William James Family

Some Toronto area entertainments.

 

 

Children playing in canoe, Sunnyside beach, ca. 1908

  

Lacrosse game, Hanlan's Point Stadium, 1911

  

 Motorcycle pulls loaded bobsled, High Park, ca. 1912

  

The diving horse at Hanlan's Point, 1907-08

  

Women playing softball, ca. 1924

 

Source: Toronto Archives

Detroit Publishing

 Bugler of New York Naval Reserves on U.S.S. New Hampshire, 1890-1901

  

In the surf at Old Orchard, Maine, 1890-1901

  

Life-saving lookout, Atlantic City, NJ, 1900-20

   

Packet James Lee, 1900-15

 

Passengers on boat approaching Hotel Marion, Lake George, NY, 1900-15

Leslie Jones

Fans cover up at rainy Fenway Park, Boston

 

 Female fans leaning over the railing at Fenway Park, Boston

  

Flood in Haverhill, Massachusetts, January 1937

  

 Flooding, January 1937

  

 Four alarm fire in Chelsea

  

 G.A.R. vets P.R. Barker and John Houder from Fitzgerald, Georgia, 

tell war stories to kids on historic Boston Common, August 1924

  

Girls with tubas, 1941-45

  

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Munitions factory

These photos of a munitions factory were taken shortly before the advent of World War I. In one of the photos is a calender showing March 1914.

Anders Beer Wilse

Isskjæring med Heste, 14 February 1908

  

Karasjok. Houses with grass roofs, 1933

  

King Edward and group at Voksenkolutsigten, 30 April 1908

  

 Reimersberget

  

 Solbergs plass, Kjerkgata, 1900-10

[looks like the exact same street as in the photo above]

 

Source: National Library of Norway

Walter McClintock

Gives-To-The-Sun on travois horse with White Calf immediately in front

  

Indian man, woman, and young child in ceremonial dress

  

 Indian woman standing at cooking tripod near 

water with two young Indian girls at her left

  

North Piegan women

  

Two Indian girls seated in field of flowers

 

Source: Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Vintage SoCal

New service station, 2nd and South La Brea, Los Angeles, 1931

  

Publicity shot for Frank W. Dillin tire company, Los Angeles, 1932

  

San Fernando and Fletcher, Glendale, 1936

  

X-ray machine, Los Angeles, 1931

[this looks like a scene from a horror movie]

  

Yellow cab telephone girls, Los Angeles, 1926