Saturday, October 4, 2014

Adam MacLay

 Group of four boys at a campsite, interior of a tent visible beyond, 1905-26
  
 Group of men and women under trees, probably Christchurch district, 1905-26
  
 Group, probably a family, in front of wooden house with veranda, 1905-26
  
 Large wedding group, beside a two storey wooden house, ca. 1910
  
 Men and women, having a picnic, 1905-26
  
 People on a horse drawn dog cart, ca. 1908
  
 Studio portrait of a young woman with two husky dogs, ca. 1920s
   
 Two women in a garden, ca. 1910
 
 Wedding party portrait, ca. 1911
  
Women having a tea party outdoors, 1905-26
 
Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Friday, October 3, 2014

Nurse Training

The final set of photos by Fritz Henle of these ladies learning the art of hospital caregiving in 1942. Previous sets here, here, and here.

Student nurses must be versed in occupational therapy. This student entertains youngsters in a convalescing ward.
  
Student nurses, like millions of other United States citizens, are today taking Red Cross First Aid courses, but with a difference. These students of nursing are taught not only to give first aid in case of air raids or other war or peacetime emergencies, but also how to deal with amateur first aiders. Here a group of young nurses adjust a traction splint on a fellow "victim".
  
Student nurses, like Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, are rendering their country a great service by making it possible for experienced nurses to join the Army or Navy Nurse Corps. Relieved of such civilian duties as administering injections to patients like this smiling youngster, graduate nurses are tending America's fighting men in distant parts of the world.
  
Student observation of operations in schools of nursing and medicine has brought about the development of various styles of amphitheatres. This dome arrangement is unique in the United States. While eye operations are in progress in the room below, the students observe through powerful binoculars attached to the dome.
  
Taking care of an oxygen-tent patient is one of the many duties which 
students like young Susan Petty must perform during their apprenticeship.
  
The "morning circle" starts the day's work for the student nurses. Here students get their assignment and learn what problems must be dealt with on the floor.
  
The nurse must learn to carry out complicated and constantly changing instructions of the doctor attending this patient who has undergone a cut arthroplasty operation.
  
The why and wherefores of nutrition are mastered 
by student nurses during their hospital training period.
  
Through classes in pediatrics, student nurses learn how the right toys can be almost as important in getting a sick child well, as medicine and diet.
  
When student nurses have completed much of their training they can relieve nurses such as this one for war service, and can take over such duties as attending patients in corrective casts.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Lafayette Photo Studio

 Loom & Needle clothing store, models for advertisement, 1941
  
 Man and a woman in formal dress, 1939
  
 Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. "Happy" Chandler and their Packard motor car, 1935
  
 MRS Super Market, in-store radio advertising event, 1941
  
 Mrs. Alvin New & baby in hospital, 1947
  
 Phi Kappa Tau, couples on dance floor, 1937
  
 Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity, children with Santa Claus, Georgetown, Kentucky, 1931
  
 Pontiac Motor Company, car, girl, and horse, 1935
  
 Promotional car for "Bird of Paradise", 1932
  
Shelby School, 4-H Club, 1942

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

John Vachon

 Bookshop window, Chicago, Illinois, July 1940
  
 Boy hopping freight train, Dubuque, Iowa, April 1940
  
 Children saluting flag. Irwinville School, Georgia, May 1938
  
 Farm boys at Irwinville Farms, Georgia, May 1938
  
 Fourth of July parade, Watertown, Wisconsin, 1941
  
 Fourth of July roadside stand near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1941
  
 FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower 
with calf, Grant County, Illinois, May 1940
  
 Greasing plow point for the winter. Cavalier County, North Dakota, Oct 1940
  
 Leading horses to the barn, Grundy County, Iowa, April 1940
  
Oldest Sauer boy cranking family car. Cavalier County, North Dakota, Oct 1940

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

George Frederick Kaye

 Civilians outside Orsogna, Italy, giving a drink 
of wine to a New Zealand soldier, 16 June 1944
  
 Italian civilians dancing in the streets in celebration 
of their liberation by NZ troops, 24 April 1945
  
 Italian women of the newly liberated town of Massa Lombarda, 
Italy, holding flags of the Allied Nations, 13 April 1945
  
 J D Ruscoe leaning on his rifle, in an informal and characteristic 
New Zealand pose, on the Cassino battlefront in Italy, 5 April 1944
  
 Kiwi soldiers sightseeing in Pietra, Italy, 
pictured with Italian children, 19 November 1943
  
 Men of 2 New Zealand Division fraternizing with children in the village where they are resting after a spell in the front line, near Orsogna, Italy, 6 January 1944
  
 New Zealand Divisional Cavalry members and their Staghound 
in the front line town of Castiglione, Italy, 16 July 1944
  
 New Zealanders find the Fibrino River a good change from the dusty roads they have covered as the enemy retreated in the Sora area, Italy, 3 June 1944
  
 One of the guns of the 29th Battery of 6th NZ Field Regiment in position in a combined wheat field and vineyard in the Sora area, Italy, 1 June 1944
  
These German prisoners were brought in on Christmas morning on the Italian Front, 1943
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Monday, September 29, 2014

Frederick Nelson Jones

 Construction of a power house at Nelson, ca. 1922
  
 Group of men pose with new 1915 model cars parked outside 
the premises of the Commercial Garage on Hardy Street, Nelson
  
 Hockey tournament at Nelson, Taranaki v. Wanganui, 1910
  
 Men, women and children gathered for a picnic at the racecourse in Nelson, ca. 1910s
  
 The ferry Duchess, alongside the H.M.S. New Zealand, Nelson, June 1913
  
 The house 'Fairfield', in Nelson, 12 March 1913, during a 
New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union garden party
  
 Tilling a paddock, ca. 1920s
  
 Waikoropupu Springs, Takaka, ca. 1910
[apparently also known as "Bubu Springs"]
  
Young women playing netball and a group of spectators at the sideline, ca. 1925

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand