Cornell University

 Classes and class activities, 1905

  

 Cornell University Commencement procession leading to Libe Slope, ca. 1912

  

 Crew from above

  

 Delta Gamma sorority sisters, 1895

  

First colored women voters, 1921

Marion Post Wolcott

 Coal miner, his wife and one of their many children. Bertha Hill, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Coal miner's wife and children (note child's legs) in back 

of their home. Bertha Hill, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Coal miners waiting for the bus, eating ice cream suckers 

(popsicles). Pursglove, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Midway and carnival, Shelby County Fair and 

Horse Show, Shelbyville, Kentucky, August 1940

  

 Migrant labor. Young packinghouse workers. Canal Point, Florida, February 1939

  

Migrant laborer's family, packing house workers. Canal Point, Florida, February 1939

Albert Percy Godber

 Hans Peter Knutzen sitting on the verandah of his home, Piha, 1915-16

[more about this photo and its subject]

  

 Two men 'tripping' the Anawhata dam, Piha district, 

to allow logs to flow through, ca. 1916

  

 Two women and a baby seated alongside the driver of a 

two-horse buggy at Mendip Hills, Hurunui District, 1917

  

 View of the Moonshine Bridge over the Hutt River. Two young women 

with bicycles are standing at the near end of the bridge, ca. 1920

   

View of Whiteman's Valley Road in 1921. The photographer's wife 

and daughter, Laura and Phyllis Godber, stand in the foreground

 

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

Greene County

These photos of labor unrest in Greene County, Georgia are from Jack Delano.

 CIO pickets jeering at few workers who were entering 

a mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. May 1941

  

 CIO pickets jeering at few workers who were entering a mill 

in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. May 1941

  

 Mill workers who lived largely in rural areas being taken through CIO picket line at a textile mill in Greensboro, Georgia. The lockout lasting about three months ending in a signed contract. May 1941

  

 Pickets outside a textile mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

  

 Pickets outside a textile mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

  

Pickets outside a textile mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

Revelle Jackson

 'The Sound of Music', Taylor House, Geange Street, November 1966

[well, I sure recognize a number of the LPs at upper left...

I wish I could read the top 40 list though]

  

 Animal Rescue Dog Show, September 1970

  

 Art club Spanish evening

  

 Ballroom Dancing Competition, 1968

  

Boy Scouts first aid class

Egypt

This is a second set of photos taken in Egypt in 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Previous set here.

 Man winnowing near Tura, Egypt, 18 July 1943

  

 Native tailors in the street of Maadi village make minor alterations to the uniforms of New Zealanders from the nearby camp, 16 July 1943

  

 New Zealand soldiers on leave standing at official hitch hiking point in Cairo, 16 July 1943

["Official hitch hiking point" - how times have changed!]

  

 Rural scene with animals and children beside a canal near Tura in Egypt, 18 July 1943

  

 The melon market on the Mad Mile, Cairo, 17 July 1943

  

Vendors at the melon market, Cairo, 17 July 1943

World War II - African American Troops

 Miss Josephine Baker, popular stage performer, sings the national anthem as the finale to the show held in the Municipal Theater, Oran, Algeria, N. Africa. The band is directed by T/Sgt. Frank W. Weiss. May 17, 1943

  [Here is a film about "Josephine Baker: The First Black Superstar"]

 

 Negro air cadet shown on a cot in his barracks studying as he 

gazes fondly at his collection of photos of his girl friends

  

 Negro soldiers draw rations at the camp cook house at their station in Northern Ireland, 1942

  

 Negro troops of the 24th Infantry wait to advance behind a tank assault on the Japanese, along Empress Augusta Bay on Bougainville, 1944

  

Pvts. George Cofield and Howard J. Davis guard a newly-constructed bridge site over the Rhine River, built by U.S. Ninth Army Engineers. March 30, 1945