Vintage New Zealand

Children in the children's ward of Wellington Hospital, ca 1928

  

Deer hunters in a dinghy, ca 1920s

 

Group of people watching the eruption of Mount Ngauruhoe, Waikato, 1926

 

Primary school classroom and pupils, ca. 1920s

 

Women strawberry pickers, Lower Motueka, early 1920s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Axel Lindahl

Dovrefjeld, Fokstuen med Snehætten, ca. 1880-90

  

Lapplanders with reindeer, 1880-90

 

Lapplanders with turf hut, 1880-90

 

Romsdalen, farmers from Eikisdalen, 1880s

 

Ulfsfjorden by Ulfsnæs, 1880-90

 

Source: Wikimedia Commons

Road Trip 1954

On July 31, 1954, freelance photographer Rosemary Gilliat and her girlfriends, Anna Brown, Audrey James and Helen Salkeld, packed up Helen’s Plymouth station wagon and began their 12,391-kilometre road trip across Canada. During the next 38 days, they crossed five provinces and four states, travelling through Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, Washington, Montana, North Dakota and Minnesota, and returning to Ottawa on September 6.

Helen Salkeld, Audrey James, Anna Brown and Rosemary Gilliat (left to right) 

getting ready to leave Ottawa, Ontario for their Trans-Canada Highway trip, July 31, 1954

  

 Anna Brown, Helen Salkeld and Audrey James stopping at 

Deep River (Ottawa River), Ontario. July 31, 1954

  

Audrey James in a tent, possibly near Temagami, Ontario, July 31, 1954

 

Where do we go from here? Audrey James standing at a large road sign on 

the Trans-Canada Highway near Kirkland Lake, Ontario, August 1, 1954

 

Audrey James, Anna Brown and Helen Salkeld erecting 

tents, Moonbeam, Ontario, August 1, 1954

 

Anna Brown half asleep in a tent, Moonbeam, Ontario, August 1, 1954

 

Downtown street in Hearst, Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Supper by deserted gold mine buildings, possibly 

near Geraldton, Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Anna Brown cooking outdoors, possibly in the vicinity of 

Klotz Lake near Geraldton, Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Anna Brown getting out of a lake in Northern Ontario, August 2, 1954

 

Anna Brown and Helen Salkeld on a lakeshore, Nipigon, Ontario, August 3, 1954

 

Supper beside English River, Ontario, August 3, 1954

 

 Anna Brown and Helen Salkeld erecting tents, 

English River, Ontario, August 3, 1954

  

Source: BiblioArchives/LibraryArchives Canada

Vintage Ireland

 Mr Murray's theatrical group, all dressed up to perform The Runaway Girl pictured 

at the rear of City Hall/Theatre Royal on The Mall in Waterford, 11 December 1921

  

Muckinish Castle, near Ballyvaughan in Co. Clare, ca. 1885

 

North Frederick Street and Hardwicke Street, Dublin, ca. 1912

 

Otter hunt at Curraghmore near Portlaw, Co. Waterford, 14 May 1901

 

School treat, tea, Co. Galway, September 1904

 

Source: National Library of Ireland

Sam Hood

Dog with backpack, 1939

 

Finish, Goulburn-Sydney Dunlop road race, Joseph St, Lidcombe, ca. 1936

 

Skiing and snowfields, ca. 1935

 

Sydney Boys' High School Team, ca. 1925-1940

 

The Syd Roy Lyricals dance band, Wentworth Hotel, Sydney, 1929

Vintage Middle East

"There's no place like home!"; dwelling and 

shop of a Gypsy blacksmith, Syria, 1900

  

A Greek priest blessing the village children in Ramah, Palestine, 1900

 

Baptizing in the Jordan, 1899

 

Bedouin musicians by their tent, 1919

 

Calisthenics at Miss Arnot's Mission, Jaffa, Palestine, 1900

 

Feasting in the harem - typical costumes and furniture, Constantinople, ca. 1913

 

Ice cream merchant, Constantinople, Turkey, 1898

 

Music school, Syria, 1905

 

Source: Library of Congress Stereograph Collection

Philip Timms

Chinatown. East Pender Street near Carrall Street, Vancouver, 1904

  

Chinese men in front of post office. Royal City 

Planing Mill at the south end of Carrall St., 1900s

 

Dominion Day celebrations, 1 July 1906

 

Dominion Day celebrations, 1 July 1917

 

Dominion Day celebrations, 1 July 1917

Source: Vancouver Public Library Historical Photo Collection