Monday, February 22, 2016

Robert Wells

 Children playing on the river bank, Mangamahu, late 1930s
  
 Group of four people sitting and standing in front 
of a 1932 Ford car at Lake Rotoehu in the 1940s
  
 View down a gravel road with Zeila Wells, wife 
of the photographer, standing beside a car, late 1930s
  
Zeila Wells crouching beside two moored row boats 
on the shore of Lake Rerewhakaaitu with a dog, 1940
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Vintage Ireland

 Cottage Hospital at Coleraine, Co. Derry, ca. 1904
  
 Cottage with fine tied-down thatch, 1860-83
  
 Crowd boarding a steamer, Portrush, Co. Antrim, 1907-14
  
 Donkey rides at Kilkee, Co. Clare, ca. 1870
  
 Doon Well at Kilmacrenan, ca. 1900
  
 Edith (on the left) and Ethel Dillon, daughters of Baron 
Clonbrock, at Clonbrock Estate in Ahascragh, Co. Galway, 1883
  
 Edith and Ethel Dillon outside the Photograph House 
at Clonbrock Estate, Ahascragh, Co. Galway, ca. 1884
   
Egg and Fowl Market, Galway, ca. 1905

Friday, February 19, 2016

Louis Edward Nollau

 Women archers
  
 Women dancing, 1920
  
 Women's athletics, group photograph (field hockey, 
basketball, baseball, volleyball, archery, tennis), 1935
  
 Women's dormitory
  
Women's Residence Hall, interior, 1920

Thursday, February 18, 2016

Detroit Publishers

 Aunt Charlotte, ca. 1900
  
 Beach in front of Sea Foam House, Old Orchard, Maine, ca. 1904
  
 Bi-centenary celebration, floral parade, automobile 
of Wm. Metzger, Detroit, Michigan, 1901
  
 Boardwalk, Asbury Park, NJ, ca. 1905
  
 Boylston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 1910-20
  
 Broadway and American-Adelphi, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1900-10
  
Camel riding, Coney Island, NY, ca. 1905

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Thelma Kent

Group crossing a swing bridge over the Rangitata River in Canterbury 
to get to the ice skating ring at Mount Harper, ca. 1940
   
Man seated on a horse by a pond in Rees Valley, Otago, ca 1939
  
 Men with horse and cart, during road construction alongside the Makarora Bush nature walk and the Mt Aspiring National Park ranger station, Makarora, 1930s
  
 Scene with a car on a rural unsealed road, next to a fern covered 
bank, Fox Glacier district, West Coast region, ca. 1939
  
Woman standing on a fallen tree on the shores of Lake Hauroko, Southland, 1930s
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Northwood Brothers

Group with the aeroplane 'Faith in Australia' on Ninety Mile Beach, 1934
  
Gum diggers playing cards in camp, ca. 1910
  
Lunchtime on the gumfields, ca. 1910
  
 Postmistress, Miss Sophie Mathews, at the 
door of the Kaitaia Post Office, ca. 1915
  
Unidentified group of women and children in a gum 
digging village in the Northland Region, ca. 1910
 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Monday, February 15, 2016

Vintage Alkmaar

 De Dijk, ca 1898
  
 Floats in the parade on the occasion of the inauguration 
celebrations of Queen Wilhelmina on September 13, 1898
  
 Mient, 1898
  
 Mient
  
Two orderlies with a stretcher on wheels, 1916