Friday, July 7, 2017

Eugène Trutat

Group portrait, Luchon
  
Monte Carlo, April 1904
 
Nice. Flower market, April 1899
 
On the way to Bonaguil
 
The capitol decorated, 14 July 1899
 
Source: Wikimedia Commons

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Paul Stang

Children in rain coats, ca. 1920
  
Marie Stang playing the fiddle, ca. 1910
 
These boys from the Stang and Gjerde farms were hired to transport sand 
and cement to the dams being constructed in Stongfjorden, ca. 1910
 
Two men playfighting in the street, ca. 1910
 
Winter in Stongfjorden, ca. 1910
 

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Detroit Publishing

Riverside Inn, Saranac Lake, Adirondack Mountains, NY, ca. 1909
  
Sagamore dock, Green Island, Lake George, NY, ca. 1904
 
Schooley's Mountain, road from Hackettstown, NJ, 1890-1901
 
Shore Drive, Lincoln Park, Chicago, ca. 1905
 
Silver Bay Hotel, Lake George, NY, ca. 1906

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

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

Monday, July 3, 2017

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

Sunday, July 2, 2017

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
  

Saturday, July 1, 2017

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