Monday, December 7, 2015

Cliff Henderson Collection

Clifford "Cliff" Henderson (1896-1984) was one of the early organizers of the National Air Races, and managed the races from 1928 through 1939.








Source: San Diego Air and Space Museum Archives

Sunday, December 6, 2015

Stewart Collection

Believed to be on Myrtle Bank lawn, children and black attendant
  
Girl with black collar is Louise Learned Metcalfe, 'Ravenna'
  
Lady with black collar is Louise Learned Metcalfe with Robt. Livingston Stewart
  
Major Benbrook residence, SE corner of B St. and N. Pearl, ca. 1895
  
Side yard of Myrtle Bank

Saturday, December 5, 2015

John Florea

John Florea was a photographer who specialized in celebrity portraits; during World War II he became a photojournalist. This set features some of his World War II pictures. Later in life he became a director of TV shows.

A Soviet soldier (left) and an American soldier (right) pose 
for a photograph after the Allied forces meet in Torgau
  
American soldier looking over the bodies of some of the more than 80 
American POW’s murdered by Nazi Waffen SS panzer unit under the 
command of Lt. Colonel Joachim Peiper, Malmedy, Belgium, December 1944
  
Battle of the Bulge, Belgium, 1945
  
Cologne, Germany, 1945
  
Malmedy 1945
  
American soldiers walking past rows and rows of corpses at the Nordhausen 
concentration camp just after its liberation, Nordhausen, Germany, April 1945
  
German civilians being forced by the Allies to bury prisoners killed 
at the Nordhausen concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany, April 1945
  
German civilians being forced by the Allies to bury prisoners killed 
at the Nordhausen concentration camp, Nordhausen, Germany, April 1945

Friday, December 4, 2015

World War I

German prisoners carrying soup for their comrades.
  
In Champagne, sheltered behind a small pine wood, 
the officers of a regiment lunch on the grass.
  
In Champagne. The distribution of 10,000 cigars 
offered by a friend of the captain for his company.
  
In the Somme. In the trenches, the corpse 
of a German soldier killed in the shelling.
  
On the British front (Somme). Artillery
observers signaling an enemy position.
 

Thursday, December 3, 2015

Stanley Park

Stanley Park is in Vancouver, British Columbia. 

Beach near Brockton Point in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, 1900s
  
Carriage in the Hollow Tree, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, 1900s
  
Couple in Oldsmobile in the Hollow Tree, Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, 1900s
  
Cyclists in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, 1900s
  
Entrance to Stanley Park , Vancouver, BC, 1900s
  
Group gathering in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC, 1900s
  
Two views of Stanley Park bridge, Vancouver, BC, 1905
  
Zoo in Stanley Park , Vancouver, BC, 1900s
 

Wednesday, December 2, 2015

Hops

These photos of the cultivation and harvesting of hops are from the Oregon State University Collection and Archive.

"Stringing time for hops" in Independence, Oregon
  
Camp Adair soldiers going to the Terhune hop yard
  
Dorothy and Olgo Brutke picking hops
  
Ernst Family at Horst Hop Ranch, 1946
  
Harvesting hops near Independence, Oregon
  
Hop house in Lowell, Oregon
  
Hop yard scene, Mollala, Oregon, 1905
  
Hop-picking time
  
 Mr. and Mrs. William Rick, Baker, picking at the Mitoma hopyard near Independence. 
They are old timers and have been picking each season for 30 years.
  
Soldiers picking hops
  
 The county experimental hop yard recruited Oregon State 
College coeds for a quick job of hoeing, ca. 1940s
  
Weighing hops

Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Detroit Publishing

A glimpse of the parade grounds, West Point, NY, 1900-15
  
Alberta and Velvet hotels, Old Orchard, Maine, ca. 1904
  
Approaching Yonkers, Hudson River, New York, 1900-10
  
Bath house, Walloon Lake, Michigan, ca. 1906
  
Bathing beach, Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, 1900-10