Saturday, May 21, 2016

Misc New Zealand

 A procession of horse and carts led by Tamahau Mahupuku, 
with members of the Hikurangi Brass Band in the background, ca. 1890s
  
 At Adam's Homestead, Collingwood, ca 1890s
  
 Boat on the Whanganui River, ca 1900s
  
 Friendly societies sports, Collingwood, 1897
  
J M Marks - At Peel Forest, 1890-1915
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Friday, May 20, 2016

Christina Broom

Another set of Ms. Broom's photos of English suffragettes.

 Suffragette procession promoting the Women’s Exhibition held 
at the Prince’s Skating Rink, Knightsbridge, May 1909
  
 The Prisoners' Pageant, including key members  of the WSPU, 23 July 1910
  
 The Putney and Fulham WSPU shop and office, London, 1910
  
 The Women’s Coronation procession, June 1911
  
 The Women’s Social and Political union (WSPU) drum and 
fife band at the Women’s exhibition, May 1909
  
Younger suffragettes promoting the Women’s Exhibition, May 1909

Thursday, May 19, 2016

World War I

 A German communications squad behind the Western front, setting up using a 
tandem bicycle power generator to power a light radio station in September of 1917
  
 A German dog hospital, treating wounded dispatch 
dogs coming from the front, ca. 1918
  
 A German soldier holds the handset of a field telephone to his head, as two others 
hold a spool of wire, presumably unspooling it as they head into the field
  
 A German soldier throws a hand grenade against enemy 
positions, at an unknown battlefield during World War I
  
German soldiers flee a gas attack in Flanders, Belgium, in September of 1917

Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Dick Whittington

 Drive-in theater. 1934
  
Kids making movies, View Park, Los Angeles. 1928
  
 Louella Parsons dinner party, Montmartre Cafe, 
6757 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles. 1929
[Ms. Parsons was a prominent Hollywood gossip columnist]
  
 Mayday, Griffith Park, Los Angeles. 1930
  
See's Candy Co., 519 West Washington, Los Angeles. 1931

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Vintage Maine

 Boating at Lake City on Megunticook Lake in August 1899
  
 Buckboard ride to Northport and Belfast, August 20, 1898
  
 Buckboard ride to Northport and Belfast, August 20, 1898
  
 Camping crowd at Ogier Point
  
Children at Lake City on Megunticook Lake in 1898
 

Monday, May 16, 2016

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Cabin in the woods for lumberjacks and priests
  
Caravan of camels, carrying feed. Golodnaiya steppe
  
 Harvesters taking lunch
  
 Nomadic Kirghiz. Golodnaiya steppe
  
Work at Baikal mines

Sunday, May 15, 2016

Charles Elliott Gill

Jennie Ware Lanier lies on a hammock while Mary Ware 
looks on. The two are camping at Twin Springs, ca. 1910
  
John Bell's barn
  
Stone Hill Store, March 17, 1891
  
Two boys, a man, and a dog on a fishing trip, 1900-20
  
 
Young women in white with flower baskets, 1900-10
 
Source: Charles Elliott Gill Photograph Collection, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City