Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Lafayette Studio

 Lexington’s Children’s Theatre group, 1944
  
 Man and woman sitting on brick wall drinking soda, 1939
  
 Miss Kentucky beauty contest, 1932
  
 Mr. & Mrs. Guy Preston Richardson wedding, 1949
  
 Mrs. John Y. Brown, childrens' party (birthday?), 1935
  
 Mrs. Rhodes Estill, mock wedding with Kitchen Cabinet Orchestra, 1932
  
 Pollie McGilliard birthday party group portrait, 1948
  
 Raid on moonshine still, 1931
  
 Singer Sewing Machine Company, young girls 
standing and sitting for a group portrait, 1939
  
State Theatre, children dressed as Native-Americans 
to promote "The Indians Are Coming," 12 episode serial, 1931

Monday, October 20, 2014

Leslie Jones

 Canoers
  
 Chorus line
  
 College women
  
 Cow gals with the W.T. Johnson Rodeo, ca. 1936
  
 Crowd listening to speech by a "Red" on Boston Common, 1931
  
 Dancer
  
 Dirty alley, Boston, 1942
  
 Furniture made out of newspapers
  
 Girl with camera
  
Group in new boat in Chelsea Creek in East Boston, sure sign of spring, 1931
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Sunday, October 19, 2014

Louis Edward Nollau

 4-H entrants in musical competition, Boy's Reform School Band 
with band leader, Greendale, Kentucky, 1926
  
 4-H Students and teachers from Kentucky rural schools during 
Rural School Week in front of Natural Science Building
  
 4-H Students from a Kentucky rural school during Rural School Week, 1926
  
 Children building a log cabin
  
 Children with homemade airplane
  
 Exercising
  
 Family listening to the radio
  
 Four women by reflecting pool
  
 Group picture, women's band, University of Kentucky, 1930
    
Tennis players

Saturday, October 18, 2014

African-American Portraits

Another group of portraits of black Americans from the late 19th-early 20th centuries by Joseph Pennell.

 Portrait of Hazel Mcelroy, 1922
  
 Portrait of Hazel Prewitt and children, 1917
  
 Portrait of Julia Richardson, 1898
  
 Portrait of Lt. Barnes and wife, 1918
  
 Portrait of McRobinson baby, 1916
  
 Portrait of Mrs. Ike Perkins and Mrs. Sgt. Dorsey, 1916
  
 Portrait of Mrs. R. C. Scott and son, 1917
  
 Portrait of Mrs. Winfield and friend, 1919
  
 Portrait of Nat Jones family, 1910
  
 Portrait of Robinson children, 1898
  
 Portrait of Smith Family, 1917
  
 Portrait of Soldier, William Jackson, M.s.s. and wife, 1918
  
Portrait of W. H. Harrington family, 1918

Friday, October 17, 2014

Dorothea Lange

 Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California, March 1937
  
 Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp 
near Exeter, California, November 1936
  
 Fighting sand. Childress County, Texas Panhandle. Cultivating weedless cotton fields in Great Plains to break crust and prevent blowing sand from cutting young cotton plants, June 1938
  
 Flood refugee family near Memphis, Texas. These people, with all 
their earthly belongings, are bound for the lower Rio Grande Valley, 
where they hope to pick cotton. They are from Arkansas, May 1937
 
 Hightstown, New Jersey. On this project some of the homesteaders will work on the cooperative farm, some in the cooperative factory. This group represents wives and children of the farm group. This is a Jewish community background. June 1936
  
 Idle men attend the morning movies. There are three such 
movies in one block. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, June 1937
  
 Lunchtime in the field. Camp in background. 
Near Calipatria, California, February 1939
  
 Migrant cotton picker on way to field. Kern migrant camp, California, November 1936
  
 Migrant pea pickers camp in the rain. California, February 1936
  
Near Strathmore, California. From Wyoming and Missouri. Eight years 
in California. Working in lemons. "It's easy for us because we haven't 
got a bunch of kids to get drug around." February 1939