Steffano Webb

 Amateur boxing match, Christchurch, ca. 1910

  

 Atlas Confectionary, factory workers, interior, Christchurch, 1880s-1920s

  

 Buyers examining wool bales in store, Christchurch, ca. 1913

  

 Group of players from the Girls Hockey Competition, 

Christchurch Secondary Schools, with the A Grade shield, 1910s

  

 Two men fighting on slippery pole during Christchurch Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-07

  

 Unidentified woman standing behind the front gate of 

an unpainted cottage, with sunflower plant, ca. 1910

  

 Water slide, New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-07

  

 Wedding group, probably in Christchurch. 

Groom thought to be Dave Hadfield, 2 May 1921

  

 Woman driving a horse-drawn gig, ca. 1910

  

Women working in the Atlas Biscuit and Confectionery factory, Christchurch, 1910

 

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

The Roosevelts

From Harris & Ewing come these photos of Franklin and Eleanor.

 A serious President Roosevelt broadcasts to the nation 

on the European war crisis, Washington, DC, 3 September 1939

  

 Eleanor Roosevelt shaking hands with woman in a row, 1933-40

  

 Eleanor Roosevelt with grandchildren Buzzie and Sistie Dall, 1934

  

 Eleanor Roosevelt with two women, 1933-40

  

 First Lady appeals for Red Cross funds, Washington, DC, 21 May 1940

  

 First Lady christens Yankee Clipper, Washington, DC, 3 March 1939

  

 First Lady cuts president's birthday cake, 30 January 1940

  

 First Lady eats five cent meal, 14 May 1940. Climaxing a conference of "Daughters of the Great Depression," Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and other prominent women tonight ate a five-cent "relief" dinner. The five-cent meal was based on the actual per-person per-meal food budget of the average woman working on WPA.

  

 First Lady opens Better Homes Week at 

Girl Scouts' luncheon, Washington, DC, 26 April 1939

  

 General John J. Pershing and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt 

cut cake at Walter Reed Hospital, 1935

  

Making her rounds of the numerous president's birthday balls, Mrs. Roosevelt greets Janet Gaynor, petite movie star who came from Hollywood to entertain the merrymakers, 29 Jan 1938

John Vachon

 Children living on the outskirts of Washington, DC, September 1937

  

 Crowd at Father Walsh's carnival. Trenton, New Jersey, August 1938

  

 Man and dogs in front of grocery store, Robinson, Illinois, May 1940

  

 Migrant children at nursery school, Berrien County, Michigan, July 1940

  

 Migrant girls working in cherry canning plant, Berrien County, Michigan, July 1940

  

 National Association of Manufacturers sign, Dubuque, Iowa, April 1940

  

 Ohio Street bathing beach. Chicago, Illinois, July 1941

  

 Pawnshops and secondhand stores in Gateway District, 

Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1939

  

Schoolchildren at Greenhills, Ohio, October 1938

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

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

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