Frederick Nelson Jones

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Children's gala day, Nelson, ca. 1928

Sacks of hops being piled on to a horse drawn cart, Nelson, ca. 1915-20

Scene at a ford, with a man pushing an Oldsmobile motorcar, ca. 1905

Scene by the Workers' Co-op General Store, Tahunanui, Nelson, ca. 1930

Scene in Nelson, with a horse and carriage, ca. 1912

School cadets before Nelson College, ca. 1910s

Sheep on a Nelson wharf, alongside the ship Rotomohana, ca. 1910

South Island representative women's hockey team, 1924

Star motorcar taxi with driver and passengers, ca. 1912

Street scene in the town of Murchison, Tasman region, 1929

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Interlochen

September 13, 2014, 8:39 am

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Interlochen, Michigan has a national music camp where young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer. These photos by Arthur Siegel are from 1942; Interlochen Center for the Arts is still going strong today. Unfortunately this set only shows the campers engaged in various recreational activities; the ones of them actually playing music are too lo-res.

Girl putting check on checkboard to indicate she is in swimming

Girls playing badminton

Girls swimming during the recreation period

Mail from home

A student eating an ice cream cone

[notice the small violin pin on her collar]

Swimming dock

Writing to the boyfriend back home

Picking wild berries

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Push-Cart Derby

September 14, 2014, 8:22 am

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From Mack Hughes, here are some pictures of some innocent merry-making at the University of Kentucky. These are dated from 1954-55.

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Adam MacLay

September 15, 2014, 8:19 am

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Wedding party portrait on long grass in front of trees, 1905-26

Group at beach, 1905-26

Group of four girls in sailor uniform with RMS Avon written on hats, 1905-26

Group of summer campers posing for a group portrait, ca. 1902-03

Group portrait of two women and a man on grass slope with tall trees beyond, 1905-26

Members of an unidentified family in a park, 1905-26

Outdoors family portrait, older sisters with matching shirts and young brother, 1905-26

[sister on left wants as much distance as possible between herself and her siblings...]

Rebekan District Lodge, ca. 1920

Two men with bicycles in front of a tent, ca. 1910

Woman outside a wooden house, with a decorated bicycle

with flowers, and a painted studio backdrop, 1905-26

Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

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Photochroms - Germany

September 16, 2014, 8:03 am

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A girl of the Black Forest, Black Forest, Baden, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

Beach and park, Colberg, Pomerania, Germany (now Kołobrzeg, Poland), ca. 1890-1900

Building sand castles, Westerland, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

General view, Ahlbeck, Pomerania, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

Hotel and beach, Colberg, Pomerania, Germany (now Kołobrzeg, Poland), ca. 1890-1900

Jungfernsteig at 10 a.m., Hamburg, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

Kaiser Strasse, Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

Kaiserstrasse, Helgoland, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

Market place, Darmstadt, the Rhine, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

Potsdam Square, Berlin, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

The "New Guard" and street scene, Berlin, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

The chalets, Westerland, Sylt, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

Victoria Hotel, Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany, ca. 1890-1900

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George Frederick Kaye

September 17, 2014, 8:59 am

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Gunners of the New Zealand Divisional Artillery manhandling their gun as a result of a target switch on the Cassino Front in Italy, 17 May 1944

Infantry soldiers being brought forward in transports to the

forward area as the Allies advance past Cassino in Italy, 18 May 1944

Italian civilians peer around the corner of a street that is crossed at the top by

enemy machine gun fire, in the southern part of Florence, 6 August 1944

[here's my question: what are you people doing out in

the street in the middle of a machine gun battle??]

K A Jacobs and R W North collecting ammunition from a pit immediately behind one of the forward New Zealand machine gun posts on the 8th Army Front in Italy, 14 May 1944

New Zealand Bren gunner C A Coleman provides

covering fire in forward areas of 8th Army Front, 14 May 1944

[note the extra ammo clips to the left of the gunner]

New Zealand soldiers explore the byways of old Bari, Italy, November 1943

New Zealanders billetted in village behind Italian Front

make friends with the household, 6 January 1944

NZ infantry soldier rushes the entrance to a German dugout during the attack in which NZ captured the German HQ of the Sangro River Defence Line near Castelfrentano, Italy, 2 December 1943

Peasant women at work in their garden just behind

the forward area of the Italian Front, 16 December 1943

The heavy Allied assault on Cassino was witnessed in the early stages by American Red Cross nurses who made a strictly off-duty visit to the ruined town of Cevaro, 15 March 1944

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Albert Percy Godber

September 18, 2014, 8:18 am

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Albert Percy Godber at his brass finishing lathe, Petone railway workshops
["this is my busy day" :)]

Climax locomotive hauling logs over the Mangatukutuku Viaduct, near Ongarue

Gum climbers' camp on the Waipapa River, near Rangiahua, 1918

Horse-drawn rail timber wagon hauling a log to the mill at Horopito, February 1921

Man transporting logs with horses and railway in the Akatarawa Bush, Hutt Valley, 1912-16

Men with a scow beside the Waipapa River, near Rangiahua, 1918

Native bush at Korokoro, with Albert Percy Godber standing on a large tree trunk which had fallen above the track, and his daughter Phyllis (aged 7) standing below, 27 December 1910

Rustic bridge at Ross Reservoir, Dunedin, September 1925

Tangarakau Gorge, a road bridge and grave site, 1915-16

The Hapuawhenua Viaduct, curving through an area of newly regenerating scrub, ca. 1915

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Randolph Henry High School

September 19, 2014, 8:45 am

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Randolph Henry High School in Keyville, Virginia was photographed by Philip Bonn in June 1943.

Social studies class. Students study in groups of six or eight, each group picking own subject.

Cafeteria. Students don't have much money so they bring

produce from farms for which they receive tickets.

Eating lunch in cafeteria

First aid group in school dispensary

Girls in entry hall talking before school in the morning. Bulletin board on wall.

Graduation exercises for 123 students

Home economics cottage. Girls learn the art of homemaking, how to sew,

plan meals, cook and serve, what food to eat, how to entertain.

Home economics cottage. Girls learn to plan, cook

and serve meals. They usually have a guest.

Interior of vocational shop. Boys learn to repair farm machinery, carpentering and welding.

Playing baseball during gym period. Girl replaced

man teacher who was drafted in the army.

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Lafayette Studio

September 20, 2014, 8:09 am

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Lexington Airport, large group of people standing in front of airplane, 1936

Lexington Junior High School girls, 1934

Liebel Supply Company, Lexington, Kentucky, 1933

Meyers Brothers, group portrait of women, 1942

Mr. & Mrs. Pat Mullendare, wedding reception, 1946

Mrs. C.E. Skinner and children's band, 1935

Mrs. Royce Martin standing next to car with dogs, 1943

Needle Work Guide of America pageant, 1934

People on porch, 1934

Pickrell & Craig Company, food brokers, 1933

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Russell Lee

September 21, 2014, 8:39 am

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7:45 a.m. Tip Estes' children watch their mother

make a pie. Near Fowler, Indiana, Mar 1937

7:10 p.m. Tip Estes and family eating dinner. The day's work

has been finished. Tip Estes has washed up and dinner is served, Mar 1937

7:40 p.m. Tip Estes, hired man, with the youngest of his nine children. After dinner the family sits around until 8-00 or 8-30, when they go to bed. There is no reading matter in the house, Mar 1937

Tip Estes' children boarding a school bus near Fowler, Indiana, April 1937

A drink on the house. Lumberjacks, proprietor and

lady attendant in saloon. Craigville, Minnesota, August 1937

A mother and her children, refugees from the 1937 flood,

encamped at Tent City near Shawneetown, Illinois

A quilting party in an Alvin, Wisconsin, home, April 1937

Agricultural workers wait in the clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers community, Woodville, California, Mar 1942

Child at the FSA Camelback Farms, Phoenix, Arizona, Feb-Mar 1942

Group of colored flood refugees housed in the

Baptist church at Sikeston, Missouri, Jan 1937

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John Dobree Pascoe

September 22, 2014, 8:23 am

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United States Marines near Pukekohe, 31 March 1943

United States Marines playing cards in New Zealand, ca. 1944

Waka race to entertain United States Servicemen,

held by Tainui Maori at Ngaruawahia, ca. 1943

Woman worker in a munitions factory, 30 August, 1943

Women celebrating Victory in Europe, Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1945

Women's Army Auxiliary Corps members sunbathing

while off duty, Godley Head, Lyttelton, Christchurch, January 1943

Women's War Service Auxiliary on parade on United Nations Day, 14 June, 1943

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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Dorothea Lange

September 23, 2014, 8:34 am

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"Pond monkey" channels log raft. Keno, Klamath County, Oregon, Sept 1939

A hitchhiking family waiting along the highway in Macon, Georgia. The father repairs sewing machines, lawn mowers, etc. He is leaving Macon, where a license is required for such work (twenty-five dollars) and heading back for Alabama. July 1937

Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle,

Cimarron County, Oklahoma, June 1938

Advertisement for current movie in town. Westley, California.

The child is a flood refugee from southeast Missouri. April 1939

Arkansas girl in migrant camp near Greenfield, Salinas Valley, California. This is an Arkansawyers auto camp, filled almost completely with Arkansawyers recently in California, April 1939

Boys riding freight. West Texas, May 1937

California pea pickers returning to camp after a day's work

in the field. Near Santa Clara, California, April 1937

Children of migrant Oklahoma family, now living

near Fresno, California, picking cotton, Nov 1936

Depression refugee family from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arrived in California

June 1936. Mother and three half-grown children; no father. November 1936

Destitute family. American River camp, Sacramento, California, November 1936

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Vermont

September 24, 2014, 8:00 am

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These photos were taken in Vermont in 1942 by Fritz Henle.

East Montpelier, Vermont. Charles Ormsbee's son Richard,

aged five, who tries to help on his father's farm, 1942

East Montpelier, Vermont. Marilyn, daughter of Charles Ormsbee,
is president of her 4-H club, the Montpelier Center Girls, where
she learns how to sew and cook economically and well, 1942

East Montpelier, Vermont. Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee and Marilyn, mother and daughter of farmer Charles Ormsbee. Mrs. Ormsbee is knitting sweaters for the Red Cross, 1942

East Montpelier, Vermont. The Charles Ormsbee family and

his widowed mother, Mrs. Myrtle Ormsbee, at dinner, July 1942

West Danville, Vermont. "What else will it be today, Mrs. Metcalf?"
asks Mrs. Hastings, who has clerked in the general store owned
by Mr. and Mrs. Hastings for twenty-nine years, July 1942

West Danville, Vermont. A load of sawdust from the

lumber mill. The wagon saves gas and rubber, July 1942

West Danville, Vermont. Frank Goss, seventy-one year old farmer, in front of Gilbert S. Hastings's general store and post office reading his mail, July 1942

West Danville, Vermont. Girls from Saint Johnsbury where they are spending a weekend on Joe's Pond, looking over fishing tackle in G. S. Hastings's general store, July 1942

West Danville, Vermont. Maynard Clark, fourteen, and Guy Davenport, eleven, reading the air raid instructions posted in Gilbert S. Hastings's post office and general store, July 1942

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Learning a Trade

September 25, 2014, 8:15 am

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Girls at Brighton High School in 1943 Boston are learning how to be car mechanics. From the Leslie Jones Collection.

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

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Vivian Maier

September 26, 2014, 8:09 am

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Marion Post Wolcott

September 27, 2014, 8:47 am

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"Settin' around." Mining town, Davey, West Virginia, Sept 1938

Boiling juice of sugarcane into sorghum molasses. Racine, West Virginia, Sept 1938

Card gambling in center of town, Osage, West Virginia, Sept 1938

Children of Pauline Clyburn, rehabilitation borrower,

Manning, Clarendon County, South Carolina, June 1939

Coal miner waiting to go home in friend's truck. Caples, West Virginia, Sept 1938

Coal miner's shack and some of his family, Pursglove, West Virginia, Sept 1938

Former coal miner, worked twelve years for Chaplin Coal Company as hand coal loader. He and several others complained to company about conditions not being up to National Recovery Administration standards. All lost jobs. He's now on WPA (Works Progress Administration) at thirty-eight dollars and twenty-five cents per month. Scotts Run, West Virginia , Sept 1938

Children of riverboat family, Charleston, West Virginia, Sept 1938

Family on front porch of houseboat on river in Charleston, West Virginia, Sept 1938

Many families live on riverboats in Charleston, West Virginia, Sept 1938

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Steffano Webb

September 28, 2014, 8:20 am

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Robert Falcon Scott (2nd from left), his wife Kathleen Bruce Scott, and others, alongside Mongolian ponies on Quail Island circa 1910, prior to the British Antarctic ("Terra Nova") Expedition

Rose Carnival, Christchurch, 1913

Row of cars, with passengers, at a rally, 1911

Scarborough Road, Sumner, 1880s-1920s

Sheep sale, Stockyards [Christchurch?], ca. 1920

Staff workroom, Christchurch, 1908

Steamroller during road construction, ca. 1910

Students, including orchestra, in a theatrical production

at Christ's College, Christchurch, 4 August 1925

Two men in Wolseley vehicle going up Hill Road, Christchurch, ca. 1912

Unidentified fire brigade with large piece of equipment

on wheels being towed by horses, possibly ladder, 1880s-1920s

Steffano Webb Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library

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Frederick Nelson Jones

September 29, 2014, 8:11 am

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Construction of a power house at Nelson, ca. 1922

Group of men pose with new 1915 model cars parked outside

the premises of the Commercial Garage on Hardy Street, Nelson

Hockey tournament at Nelson, Taranaki v. Wanganui, 1910

Men, women and children gathered for a picnic at the racecourse in Nelson, ca. 1910s

The ferry Duchess, alongside the H.M.S. New Zealand, Nelson, June 1913

The house 'Fairfield', in Nelson, 12 March 1913, during a

New Zealand Women's Christian Temperance Union garden party

Tilling a paddock, ca. 1920s

Waikoropupu Springs, Takaka, ca. 1910

[apparently also known as "Bubu Springs"]

Young women playing netball and a group of spectators at the sideline, ca. 1925

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

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George Frederick Kaye

September 30, 2014, 8:19 am

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Civilians outside Orsogna, Italy, giving a drink

of wine to a New Zealand soldier, 16 June 1944

Italian civilians dancing in the streets in celebration

of their liberation by NZ troops, 24 April 1945

Italian women of the newly liberated town of Massa Lombarda,

Italy, holding flags of the Allied Nations, 13 April 1945

J D Ruscoe leaning on his rifle, in an informal and characteristic

New Zealand pose, on the Cassino battlefront in Italy, 5 April 1944

Kiwi soldiers sightseeing in Pietra, Italy,

pictured with Italian children, 19 November 1943

Men of 2 New Zealand Division fraternizing with children in the village where they are resting after a spell in the front line, near Orsogna, Italy, 6 January 1944

New Zealand Divisional Cavalry members and their Staghound

in the front line town of Castiglione, Italy, 16 July 1944

New Zealanders find the Fibrino River a good change from the dusty roads they have covered as the enemy retreated in the Sora area, Italy, 3 June 1944