Wednesday, February 8, 2017

1927 Flood

Rolling Fork, Mississippi, May 2, 1927
  
South of Rolling Fork, Mississippi, May 2, 1927
  
Valley Park, Mississippi, May 2, 1927
  
 
Vicksburg, Mississippi, May 3, 1927
 
 Y and M. V. R. R. Station, Egremont, Mississippi, May 2, 1927
 

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Leo White

 Unidentified Maori women wearing traditional dress, Rotorua, 1936
  
 Unidentified members of the [Royal New Zealand?] Air Force, standing in formation 
in front of Vickers Vincent aircraft, an an unidentified aerodrome, 1940
  
WAAF, RNZAF, Hobsonville, January 1942
 
Woman bathing a baby beside a tent while camping, 1940
 
Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Monday, February 6, 2017

Arthur Griffin Collection

Iceboating
  
Old Home Day Service, Sudbury, Massachusetts
  
Outdoor market, Boston
  
 Showgirls getting ready
  
Tunbridge Fair, Vermont
 

Sunday, February 5, 2017

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
 

Saturday, February 4, 2017

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

Thursday, February 2, 2017

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

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

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.