Winter in Boston

 Cart horse slips in the snow

  

 Wharf during Valentine's Day storm. Biggest storm in 50 years, 1940

  

Woman. Beauty of nature on the snow

 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Dorothea Lange

 Cotton camp near Exeter, California. The woman is a native of California, November 1936

  

 Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, March 1937

 

 Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction 

by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California, May 1935

  

Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. In grower's camp for migrant labor on the edge of the pea fields. Public health nurse interviews and advises prospective mother, aged seventeen, before arrival of first baby. Husband, aged twenty-three, is out picking. Made seventy-three cents this morning. February 1939

Steffano Webb

 Men and women of a tennis club, 1880s-1920s

  

 Miss Symonds, driving through the crowd in a gig decorated with flowers, 

New Zealand International Exhibition of 1906-07, Christchurch

  

 Returned servicemen making a motorcycle side-car at 

Fewing and Company's factory, Christchurch, ca. 1920

  

Sumner Hotel, Grafton Road, Christchurch, 1909

 

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Louis Edward Nollau

 Farewell at train station, September 13, 1918

  

 Man and woman working on a piece of equipment

  

 Three young women surveying, ca. 1940s

 

Tree-lined path from Administration building to Euclid Avenue

[if you look closely you can see a ghosted image of a woman walking on the path]

S. S. Kresge

These photos of this department store (the Kresge chain would later become Kmart) are from Lafayette Photo Studio.

 S.S. Kresge & Company, interior display, 1949

  

 S.S. Kresge & Company, interior, 1948

  

 S.S. Kresge & Company, large group dressed in country 

attire gathered in front of soda fountain, 1949

  

S.S. Kresge & Company, lunch counter, 1934

Vintage Aviation

This is my second set of vintage aviation photos from Leslie Jones (previous here).

 Amelia Earhart, 1928

  

 Commander Byrd's South Pole plane - East Boston Airport, 1928

  

 Jean Assolant and wife, the former Pauline Parker. He flew from 

Old Orchard, Maine to Paris in the Yellow Bird, 1929

  

 Lindbergh is decorated by President Coolidge, Washington, DC, ca. 1930

  

Mrs. Beryl Hart and Lt. W. S. MacLaren, pilots of the 

Tradewind, bound for Azores and Paris last, 1931

 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

George Frederick Kaye

 New Zealand Artillery personnel, probably from 6 NZ Field Regiment, carrying ammunition to their guns through mud and slush on the Italian Front, 24 December 1943

  

 New Zealand soldiers stroll through a typical village 

in the Italian front line area, 10 April 1944 

 

 NZ Infantry closing in on the German HQ of the Sangro River Defence Line at Castelfrentano, Italy, during the daylight attack in which they captured the strongpoint, 2 December 1943

  

NZ soldiers watch returning Italian family unearthing crockery, 16 December 1943

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand