Steffano Webb

Group of women and children, in a garden, around 

a table laid out with afternoon tea items, ca. 1910s

  

Reese family, Christchurch, 12 September 1914

  

Returned soldiers wearing medals march past onlookers 

in Cathedral Square, Christchurch, ca. 1920s

  

W Hayward & Co, taxi depot, Armagh Street, Christchurch, 1880s-1920s

  

Wedding party of Mr & Mrs Lane, 4 December 1914

 

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Dundurn

That's Dundurn, Saskatchewan.

Dundurn, Saskatchewan, "off to the elevator", September 10, 1908

  

Dundurn, Saskatchewan, "the big automobile town"

  

Dundurn, Saskatchewan, ca. 1911

  

Harvest scene, Dundurn, Saskatchewan, ca. 1910

  

Harvest scene on the Swager Farm, Dundurn, Saskatchewan

 

Source: Prairie Towns

Courtship Ritual

This very odd series of photos is from the Library of Congress's stereograph collection. I can't help thinking that when they were made (1906) they must have been thought of as impossibly salacious if not downright obscene. Who was the audience for these?

 "It's your move."

  

 "Now dear you know I don't snore."

  

"Slow! Well I'll beat you yet."

  

At the hour of midnight

Costică Acsinte

Northwood Brothers

Group outside a thatched wooden hut, ca. 1930

  

 

Items washed up from the wreck of the ship Forrest Hall 

on Ninety Mile Beach, February 1909

  

The Forrest Hall broke up in the heavy waves and most of her cargo was unable to be salvaged. The shipwreck occurred in controversial circumstances, with the ship running directly on to the beach in broad daylight. A subsequent commission of inquiry raised issues of drunkenness and insurance fraud, but ultimately found the captain guilty of gross negligence.

    

Nita Lomba on horseback with a sack of mail; 

the Paranui to Mangonui postal service, ca. 1910

  

 

Settlement, beach and young girl, Ahipara, 1 August 1913

  

Three Maori girls shelling toheroa on a beach, 1910-39

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Huron County

That's Huron County, Ontario, Canada.

Basting the roast, 1910

  

Canoe girls, 1909

  

Four women in field of flowers

  

Group portrait in front of sugaring shack, 1910

  

James Jackson's farm, about 1900

 

Source: Huron County Museum

Alexander Galbraith

Family of William Rennie, curling party, 

Swansea, Ontario, December 25, 1904

  

Ice boat on Toronto Bay, 1906

  

Logging operation, after 1920

  

Robert Parker's team and cutter, 1908

  

 

Toboganning, High Park, Toronto, 1904

  

Sleighing party, Queen's Park, ca. 1906

 

Source: Toronto Archives

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii

Mr. Prokudin-Gorskii was a pioneering Russian photographer whose experiments with color were way ahead of his time and gave amazing results, as you can see from these. The Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection features color photographic surveys of the vast Russian Empire made between ca. 1905 and 1915. Frequent subjects among the 2,607 distinct images include people, religious architecture, historic sites, industry and agriculture, public works construction, scenes along water and railway transportation routes, and views of villages and cities. An active photographer and scientist, Prokudin-Gorskii (1863-1944) undertook most of his ambitious color documentary project from 1909 to 1915.

Armenian woman in national costume. Artvin

  

Bashkir in national costume

  

 

Command crew of steamship Sheksna MPS

Girl with strawberries

  

In Malorossii

Dorothea Lange

Siler City, North Carolina. Wagons pulled up in field 

one block away from the main street, July 1939

  

Sorghum mill near New Carthage, Mississippi, August 1938

  

 Striking cotton pickers talk it over. The strike is failing. Kern County, California. "I don't care. Let them throw me in jail. There's somebody will take my place." November 1938

  

Texas tenant farmer to migrant pea picker in California. "I never have 

wrote back home and told my folks we live in a tent. I've wrote that we're 

well, and such as that, but I never have wrote that we live in a tent." 1937

  

The older brother teaches the younger on a 

farm in the Piedmont, North Carolina, 1936

William James Family

A Ward's Island backyard, ca. 1908

  

Champions of all the regiments, 

35th Battalion tug-of-war team, ca. 1915

  

Children on toboggans and sleds, Rosedale, ca. 1910

  

Concertina player on Major Street, ca. 1912

  

Costume garden party, 1920s

 

Source: Toronto Archives