Stewart Collection

The Stewart Photographic Collection consists of black-and-white images from prints of glass plate negatives created by amateur photographers (and brothers) Robert Livingston Stewart and William Percy Stewart of Natchez, Mississippi, around 1890-1905. The photographs are primarily of the Natchez area and focus on the Stewart family and activities such as dedication ceremonies, winter storms, floods, steamboats and river scenes.

Robert Livingston Stewart (October 24, 1854-July 28, 1912) and William Percy Stewart (May 20, 1858-April 25, 1928) were sons of Natchez furniture dealer Robert Hill and Caroline Heermans Stewart, grandsons of Natchez cabinetmaker Robert and Susanna Marschalk Stewart, and great-grandsons of early Mississippi printer Andrew Marschalk. Robert Livingston Stewart worked as an accountant in New York and as a bookkeeper in Natchez. He never married, but around the time of his death he was living with his sister, Mary, and a sister-in-law, Chrissie (married to his brother, Rev. Walter Lee Stewart), in Natchez. He was described on page three of the July 30, 1912, Daily Democrat as "a man of quiet demeanor, always gentle and kind, speaking in low, well modulated tones...." William Percy Stewart's front-page obituary in the April 26, 1928, Natchez Democrat proclaimed William "a man of magnetic personality" who "was Senior Member of oldest Firm in Mississippi—Was Widely Known And Esteemed in This Section." He was a cadet at Jefferson Military College in Washington, Mississippi, and a member of the Natchez Rifles. He married Catherine Schwartz and operated the hardware firm Schwartz and Stewart in Natchez (one of the largest south of Memphis from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries) with his brother-in-law, John Edward Schwartz, leaving the business to his son, Robert Percy Stewart. William's daughters, Catherine and Margaret, appear in several of the photographs.

Bicyclists

  

Family on steps. Currently the home of Dr. Thom. Gandy, 

408 North Pearl Street, ca. 1895

  

Myrtle Bank terrace

  

Outdoor scene

  

 

R. H. Stewart store located in proximity of the Tillmans store. 505 Franklin St, ca. 1890

Misc New Zealand

 Children in the playground at Khandallah Park, Wellington, ca 1927

  

 Department of Education buses at Piopio School, Waitomo district, 1924-25

  

 Historical pageant, Duke & Duchess of York's royal tour, 1927

  

 People watching an exhibition game at the opening of the 

tennis courts at Wellington East Girls College, 3 November 1926

  

Photograph of a group in costume, reconstructing 

a scene showing settlers landing at Petone, 1920

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Vintage Mexico

These photos of Mexico were taken by William Henry Jackson. All date from 1880-1897.

 An idle crowd

[no degrading stereotypes here, no sir]

  

 Bathing in the hot springs acequia

  

 Ferry at Puente Real

  

 Groups about the sugar mill, Temasopa

  

Noonday bivouack, government troops

Northwood Brothers

Maori woman with a catch of fish, Northland Region, ca. 1910

 

Maori women working with fern roots

 

Men in a row-boat on Houhora Harbour, Northland region, 1930s

 

Nicholas Covich's gumfield and diggers, Ahipara Hill, Northland region, ca. 1930

 

Ranganui, Otamatea County, ca, 1930s

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Hotel Ezra Cornell

From the Cornell University website, "Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) is an annual weekend-long educational conference, a 90-year tradition at the Cornell School of Hotel Administration, put on by the students for hospitality industry leaders." The 90th Hotel Ezra Cornell took place in March of this year. Here are some photographic mementos from earlier ones.

 Hotel Ezra Cornell. Six newly-married couples 

standing near Willard Straight Hall, May 9, 1934

  

 Waiters' Derby, 13th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, 1938

  

 Twelve waitresses, with one mannikin, who will serve at 

13th annual opening of Hotel Ezra Cornell, May 13, 1938

  

 14th Annual Hotel Ezra Cornell, May 12, 1939

  

Waitresses' Derby, Hotel Admin, 1944

George Frederick Kaye

F K Gourlay, of 22 NZ Battalion, climbs into Bren carrier 

adapted for evacuating wounded in Rimini, Italy, 22 September 1944

  

French Moroccan troops combine native costume and 

modern fighting equipment in Italy, 24 March 1944

  

Italian women with rifles and captured German stick grenades 

at Massa Lombarda, Italy, during World War II, 13 April 1945

  

Three New Zealanders in the forward areas of the Italian Front, 11 April 1944

  

Traffic of the 2 New Zealand Division moving forward as the 

Germans retreat after the fall of Atina and Belmonte, Italy, 28 May 1944

 

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Daniel Manders Beere

Man standing beside a cart and horses, Australia, ca. 1890s

  

 Men playing lawn bowls, St Kilda, Melbourne, ca 1890s

  

 Tennis match played at Hamilton, Kawhia versus Hamilton, 1885

  

 Unidentified group in bush setting, ca. 1890s

  

 Wreck of the schooner Spray, on Waikanae Beach, 25 May 1895

  

 Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Vintage Norway

Recently found a treasure trove of historical photos of Norway. This first set is from here; the originals were all stereoscope photos. Update: the photographer was Nils Olsson Reppen.

 Balestrand, ca. 1898

  

 Binsete, Sogndalsdalen, 1900

  

 Bullock cart, Sogndal, ca. 1898-1900

  

 Elvabakken, Sogndal, ca. 1897-1908

  

 Farmstead, ca. 1888-1925

  

 Group portrait, ca. 1898-1905

  

Hygea Cafe, Balestrand, ca. 1890-1925

[you can tell this is a tourist spot because there is a sign in English]

Sydney Charles Smith

 Art class in front of a cage at Wellington Zoo, ca 1910

  

 Protest march against wage reductions, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1930s

  

 Start of a swimming race at Te Aro Baths in Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1926

  

 Women and children at the beach, Lyall Bay, Wellington, 1925

  

Young women lined up for a sack race at the opening 

of the Hataitai Bowling Club, Wellington, 1912

  

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Leslie Jones

 

Sun bathers

 

 Swimmers Follies, University Club

  

 Swimming at Charles Bank, Charles River, Boston, ca. 1940

  

 Telling tales aboard the fishing schooner Shamrock 

on a hot Sunday in November at fish pier, 1927

  

 Unidentified women, possibly showgirls, 1940

    

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection