Thursday, July 7, 2016

Horace Warner

In 1901-2, Horace Warner took photos of East End street kids, who he called 'Spitalfields nippers'. A self-taught photographer in his personal life – and a wallpaper printer for William Morris in his professional – Warner took 240 photographs of the local children, of which only 30 survive. Here is a brief film about Mr. Warner and his work.

 A girl wears a fine dress from an earlier era, 
probably obtained at the nearby Houndsditch rag market
  
 Annie, seven and one-year-old Nellie sit sad and hungry 
on sacking outside their house in Spitalfields
  
 At the Whitechapel Gallery to see the Burne Jones exhibition, 1901
  
 Brothers
  
Celia Compton
  
In Pearl St (now Calvin St)

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Stewart Collection

 Steamer Charles D. Shaw
  
 Unidentified African American men, women and children, ca. 1890
  
 Unidentified family, ca. 1890
  
 Unidentified house
  
Walter McBee (fire engine on scene of fire), ca. 1890
 

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