Friday, December 5, 2014

Dorothea Lange

 Farmer and boy in the fall of the year at the time the hunting season opens. They live in a white painted house across the road. Jackson County, Oregon, October 1939
  
 Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. February 1936
 
 Migratory agricultural worker family along California highway. U.S. 99, March 1937
  
 Migratory family in auto camp. California, November 1936
  
 Migratory family traveling across the desert in search of work in 
the cotton at Roswell, New Mexico. U.S. Route 70, Arizona, May 1937
  
 Morning mail at the Mineral King cooperative farm, Farm Security Administration, Tulare County, California. Old ranch house, California type, in the background. Buildings will be replaced by modern structures suitable to community farming. November 1938
  
 Napa Valley, California. More than twenty-five years a bindle-stiff. Walks from the mines to the lumber camps to the farms. The type that formed the backbone of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in California before the war [i.e., World War I]. December 1938
 
 One pea picker's home. One-half mile off Highway 101 
at Nipomo, California, February 1936
  
 Two boys from New Mexico now in California to work in the harvests, Spring 1937
  
Wife and child of migrant worker, encamped near Winters, California. This is a proposed location of Resettlement Administration migrant camp, November 1936

Thursday, December 4, 2014

Albert Percy Godber

 A shelter in the bush and timber workers boiling a billy nearby, Piha, 1915-16
  
 Car crossing a road bridge across the Mangahao River, near Mangahao, ca. 1930s
  
 Four people with a car, motoring near Whangarei, 1923
  
 Group with car, Christmas Day, on the Waikanae 
to Akatarawa Road, Wellington region, 1923
  
 Man transporting logs with horses and railway in the Akatarawa Bush, Hutt Valley, 1912-16
  
 Picnic group, possibly a wedding party, at Belmont, 1909
  
 Scarfing a kauri tree preparatory to sawing, near Piha, 1915-16
  
View of the Arapuni Dam under construction, ca. 1928

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

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Leslie Jones

 Girls on bikes at observatory
  
 Guns on USS Tampa that stopped rum runners off Massachusetts coast, 1924
  
 Harvard commencement, 1944
  
 Makeshift sailboats on the Charles River
  
 Market corner at Blackstone & Hanover Streets, 1956
  
 Miss Genevieve Peabody of Salem
  
 Parade of old-fashioned carts and wagons
  
 Santa feeds pigeons, Boston Common, 1928
  
 Train wreck in Readville, 1923
  
Two women doing a fire drill with masks on

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Adam MacLay

 Family in front of their home, 1905-26
  
 Family portrait in front of trees, 1905-26
  
 Family portrait, four women in high neck collar dresses, with hats 
and holding umbrellas, standing in front of bushes, 1905-26
  
 Group of people in costumes, wearing suits, dresses, hats, 
with riding crop and false beard, in a greenhouse, 1905-26
  
 Group of summer campers posing for a group portrait, ca. 1902-03
  
 Members of a women's hockey team with their mascot and cup, 1905-26
  
 Studio portrait of young girl in shirt and dungarees riding a tricycle, 1905-26
  
 Three unidentified young male youths amongst pine trees, 
probably Christchurch district, 1905-26
  
Women with bicycles in a garden, 1905-26
 
Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Monday, December 1, 2014

Strawberry Festival and Carnival

This group was captioned "Plant City, Florida, strawberry festival and carnival." They were taken by Marion Post Wolcott and are dated 1939.





 [if you look closely at the back pants pocket of the boy, 
you can see peeking out of it a picture of Wonder Woman!]
 

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Harris & Ewing

 Flood, 1932-33
  
 Judges at Bal Boheme. These judges, presiding at the Bal Boheme 
in Washington Monday night, are, from the left, Clifford K. Berryman, 
C. Powell Minnigerode and Charles Bittinger. February 1935
  
 Bal Boheme winner. Mr. and Mrs. Melville Grosvenor of Washington drew upon the resources of a king to capture first prize at the Bal Boheme, a social event of gaiety and costume held annually. Judge Charles Bittinger, President of the Arts club, is making the award. Mr. Grosvenor, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor of the National Geographical Society. February 1935
  
 Grace Coolidge and children dressed in colonial 
clothing. White House, Washington, DC, 1923-29
[Which one is Grace Coolidge? See here.]

 Henry C. Wallace and group of girls at garden, 1922
[Mr. Wallace was Secretary of Agriculture.]
    
 Miss Adelaide Hughes caused quite a little excitement on F St. Saturday when she strolled on the busy street with her pet fox, Washington, DC, 1924
  
 Police escorting woman outside U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC, 1932-33
  
 Standing water at US Capitol, Washington, DC, 1915-23
  
 These two prominent members of Washington's social set enjoy the clear, cold aftermath of the blizzard which left the streets covered with nearly a foot of snow, January 1935
  
Women with tuba, 1928