Saturday, February 21, 2015

World War II

 These were found at this site.

 German soldier with cat, Voronezh Oblast, USSR, July 16, 1942
  
 Observer who spotted a machine gun nest finds its location on a map so they can send the information to artillery or mortars. Iwo Jima, February 1945
  
 Soldiers in bunks on Army transport, S.S. Pennant, 
Port of Embarkation, San Francisco, California. November 1942
  
 The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon. 
Saipan, November 24, 1944
[this may be one of the coolest photos ever!]
  
VMF 214 "Black Sheep" Squadron at Espiritu Santo. September 7, 1943

Friday, February 20, 2015

William Archer Price

 Cobb and Co coach on board a punt on the Buller River, ca. 1910
  
 Crowd in the vicinity of Shortland Wharf, Thames, ca. 1910
  
 Four Maori girls on a home-made raft paddling down the Kai Iwi Creek, ca. 1910
  
 View of a bus which ran between Blockhouse Bay, 
Avondale and Pitt Street, Auckland, ca. 1910s
  
View of adults and children swimming and 
playing at Shelly Beach, Auckland, ca. 1914
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thursday, February 19, 2015

Marion Post Wolcott

 "That's what you wanna see and that's what you will see and don't 
bring bashful with you 'cause he can't take it." An outdoor carnival comes 
once a year to the mining section. Granville, West Virginia, September 1938
 
 A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can. September 1939
 
 Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Playing checkers outside 
a service station on a Saturday afternoon, June 1939
  
 Group of sixth and seventh grade boys constructing poultry yard fence. 
Brooder was built in their shop class at school. Flint River Farms, Georgia, May 1939
  
People at the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair 
eating a picnic lunch. Shelbyville, Kentucky, August 1940

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Frederick Nelson Jones

 A Ford motor car, ca. 1916
  
 Crowd walking along Nelson wharf during farewell to 
25th New Zealand Regiment, World War I, 9 January 1917
  
 Hospital supplies being packed and sent to Egypt and 
England from the Nelson Red Cross depot, ca. 1915
  
 Regatta (?) at a Nelson wharf, ca. 1910
  
Road damaged by earthquake and flood, Tahuna Hillside, Nelson, 1929
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Lafayette Studio

 Miss Kentucky beauty contest, 1935
  
 Packard Motor Cars, group of people gathered outside of building, 1936
  
 S. Karpen & Brothers, workers upholstering furniture, 1941
  
 Scabbard and Blade military ball, 1935
  
Southeastern Greyhound Lines, banquet for drivers and families, 1939

Monday, February 16, 2015

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

Saturday, February 14, 2015

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!