Vintage Southern California

 Beheading at the Los Angeles Junior College (now Los Angeles 

City College) annual mud battle, February 1936

  

 Los Angeles Junior College annual mud battle, February 1936

  

 Los Angeles Junior College annual mud battle, February 1936

  

 Graduation party, Long Beach Auditorium, 1951

  

McDonald’s, Downey, California, September 6, 1954

Adam MacLay

 A group of people around a Dodge motor car which has 

been decorated with flags and streamers, ca. 1920

  

 Portrait of three young women in costumes holding leaves with berries, 1905-26

  

 Studio Allen family portrait with a young mother sitting on a carved 

wooden chair holding a baby in a christening gown and bonnet, 1905-26

  

 Studio portrait of a small boy and girl

  

Unidentified men in a field stacking a haystack from 

hay carried on horse drawn wagons, 1905-26

 

Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

William James Family

 Bell Telephone Co. rest room, 1912

  

Female students, Annesley Hall, University of Toronto, 1907

  

 First crossing of cable car over Niagara Falls, August 8, 1916

  

 Fishing from boat, Caledon, 1912

  

Garden party, Casa Loma, ca. 1920

 

Source: Toronto Archives

John Boyd Sr. Collection

The collection consists of about 1750 photographs taken by John Boyd Sr., and four scrapbooks of his published work. The photographs in this series were taken between 1887 and 1941, and essentially fall into two groupings: (1) About 1000 13 x 18 cm prints, mostly of Toronto scenes, taken between 1887 and 1941; (2) Two dismantled albums containing about 60 7 x 10 cm prints taken in the 1890s of miscellaneous subjects, including Toronto and Muskoka.

Auto traffic constable - City Hall, September 7, 1918

  

 Automobiling - changing tires, York Mills, April 14, 1918

  

Automobiling - generator troubles, October 15, 1910

  

Automobiling - through orchard, September 27, 1914

   

Automobiling in High Park, June 1, 1918
  

Autos - motorcycle hill climbing Bloor Street, April 27, 1919

 

Source: Toronto Archives

Edgar Richard Williams

 Lydia and William Williams seated in a garden with two others, ca 1890

  

 Lydia Williams, with her dog, in the garden of her cottage at Carlyle Street, Napier, 1888

  

 Men using axes to fell a rimu tree in bush at Leith Valley, Dunedin, 1890s

  

 Pilot Holmes and crew at Worser Bay, Wellington, ca 1883

  

Rabbit hunting on the Otago Central Railway, ca. 1900

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Harris & Ewing

 Salvation Army doughnut race, May 20, 1922

  

 Street view, Washington, DC, 1935

  

 Swimmers, March 1936

  

 W.F. Cassidy of Forth Worth, Tex., one of the 463 graduates of the 

United States Naval Academy at Annapolis today, receives a kiss 

of congratulations from his sweetheart Helen Fisher. May 31, 1934

  

Washington society youngsters impersonate "Horse Marines" at children's horse show. The Misses Jinks of the Horse Marines all set for the Children's Horse Show which will be held in the National Capital on St. Patrick's Day, March 13, 1928

H. Allison

 Amateur dramatics, ca. 1930

  

 Amateur dramatics, ca. 1930

 

 Armagh Girls High School Hockey Team, 1937

  

Joe McBride's Band, The Armagh Syncopators, 1927

  

McCusker's Ceilidh Band, ca. 1920s

["Ceilidh" is pronounced KAY-lee]

Source: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland