Ann Rosener

 I'll carry mine. Delivery vans, 1942 style, line up outside a Greenbelt, Maryland, grocery store awaiting customers. Tire scarcity and gasoline rationing have placed such service at a premium, and these youngsters who are using their express wagons to carry home Mrs. America's purchases are doing their country a real service. November 1942

  

 I'll carry mine. Junior should wipe that worried frown off his face, for he's doing his Uncle Sam a favor by sharing the carriage with his mother's purchases, November 1942

  

 I'll carry mine. There's nothing like a husky and willing escort to simplify a shopping expedition, now that deliveries of goods have been curtailed to conserve tires and gasoline, December 1942

  

 In the war against waste, American housewives are learning the basic steps of wise buying - buy by weight, not by number; buy in quantity, February 1942

  

 That washing machine has to last for a long time, so keep it in good 

condition. Drain it immediately after use, rinse tub thoroughly, 

remove agitator or suction cups and rinse with clear water. February 1942

 

 There's no June in January for the housewife with economy and Victory on her mind. Buying foods out of season means less food for more money, and less money available for household staples and defense stamps. February 1942

 

 Wartime food demonstration. With wartime food shortages creating many nutritional problems for housewives, Ida Lansden, home economist, explains the necessity of preserving the vitamin content of available foods to war workers' wives in an Alexandria, Virginia housing settlement. March 1943

 

Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. A good day's work done, employees of a large Midwest supercharger plant line up to punch their timecards. With women comprising 80 percent of its workers, its nothing unusual to find an all-female contingent like this one at the plant. Allis Manufacture Company. October 1942

Edgar Richard Williams

Edgar Richard Williams was a New Zealand photographer. Most of the photos in his collection were taken by his father, William Williams.

 Bull, sledge, boys and dog at Surat Beach, 1895-1900

  

 Edgar and Owen Williams and Edith Kenworth inspect a Nikau palm flower bud, 1901

  

 Group of children, Motohou, near Wanganui, 1903

  

 Group of women at Waiwhetu Pa, ca. 1880s

  

Lydia Myrtle Williams, reclining in a hammock with a book and a fan, 

in the garden of the house in Carlyle Street, Napier, ca. 1889

 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Marion Post Wolcott

 Negro sharecropper and two wagehands shucking corn for the landlord, a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of highway No. 14, Orange County, North Carolina, September 1939

  

 Playing checkers with bottle caps along highway between 

Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, September 1938

  

 Political poster on sharecropper's house, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939

  

 Project family picking peas in their garden, Flint River Farms, Georgia, Spring 1939

  

Rolling store which goes from door to door selling groceries, hardware, drygoods, drugs, and a variety of household and farm supplies. Near Montezuma, Georgia, May 1939

Louis Edward Nollau

 Women making formations on gymnasium floor

  

 Cooking class, 1941

  

 Group picture of women (cadets?)

  

 Student demonstration, angel food cake, Campbell County, 1934

  

Three women doing headstands

Charles Bayliss

Charles Bayliss was a 19th century Australian photographer. These photos all date to 1886.

 "Flooded out!", a homestead lease on Toorale Station, Darling River, New South Wales

  

 Bullock teams at Wilcannia, Darling River, New South Wales

  

 Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, South Australia

  

 Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New South Wales

  

 Junction of Darling and Murray Rivers, taken from Victorian side

  

 Lake Woytchugga near Wilcannia, Darling River, New South Wales

  

On Culpaulin Station on the Darling River, New South Wales

The Roosevelts

More pictures from Harris & Ewing of America's former First Couple.

 Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt was the guest of honor and principal speaker at the first birthday luncheon of the Women's Auxiliary of Argo Lodge of B'nai Brith, 13 October 1939

  

 Mrs. Roosevelt and Easter egg rollers, 1937

  

 Mrs. Roosevelt and Helen Keller, 1936

  

 President and Mrs. Roosevelt entertain disabled veterans at garden party, 21 May 1936

  

President assists Camp Fire Girls in opening new 

national headquarters in New York, 6 March 1939

Albert Percy Godber

 A Hudson motor car being photographed, ca. 1926

  

 A wooden slab hut with a cloth roof, photographed in the bush with Albert Percy Godber standing outside, at the doorway, holding a bucket, Kitenui Knob in the background, 1915-16

  

 Bridge over a stream, set amongst native bush at Anawhata. The manager of the Piha Sawmil, Hans Peter Knutzen, is standing on the bridge. Half-way up the tree in the centre right of the image is a sack, under which is a nest of bees. 1917

 

 Bungalow with verandah and paling fence, ca. 1911

  

Kauri gum climbers at work near Anawhata, 1915-16

 

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