Schools

Arthur Rothstein: School at Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937

 

Carl Mydans: School at Skyline Farms, near Scottsboro, Alabama, 1936

 

Frances Benjamin Johnston: African American children and teacher in classroom 

studying corn and cotton, Annie Davis School, near Tuskegee, Alabama, 1902

 

Joseph Pennell: Chapman High School Home Economics class in session, 1913

 

Russell Lee: Negro school at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois, 1937

 

Teacher and children in front of sod schoolhouse. 

Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, ca. 1895

Celebrities

Addison Scurlock: Marian Anderson is shown greeting Interior Secretary 

Harold Ickes in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC April 9, 1939

 

Dick Whittington: Amelia Earhart & plane, Southern California, 1932

 

GG Bain: Geraldine Farrar and Gerryflappers

 

Harris & Ewing: Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and 

his wife, sat with other mothers and fathers watching their offspring 

say 'Merry Christmas' in their native tongues. December 1939

 

Hoagy Carmichael with Dana Andrews and Merle Oberon in 'Night Song'

 

Leslie Jones: Mary Pickford backstage in Boston 

wearing $2.98 dress and $1.00 hat, January 1934

 

Theodore Roosevelt preparing to go into Yellowstone National Park, 1903

People in Costume

Adam MacLay: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified child 

in fancy dress as a 'Aulsebrook Biscuit' box, ca. 1915-20

 

Dick Whittington: May Company circus, Southern California, 1930

 

Harris & Ewing: Grace Coolidge and children dressed 

in colonial clothing. White House, Washington, DC, 1923-29

 

Henry Norford Whitehead: Hastings Carnival with women in various costumes, in Dutch national dress and horse riding gear, outside the Hastings Hotel, Hawke's Bay District, 1932

 

Leslie Jones: Halloween party, possibly Children's Hospital

 

McGuffey High School play participants, 1912

Picnics

Adam MacLay:  Group picnicking, showing men, women and children 

sitting around food and crockery which is laid out on a cloth, ca. 1910

 

 Albert Percy Godber: Group having a picnic in bush beside 

the Taieri River, with a whitebait net nearby, 1926

  

Costică Acsinte: Group outdoors at a picnic

  

Frederick James Halse: Picnic on a bank, New Zealand, 1892

 

Marion Post Wolcott: Picnic at Irwinville Farms, Georgia, on May Day, 1939

 

Paul Stang: A group of people having a picnic at a 

mountain farm in the Stongfjorden area, ca. 1910

Dancing

Arthur Rothstein: Dance hall, Saturday night, Marshalltown, Iowa, 1940

 

Charles Fenno Jacobs: Southington, Connecticut. Dancing at the Old Mill, May 1942

 

Esther Bubley: In the canteen for enlisted men at the United Nations 

service center on a Saturday night, Washington, DC, 1943

 

George Frederick Kaye: Italian civilians dancing in the streets in 

celebration of their liberation by NZ troops, 24 April 1945

 

Jitterbugging

 

Mack Hughes: Square dance, ca. 1950s

 

Robert Doisneau: Be Bop cellar, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, 1951

 

Russell Lee: Native dance by Spanish-American children 

at the fiesta, Taos, New Mexico, 1940

Horse and Buggy

 Adam MacLay: Outdoors on dirt road with poplar trees behind, a girl riding 

a two wheeled sprung cart being pulled by a Shetland pony, 1905-26

  

Barbara Wright: Finland, ca. 1941

 

Detroit Publishing: A hansom at Madison Square, New York, 1900

 

Frank Hohenberger: Three Munnert girls in horse cart, 1896

 

Frederick Nelson Jones: Bride about to enter a horse drawn carriage, ca. 1910

 

John Dobree Pascoe: Man and woman in a two horse cart crossing the Rakaia River. 

 Manuka Point Station, Rakaia River Valley, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1940s

 

Marion Post Wolcott: Wagon in center of town on Saturday. 

Jackson, Breathitt County, Kentucky, September 1940

 

Russell Lee: Loading groceries into buggy, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1938

Ice Skating

Boston Public Garden, ice skating

 

Detroit Publishing: Skating at Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, 1900-1910

 

GG Bain: Skaters on Tuxedo Lake, Tuxedo Park, New York State, 1910-20

 

Leslie Jones: Ice skating, Public Garden

 

Leslie Jones: Maribel Vinson, national champ, fancy skater, 1929

 

John Collier: New York, New York. Ice skating in Rockefeller Center, December 1941