Yacht Club

Photos from a Boston-area yacht club, taken by Leslie Jones.

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Samuel J. Hood Studio

 A passenger vessel leaving Darling Harbour, Sydney, 1910s

  

 Group portrait in a ship's cabin, ca. 1916

  

 Man and woman kissing across two vessels

  

 Partial view of a passenger ship docked at a wharf possibly in Sydney, ca. 1925

  

 Portrait of Captain Edward Robert Sterling with three women, ca. 1913

  

 Portrait of two women and a baby possibly on board SS Ormiston, ca. 1934

  

 Professor Oscar Ulrich and Elsie Vonwiller next to Japanese 

Consul General and Madame K Inoue on board HNLMS Java, 1930

  

 Seaman with a cat and kitten, ca. 1910

  

 Ship's officer with pet dog, posed at ship's wheel, 1907-1928

  

 Spectators watching a naval vessel in the harbour, 

possibly the Japanese cruiser HIJMS Izumo, ca. 1905

  

 SS Ceramic departing the White Star Line wharf 

at Millers Point, with crowds and streamers, ca. 1925

  

Two women and ship's officer on the deck of SS Orungal

From the collection of the Australian National Maritime Museum

Leslie Jones Collection

 A jolly bunch of pleasure seekers (Tootsie in foreground) Crystal Lake, Gilmanton, NH

  

 Aftermath of fire on Seneca Street, South End

  

 Apple picking time

  

 Arlington Street traffic, Boston, ca. 1920

  

 Bathing girl, Charles River

  

 Benson Farm, NH

  

 Big freight locomotive and tender wreck, Atlantic Station, 1920

  

 Boston Bean Time on Boston Common

  

 Brockton Fair, 1938

  

 Busy corner in the Market District, ca. 1930

  

 Candlepin bowling, ca. 1954

  

Canoeing on the Charles River, 1914

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Howard Hollem

 A girl team working on a center wing section of a 

B-24E (Liberator) bomber in Ford's big Willow Run plant

  

 Enola O'Connell, age 32, widow and mother of one child, ex-housewife, 

now only woman welder at Heil and Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1943

  

 Feeding an SNC advanced training plane its essential supply of gasoline is done 

by sailor mechanics at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942

  

 Helen Bray, who left school to become a mechanic at a western aircraft plant, 

is making an emplanage section on a new Consolidated transport, 

Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas, 1942

  

 Installing an engine at the Consolidated Aircraft 

Corporation plant. Fort Worth, Texas, 1942

  

 Mating operation on a C-87 transport plane just before it comes to the pre-assembly line at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942

  

 Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis has been appointed by civil service to be senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department at the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas, 1942

  

 Naval Air Base at Corpus Christi, Texas. Jesse Rhodes Waller, aviation ordnance mate third class, tries out a 30-caliber machine gun he has just installed in a Navy plane, 1942

  

 Putting the nose section of a mighty transport plane in place in the fuselage mating fixture at the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation plant, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942

  

 Rita Rodriguez. Production of B-24 bombers and C-87 transports 

at Consolidated Aircraft, Fort Worth, Texas, 1942

  

War production worker at the Vilter Company making M5 and M7 guns for the US Army, Milwaukee, Wis. Ex-housewife, age 49, now doing bench work on small gun parts, 1942

Lafayette Studio

 Four-Star Restaurant, interior view of the wait staff and customer, 1942

  

 Gaidry Motor Company, new Mercury automobile, 1945

  

 Group at fancy dinner, 1931

  

 Group of children gathered around birthday cake on table, 1947

  

 Group of women shopping, 1948

  

 Group of young girls, a man, two women, and two children in costume, 1939

  

 Horse Show with rider performing, 1936

  

 Horse Show, group of people eating, 1936

  

 Horse Show, group of people eating, 1936

  

Horse Show, people preparing food, 1936