More photographs from Portugal.
Postings of vintage photos from the mid 1800s through World War II. Most are lightly edited.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Henry Norford Whitehead
Mr. Whitehead was another New Zealand photographer.
A farmer using a plough machine attached to a team of
work horses in the field, Elsthorpe, Hawkes Bay, 1920s-30s
Apple orchard with apples on the ground, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
Buick convertible with woman and Pomeranian dog
parked by farmland, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
E Williams and family sitting in front of an open tent, Hawkes Bay, 1920s-30s
Hastings High School students exercising on school fields,
with staff supervising, Hawkes Bay District, ca. 1933
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Monday, April 27, 2015
Sydney Charles Smith
Sydney Charles Smith was a New Zealand photographer active in the 1910s-1940s.
A crowd of people at Lyall Bay beach, Wellington. There are some
children playing on a 'Witches Hat' on the beach, 1929
Arawa Street, Rotorua, 1923
Children on the beach, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1929
Families doing laundry at a relief camp for victims of the
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Palmerston North
Horse drawn carriage collecting shingle at Owhiro Bay, Wellington, ca. 1910
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Thelma Kent
Thelma Kent was a New Zealand photographer who had a real eye for landscape photography.
A woman on horseback and children, ca 1939
At Lake Manapouri, Southland, 1939
Camping in the Lake Coleridge district during a storm.
Rainbow appearing over the Craigieburn Range, ca. 1939
[this is one I'd like to see in color!]
Group of six women having breakfast at a table while camping. There is a box of Weetbix on the table and some of the women are eating eggs. Ngaire Hooper is seated front left and photographer Thelma Rene Kent is at the head of the table. 1937
Karamea Bight, ca 1939
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Dorothea Lange - Kids
Children and home of migratory cotton workers. Migratory camp,
southern San Joaquin Valley, California, November 1936
Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato
pickers' camp near Shafter, California, May 1937
Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp. California, February 1939
Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter.
Randolph County, North Carolina, July 1939
Entire enrollment of Lincoln Bench School. Teacher in center.
Near Ontario, Oregon, Malheur County, October 1939
Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp.
Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children
during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley. February 1939
Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the
state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and
it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty
dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. February 1936
Friday, April 24, 2015
Jack Delano
Along a road near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941
An outdoor potato grader using migratory labor. At the freight station
in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. July 1940
At the change of the shift at the Penomah Mills Inc.,
Taftville, Connecticut, November 1940
Boys at the riverfront in Norwich, Connecticut, November 1940
Cleaning turpentine cups in boiling water at a still near Pembroke, Georgia, April 1941
Thursday, April 23, 2015
James McAllister
Mr. McAllister was yet another New Zealand photographer.
At Ngamotu Beach, New Plymouth, ca. 1910
Bushmen's camp, 1901
Group on a grass tennis court in front of a house, probably in Stratford, ca. 1900
Group taking a break during oat harvesting, 1914
McAllister family on a horse drawn wagon, 1910s
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Russell Lee
Children of Negroes dressed in Sunday best for ceremonies, memorial services.
All Saint's Day, New Roads, Louisiana, November 1938
Mrs. Erasty Emvich in her kitchen. Mrs. Emvich is the wife of a tenant farmer and mother of twelve children, eleven of them living. Near Battle Ground, Indiana, March 1937
Mrs. Ray Allen and two of her children in their home
near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, June 1937
One of Erasty Emvich's sons weaving a rug in farmhouse near Battle Ground, Indiana. Mr. Emvich, tenant farmer and father of twelve children, also weaves in his spare time, March 1937
Prizewinning stallion bought with Farm Services Administration loan to
serve cooperative group in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, Summer 1939
Railroad workers, Port Barre, Louisiana, October 1938
Some of the residents of the transient camp operated by the state
of Michigan at Hagerman Lake. About a hundred men are quartered here,
mostly old lumberjacks, miners, and other unemployables. Some of these
men stay for just a short time. When men come to camp they are usually
undernourished. April-May 1937
Washday at the FSA (Farm Security Administration)
Camelback Farms, Phoenix, Arizona, February-March 1942
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