J. C. Coovert Collection

Photographer J. C. (John Calvin) Coovert was born in Danville, Kentucky, in 1862 and arrived in Greenville, Mississippi, around 1887. His studio, Patorno and Coovert, won a gold medal from the Paris Exposition in 1889 for "best state views." He went into business for himself around 1891, operating as Coovert's Photograph Gallery in Greenville, Memphis, Vicksburg, and Yazoo City, among other locations. He eventually settled in downtown Memphis, where he worked until his death, at age 75, on August 18, 1937.

Coovert is best known for his photographs of the cotton culture and the Mississippi River. However, Coovert's documentary photography covered a wide range of work activities and social conditions, including the programs of the Memphis Health, Police, and Public Works Departments.

These photos come from here.

Camp Ben Humphreys, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1897

  

Refugee camp, 1897

  

 Throwing up a new levee on the river front. 

Old levee was sloughing, March 30, 1897

  

African American men and women picking cotton, ca. 1900

  

African American men on loading docks, ca. 1900

  

The Robert E. Lee, ca. 1900

Vintage Toronto

These photos come from the Toronto Archives.

Baby Show at the Creche, Euclid Avenue, October 13, 1917

  

Baby Show, Memorial Institute, June 30, 1917

  

Exterior - patient in bed. Cot and umbrella supplied 

for patient who refused sanitarium care, September 6, 1912

  

High Park, Forest School, September 6, 1928

  

Houses with tent in yard. Patient who has hip and lung lesions 

spent winters at Gravenhurst and summer in the tent on grounds 

of his brother's market garden on Christie Street, October 29, 1913

Samuel J. Hood Studio

 Baby ballet show, ca. 1935

  

 Child performers

  

 Chorus girls in swimsuits

  

 Hubert Opperman and woman, possibly 

Edna Sayers, on tandem bicycle, ca. 1936

  

Mug of milk, ca. 1930

New Hampshire

These photos of Keene, New Hampshire come from this Flickr set.

 Children of Fred E. Kingsbury in a pony cart, Keene, New Hampshire

  

 Group in old car, Keene, New Hampshire

  

 Line up of automobiles, Keene, New Hampshire

  

 Men on bicycles, Keene, New Hampshire

  

 Milk Delivery, Keene, New Hampshire

  

 Old carriage, new car Keene, New Hampshire

Vintage Japan

These historical photos of Japan are from the National Museum of Denmark Flickr site; they were part of a collection which belonged to a journalist named Holger Rosenberg.

Costică Acsinte

Costică Acsinte was a Romanian photographer. His career began during World War I and continued through the 1940s. He established a studio in the town of Slobozia. The photos posted here are from this archive. Many of them are in poor condition, but still constitute an amazing documentation of life in small-town Romania.

Ian Mackley

Mr. Mackley photographed New Zealand troops in the Korean War.

5 pounders of 162 Battery, 16th NZ Field Regiment, 

in action in Korea, 8 November 1951

  

Australian and New Zealand troops at concert by 

band of US 1st Cavalry Division, Korea, 25 July 1952

   

Australian and NZ personnel alongside their notice outside 

Anzac Park, a new playing field they have built alongside forward 

defensive positions. Rugby, soccer, athletics and other sports October 1951

  

Gun crew in action, Korea, 1 April 1952

  

Kiwis at 10 Coy RNZASC gather around their 

Xmas tree at Coy HQ, December 1951

  

New Zealand gunners sitting around a 

space heater, Korea, 6 October 1951

  

New Zealand sappers having a beer outside their hut, Korea, 1951-52

  

Sergeant J M Bragg, Gunner D J Humphries and Gunner D J Kelly operating a 25 pounder during the first major offensive of the 1st British Commonwealth Division, Korea, October 1951

  

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand