Thursday, February 4, 2016

Albert Percy Godber

 Motor road roller working on the Mangaroa to Kaitoke road, ca. 1924
  
 Native bush on the Korokoro track, ca. 1908
  
 Scene at a dairy farm, 1906
  
 View of Hongi's Track. Two women are seated in the left foreground (the one on the left wearing a hat is the photographer's wife Laura Godber). Two unidentified men are seated beneath a very tall tree, and there is a car (possibly a Buick) with chauffeur waiting in the middle distance. 1929
 
View of a Chevrolet car parked at Elbow Bend on the Mount Cargill to Waitati Road, with a man and a woman standing alongside. The man is identified as F? Perry, probably with Mrs Perry, ca. 1926
 
Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

A group of Jewish boys with the teacher. Samarkand
  
A group of workers harvesting tea. Greek women
  
Andrei Petrov Kalganov
  
 At harvest time
  
In Paltogie

Monday, February 1, 2016

Henry Armytage Sanders

 A New Zealand 18 pound gun in action at Beaussart, France, 23 May 1918
  
 A New Zealand battery advances into the captured 
village of Achiet Le Petit, 24 August 1918
  
 A section of New Zealand Riflemen in 
newly captured Bapaume, 29 August 1918
  
 Members of the Queen Mary's Auxilary Army Corp present at the sporting events 
held at the New Zealand General Base Depot at Etaples, France, 3 August 1918
  
Moses, the donkey mascot of the New Zealand Army 
Service Company, in a playful mood, 20 April 1918

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Painter Collection

 Aline Howell
  
Skating scene, 4 lined up. Mississippi River, ca. 1918
  
View at Moon Lake Fishing Club, July 1912
  
View from Steamer James Lee
  
Working on sipe water at Mullen crossing
 

Saturday, January 30, 2016

World War II - in color

 American medics in Normandy after D-Day
  
 American servicemen drive in jeeps through an unidentified 
and nearly completely destroyed town, Italy, May 1944
  
 American troops in France
  
 British and South African soldiers hold up Nazi trophy flag while combat engineers on bulldozers clear a path through the debris of the bombed out city of Cassino, Italy in 1943
  
D-Day, Omaha Beach

Friday, January 29, 2016

Stereographs

 Children in Central Park, 1909
  
 Heartbreakers along the seashore, 1898
  
 North side of Washington Square, New York City, 1909
  
 Oxford St., London, England, ca. 1909
  
The London of Charles Dickens, ca. 1900