Monday, October 13, 2014

Randolph Henry High School

Another set of photos by Philip Bonn of this Keysville, Virginia high school; first seen here.

 Kitchen of cafeteria
  
 Kitchen of cafeteria. Lunches cost about fifteen cents.
  
 School band which played for graduation
 
 Social studies class. Students study in groups of six or eight, each group picking own subject.
  
 The library. The state pays half of the cost of the library, the local 
school board pays one quarter and one quarter is raised by the school.
  
 Repairing library books in preparation for close of school in summer. 
 
 Working in garden of home economics cottage of Randolph Henry High School.
  
 Girls talking and studying at the school entrance
  
Girls' gym class

Sunday, October 12, 2014

Albert Percy Godber

Four people with a car on the Akatarawa Road, 1923
  
Group of men at rest, playing cards on the grass 
under a tree, on the Mendip Hills sheep farm, 1917
  
Hutt Railway Workshops, Woburn. The pattern shop, 1929
  
Native bush near Anawhata, with the photographer sitting on a kauri log, 1915-16
  
Native bush with a rustic bridge, and two children standing 
in the stream below, at Korokoro, 27 December 1910
  
The last load of hay, at Mendip Hills sheep farm, Hurunui District, 1917
  
The rocks, Huriawa, near Karitane, showing rock formation 
at the water's edge. Laura Godber standing in centre foreground, ca. 1925
  
Three Maori girls, at Rangiahua, 1918
  
View of Hindon railway bridge, across the Taieri River, ca. 1926
  
View of the Whangarei River (now known as the Hatea River), 1911
 
Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Saturday, October 11, 2014

Winter Is Coming

No, not the next season of "Game of Thrones," just these of Boston in winter from Leslie Jones.











Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Friday, October 10, 2014

Marion Post Wolcott

 "Cherished customer." Negro buying gas, near Atlanta, Georgia, June 1939
  
 A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. September 1939
 
 Bohemian miners (coal loaders) unemployed since mechanization of mines. Jere, West Virginia. They live together in one house with a woman housekeeper. All on relief. Spend most of their time fighting about politics. Call their dog "Hitler" because he's so mean and nasty. To the left is an outdoor oven for baking bread. September 1938
  
 Carrying home groceries and supplies across 
the swinging bridge, Breathitt County, Jackson, Kentucky, 1940
  
 Children shining shoes on street corner, Hartford, Connecticut, May-June 1941
  
 Children's favorite playground, around coal mine tipples. 
Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938
  
 Farmer who comes to town on Saturday afternoon to sell 
his chickens from door to door. Greene County, Georgia, Spring 1939
  
 Home of old and sick mine foreman and WPA (Works Progress Administration) workers and families, Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938
  
 Juice from sugarcane being poured into barrel. It is cooked in vat or still, 
into sorghum molasses. Racine, West Virginia, September 1938
  
Kewpie doll bathing girls for sale along main highway 
near Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Agustín Centelles

Agustín Centelles was a Spanish photographer who documented the Spanish Civil War - a brutal, bloody affair, as civil wars always are. Warning: some of these photos are quite intense.

 An assault guard takes cover behind dead horses in Barcelona, July 19, 1936
  
 Barcelona, July 1936
  
 Bombardment of Lérida, 2 November 1937
  
 Bram concentration camp, 1939
  
 Child victims of bombardment of Zaragoza, March 1937
  
 Guard assault in Barcelona, 19 July 1936
  
 Militiawoman
  
 Plaza de Catalunya in Barcelona, July 1936
  
 Republican militiawomen on the Aragon front, 1936
  
Self-portrait on the Aragon front

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Gallipolis

These photos of Gallipolis, Ohio were taken by Arthur Siegel in 1943.

 Gate man opening front gate of Gallipolis lock as steamboat goes through
  
 Girl flag bearers at Decoration Day ceremonies
  
 Girl scouts at Decoration Day ceremonies
  
 List of county boys who have gone off to war
  
 Part of crowd listening to Decoration Day ceremonies
  
 School band playing at Decoration Day ceremonies
  
Towboat Catharine Davis in Gallipolis locks