Saturday, January 21, 2017

Vintage Missouri

 Annual Swope Park picnic for Urban League of Kansas City, ca. 1930
  
 Group posing with threshing machine, ca. 1908
  
 Independence High School, 1901 graduating class. Harry S. Truman is 
4th from left in back row; 2nd row, far right is Elizabeth Wallace (Bess Truman); 
front row, far left is Charles Ross (Truman's Press Secretary).
 
 Missourians from Greentop travel to 
Keokuk, Iowa, for a dam opening, 1908
  
Ruth Law and three men pose with car and plane used in 
Flying Circus act at the Missouri State Fair, August 1921
 

Friday, January 20, 2017

Croquet

 Mountain View House, 1922
  
 Play grounds, Breitenbush Hot Springs, Oregon, 1910-19
  
 Priory ruins & croquet grounds, 1910-19
  
 Recreation grounds, croquet lawn, 1916
  
The school from the grounds. Convent, 
Canonesses of St. Augustine, Hull, 1910-19
 

Thursday, January 19, 2017

Frank Rinehart

 Band of Sioux warriors
  
 Fox of Iowa, Bead Work
  
 Hattie Tom, Chiricahua Apache
  
 In Summer, Kiowa
  
Kiowas, 1898

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Charles C. Pierce Collection

Main Street North from Fourth St., Los Angeles, 1924
  
 Santa Monica, opening day of Pacific Electric Railroad, April 1, 1896
  
Spanish dancers at plaza, Olvera Street, Los Angeles, 1920
  
Tennis players costumes of early days, ca. 1900
  
Tenth and Spring Streets - run on 
All Night & Day Bank, Los Angeles, 1910

Monday, January 16, 2017

Vintage Missouri

 A group of young women eat at the counter of 
drugstore soda fountain, October 23, 1945
  
 Bee Creek School, ca. 1920
  
 Family Store, ca. 1950
  
 Line of trucks filled with corn going to 
elevator, Sikeston, September 8, 1949
  
 Parade in St. Joseph, 1947
  
Women sit at long row of sewing machines in a garment factory, ca. 1945
 

Sunday, January 15, 2017

Russ H. Gilbert Collection

 A group of young women is leading the procession to the dedication of the 
World War I monument at the Montcalm School in Chicopee, May 31, 1920
  
 Aldenville Canning Club, 1920
  
 Eight Red Cross nurses, heading for the dedication 
ceremony at Montcalm School, May 31, 1920
  
 On the podium in front of the Montcalm School, school children are 
singing at the dedication ceremony of the World War I monument, May 31, 1920
  
School children in patriotic costumes form a ring 
around the World War I monument, May 31, 1920
 

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Indiana University

Alpha Gamma Delta women around a piano, October 1947
  
 ATO Costume Dance, October 1949
  
 Commissary, January 1949
  
 Dames Ball, December 1947
  
 Delta Gamma, October 1947
  
 Dorm room at Sycamore Hall, November 1947
  
Four women having a pillow fight in their dorm room, January 1949