Sunday, May 24, 2015

Marion Post Wolcott

 Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. Mr. Foushee is sixty-five; has nineteen children. One of his neighbors is helping them get a small share of potatoes. September 1939
 
 Prayer, or grace, at Sunday school picnic in abandoned 
mining town of Jere, West Virginia, September 1938
  
 Pressing juice from sugarcane to make molasses. Racine, West Virginia, September 1938
  
Pressing juice from sugarcane to make sorghum, Racine, West Virginia, September 1938
  
Racine, West Virginia. Making molasses is hot work, Sept 1938

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Samuel Heath Head

 A man in a cage crossing the river near Fordell, Whanganui region, 1890s-1930s
  
 Children from Saint Saviours Orphanage at Waikuku Beach, with sandcastles, 1890s-1930s
  
Electric motorcars, Christchurch, ca. 1910s
[who killed them?]
 
 Main road of small town, possibly Ashhurst, 
showing men talking in the middle of the road, 1890s-1910s
  
Man and woman outside a hut alongside an unsealed road in the bush, ca. 1890s

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Friday, May 22, 2015

Robert Wells

 Child jumping over the high jump at a school 
sports day in Dargaville Domain, 1945-46
  
 Group of unidentified tourists waiting for the ferry on the banks of the Waikato River after sightseeing at Orakei Korako, ca. 1940
  
 Large waves breaking over Mimitu rocks, August 1945
    
 The launch Rotoiti, viewed between bush, rounding a bend in the river, ca 1930
    
Wells and Jackson families at Sandy Bay, March 1946
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thursday, May 21, 2015

Harris & Ewing

 Girl Scouts setting table, 1931
  
 Goodbye to Congress. Gassoway family leave. Rep. Percy L. Gassaway (D. of Okla) packed up his family Friday and stepped on the gas for Coalgate, Oklahoma and home. Gassaway decided not to wait for Congress to adjourn. July 26, 1935
 
 Group of Japanese women at Columbia microphone, 1930
  
 Health for Children, The Hope of the Future, April-May 1924
  
Man and woman at punch bowl, 1935-36

Wednesday, May 20, 2015

James McAllister

 Girls of the Jones family on horseback, 1900-10
  
 Landscape and photographers, ca. 1900
  
 Miss Garlick on horseback, January 1912
  
 Patient under gas in a Dentist's surgery, ca. 1910
  
Women playing croquet, 1909

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Tuesday, May 19, 2015

Jim Fitzpatrick

Mr. Fitzpatrick was an Australian photographer in the 1940s.

 Customers in the hardware section of Bell and 
Macaulay's Store, Drouin, Victoria, 1944
  
 Grocery section, Bell and Macaulay's Store, Drouin, Victoria, 1944
  
 Ladies clothing section, Bell and McCauley's Store, Drouin, Victoria, 1944
  
 Drouin schoolboys playing cricket, Drouin, Victoria, 1944
  
 Drouin schoolboys playing, Drouin, Victoria, 1944
  
Ethel McDonald, farmer's wife, ties her horse in Main Street, Drouin, Victoria, 1944

Monday, May 18, 2015

Edgar Richard Williams

 Akaroa, showing coaches by a wharf, 1909
  
 Digging a drainage ditch in Whakaki, September 1889
  
 Group alongside Tynron, Robert Porter's house at Tuhara, September 1889
  
 Group in the garden of William and Lydia Williams, Carlyle Street, Napier, ca. 1890
  
Lydia and William Williams with their banjos, Carlyle Street, Napier, ca. 1890

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand