Adam MacLay

 Family in front lawn of single story wooden house, 1905-26

  

 Group of men, women and girls outside a tent, 

possibly Sumner, Christchurch, 1905-26

  

 Group portrait of two men and two women dressed in finery, 1905-26

  

 Men playing cards and musical instruments, 

next to tents at a camp site, 1905-26

  

Portrait of a young girl standing on sacking in a lace dress 

with a large collar, with a black Cocker Spaniel dog, 1905-26

 

Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Mack Hughes

From Mack Hughes, these look like photos of a Valentine's Day dance in the 1950s. Only caption is "Lebus" - completely opaque to me!

Dorothea Lange

 8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day." Near Meloland, Imperial County, California, February 1939

 

 Contra Costa County, California. Bringing cattle in from the range. 

Common sight on California highways, November 1938

  

 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars monthly. February 1936

  

 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum. February 1936

  

 Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County. This family was hungry. They lost a two-year-old baby as the result of exposure during the winter. Holtville, California. March 1937

  

 Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, California. Father is home after a day in the pea fields. Note tent platform, standard equipment in FSA camps. February 1939

  

 Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages, fourteen cents per crate 

of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California, February 1939

  

Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, March 1937

Egypt

These photos of Egypt were taken in 1943 by George Frederick Kaye.

 A markoub load of onions, Egypt, 12 July 1943

  

 A street book stall in Cairo, 16 July 1943

  

 A young local woman sitting on a cart in Cairo, Egypt, 17 July 1943

  

 Archimedian screw in use for irrigation, Egypt, 12 July 1943

  

 Buyers carrying goods off boat on Nile, Egypt, 12 July 1943

  

 Donkey carts loaded with crates in Cairo, Egypt, 11 July 1943

  

Lemonade refreshments available from a tub during the swimming sports of the 19th NZ Armoured Regiment, held at the Alamein Baths in Cairo, Egypt, July 1943

Revelle Jackson

Revelle Jackson was a photographer in the late 1960s-early 1970s. His activity was focused in and around the town of Upper Hutt, New Zealand. These were taken at so-called A&P (Agricultural and Pastoral) shows, which are still going on in New Zealand today.

 A & P Show, overseas visitors, February 1966

  

 A & P show, pet parade, cat, February 1966

  

 A & P show, Shelly Motors' stand, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia coupe, February 1966

  

 A & P show; Tom Croft Motors beauty pageant; entrant, 1967

  

A & P show; Tom Croft Motors beauty pageant; entrants; Tom Croft and wife, 1967
[I guess they don't limit these shows to "agricultural and pastoral" subjects...]

Marion Post Wolcott - Kids

 Child of migratory packinghouse workers. Belle Glade, Florida, 1939

  

 Child of packinghouse workers from Tennessee getting water from filthy canal. Drinking water must be hauled from packinghouse. Belle Glade, Florida, January 1939

  

 Children of defense workers playing outside of their homes in Sunset Village. FSA (Farm Security Administration) housing project. Radford, Virginia, October 1941

  

 Eleven year old child from Indiana. Said "I'm tired and my back hurts, but my mother keeps yellin at me because I'm so slow. We come down here in October, mostly because my father used to be a barber but didn't have any work and I needed the sun because I was undernourished and had lung trouble. The doctor in school told them to take me away." Her mother yelled at her again "Hurry and stop pokin, you can pick faster than that. Your father says to get a move on." Homestead, Florida, January 1939

 

 Migrant packinghouse workers' living quarters- tin and burlap shack in swamp cane by canal. From Tennessee, two families, eight children. Belle Glade, Florida, September 1939

  

Mountain children on steps of school in Breathitt County, Kentucky, September 1940

Harris & Ewing

Hiatus is over! I'm back, starting with these uncaptioned photos from Harris & Ewing.