Alexander Hogg

Alexander Hogg was an Irish photographer who took an extensive series of pictures of the poorer sections of Belfast. It appears that these photos were connected with some sort of urban renewal effort. These date to 1912.

 Boundary Street area showing Boundary Street, 

Cargill Street, O'Haggarty's Street, and Shankill Road

  

 Boundary Street area showing Gallagher's Yard off Dayton Street

  

 Boundary Street area showing Louden Street

  

 Christian Place area from Irwin Street, Belfast

   

Stanley Street area showing Grosvenor Road, Belfast

 

Source: Public Records Office of Northern Ireland

Vintage New South Wales

Harris family, Sydney, ca. 1877

Bob Dangar & Miss Stephen, ca. 1885

  

 Cyrus Moss: Woman with her new Maxwell 

car and dog, Shoalhaven, ca. 1920

  

 

Float in Sesquicentenary parade "Australia's March to Nationhood", 26 January 1938

 

Float in Sesquicentenary parade "Australia's March to Nationhood", 26 January 1938

 
Source: State Library of New South Wales

1950s Missouri

 

 

 

 

 

 

Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives

John Florea

When last we saw the work of John Florea, it was of his dark and dire photos of the European theater in World War II. Here we are about as far from that subject matter as possible, with these pictures of postwar southern California beach life.

A couple plays cards at Santa Monica Beach, California

  

A man climbs on the roof of Neta's hot dog stand at Hermosa Beach, California

  

A surfer catches a wave in the distance at Hermosa Beach, California

  

A woman sunbathes at Hermosa Beach, California

  

 Belly-sliding, a perilous but pleasant sport, is demonstrated 

by an expert at California's Hermosa Beach

  

 Daring young man flies off trampoline at California's 

Santa Monica Beach, where movie starlets show off

  

Gymnastics in the sand at Hermosa Beach, California

  

Pretty girl gets fast and foamy surf ride on inflated mattress cover at Hermosa Beach

  

 The perils of blanket tossing are happily undergone by pretty Miss Norma Baker with the help of eight husky friends at Hermosa Beach in California

  

Young men take a break for cigarettes and Coca-Cola at Hermosa Beach, California

Axel Lindahl

These were taken in the vicinity of Saeterdalen, a former administrative unit in Norway, merged into other units in 1919.

Source: National Library of Norway

Julia Margaret Cameron

Ms. Cameron was a pioneering art photographer from England.

Elaine "And reverently they bore her into Hall", 1875

  

Ellen Terry at age sixteen, 1864

  

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, 1875

  

Pray God Bring Father Safely Home, 1872

  

Queen Esther before King Ahasuerus, 1865

  

The Rosebud Garden of Girls, 1868

Eugène Trutat

Eugène Trutat was a French photographer active in the late 19th-early 20th century.

At Benqué, Gourdon Maurice, 1885

[Benqué is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the "mid-Pyrenees region".]

  

Auto Béraldi, Luchon, August 1906

  

Auto Béraldi, Luchon, Vallée du Lys, 1906

  

Chalet de Berthe, Mme et Mr Blanc Léon, September 1901

    

Fairgrounds with cattle, Foix, 1905

 

Source: Bibliothèque de Toulouse