William George Weigel

June 18, 2014, 11:40 am

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William George Weigel was a New Zealand photographer.

A crowd at Lyttelton who are farewelling troops about to leave to serve

in World War II. In the centre front is Jessica Sturt (without a hat

and wearing a print dress) who is farewelling her son, 1940

Country Library Service bus and librarians, Christchurch, 1955

Crowds watching the Inter-Dominion surf life-saving championships between New Zealand and Australia held at New Brighton, Christchurch, 26 February 1950

Karitane nurses holding babies, probably in Christchurch, 1945

Marmaduke Bethell and Thyra Melvase Bethell, in a field of daffodils,

at Pahau Pastures in Culverden, 1954

Member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force repairing a plane at Wigram aerodrome, 1943

Serving counter at the Christchurch railway station refreshment rooms, 1952

Women's Auxiliary Air Force wireless operators, 1942

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Adam MacLay

June 19, 2014, 8:13 am

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Birkenhead double deck steamship moored at the dock, 1905-26

Children sitting with a dog in front of a tent with carpet, 1905-26

Exterior view of a wooden cottage, showing a man and woman with baby on verandah, ca. 1910

Five people in an unidentified park, 1915-20

Group dining outdoors, ca. 1910s

Group of men, boys and one girl, in front of house on lawn,

with refreshments, cricket set and potatoes, 1905-26

Group portrait of twelve older people in hats

grouped around a man with walking stick, 1905-26

Man and woman with domestic pets, including two dogs, a cat, and a bird in a cage, 1905-26

Mounted rider from Canterbury Mounted Rifles, 1905-26

Outdoor portrait of six women in a snow covered backyard, ca. 1915-20

Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

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George Frederick Kaye

June 20, 2014, 8:39 am

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George Frederick Kaye was a photographer from New Zealand who photographed "Kiwi" troops in the North African and Italian theaters during World War II.

After the enemy's retreat, an Italian civilian searches among the ruins

of his home in the town of Atessa, Italy, 29 November 1943

Allied infantrymen make their way over the ruins of Cassino in Italy,

on the day that it fell to the Allied attack, 18 May 1944

Children carrying water through the streets of Gessopalena, Italy, 16 December 1943

D O Long packing machine gun ammunition into a gun carrier

during the advance to Florence, Italy, 21 August 1944

Dog by the door of a demolished house in Gessopalena, Italy,

surrounded by rubble, 16 December 1943

Italian musicians and singers performing in the New Zealand

Forces Club in Florence, Italy, 8 October 1944

Local women and girls fill their containers at the

community pump in Bari, Italy, ca. October 1943

New Zealand officers watching the Kiwi Concert Party, Volturno Valley, Italy, 12 May 1944

Soldiers examining a knocked out Sherman tank, amongst the ruins

at Cassino, Italy, 18 May 1944, the day it fell to the Allies

Soldiers of the Maori Battalion prepare to move up

into the line in the Faenza sector, 10 December 1944

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High School

June 21, 2014, 8:28 am

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These photos of Kentucky high schools are from Lafayette Photo Studio.

Dunbar High School cheerleaders and gymnasts, 1931

Dunbar High School group, 1931

Dunbar High School group, 1934

Dunbar High School, Miss Dunbar, 1931

North Middletown High School, pep club, 1941

North Middletown High, 1st Grade, 1941

North Middletown High, pep club, 1942

North Middletown School, Junior Glee Club, 1940

North Middletown School, view of dancers on the dance floor from above, 1940

[one of my favorite pictures ever]

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Cabinet Cards

June 22, 2014, 9:37 am

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Alfred C. Thurston and H. Thurston, Columbus, Ohio

Couple, Junction City, Kansas, 1885-95

Family portrait, Germany

Family portrait, Nagyvárad, Hungary

Family portrait, Sutton, Nebraska

Gentleman with Dalmation

Ice skating scene

Siri, Edvard and Viva Wallensköld, Helsinki, Finland, 1908

[so that's what Siri looks like :)]

Two women playing, and wearing, cards, Newport, Vermont

[o-kaaay]

Two young girls, London, England

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Scrap Drives

June 23, 2014, 8:28 am

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A big way for Americans on the home front to contribute to the war effort in World War II was to collect scrap - metal, rubber, etc. - for repurposing into war materiel. These photos from Leslie Jones show some of those efforts in the Boston area.

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Vivian Meier Self-Portraits

June 24, 2014, 8:20 am

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Vivian Meier was an amazing photographer who worked most of her life as a nanny, photographing as a hobby. Her work was unknown until 2007. She turns out to have had a discerning eye and a prodigious talent, as these self-portraits from the 1950s indicate.

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University of Kentucky

June 25, 2014, 9:31 am

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Elementary students working in Mrs. Haines art class at U - Hi, 1955

Group portrait of Greendale students riding in a horse-drawn wagon

May Day, 1926. University of Kentucky students having fun with the evolution debate

The tamest game of cards ever recorded in Kentucky -

no chips and the people around have no scared looks, 1906

[tamest even though there are two guns in the scene?]
[image quality is not great but it's such a great picture I had to include it]

Waitresses at the Jerry’s Drive-In Restaurant registered a friendly protest after hearing a report that the company was ordering new chemise uniforms for all its waitresses, 1958

Watermelon feast, probably during the summer session, 1956

Women waiting in line to get food, 1955

Women working on the assembly line at the

National Distillers Corporation packing department in September 1944

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Frederick Nelson Jones

June 26, 2014, 8:05 am

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Group of Girl Guides outside the Nelson School of Music, ca. 1920s

Groups alongside trams and a band rotunda, Christchurch, ca. 1910

Horse drawn buggy, ca. 1914

Ladies' Hockey game, England versus Nelson, 29 August, 1914

McKay's ladies cricket team, Trafalgar Park, Nelson, 1925

Members of the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Regiment travelling

through Nelson before leaving to fight in World War I, 18 August 1914

Men and women working in a hop field in the Nelson-Marlborough Region, ca. 1910

Men in a Model T Ford parked by the side of the road, 1915-16

Men of the Waimea football team in a Littles Motor Service bus in Nelson, 7 April 1923

Motorcade for the Duke and Duchess of York, Cuba Street, Wellington, 1927

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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John Vachon - Color Photos

June 27, 2014, 9:16 am

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Children playing by road near school house, Kansas, 1942-43

Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942

Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942

Seed and feed store, Lincoln Nebraska, 1942

Rural school children, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

Rural school girl, San Augustine County, Texas, April 1943

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Vintage Finland

June 28, 2014, 7:02 am

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These are taken from this Flickr set.

May Day celebrations in Helsinki, ca. 1900

Mikonkatu, Helsinki, ca. 1900

Restaurant Opera Cellar, Helsinki, ca. 1900

Russian military, Helsinki, ca. 1900

Russian soldiers in Helsinki Senate Square, ca. 1900

Seashore of Töölönlahti, Helsinki, ca. 1900

Seurasaari, Helsinki, ca. 1900

The Market Square, Helsinki, ca. 1900

The steam ship "Östra Skärgården" outside the Market Square in Helsinki, ca. 1900

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Winter Fun

June 29, 2014, 7:47 am

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Just in time for the height of summer (northern hemisphere, of course), here is a reminder of the cold times.

Lady feeding pigeons on Boston Common, in winter, 1923

Making snowmen, 1939

Maple syrup time

Maribel Vinson, national champ, fancy skater, 1929

Pedestrians and autos, big snow storm in Boston, 1936

Pedestrians struggle to keep their feet during Valentine's Day snow storm, biggest in 50 years, 1940

Public Garden, horse falls through ice, 1929

Public Garden, snow-covered autos parked outside fence

Remarkable ice formation on the Charles River, 1929

Remarkable snowstorm, big blizzard as it appeared on Scollay square, ca. 1930

Riding bicycles on ice, Public Garden

Skating crowd, Jamaica Pond, 1922

Skating

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

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Dick Whittington

June 30, 2014, 8:43 am

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Hat manufacturing shop, Ross-Cordez, Southern California, 1931

Hollywood Music Box girls at beach, Southern California, 1927

Jacqueline Logan at her home, Southern California, 1928

Japanese children dressed in colorful robes and garb of the Orient

as they paraded in Buddhist ceremonies at Treasure Island yesterday, April 1939

Judges and judgesses, California Breakfast Club, Southern California, 1931

["judgesses"?]

Ken Murray and Paramount girls at Malibu La Costa, 1931

L.A. Creamery girls, Southern California, 1926

Lions Club, going for a ride, Beverly Hills, 1929

Marmon car with dancer on radiator, Southern California, 1926

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Barbara Wright

July 1, 2014, 8:01 am

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Client of Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Corporation, 1938

Pine Mountain Valley, 1938

Fish hatcheries, a public park NYA project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, ca. 1941

National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1941

National Youth Administration (NYA), Works Progress Administration (WPA)

and Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), 1941

New Mexico, ca. 1941

NYA park near Cheyenne, Wyoming, ca. 1941

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Harold Gear Paton

July 2, 2014, 8:28 am

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Harold Gear Paton was a New Zealand photographer active in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II.

A member of NZ Divisional Cavalry demonstrates rugby football

to Syrian tribesmen during a visit to villagers in the Syrian hills, 26 May 1942

A Syrian family resting by the roadside, 30 April 1942

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets officers of the New Zealand

Division following the parade held outside Tripoli, Libya, on 4 February 1943

Divisional Signals office during action in the Western Desert, January 1943

Finale of a Kiwi Concert Party performance in El Alamein, Egypt,

just before the opening of the successful offensive of October 1942

Italian prisoners of war being issued with water by NZers in Tunisia, 7 April 1943

Looking out of a dugout at El Alamein, Egypt, 29 August 1942

Members of Maori Battalion and transport outside the

Benito Gate at Tripoli, Libya, 10 February 1943

Members of NZ Divisional Cavalry (officers and NCOs) visit

native villagers in Syrian hills, 26 May 1942

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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M. D. Elias

July 3, 2014, 9:17 am

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Mr. Elias was another New Zealander photographing in the Mediterranean theater during World War II.

A crowd of Syrian women and children during the distribution of flour organised by New Zealand troops in combination with the American Red Cross in Syria, 29 April 1942

A line of New Zealand infantry troops awaiting the signal for advance, probably 4 NZ Infantry Brigade exercises at Kabrit, Egypt, 7 September 1941

A section of Maori troops, forming part of the NZ representatives, swing past

during the United Nations Day Parade in Cairo, Egypt, 18 June 1943

Close up of NZ soldier broadcasting home from the Broadcasting Unit

at Maadi Camp in Egypt, 1 May 1942

Crew members of HMS Leander playing deck hockey

while the ship is berthed in Alexandria, Egypt, 22 July 1941

Crowded street scene in Tunis celebrating the Axis defeat

in Tunisia, World War II, 20 May 1943

Members of the population of Tunis giving a demonstration of welcome

to the 8th Army following the defeat of Axis troops during World War II, 23 May 1943

Enthusiastic supporters at a race meeting held by

36 NZ Survey Battery in Trans Jordania, 1 June 1942

They're watching this:

Start of race at the race meeting of 36 NZ Survey Battery

in Trans Jordania, 1 June 1942

Former New Zealand prisoners of war trying on German helmets at the NZ Base Camp after their return from imprisonment in Bardia, Libya, 16 December 1941

General view of play during the NZEF versus the Rest of Egypt

rugby football match at Alexandria, 21 February 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Kids

July 4, 2014, 8:24 am

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I always love vintage photos of kids. They generally make much more natural (i.e., less guarded) subjects than do adults.

Halloween party, possibly Children's Hospital

Kiddies in wading pool

Kids eating

Kids in Boston Common Frog Pond, 1940s

Kids sledding on underwater ice in Charlestown, 1921

Little boy and collie

Little girl with umbrella

[these captions sure are prosaic, aren't they?]

New sprinkling device used by the city of Boston for the kids on hot days, 1921

Pie eating contest

Two children with dog

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

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Adam MacLay

July 5, 2014, 7:20 am

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More images from early 20th-century New Zealand.

A group of unidentified people, two women and 14 children,

on the porch and lawn in front of the house, ca. 1915-20

Family birthday portrait, with elderly couple surrounded by family on front lawn, 1905-26

Family outside in garden in front of house, 1905-26

Group at a picnic, ca. 1910

Group of men, sitting in and on a motorcar, ca. 1920s

Group with rowboat

Large group, including men and women who have swapped hats with each other, ca. 1910

Man and three women having tea outdoors, 1905-26

Men on a park bench with beer barrel, jug and bottle, having a drink, 1905-26

Outdoors portrait of man sitting on veranda of wooden house with two large dogs, 1905-26

Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

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Lafayette Studio

July 6, 2014, 5:40 pm

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Hutchinson Drug Store, interior, 1932

Ike Ingles, golden wedding anniversary, 1932

IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows), group portrait, 1941

Irving Air Chute, employees in parachute factory, 1943

J.F. Wallace, drunk in bed, 1931

JC Penney Company, flood sale, 1932

Jeanette McDonald with Man O' War, 1939

Joyland Park, "Knock Hitler's Block Off" hammer game, 1943

Joyland Park, chair plane

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John Dobree Pascoe

July 7, 2014, 11:23 am

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A land girl in overalls standing by cows, Rotorua, 1943

A member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force hosing down a tractor, 1943

American tanks in a Liberty Loan procession down Lambton Quay, 1943

Army members harvesting during World War II

Bales of wool, from the Manuka Point sheep run, being transported

by horse drawn cart, across the Rakaia River, ca. 1943

Carol Sladden and June Matthews, of the Women's Land Service,

helping farmer Bob McKenzie to saw manuka firewood, 30 September 1943

Female trainee physical education instructors exercising

during a fitness demonstration, Hutt Valley, Wellington, 25 March 1944

Female trainee physical education instructors exercising,

Hutt Valley, Wellington, March 1944

Girls from Christchurch Girls High School running in Cranmer Square, Christchurch, 1945

Japanese prisoners of war pass a cookhouse on their way to

eat lunch at the market gardens near Featherston, 1943

June Matthews, a land girl at Mangaorapa, holds a lamb for docking, 1943

Land girl, June Matthews, on horseback, and clouds in the sky behind her, at Robert McKenzie's sheep farm at Mangaorapa, Hawke's Bay, 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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