Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Mr. Prokudin-Gorskii was a pioneering Russian photographer whose experiments with color were way ahead of his time and gave amazing results, as you can see from these. The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities. An active photographer and scientist, Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook most of his ambitious color documentary project from 1909 to 1915.

Armenian woman in national costume. Artvin

  

Bashkir in national costume

  

 

Command crew of steamship Sheksna MPS

Girl with strawberries

  

In Malorossii

Dorothea Lange

Siler City, North Carolina. Wagons pulled up in field 

one block away from the main street, July 1939

  

Sorghum mill near New Carthage, Mississippi, August 1938

  

 Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care. Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place." November 1938

  

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have 

wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent. I've wrote that we're 

well, and such as that, but I never have wrote that we live in a tent." 1937

  

The older brother teaches the younger on a 

farm in the Piedmont, North Carolina, 1936

William James Family

A Ward's Island backyard, ca. 1908

  

Champions of all the regiments, 

35th Battalion tug-of-war team, ca. 1915

  

Children on toboggans and sleds, Rosedale, ca. 1910

  

Concertina player on Major Street, ca. 1912

  

Costume garden party, 1920s

 

Source: Toronto Archives

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

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

 

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

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!]

 

Source: National Library of Ireland

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