Vintage Ireland

One of the lowlights of British tyranny in Ireland was the landlord system, and one of the corollaries, eviction of tenants from their properties. These are pictures of some evictions. They date from the 1880s.

Source: National Library of Ireland

Leslie Jones

 Girl with turkey

  

 Lawrence strike, February 26, 1931

  

 Peek-a-boo bathing girls, 1917-34

  

 Revere Beach crowd, ca. 1920

  

Women sitting on edge of pool

 

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Adam MacLay

 Group of unidentified men, women, babies, and a toddler, 

by a pond, in the garden of the house behind them, ca. 1908

  

Group outdoors, probably Christchurch district, 1905-26

  

 Outdoor portrait of an unidentified child in fancy dress 

as a 'Aulsebrook Biscuit' box, ca. 1915-20

  

Portrait of a young girl with a bow in her hair, 1905-26

  

Studio portrait of six musicians with instruments, ca. 1900s

 

Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

John Collier

 Children crowded up on the feet of "Hail to the Sunrise" bronze Indian 

to have their pictures taken. Mohawk Trail, Massachusetts, October 1941

  

 Christmas in a Washington home, December 1941

  

 Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Amish women 

attending farm auction, March 1942

  

 New York, New York. Ice skating in Rockefeller Center, December 1941

  

Serving dinner aboard American airliner from 

Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles, December 1941

William James Family

 Crossing Toronto Bay on the ice, foot of York Street, ca. 1911

  

 Crowd boarding ferry, Royal Canadian Yacht Club 

wharf 20, Toronto Island, ca. 1930

  

 Crowd tries to board truck, 1919

  

 Cyclists, Centre Island, 1908

  

 Double high wheel bicycle, 1934

  

 Eglinton ford, West Don River, ca. 1912

  

Family reads Armistice Day headlines, November 11, 1918

 

Source: Toronto Archives

Harold McMurrich Rathbun

 Adults outside the ice-cream pavilion at Massassauga Point, 

Prince Edward County, Ontario, part of a Sunday School excursion, 9 July 1908

  

 Small group in garden, 1909

  

 The Brockville, with many people on board. This photograph was taken on 9 July 1908, possibly at Massassauga Point, Prince Edward County, Ontario, as part of a Sunday School excursion.

  

 Three women sitting outside a building. Left most is 

Marjorie Rathbun, the photographer's younger sister. August 1908

  

 Three women taking tea beside the Bay of Quinte 

in Prince Edward County, Ontario, August 1909

   

The same three women as above

 

Source: Deseronto Archives

Kristian Berge

 Kaldhusseter, 1924

  

 On the Boknafjord, ca. 1918-20

  

 Skinneslok seter, 1921

 

 Soldiers resting at Holmøyane, 1914

  

Tryvannshøgda, Oslo, 1921

 

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane