Hiatus

Greetings, all. I am announcing that this site will be on hiatus for around a month. I am finding that the time I have to devote to image preparation is more constrained lately and rather than feeling stressed about it I'm just taking some time off to build up my store of postable photos.

I will be back sometime in February. Happy 2015!

Mack Hughes

 Lambda Chi formal, ca. 1950s

  

 Lambda Chi formal, ca. 1950s

  

 Lambda Chi formal, ca. 1950s

  

 Square dance, ca. 1950s

  

Square dance, ca. 1950s

Steffano Webb

 Tailoresses at work, clothing factory, Christchurch, 1911

  

 Turnbull and Jones, electrical engineers, staff at work in workshop, Christchurch, 1917

  

 Unidentified woman standing beside a Kinman cannon at Britomart Reserve, Akaroa, ca. 1920s

[There have been seven ships named "HMS Britomart". 

I suspect this is the one referred to in the picture.]

  

Victoria Street, Christchurch, with tram, ca. 1910

 

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Christmas, Part 2

These Christmas photos are from Harris & Ewing.

 Elinor and Gloria, daughters of Capt. and Mrs. Emmett Gudger and granddaughters of Sen. Walsh of Montana, and their Christmas tree. 1930

  

 Elizabeth and J. Hamilton Fish, 3rd, children of Rep. and Mrs. J. Hamilton Fish of New York, and their attractive Christmas tree. 1930

  

 Group of children with Santa, 1930

  

 Perhaps the Rhineland grows bigger yule trees than this one, but these German kiddies are quite happy with the American product. They are Adelaide, Hubert and Charlotte, children of Rudolph Leitner, First Secretary of the German Embassy, and Mrs. Leitner. 1930

 

 The children of Sen. and Mrs. James J. Davis and their Christmas tree. The youngsters are Jewel, Joan, Jean, Jane and James, Jr., the five J's. 1930

  

 Xmas tree and children, 1930

  

These happy boys grouped about their Christmas tree are George, Jr., Clarkes, and Frederick, the sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Akerson. Mr. Akerson is President Hoover's Secretary. 1930

Christmas, Part 1

Photos of Christmas scenes from Lafayette Photo Studio.

 Baby next to Christmas tree, 1944

  

 Baby sitting next to Christmas tree, 1944

  

 Children opening presents beneath Christmas tree while parents watch, 1945

  

 Girl playing with a doll next to a Christmas tree, 1939

  

 Girl sitting next to Christmas tree, 1943

  

 Montgomery Ward Company, children's Christmas display, 1946

  

 Odd Fellows Hall, Christmas Party with Santa, 1942

  

Santa parade, 1935

Russell Lee

 Lumberjacks near Littlefork, Minnesota, July 1937

  

 Mrs. Smallwood and her baby in the shack which they 

share with another family near Alvin, Wisconsin, April 1937

  

Rural school in session near Tipler, Wisconsin, April 1937

Harris & Ewing

More uncaptioned photos from Harris & Ewing.

 1925

 

 1926

  

 1930

  

1936

Winter in Boston

 Cart horse slips in the snow

  

 Wharf during Valentine's Day storm. Biggest storm in 50 years, 1940

  

Woman. Beauty of nature on the snow

 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Dorothea Lange

 Cotton camp near Exeter, California. The woman is a native of California, November 1936

  

 Eighteen year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant, March 1937

 

 Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction 

by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California, May 1935

  

Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley, California. In grower's camp for migrant labor on the edge of the pea fields. Public health nurse interviews and advises prospective mother, aged seventeen, before arrival of first baby. Husband, aged twenty-three, is out picking. Made seventy-three cents this morning. February 1939

Steffano Webb

 Men and women of a tennis club, 1880s-1920s

  

 Miss Symonds, driving through the crowd in a gig decorated with flowers, 

New Zealand International Exhibition of 1906-07, Christchurch

  

 Returned servicemen making a motorcycle side-car at 

Fewing and Company's factory, Christchurch, ca. 1920

  

Sumner Hotel, Grafton Road, Christchurch, 1909

 

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Louis Edward Nollau

 Farewell at train station, September 13, 1918

  

 Man and woman working on a piece of equipment

  

 Three young women surveying, ca. 1940s

 

Tree-lined path from Administration building to Euclid Avenue

[if you look closely you can see a ghosted image of a woman walking on the path]

S. S. Kresge

These photos of this department store (the Kresge chain would later become Kmart) are from Lafayette Photo Studio.

 S.S. Kresge & Company, interior display, 1949

  

 S.S. Kresge & Company, interior, 1948

  

 S.S. Kresge & Company, large group dressed in country 

attire gathered in front of soda fountain, 1949

  

S.S. Kresge & Company, lunch counter, 1934