Tuesday, July 5, 2016

H. Allison

 Milkmaids, 1920s-40s
  
 Ministry of Agriculture - poultry blood-testing class, 1920s-40s
  
 School group portrait, 1900-10
  
 School play group portrait, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, 1915
  
Unknown school group portrait, 1900-10
 

Monday, July 4, 2016

Henry Norford Whitehead

 Opening of the Kaitoa Bowls and Croquet Club, with club members engaged 
in croquet games in front of club rooms, Hastings, Hawke's Bay District, 1932
  
Ruru girls' hockey team, Hawke's Bay District, 1936
  
Sack race participants at Poukawa, 1932
  
 Timber mill, mill workers with stacked timber and machinery, one man 
with young child, and unidentified woman, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
  
Unidentified group with car, probably Hastings district, ca. 1910
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Sunday, July 3, 2016

Charles C. Pierce Collection

 Bathers, Long Beach
  
 Electric side walk car used along beach front, Venice/Santa Monica, ca. 1926
  
 Fording the Little Colorado, 1903
  
 Gutzon Borglum and his wife painting the mill, San Marino, 1887
    
Hilario Ybarra home & family. Upper Main Street, Los Angeles, ca. 1890
 

Saturday, July 2, 2016

The Great Chelsea Fire

The Great Chelsea Fire of 1908, also known as the First Great Chelsea Fire, was a conflagration that occurred on 12 April 1908, in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Nineteen people were killed, fifteen thousand people were left homeless, and 350 acres (140 ha) were burned in the fire. [Wikipedia]







Source: Digital Commonwealth

Friday, July 1, 2016

Vintage Maine

 Father Brown taking tea with friends at Lake City in 1901
  
 Friends and family of Theresa P. Babb at the shore in midcoast Maine
  
 Grace G. and Grace Parker at Lake City, September 1900
   
Knight residence on High Street in Camden, July 1898
 
Picnic at Sherman's Point, 1900
 

Thursday, June 30, 2016

Vintage China

 A Chinese fish market, Huai An, China, 1928
  
 An enterprising ferry company on the Pei Ho river, China, 1901
  
 China's "common carrier" - her substitute for 
railways, a "camel square" in Peking, China, 1901
  
 Chinese Musicians [children], Canton, China, 1919
  
Manchurian ladies at tea and cards, Peking, China, 1902
  
Source: Library of Congress Stereograph Collection

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Vintage Ireland

 Harvest time, ca. 1897
  
Harvest time, Malin Head, Co. Donegal, ca. 1899
  
Hockey players, Tramore, Co. Waterford, 24 March 1904
  
Hotel, Clonbur, Co. Galway, 1865-1914
  
Kenmare Road, Killarney, Co. Kerry, ca. 1910
  
Life on Patrick Street, Limerick, 1910