Musicians

Adam MacLay:  Outdoors portrait, three unidentified men 

playing violin, flute and large harp, Christchurch, 1905-26

 

Ben Shahn: Mrs. Mary McLean, Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937

 

Charles Elliott Gill: Musicians gathered at the Russell home, 1905-10

 

Frank Denton: Five members of the Dixieland Jazz Orchestra, ca. 1930s

 

John Vachon: Meeker County, Minnesota. Music supplied by 

two Meeker County farmers for dance at crossroads store, 1942

 

Lydia and William Williams with their banjos,

Carlyle Street, Napier, New Zealand, ca. 1890

 

National Photo: Two Afro-American men, outside of stable, with Kazoos 

in their mouths, one of them seated on hay bale and playing guitar, 

the other playing homemade string instrument

 

Russell Lee: Farmer and his brother making music, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940

 

Russell Lee: The band at the Savoy Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois, 1941

 

William Gottlieb: Jack Teagarten

Markets

1949 May 1, at the Shanghai market bazaar, vendors selling “555" branded pots

 

A woman wearing a palm tree brooch is being assisted by a man working 

at the produce stand at the Farmers Market, southern California, 1946

 

Artur Pastor

 

Hedda Morrison: Street market in Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, 1946-47

 

Leslie Jones: Pushcarts on Blackstone Street, ca. 1940

 

The market, Yarmouth, England, ca. 1890-1900

Vintage Bicycling

Adam MacLay: Women with bicycles in a garden, 1905-26

 

Bus strike can be fun, 1955 (USC archives)

 

Cyclist Thomas Stevens and Oakland cyclists

  

 Frank Denton: Five unidentified men and 

women of the Griffiths family, 1899-1900

  

Harris & Ewing: Helen Marye, 1913-1917

   

Leslie Jones: Bicycle trailer arrangement allows Mrs. Oscar Rubillard of North Cambridge to take her children, Phillip, 1, and Rene, 2, with her when she goes shopping or for a spin. The youngsters love it. June 26, 1942

 

Man and woman with tandem bicycle

Cute Kids

I'm taking a break from posting new material for awhile. In the meantime, I'll be posting some previous photos arranged thematically, starting with this set of "cute kids" photos.

Ben Shahn - Children of homesteaders, the Resettlement 

Administration's Shenandoah Homesteads, 1941

 

Charles Lee - Clara Anderson with Mary Lee in Charles Lee's 

yard, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1935

 

Dorothea Lange - Many children of Japanese ancestry attended Raphael Weill public school, Geary and Buchanan Streets, prior to evacuation. This scene shows first-graders during flag pledge ceremony. San Francisco, California, 1942

 

Girl in winter clothes, Dover, New Hampshire

 

Harris & Ewing - Liana de Bayle, daughter of the 

Minister of Nicaragua and Señora de Bayle, 1938

 

Leslie Jones - Kids and dog sailing

 

Lewis Hine - Mary Christmas, nearly 4 years old. Picks cranberries 

sometimes. She is now picking up berries spilled at the barrels 

by Grandfather. Falmouth, Week's Bog, Massachusetts, 1911

 

Marion Post Wolcott - Mountaineer's daughter enjoying the sorghum syrup 

at a neighbor's home during a "syrupping off," Breathitt County, Kentucky, 1940

William James Family

Barn raising, 1911

 

Child and woman pumping water, ca. 1914

 

Hamilton Market, 1909

 

Man pushing car, ca. 1900

 

Motorcycle on ice, Toronto Bay, 1910

 

Source: Toronto Archives

Vintage SoCal

A young lady and her baby, Spring Fair, Long Beach, 1951

 

Billie Mercer, from Las Vegas, takes part in San Gabriel’s 

Silver Dollar Day celebrations, April 23, 1952

 

Carhops at night, Carl’s drive-in, Figueroa & Flower, 

Los Angeles, August 16, 1953

 

Hollywood Freeway under construction, Los Angeles, 1952

 

Los Angeles housewives strike against high price of meat, 1951

Vintage Winter

Horse & dog pals – winter time

 

Ice floes on river, ca. 1930

 

Ice sailing, ca. 1936

 

L Street Brownies play checkers in snow 

and zero weather, South Boston, 1930

 

One-horse sleigh driving through snow, 1940s

 

Winter scene, 1940

 

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

Robert French

Biddy Gray's Crooked Wood, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath

 

Halfway House at Glenbeigh, Co. Kerry, ca. 1890

 

Main Street in Roscommon Town, ca. 1903

 

McKeown's Industry, Leenane, Co. Galway, 1902-14

 

The Square at Warrenpoint, ca. 1902

 

Source: National Library of Ireland