Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Miami University

Group portrait of students at Oxford Public School
  
 Phi Tau group portrait, ca. 1908
  
Students in Oxford College dormitory room, ca. 1900
  
 Western College on College Day, 1912
  
Women's physical education exhibition at Herron Gymnasium, 1911
 

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Playgrounds

These photos from G. G. Bain are all labeled "N.Y. Playground, 1910-1915."






Monday, November 28, 2016

William Letts Oliver

 Corinthian Yacht Club Regatta
  
 Garden of Edwards house with woman and child, Oakland
  
Motorboat races, Vallejo Yachting and Boating Club, 1911
  
 Sailing party on Wave (yacht)
  
 William Letts Oliver family on board Wave (yacht)
 

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Philip Timms

Florence Timms on her wedding day, 1928
  
 Man and cow on beach, Gibsons, BC
  
 Men in sightseeing carriage at the entrance to Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1900s
  
 
 Outdoor tea, 1906
 
 Picnic in Stanley Park, Vancouver, 1900s
 

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Edward Lee Luce

 Oak Bluffs beach scene
  
 Oak Bluffs, Circuit Ave. area. 
Mrs. Woodward's group, 1882
  
 Oak Bluffs, possible campground, 1880s
  
 Two children with doll
  
Young lady with saddle horse
 

Friday, November 25, 2016

Augustus Sherman

Here is another set of portraits taken by Mr. Sherman of immigrants at Ellis Island.

 A Romanian piper
  
 A Ruthenian woman
[Ruthenia was an archaic term for the Ukraine]
  
 A Slovak woman and child
  
 A woman from Lapland
  
 
 An Albanian soldier
  
 An Algerian man
  
 Children from Lapland
  
 Moroccan immigrants
  
Slovakian women

Thursday, November 24, 2016

World War I

 A Canadian Tommy soldier covered in mud 
returning from front lines, ca. 1918
  
 French women selling oranges to Canadian troops 
on their return to camp, ca. 1918
  
Soldier searching the seams of his shirt for lice, ca. 1918
  
 War casualties on the battlefield after a charge by the Canadians, ca. 1918
  
Wounded Canadian soldiers en route for Blighty, ca. 1918
 

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Toronto Globe and Mail

 Hairdressing Show, group, five models, November 4, 1926
  
 Miss Priscilla Dean, conductor, oiling engine, February 28, 1925
  
 Rotary, Kiwanis Garden Party, Kiwanis gypsies, June 17, 1924
  
 
 T. T. C. work on Mt. Pleasant Rd., September 15, 1925
[T. T. C. = Toronto Transit Commission, still in existence]
  
 Wasaga Beach, picnic party on beach, July 4, 1926
 

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Stewart Collection

 Boxing match
  
 Cooper's Well Resort, Raymond
  
 Tobacco curing house
  
 Unidentified African American men, women and children, ca. 1890
  
Unidentified women
 

Monday, November 21, 2016

Vintage Maine

 Circus parade. July 11, 1898
  
 Group at Ballard Park on August 14, 1898 - Mary Knight, Fannie Fuller, 
Marian Goodwin, Alice Merriam, & Grace Parker
   
 Lillie & Jessica Lewis in boat, October 1900
  
 Margaret & Augusta Talbot, March 1899 in back of the Congregational Church
  
Some of Miss Garland's girls, Class of 1900. 
Milton, Massachusetts, June 1900