Thursday, May 14, 2015

Robert Percy Moore

Robert Percy Moore was a New Zealand photographer who specialized in panoramas.

 Albury Park, ca 1925
  
 Catch of snapper, Bay of Islands, 1923-28
  
 Children's display in Parliament grounds for Duke and Duchess of York, 8 March 1927
  
 Custom House Square, Dunedin, 1923-28
  
Fire Brigade, Christchurch, 1924

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Leo White

Leo White was an aviator who served in the New Zealand Air Force during World War II and was involved in commercial aviation thereafter.

 A group of Maori women bathing at the river, Waikato, 1938
  
 A young man and woman watching a coastal steamer at sea, 1930s
  
 Air Travel Ltd's Fox Moth biplane at Bruce Bay, Westland, New Zealand, September 1935
  
 Biplane over Mount Earnslaw, Wakatipu, ca. 1939
  
Cars and caravan being loaded onto the barge, Paihia, 1940

 Whites Aviation Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Dorothea Lange

 Leveling the land for irrigation on the Bosque Farms project. The tract of two thousand four hundred acres to be cultivated under irrigation. New Mexico, December 1935
  
 Migrant pea workers on the road with tire trouble. California, February 1936
  
 Mobile housing--a trend. One of the many housecars under construction by homeless people who formerly lived in tents. California, May 1935
  
 Moving day in the turpentine pine forest country. North Florida, July 1936
  
 Negro plowing corn. He is a tenant; raises mainly tobacco; has lived here for four years. The cornfield is grassy and poor. On dirt road from Highway 144. Person County, North Carolina. He is saying "You ain't looking for money, is you?" Person County, North Carolina, July 1939
 
 One faucet by the packing sheds is the only source of water for 150-200 families camped in the brush waiting for the potato harvest to open. Edison, California, April 1938
  
One of three families camped behind a billboard on U.S. 99. 
Kern County, California, November 1938

Monday, May 11, 2015

Ann Rosener

 California shipyard workers. Eight hours of work in a Richmond, California shipyard find these two workers grateful for the calm and quiet of the ferry trip back to San Francisco, February 1943
  
 California shipyard workers. This woman worker pushes back her helmet during a moment's pause from her welding job at the Richmond shipyard in California, February 1943
  
 Production. Aircraft engines. Using multi-colored pins to mark 
residences of its employees, a Midwest aircraft factory innovates 
its car-pooling system. Like hundreds of other U.S. factories, July 1942
  
 War housing needs. Crowds of homeseekers wait in line for housing information in every "boom town" war housing center. Like millions of Americans who have migrated to busy industrial areas, these newcomers to San Francisco are hoping for news that a house, a room, or even a bed will be made available for them before the day is over. February 1943
  
 Washington, D.C. Two blood donors talking it over after having given a pint of blood. Note how girl on right holds cotton pad on her arm where needle was injected, June 1943
  
Women in industry. Gas mask production. Lacing head harnesses of gas masks after they have passed through all the stages of assembly and made ready for packaging, is the job of this young woman who works in a large Midwest vacuum cleaner factory which has been converted to war production. Note the lei of string she's wearing--the better to lace the masks with! Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan, July 1942.

Sunday, May 10, 2015

Steffano Webb

 Crowds outside the NZ Department of Agriculture hall, 
New Zealand International Exhibition, Christchurch, 1906-07
  
 Fijian group performing, New Zealand International Exhibition Christchurch, 1906-07
  
 Group in fancy dress at Avonside Bazaar, Christchurch, 1911
  
 Group of men with rifles and an axe around an old totara log, 
near top of Mount Fitzgerald, Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, ca. 1893
  
Harvesting equipment and workers, ca. 1920s

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Adam MacLay

 Child on tricycle, 1905-26
  
 Group of soldiers with side caps, in front of a teepee tent, 1905-26
  
 Large social outing group portrait, 1905-26
  
 Portrait of six women, dressed in finery including 
elaborate hats, sitting on a river bank, 1905-26
  
Outdoor portrait of a young boy with a pet lamb, 1905-26
 
Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

Friday, May 8, 2015

Leslie Jones

 Hayride, ca. 1940
  
 Push cart rush on Clinton Street in the Market District, 3 PM, ca. 1930
  
 Race at Rockingham speedway, Salem, NH, 1932
  
 Sonja Henie in Boston, 1939
  
Sun bathers on lawn

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection