Wednesday, November 4, 2015

H. Allison

Photographs by "H. Allison and Co."

A night at the opera, 1933
  
Female choir, ca. 1910
  
Musical septet with intruments and trophy, ca. 1920
  
Scene from school play, 'Humpty Dumpty', Royal School Armagh, 1931
  
Women's tennis match, ca. 1910
 

Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Vintage Finland

Nylands Nation's Building on Kasarmikatu, 1908
  
Student Union Building on Itäinen Heikinkatu, 1908
  
Swedish Theatre, 1908
  
Tallberg Building on Aleksanterinkatu, 1908
  
Vilhonkatu, 1908
 

Monday, November 2, 2015

Miami University

Children with dog and pig in backyard
  
Corrine Barrett reading in her dormitory room, 1908
  
Dance performance at Oxford College May Day celebration, 1922
  
Horse drawn sleigh with passengers in front of 'Miami Steam Laundry'
  
McGuffey High School play participants, 1912
[premiering this fall on the CW]
 

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Norwegian Wedding

These photos are of a "traditional wedding in Ulvik in Hardanger [Norway] in May 1954". 

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
 

Saturday, October 31, 2015

Leo White

Maori wahine performing an action song, Waikato, 1938
  
Maori women in traditional kapa haka performance 
dress, including puipui and poi, 1925-35
  
Paddle boat on the Waikato River, 1938
  
Row of Blackburn Baffin biplanes in a row on the ground 
with a group of young air force men checking the wing, 1938
  
Royal New Zealand Air Force Airspeed Oxford 
aeroplanes in flight near Auckland, 13 September 1940
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Friday, October 30, 2015

G. G. Bain

Arms traffic. The disaster at Dubai. The surrendered rifles 
on the quarter deck of the HMS Fox, ca. 1914
  
At Rockaway Hunt Meet - fashion mannikins, 1910-15
  
Auto Polo, Coney Island, ca. 1910-15
  
Crowd of children with flags outside City Hall in 
New York City, during an Americanization rally on April 27, 1917
  
Eddie Cantor family
[Mr. Cantor was a very famous entertainer]

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Frank Denton

Five members of the Dixieland Jazz Orchestra, ca. 1930s
  
Members of the Simpson family having tea in a sitting room, 1902
  
 NZ beauties. Two women with long hair about their shoulders 
and moko. One wears a tagged cloak and holds a patu.
  
Putiki Maori children's choir, 1924
  
Sacred Heart Convent school, Wanganui, 1912
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand