Sunday, May 31, 2015

Dorothea Lange

 People living in miserable poverty. Elm Grove, 
Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, August 1936
  
 Open air food factory. Weighing in the peas 
near Calipatria, California, February 1939
  
 Oregon, Josephine County, Grants Pass. Sunday family picnic. Hot afternoon in park on Rogue River. Her mother, his mother, young husband and wife, two boys, and baby, August 1939
  
 Outside the Labor Temple where the conference called by the Steinbeck Committee during the cotton strike is being held. Bakersfield, California, November 1938
  
Owner's daughter topping tobacco. She has a patch of her own of about 1000 hills from which she will be given the proceeds. Her father buys her clothes and she can have the "patch" money for whatever she wants. She is in the eighth grade; says she doesn't learn as fast as she ought. Granville County, North Carolina, July 1939

Saturday, May 30, 2015

Leslie Jones

 Canoe race, Charles River, June 1931
  
 Lifeboat drill in Provincetown harbor, ca. 1930
  
 Off to sail his first boat at Marblehead, 1917-34
  
 SS Canopic lands in Boston. 4000 immigrants flock to U.S. daily, 1920
  
Rust Craft Girls in gymnasium, ca. 1939
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Friday, May 29, 2015

Misc New Zealand

These photos are unattributed.

 Arthur's Pass, Canterbury, ca. 1900s
  
 Binding department of the New Zealand Herald newspaper, Auckland, 1906
  
 Double decker trams in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, ca 1900
  
 Ladies Rifle Corps, also known as the Wellington Amazons, 
and members of the Wellington Militia, 1899-1902
  
Spectators, Riccarton Racecourse, Christchurch, ca. 1900

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Thursday, May 28, 2015

Frank Denton

 Haka party, several carrying taiaha, 
assembled at Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui, early 1900s
  
 House falling into the Whanganui River during a flood, 26 May 1904
  
 Living room of the Simpson house, with women drinking tea, 1902
  
 Mantu Tahana holding a canoe paddle, ca. 1904
  
Map of New Zealand in the Avon Gardens, Christchurch Botanical Gardens, ca. 1930s
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

William Henry Jackson

These photos were taken in Mexico, sometime between 1880 and 1897.

 Aguadors [water carriers] at the fountain, San Luis Potosi
  
 Canal de la Viga, Mexico
  
 Plaza and fountain, Zacatecas
  
 Street scene in Ixtacalco
  
Washing at the hot springs, Mexico

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Sidney Charles Smith

 A group of three girls, two boys and a man and a woman, 
all dressed in bathing suits, paddling in shallow water
  
 Beach scene at Titahi Bay, 1949
  
 Broadway, Palmerston North, ca 1920s
  
 Courtenay Place, Wellington, 1927
  
Courtenay Place, Wellington, ca. 1939
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Monday, May 25, 2015

Henry Norford Whitehead

 Children having a lolly scramble in a field, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
  
 Hastings women's polo team with horses, Hawke's Bay District, 1930
  
 Horse-drawn dray, carrying a heavy load, probably Hastings district, 1920s-30s
  
 Renault parked outside country house with people looking on, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
  
 Theatre billboards by roadside, movies currently showing 'The American Venus' and 'Lovers in Quarantine', Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
  


Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Sunday, May 24, 2015

Marion Post Wolcott

 Picking up and loading sweet potatoes of Mr. Foushee, owner-operator. Mr. Foushee is sixty-five; has nineteen children. One of his neighbors is helping them get a small share of potatoes. September 1939
 
 Prayer, or grace, at Sunday school picnic in abandoned 
mining town of Jere, West Virginia, September 1938
  
 Pressing juice from sugarcane to make molasses. Racine, West Virginia, September 1938
  
Pressing juice from sugarcane to make sorghum, Racine, West Virginia, September 1938
  
Racine, West Virginia. Making molasses is hot work, Sept 1938

Saturday, May 23, 2015

Samuel Heath Head

 A man in a cage crossing the river near Fordell, Whanganui region, 1890s-1930s
  
 Children from Saint Saviours Orphanage at Waikuku Beach, with sandcastles, 1890s-1930s
  
Electric motorcars, Christchurch, ca. 1910s
[who killed them?]
 
 Main road of small town, possibly Ashhurst, 
showing men talking in the middle of the road, 1890s-1910s
  
Man and woman outside a hut alongside an unsealed road in the bush, ca. 1890s

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Friday, May 22, 2015

Robert Wells

 Child jumping over the high jump at a school 
sports day in Dargaville Domain, 1945-46
  
 Group of unidentified tourists waiting for the ferry on the banks of the Waikato River after sightseeing at Orakei Korako, ca. 1940
  
 Large waves breaking over Mimitu rocks, August 1945
    
 The launch Rotoiti, viewed between bush, rounding a bend in the river, ca 1930
    
Wells and Jackson families at Sandy Bay, March 1946
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand