Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Tennis

Some vintage photos of tennis.

 Early 1900s tennis fashion
  
 French tennis player Suzanne Lenglen competing at Wimbledon, 1926
  
 Ginger Rogers and Jinx Falkenburg at a celebrities tournament at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hill, Long Island, New York. 1950
  
 Ginger Rogers swung for the fences in her 
fashion-forward tennis whites and scarf in 1950
  
 Ginger Rogers with a friend
  
Tennis in the mountains

Monday, June 22, 2015

Frances Benjamin Johnston

 6th Division mathematics class on a street paving problem, ca. 1899
 
 A class at the zoo - the bird cage, ca. 1899
  
 A class in dressmaking, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899
  
 Art class with live model, Normal School, Washington, DC, ca. 1899
  
Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools - 
outdoor exercise with rods - 3rd Division, ca. 1899

Sunday, June 21, 2015

James McAllister

 James McAllister and family, outside, with musical instruments, 1912
  
 James McAllister and family, outside, with musical instruments, 1912
  
 Ladies nail hammering competition, Tututawa picnic, 1910
  
 Men loading horse-drawn carts with milk cans ready for 
transport to a factory in the Taranaki district, ca. 1900
  
Timber industry workers, Taranaki district, early 1900s

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Steffano Webb

 Kaiapoi Woolen Factory interior, 1909
  
 Maori girl with a typewriter, 1906
  
 Preston wedding, Christchurch, 24 February 1914
  
Public telephone box in Christchurch, August 1912
 
Raphael family and their house, Christchurch, 1908

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Friday, June 19, 2015

Women Pilots

From the National Library of Australia come these photos of women airplane pilots.

 Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial entrants 
Meg Cornwell (left) and Margaret Sincotts in the cockpit of an 
Auster J/4 Archer monoplane on the tarmac at an airfield, 1953
  
 Australian Women Pilots' Association Air 
Reliability Trial New South Wales entrants, 1953
  
 Australian Women Pilots' Association member Meg Cornwell 
(second from left) and three other women having a picnic on a field 
next to Auster J/5G Cirrus Autocar monoplane VH-ADY, 1954
  
 Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrant Margaret Pines (left) is shown flight controls in the cockpit of an Auster J/4 Archer monoplane by pilot Jacqueline Smith at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952
  
 Australian Women Pilots' Association scholarship entrants, Jean Lotter, Tessa Williams and Paula Stafford (from left) in front of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AAL at an airfield, New South Wales, November 1952
  
Freda Thompson sitting in the cockpit of a 
de Havilland DH.60G-III Moth Major, ca 1935
  
 Margaret Sincotts turns the propeller while Meg Cornwell sits in the cockpit
of Auster J/4 Archer monoplane VH-AET on the tarmac at an airfield
for Australian Women Pilots' Association Air Reliability Trial, 1953
  
 Nancy Bird and Jack Kingsford-Smith standing next to a de Havilland 
DH.60M Moth (VH-UOZ), Mascot [?], New South Wales, ca. 1933
  
 Portrait of Begum Haroom wearing flying cap in the cockpit of a biplane, ca. 1953
  
Portrait of two aviators, one male and one female, 
being welcomed by five unidentified men, Bathurst, 1932

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Leo White

 Austin 7 car at petrol station with owner filling car, 
children and movie poster for Stella Maris, 1928
  
 Austin 7 car motoring on muddy road, Northland, 1927
  
 Barge transporting a car, Paihia, 1940
  
 Camping near the bush, Mercury Bay, Northland, 1940
  
Canoeing on the Waikato River, 1938
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Frederick James Halse

Another New Zealand photographer.

 Beach at an unidentified location, possibly Marlborough Sounds, ca. 1880s
  
 Group of men, women and children, 1904
  
 Miss Thode and party at Kohimarama mission station, February 1885
  
 Picnic on a bank, 1892
  
Yachting picnic at Lowry Bay, Eastbourne, 1891
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand