Friday, August 21, 2015

G. G. Bain

 Alice Brady draped in Old Glory
  
 American silent film actress and model Olive Thomas, 1915-20
[here's a sample of her work: The Flapper]
  
 At start of air mail service
  
 Becky Edelson and Louise Berger addressing anarchist gathering, 1910-15
["Capitalism: the evil; Anarchism: the remedy"]
  
Brooklyn baseball fans at the 1916 World Series seated with Jennie Veronica 
Murphy McKeever, wife of one of the Brooklyn team's owners

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Vintage Ireland

I found these wonderful pictures at PastPin.

Alexandria School's, Dublin
  
Augusta Congreve at the side entrance of Clonbrock House, 
Ahascragh, Co. Galway, 31 January 1866
   
Blackrock Road, Cork City
  
Miss Crowe and Mr Gildea with their pupils at Kilglass 
National School, Ahascragh, Co. Galway, 1 January 1902
  
On parade at the Barracks, Nass, Co. Kildare
  
Robert Edward Dillon and his sister Georgiana, practising 
archery in the grounds of Clonbrock House, Co. Galway, 1883

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Thelma Kent

Robert Murrell's boat Pilgrim and Leila Black, Lake Manapouri, 1939
  
Snow capped Mount Tutoko seen from the Hollyford River, 1930s
  
View of Ashburton Gorge, Canterbury, ca. 1930s
  
Woman by Lake MacKenzie, 1930s
  
Woman walking among white fronted terns at Waitaki, Otago, ca. 1930s
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Saying Goodbye

These poignant photos of servicemen taking leave of their sweethearts/wives in World War II were taken by famed photographer Alfred Eisenstadt.









Monday, August 17, 2015

Henry Norford Whitehead

Farm workers picking a bumper tomato crop within a field, 
Nichol's farm at Bay View, Napier, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
  
Girls in costume on the back of a decorated truck, for an 
unidentified parade, Hawkes Bay, 1920s-30s
  
Group of unidentified children in fancy dress during the Napier parade, 
including one pushing a relief workers wheelbarrow, 1920s-30s
  
Hastings Carnival with women in various costumes, in Dutch national dress 
and horse riding gear, outside the Hastings Hotel, Hawke's Bay District, 1932
  
Motor car decorated for Hastings Carnival, 1932
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Frank Denton

 Sacks of pumice being transported by barge, Whanganui River, 1923
  
 Two young girls walk along a country road under a 
large tree in autumn, Havelock north, ca. 1920s
  
 Unidentified Maori woman gathering seafood (probably oysters) 
off the rocks, possibly in Paihia, 1895-1900
  
 Whanganui River in farmland, with a small boat on the water, ca. 1920s
  
Woman in a Model T Ford Runabout, ca. 1913
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Saturday, August 15, 2015

Albert Percy Godber

 Locomotive boiler in the Petone Railway Workshops, 
with William Albert Godber sitting on top, ca. 1906
  
 Rangiuru house, 63 Hutt Road, 1911
  
 Steam railway locomotive "Sandfly" travelling along a trestle bridge on the Karekare beach tramway. Three men on a wagon behind the engine are named as Knutzen, Millington, Austin, 1915
  
 Three people standing by a car at Thompson's Bush (Mud Creek), 
Invercargill. Standing on the left are Laura Godber and Phyllis Godber, 
and the man on the right is identified as Frank Bonifant, ca. 1926
  
Tearooms and sanatorium at Kamo Springs, 1911
  
Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand