Thursday, November 19, 2015

William Archer Price

Crowded Lake Beach, Takapuna, ca. 1909
  
Men with an empty wagon on a bush railway track, 1900-10
  
View of Ohakune, with a stony river bed in the foreground, 
a team of horses hauling a heavily laden cart across a ford 
in the river, and a swing footbridge behind the ford, ca. 1910
  
View of Orakei Beach, Auckland, ca. 1910
  
View of the Opotiki A & P Show, 1911
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Nils Olsson Reppen

Cafe (?), ca. 1897-1904
  
Krundalen, ca. 1898
  
Maristuen Høifjeldshotel, Filefjell, ca. 1898
  
Maurvollen, Balestrand, ca. 1907
  
Portrait at Laksehamar, Frønningen, ca. 1898
 

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Vintage Ireland

A small group of tourists seeking the alleged eloquence that comes from 
kissing the Blarney Stone at Blarney Castle in Co. Cork, ca. 1897
  
A woman driving cattle on Achill Island, Co. Mayo, ca. 1910
  
America, Co. Galway, ca. 1890
[yes, "America, County Galway" is a real place]
  
At Kilkee, Co. Clare, ca. 1880
  
Baby Cox of Tramore, Co. Waterford, ca. 1899
[that poor dog!]
 

Monday, November 16, 2015

Lewis Hine

Interior of the home of Mrs. Jacob Stooksbury, 
Loyston, Tennessee, November 1933
  
Mr. J. W. Melton and his wife by the fireplace 
getting ready for supper, October 1933
  
Oscar Cloud and family, living in the Norris townsite area. Cloud has been 
a quarryman and farmer. His oldest son is with the CCC, November 1933
  
The Glandon family around the fireplace in their home at Bridges Chapel near Loydston, 
Tennessee. Glandon's wife plays both the guitar and the organ, October 1933
  
Washday at the Stooksberry homestead near 
Andersonville, Tennessee, October 1933

Sunday, November 15, 2015

Samuel J. Hood Studio

Salvation Army in the Domain, ca. 1930s
  
Salvation Army, Newtown, 15 March 1942
  
Skiing, 7 July 1934
  
Surfoplane riding at a Sydney beach, 1930s
  
Truck with caterpillar tread pulls skier through the snow, Kosciusko, 1930s

Friday, November 13, 2015

Robert Wells

 Five children from the Armstrong family playing 
and sliding down a bank at Woolley's Bay, 1946
  
Girls competing in a skipping race at an interschool 
sports day at Dargaville Domain, April-May 1947
  
Haymaking and baling at Morgan's farm, Aratapu, 1946
  
June and Frances Mowat moving sheep, Mangatoi Station, 1930
  
Photo of the school inspector, launch owner and eight children in a launch 
moored at the Mangatoi School jetty on the Mokau River, 1928
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thursday, November 12, 2015

Stereographs

Each of these is one half of a stereograph photo. 

Beautiful girls of the mountain-top town, S. Guiliano - 
view S.E. to mediaeval castle, Sicily, ca. 1906
  
Fifth Ave. and the Waldorf, New York City, 1909
  
 Getting her hair banged, ca. 1900
[cue sexual harassment lawsuit in 3...2...1]
  
Hat and clothes market in the Jewish quarter, Warsaw, Poland, 1919
  
Inside a cotton mill at Malaga - spooling room and girl employees, Spain, ca. 1908