston, Missouri, Jan 1937

Saturday, September 20, 2014

Lafayette Studio

 Lexington Airport, large group of people standing in front of airplane, 1936
  
 Lexington Junior High School girls, 1934
  
 Liebel Supply Company, Lexington, Kentucky, 1933
  
 Meyers Brothers, group portrait of women, 1942
  
 Mr. & Mrs. Pat Mullendare, wedding reception, 1946
  
 Mrs. C.E. Skinner and children's band, 1935
  
 Mrs. Royce Martin standing next to car with dogs, 1943
  
 Needle Work Guide of America pageant, 1934
  
 People on porch, 1934
  
Pickrell & Craig Company, food brokers, 1933

Friday, September 19, 2014

Randolph Henry High School

Randolph Henry High School in Keyville, Virginia was photographed by Philip Bonn in June 1943.

 Social studies class. Students study in groups of six or eight, each group picking own subject.
  
 Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring 
produce from farms for which they receive tickets.
  
 Eating lunch in cafeteria
  
 First aid group in school dispensary
  
 Girls in entry hall talking before school in the morning. Bulletin board on wall.
  
 Graduation exercises for 123 students
  
 Home economics cottage. Girls learn the art of homemaking, how to sew, 
plan meals, cook and serve, what food to eat, how to entertain.
  
 Home economics cottage. Girls learn to plan, cook 
and serve meals. They usually have a guest.
  
 Interior of vocational shop. Boys learn to repair farm machinery, carpentering and welding.
  
Playing baseball during gym period. Girl replaced 
man teacher who was drafted in the army.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Albert Percy Godber

Albert Percy Godber at his brass finishing lathe, Petone railway workshops
["this is my busy day" :)]
  
Climax locomotive hauling logs over the Mangatukutuku Viaduct, near Ongarue
  
Gum climbers' camp on the Waipapa River, near Rangiahua, 1918
  
Horse-drawn rail timber wagon hauling a log to the mill at Horopito, February 1921
  
 
Man transporting logs with horses and railway in the Akatarawa Bush, Hutt Valley, 1912-16
  
Men with a scow beside the Waipapa River, near Rangiahua, 1918
  
Native bush at Korokoro, with Albert Percy Godber standing on a large tree trunk which had fallen above the track, and his daughter Phyllis (aged 7) standing below, 27 December 1910
  
Rustic bridge at Ross Reservoir, Dunedin, September 1925
  
Tangarakau Gorge, a road bridge and grave site, 1915-16
  
 
The Hapuawhenua Viaduct, curving through an area of newly regenerating scrub, ca. 1915

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

Wednesday, September 17, 2014

George Frederick Kaye

 Gunners of the New Zealand Divisional Artillery manhandling their gun as a result of a target switch on the Cassino Front in Italy, 17 May 1944
  
 Infantry soldiers being brought forward in transports to the 
forward area as the Allies advance past Cassino in Italy, 18 May 1944
  
 Italian civilians peer around the corner of a street that is crossed at the top by 
enemy machine gun fire, in the southern part of Florence, 6 August 1944
[here's my question: what are you people doing out in
the street in the middle of a machine gun battle??]
  
 K A Jacobs and R W North collecting ammunition from a pit immediately behind one of the forward New Zealand machine gun posts on the 8th Army Front in Italy, 14 May 1944
  
 New Zealand Bren gunner C A Coleman provides 
covering fire in forward areas of 8th Army Front, 14 May 1944
[note the extra ammo clips to the left of the gunner]
  
 New Zealand soldiers explore the byways of old Bari, Italy, November 1943
  
 New Zealanders billetted in village behind Italian Front 
make friends with the household, 6 January 1944
  
 NZ infantry soldier rushes the entrance to a German dugout during the attack in which NZ captured the German HQ of the Sangro River Defence Line near Castelfrentano, Italy, 2 December 1943
  
 Peasant women at work in their garden just behind 
the forward area of the Italian Front, 16 December 1943
  
The heavy Allied assault on Cassino was witnessed in the early stages by American Red Cross nurses who made a strictly off-duty visit to the ruined town of Cevaro, 15 March 1944

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand