George Frederick Kaye

July 8, 2014, 8:35 am

This fellow is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. He seems to have covered every aspect of the soldiering life on the frontlines, as well as that of the civilians caught in the middle.

'Action stations' on anti aircraft gun as enemy aircraft

approach the Cassino Front, Italy, 15 March 1944

A bren carrier under maintenance during a rest period in

an Italian village behind the front line, 6 January 1944

A group of New Zealand and Greek troops watch the antics of a Greek canine mascot in the forward of the front near Rimini, Italy, 21 September 1944

A group of New Zealand soldiers on the Cassino battlefront in Italy, during World War II. Probably reconstruction for photographers behind the line. 5 April 1944

A New Zealand 25 pounder firing at night near Sora, Italy, 1 June 1944

A New Zealand anti aircraft gun on the outskirts of Riccione in Italy, 21 September 1944

A New Zealand Divisional Artillery gun crew rests during one of the lulls

in the firing on the Cassino Front in Italy, 17 May 1944

A young woman of Sora, Italy, gives a bunch of flowers to

New Zealand soldiers after the town's capture, 3 June 1944

Action stations on a NZ anti aircraft gun on the Italian Front, 16 December 1943

An Italian peasant gathering a wheat harvest beside a wrecked

German vehicle near Sora in Italy, 11 June 1944

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Cabinet Cards

July 9, 2014, 8:14 am

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Florence St John, English actress, London

James and Herbert Bond, Vevay, Indiana, ca. 1889

Joe and Ann Schweitzer, Canton, Ohio, 1889

Man on bicycle, Lincoln, Nebraska

Mother and children, Pullman, Illinois

Woman with long hair, Brigham City, Utah

Workman, The Dalles, Oregon

Young couple, Mendota, Illinois

Young Hungarians, Oravicza, ca. 1900

Young siblings, St. Louis, Missouri

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Steffano Webb

July 10, 2014, 9:26 am

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Steffano Webb was a New Zealand photographer active in the first several decades of the 20th century. An informative biography of him is here.

A group of men, women and children sitting at a table

for afternoon tea in the outdoors, 1880s-1910s

A play group at a school in Sydenham, Christchurch, ca. 1900

Cadillac motor car with unidentified passengers, 1920

Clothing factory, Christchurch, 1908

[photo was mistakenly captioned as a "shoe store"]

Family group with tennis rackets, ca. 1900

Family posing in a Siddeley Deasy motor car, Christchurch, ca. 1915

Groundsmen with a horse-drawn lawnmower at south end

of quadrangle, Christ's College, Christchurch, ca. 1920

Hay being forked onto cart after haymaking, 1880s-1920s

Interior of a cycle shop, Christchurch, 1910

Maori family group with a maize crop, 1880s-1920s

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

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Photochroms

July 11, 2014, 8:52 am

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A Lapp family, Norway

Folgefond Glacier, Hardanger Fjord, Norway

Hammersdorf, Hermannstadt, Hungary, Austro-Hungary

Interlaken, highway and hotels, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

Interlaken, Music Pavillion, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland

Lugano, on the quay, Tessin, Switzerland

Mostar, Turkish quarter, Herzegowina, Austro-Hungary

Nasch Market, Vienna, Austro-Hungary

Norwegian carriage

Peasant wagon, Bosnia, Austro-Hungary

Peasants dancing, Bosnia, Austro-Hungary

The cathedral, Lucerne, Switzerland

Hauptstrazze and market, Debreczin, Hungary, Austro-Hungary

Women of Champéry, Alps of Valais, Switzerland

Zara, Erbe Square, Dalmatia, Austro-Hungary

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Lafayette Studio

July 12, 2014, 8:39 am

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Kawneer Company bowling team, 1949

Kentucky Central Life & Accident Insurance Company, banquet, 1945

Kentucky Coach Company, fair tents, 1929

Kentucky Houses of Reform, group on stage in costume, 1943

[it took several viewings to notice the unusual twist in the crossed legs]

Kentucky Theatre, "Hell's Angels," three men sitting outside theater with signs, 1930

Kentucky Theatre, awning and promotional car

decorated for "Fayssoux the Hypnotist", 1932

Kentucky Theatre, indoor golf course to promote "Follow Thru", 1930

Kentucky Theatre, ushers, 1931

Kentucky Utilities Company, office workers, 1942

Kentucky Utilities Company, woman demonstrating wringer-type washing machine, 1943

Kroger, people shopping in store, 1947

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Joseph Pennell

July 14, 2014, 8:41 am

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Miss Walker's School group, 1910

People in costumes at Officers' barn dance, 1913

Portrait of class in front of school, Junction City, Kansas, 1903

Portrait of John Edward's girl with photographs, 1895

Portrait of Nellie Jackson, 1898

[this looks like a really risque pose for 1898]

Sam Ziegler with three women in his Studebaker;

Contestant at the Lyric Cup Run Race, 1909

Soldiers of 7th Battery Glee Club sitting on beds

playing guitars and mandolins, Fort Riley, 1906

Soldiers reading in front of billiard table, Fort Riley, 1897

Soldiers with shovels standing near wagon loaded with dirt, Fort Riley, 1903

Wetzig in REO Auto - The Official Lyric Cup Race Pathfinder, 1909

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Vintage Finland

July 15, 2014, 9:40 am

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TVA - Knoxville

July 16, 2014, 8:49 am

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These are from a set by Barbara Wright, all labeled simply "TVA - Knoxville." They are dated 1941.

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Harold Gear Paton

July 17, 2014, 9:00 am

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More photos of New Zealand troops in the Middle East during the recent unpleasantness (World War II).

Game of soccer in progress in the Western Desert between a NZ Battery and an English Mediterranean Battery. The English won 4 - 0. November 1942

Members of NZ Divisional Cavalry with children

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

Members of the Maori Battalion in the last stages of

their journey from Alamein, Egypt, to Tripoli, Libya, 8 February 1943

Men of NZ Engineers who played important part in the NZ Division's move against Tripoli meet children of an Italian colonist at a village past Tahuna, Libya, January 1942

New Zealand officer, identified as Lieutenant C Smith, doing

his own washing on the Alamein front in Egypt, September 1942

New Zealand trucks passing through Maadi, Egypt, during World War 2,

at the end of the North African campaign, 10 June 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Charles Fenno Jacobs

July 18, 2014, 8:52 am

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Southington, Connecticut. A one-room school, May 1942

Southington, Connecticut. May 1942

Southington, Connecticut. Southington school children

staging a patriotic demonstration, May 1942

Southington, Connecticut. Southington school children

staging a patriotic demonstration, May 1942

Southington, Connecticut. The family of Ralph Hurlbut. A Sunday dinner honoring Corporal Robert Hurlbut, twenty-one, home on his first furlough from the army, May 1942

Southington, Connecticut. The Memorial Day parade moving down the main street. The small number of spectators is accounted for by the fact that the town's war factories are in operation.

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Leslie Jones

July 19, 2014, 8:05 am

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Canoeists watch crew race in Worcester, 1932

Cars and wagons clutter crowded Quincy Market, ca. 1925

Cherry blossoms, Arnold Arboretum, 1929

Coast Guard boats at East Boston waterfront, ca. 1930

Commander Byrd's parade in Boston, 1930

Contortionist woman

Depression-era squatters shacks being bulldozed, 1937

Family of thirteen in convertible, 1925

FDR & Eleanor in auto, on way to Harvard commencement, 1938

Girl sunbathing

Girls camp in God's Country, probably New Hampshire, 1937

Hayride, ca. 1940

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

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M. D. Elias

July 20, 2014, 6:55 am

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A line of prisoners passing an armoured car after the Axis collapse in Tunisia, 20 May 1943

Airplanes in formation fly past during parade of Allied forces in Tunis, Tunisia, 21 June 1943

An American naval officer talking with General Dwight Eisenhower

during a parade of Allied forces in Tunis, Tunisia, 21 June 1943

Gunners relax playing cards in the shade of cactus trees in Tunisia, May 1943

Indian troops digging gun pits during the landing exercises with NZ infantry troops, probably during 4 New Zealand Infantry Brigade combined exercises at Kabrit, Egypt, 5 September 1941

New Zealand troops combine with the American Red Cross

to distribute flour to the natives of Syria, 30 April 1942

New Zealander identified as S Hunter meets an

Arab soldier in Syria during World War II, 9 July 1942

NZ soldiers in a bren carrier in Tunisia, 3 May 1943

NZ soldiers on leave in Amman, Trans Jordan, looking at local merchandise, 16 April 1942

NZ soldiers trout fishing using rifles near the Syrian and Turkish border, 9 July 1942

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Frederick Nelson Jones

July 21, 2014, 8:51 am

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At Onekaka Creek, ca. 1910

De Havilland DH9 biplane, 1921

Grocery shop interior, ca. 1910

Men standing in flood waters near a partially submerged car, ca. 1930

Motorcycle racing in front of a crowd at a beach in Nelson, ca. 1925

Nelson wharf scene, ca. 1920s

Newman Brothers passenger vehicle, with postal bags attached, Nelson, ca. 1920s

Pilot Thomas Newman, and others, alongside the first

aircraft to land at Nelson, 11 November 1921

Pupils sitting outside the Bishops's School, Nelson, ca. 1915

Retailers barrow parade, Hardy Street, Nelson, 4 August 1917. A barrow is

decorated with American flags, marking the entry of the USA into World War I.

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Adam MacLay

July 22, 2014, 9:01 am

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Exterior view of a single-storied wooden house with an iron roof,

showing a man, women, and children standing in front, ca. 1910

Fashionably dressed foursome, ca. 1910

Group including a hockey team and others, possibly students,

probably by the Avon River, Christchurch, 1905-26

Group of eight girls holding up hoops decorated with pom poms, ca. 1915

Group of men, women and children outdoors, 1905-26

Members of the Christchurch Elite Band, ca. 1900s

Outdoors on dirt road with poplar trees behind, a girl riding a

two wheeled sprung cart being pulled by a Shetland pony, 1905-26

Rabbit hunters, ca. 1912

Studio portrait of small girl with two British bulldogs, 1905-26

Two touring cars carrying adults and children in hats, one with chauffeur, 1905-26

Adam Maclay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

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Nurse Training

July 23, 2014, 8:29 am

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These photos of nurses in training were taken by Fritz Henle for the War Information Office, in 1942.

Nurse training. Fresh from college, twenty-year-old Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, arrives at the School of Nursing residence in New York City, which will be her home until she becomes an Army or Navy nurse. Because of her college degree, Susan will be required to spend only twenty-seven months here instead of the customary three years.

Nurse training. "Occupational therapy" for the very young. Convalescence in children, as in adults, is hastened by the encouragement of interest in normal activities.

Nurse training. A convalescing youngster gets lunch with a smile from a student nurse.

Nurse training. A graduate nurse (right) watches student Susan Petty prepare a hypodermic for a patient. Strict adherence to doctors' orders is something every probationer must learn.

Nurse training. A moment's pause in a full day, as graduate

student nurses relax in the living room of the nurse's home.

Nurse training. A nurse and the physical therapist negotiate something of a

dispute over a picture book between two young patients in an orthopedic hospital.

Nurse training. A nurse's aide and a student attend a convalescing patient.

Nurse training. A student nurse (right) instructs a patient in the method

of measuring her own insulin dose as a supervisor observes.

Nurse training. Care of infants is included in all nurses training. This youngster is about to get an eye irrigation. Note that nurse wears goggles for self-protection from possible infection.

Nurse training. Given an hour's rest between rounds, Susan Petty, student nurse, is visited by her fellow nurses in her small but comfortable room in the School of Nursing resident hall.

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Dick Whittington

July 24, 2014, 8:49 am

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Old fashioned bathing suit scene, Southern California, 1936

[This must be for an ad. Whatever the context, it's hilarious]

May Company circus, Southern California, 1930

May Day ceremony, 1920s?

May Day revel, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1931

Models, Fashion show at Mayfair Hotel, Los Angeles, 1927

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Photochroms

July 25, 2014, 8:17 am

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These are scenes from Italy.

A court yard (Calle dell Angelo a San Martino), Venice, Italy

A street, Venice, Italy

Concert in St. Mark's Place, Venice, Italy

Feeding Pigeons in St. Mark's Place, Venice, Italy

Macaroni seller, Naples, Italy

Procession in front of St. Mark's, Venice, Italy

Procession over the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy

St. Mark's Church and the clock, Venice, Italy

Street near the Rialto, Venice, Italy

Street with washerwomen, Naples, Italy

The wharf, Naples, Italy

Venice harbor and Palazzo dei Dogi, Venice, Italy

Via Roma, Naples, Italy

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William Archer Price

July 26, 2014, 7:27 am

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Mr. Price was yet another New Zealand photographer.

A gang of men working on the main trunk line somewhere in the North Island,

constructing the railway line through the bush, 1900-30

Albert Park, Auckland, 1908-10

Cars and carriages (and possibly a caravan) parked beside an area

known as The Plantation at Bucklands Beach, ca. 1910

Children in a dinghy on the tidal flat, Little Shoal Bay, Auckland, ca. 1910

Childrens' fete at Lancaster Park, Christchurch, ca. 1910

Man and a boy in a dinghy in a choppy sea

near the water's edge at Herne Bay, ca. 1910

Man on a horse-drawn thresher, ca. 1910

View of adults and children walking and

playing on Shelly Beach, Auckland, 1890-1910

View of the wharf at Whitianga. The ferry is berthed and passengers are embarking, 1911

Young women gymnasts in a group pose

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Louis Edward Nollau

July 27, 2014, 8:29 am

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Louis Edward Nollau was a professor of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Apparently he was also an accomplished amateur photographer.

"Lo 1936", Band and singer performing for studio audience, 1936

4-H winners, Somerset, Kentucky, girls' quartet, first place award, 1926

Entrance to the University of Kentucky with a car

pulling students on a sled toward Frazee Hall, 1920

Kentucky-grown apples

May Day parade float, 1936

May Queen, University of Kentucky, 1934

Women on horseback, May Day, 1934

Preserving eggs

Senior Breakfast Alumni Tea, African-American servers

in first row and yard workers on truck, 1934

Warrior River flood, Alabama Great Southern, looking south from north end, 1916

[I consider this a top ten photo - one of the best]

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George Frederick Kaye

July 28, 2014, 8:17 am

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A G Trotter talks to three Italian children who have wandered

into the middle of artillery positions near Sora, 1 June 1944

R T Stewart hands some washing to two small Italian children who have

found their way into artillery lines near Sora in Italy, 1 June 1944

[same three children as in the first picture]
[perhaps they're washing Mr. Trotter's shirt]

A group of New Zealand soldiers and local women and children in the village behind the Italian Front where members of 2 New Zealand Division are resting, 6 January 1944