Saturday, May 14, 2016

Dorothea Lange

 While the mothers are working in the fields, the preschool children of migrant families are cared for in nursery school under trained teachers. Kern migrant camp, California, November 1936
  
 White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy 
cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi, July 1936
  
 Wife and child of Negro laborer of the Brazos riverbottoms. Texas, June 1938
  
 Wife and five month old baby of young tobacco sharecropper (Mr. Taylor) in window of their home. She is seventeen years old. On the following day she helped "put in" tobacco at the farm. Granville County, North Carolina, July 1939
 
Wife of migratory worker in auto camp. California, November 1936

Friday, May 13, 2016

Charles C. Pierce Collection

The C.C. Pierce collection constitutes one of the most important collections of historical photographs of early California and Los Angeles extant. The collection of 10,100 prints was assembled by Charles C. Pierce (1861-1946), a photographer and long-time operator of a thriving Los Angeles photographic business. 

The Chemehuevi are an indigenous people of the Great Basin. They are the southernmost branch of Paiute. "Chemehuevi" has multiple interpretations. It is considered to either be a Mojave term meaning "those who play with fish;" or a Quechan word meaning "nose-in-the-air-like-a-roadrunner." The Chemehuevi call themselves Nüwüwü ("The People") or Tantáwats, meaning "Southern Men."  [Wikipedia]


A Chemehuevi Madonna; cache for mesquite beans in the back
  
Chemehuevi girls grinding mesquite beans
  
Chemehuevi Indian basket weaver making splints
  
Chemehuevi Indian Group
  
Chemehuevi Storyteller
  

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Eugène Trutat

 Some really good scenic views in this group!

 At Quinconces, M. et Mme Julien, Gourdon, Caroline, Luchon, September 1898
  
 Snow bridge to the Rue d'Enfer, 18 August 1892
  
 Vallée de la Rabat (?), vue du rocher de Soudou (?), 1900
  
 Valley of Saurat, Carlong Rock (Ariège), 1900
  
Venasque, Luchon, September 1899
 

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Kerrobert, Part 2

Another set of photos from this town in Saskatchewan, Canada. These are of a "Peace Celebration" on July 19, 1919.






Source: Prairie Towns

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

G.G. Bain

 Bobsledders, ready to go, Caldwell, NJ
  
 Bohemians in Wake Up America-Lexington Day-
Patriot's Day celebration, New York City, April 19, 1917
  
 Crippled children's motor car ride, New York, May 25, 1908
  
 Ellis Island
  
 Frou-Frou Band (Firemen on Celtic)
  
Giovanni Martinelli, Italian tenor

Monday, May 9, 2016

Philip Timms

 Boys on a gun, Beatty Street, 1907
  
Chinatown. East Pender Street near Carrall Street, 1904
  
Chinatown. Looking south west from north east 
corner of Hastings and Columbia streets, 1900s
  
Family and friends on Dominion Day, Second Beach, July 1, 1905
  
Ice skating on Lost Lagoon, Stanley Park , Vancouver, 1920s
 

Sunday, May 8, 2016

Edward Backhouse Mounsey

Edward Backhouse Mounsey was an English photographer. In the summer of 1869, along with other tourists he sailed on the yacht Nereid to Norway, one of the first foreign tourist boats that visited that country. They visited, among other Alesund, Geiranger, Molde, Stavanger, Veblungsnes og Romsdal. 

 Afternoon on Deck - Nord Fjord
  
 Brixdals Brae
  
 Group at Geiranger
  
 Hoisting Coals - Aalsund
  
 Stavanger - The Enocksens
  
 Storhatten
  
 Summit of Storhatten