Ansel Adams

 Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958

  

 Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, 

Yosemite National Park, California, ca. 1968

  

 El Capitan, Sunrise, Winter, Yosemite National Park, 1968

  

 Forest Floor, Yosemite National Park, California, 1950

  

Gates of the Valley, Yosemite National Park, California, 1938

Daniel Manders Beere

Erina Beere outside her house in Whataupoko, Gisborne, ca 1880s

  

Family picnic in the park, under a canopy, 1890s

  

Gerald Butler Beere and family at Takapuna, Auckland, 1896

  

Gum trees alongside and in a pond, probably in Australia, ca. 1890s

  

Unidentified group of workers, outside work shed, 

including man in wagon with horses, ca. 1890s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad took place in World War II from 1941-44 when the Germans surrounded the city almost completely (save for a narrow corridor which the Soviets were able to open in 1943) in an attempt to starve them into submission. The death toll in the city during the siege was said to be upwards of a million and a half. Needless to say, this set of photos is not particularly cheery.

 A farewell in Leningrad, in the spring of 1942. The German Siege of Leningrad caused widespread starvation among citizens, and lack of medical supplies and facilities made illnesses and injuries far more deadly.

  

 Female aircraft spotters on the roof of a Leningrad building, Soviet Union, May 1942

  

 Harvesting cabbage near St. Isaac's Cathedral in Leningrad, August 1942

  

 In a street of Leningrad after German air raid

  

 Leningrad militiamen receive weapons - Canadian Ross rifles model 1910(Mk III), 

and RGD-33 hand grenades on the table

  

 Leningrad, 1944

  

 Residents of Leningrad running through the streets 

in the early days of the Great Patriotic War

  

 Soviet sniper on the Leningrad Front in March, 1943

  

 Soviet sniper, Leningrad, 1942

  

 Soviet soldiers take a break after heavy fighting on the Leningrad Front, 1944

  

 Soviet troops in trenches during the siege on Leningrad, 1942

  

 Standing in the backyard of an abandoned house in the outskirts 

of the besieged city of Leningrad, a rifleman of the Red Army aims 

and fires his machine gun at German positions on December 16, 1942

  

Three men burying victims of Leningrad's siege in 1942

  

 Two female Russian soldiers with their Degtyaryov light machine gun, 

during the Siege of Leningrad, January 1943

  

 Two Soviet snipers in winter camouflage gear 

in the snow near Leningrad. 1941-44

  

 Two teen girls helping to assemble submachine 

guns during the siege of Leningrad, 1943

  

Workers and residents building fortifications outside Leningrad

Axel Lindahl

 Bergen, Tyskebryggen, 1880s

  

 Christiania, Carl Johans Gade, 1902

  

 Hardanger, gathering hay, 1892

  

 Hardanger, returning from church, 1892

  

People outside a storehouse at Gaustadfjell, Telemark, 1880s

  

Source: National Library of Norway

Universite de Caen

 Field work during holidays by high school girls of 

municipal schools in Bagneux. Schoolgirls distributing manure.

  

 In the Tuileries Garden. The crowd listening to 

the concert by the British royal musicians.

  

Opening of the scrap fair in Paris, 5 April 1914

  

 Palm Sunday. Leaving Mass at the Madeleine, while German 

long range guns shell the capital. March 24, 1918

  

 The formation of French youth. Girl Scouts doing 

exercise in a forest in the Paris suburbs.

  

War orphans doing a recreational dance in a villa at Cannes

  

Source: Université de Caen Basse Normandie

William Archer Price

 "Girl Citizens" playing quoits. A movement of the NZ YWCA at the 

Holiday House, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland; probably ca 1929

  

School cadets at Northcote Point, Auckland, ca. 1908

  

View of men working on the hull of a ship at an unidentified dry dock, 1910s

  

Waterfall in the Otira Gorge, 1910s

  

Woman and Maori guide at Whakarewarewa, ca. 1908

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Outdoor class in botany, Washington, DC, ca. 1899

  

 Students of 8th Division school using rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tape 

in school yard, Washington, DC, ca. 1899

  

Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier, 1899-1900

  

Two girls and a boy pumping water at well 

of Hampton Institute graduate, 1899-1900

  

Women painting at easels in a class at the 

Art Students' League, Washington, DC, 1889