Photographic Times 1893

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 Alfred Stieglitz: Chianti

 Benjamin J. Falk: Leonora von Stosch

 C.D. Arnold: The Columbian Fountain

 C.D. Arnold: The Court of Honor. Columbian Exposition

 D. W. Carter: In the Country

 Emilie Clarkson: Santa Claus

 Ericksson: The Vikingship

 Ernest Edwards: From the Battery, New York

 F.B. Mitchell: Reflections

 H.R. Taylor: U.S.S. Philadelphia

Charles N. Parker: In the Hay Field

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Photographic Times 1893, ctd

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 Henry Newton: Mullens

 Herbert O. Warner: In the Meadow

 John Dumont: Columbus Caravels

 John Dumont: Gossip by the Wayside

 Juvia Johnson: A Chautauqua Student with a Camera

 Oliver J. Bailey: Richland Farm Pets

 Otis P. Gould: The Chain Bridge at Newburyport, Mass

 Pach Brothers Studio: H.R.H. Princess Eulalie, Infanta of Spain

 W.C. Walker: The Old Old Story

 W.H. Richardson: A New Jersey Road

W.N. Jennings: Philadelphia from a Balloon

George Brassaï

April 25, 2013, 10:16 am

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George Brassaï was the pseudonym of Gyula Halász, a Hungarian photographer who did most of his work in France. His photos of the underbelly of Parisian life capture the essence of its joys and sorrows.

 A la Cabane Cubaine, Montmartre, ca. 1932

 An English girl in her dressing room at the Folies-Bergère, 1932

 Bal Musette

 Brouillard, Avenue de l'Observatoire, 1934

 Chairs in the Luxembourgh Gardens in Winter, Paris, 1953

 Couple at Bal Nègre, rue Blomet, 1932

 Couples dancing

 Dali and his wife Gala

[note reflection of the photographer at left]

 

Girl playing snooker

Harris & Ewing - Kids

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 Junior Marines, 1919

 Liana de Bayle, daughter of the Minister of Nicaragua and Señora de Bayle, 1938

 Lord Lothian, British ambassador to the United States, came to be entertained, but instead, entertained the girl scouts at their headquarters here today on the occasion of the 28th anniversary of the founding of the organization. March 1940

 Marjorie Bertha Morgenstierne, daughter of the Minister of Norway and Mme. Morgenstierne. 1938-39

 Mirga Zadeikis, daughter of the Lithuanian Minister and Mrs. Zadeikis, 1938

 N.B.C. party. National Children's Frolic. March 1938

 National Children's Frolic NBC, 1937

 Neighborhood house. Kitchen

 Neighborhood house. Library

 Neighborhood house. Meeting room

Princess von Hatzfeld with child

Weegee

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Weegee was a photographer and photojournalist. His real name was Arthur Fellig.

 At an East Side murder, 1943

 At the Jazz Concert, 1944

 Children on Fire Escape, 1938

 Circus audience, ca. 1943

 Coney Island 1940

 Lineup for Night Court, ca. 1941

 Lost Child, Coney Island, 1941

 Lovers in a Bowery Bar

 Lovers with 3-D glasses at the Palace Theater, 1943

 Naked Hollywood book, ca. 1952

Retail butchers lined up at Ft. Greene Market, Brooklyn, in the early dawn, hoping for a little meat to sell from their shops, March 19, 1943

Russell Lee

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 Negro musicians playing accordion and washboard in automobile. 

Near New Iberia, Louisiana, 1938

 Negro stevedore with sack of oysters on back, Olga, Louisiana, 1938

 Negro stevedores sleeping on pile of lumber on bow of packet boat 

on Mississippi River below New Orleans, 1938

 Negro tenant farmer on his front porch. This farm is owned by an out-of-state woman and has been rented by this family of Negroes for eleven years. South of Muskogee, Oklahoma, 1939

 Negroes kneeling at graves of relatives, and being blessed 

by priest with holy water, New Roads, Louisiana, 1938

 Negroes waiting at streetcar terminal for cars, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1939

 New Madrid County, Missouri. Sharecropper's wife chopping cotton, 

Southeast Missouri Farms Project, 1938

 Oil field worker drinking water, Kilgore, Texas, 1939

 Oil field worker, Kilgore, Texas, 1939

Old Negro (former slave) with horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas, 1939

Felix Nadar

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 Catacombs, Paris, 1861

 

 Subterranean Paris (Pont au Change), 1864–65

 Charles Garnier, ca. 1880

[Garnier was a French architect]

 

 Eugène Pelletan

[a writer, journalist and politician]

 

 Sarah Bernhardt

[Sarah Bernhardt was arguably the most famous actress of the 19th century]

 Sarah Bernhardt

 Sarah Bernhardt

 Théophile Gautier, ca. 1856

[Gautier was a French poet]

 

 Victor Hugo

 Victor Hugo on his deathbed

 Pierrot Laughing, 1855

[nothing creepy about this photograph, no sir]

 

Self-portrait with wife and son, 1865

André Kertész

May 2, 2013, 8:44 am

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 A Window on the Quai Voltaire, Paris, 1928

 Academie Francaise, Paris, 1929

 Champs Elysee, Paris, 1929

 Chez Mondrian, 1926

 Circus, Budapest, 19 May 1920

 Fork, 1928

 In a Bistro, Paris, 1927

 In the Luxembourg Garden, Paris

 Latin Quarter, Paris, 1926

 Medici Fountain, Paris

 Mondrian's Pipe and Glasses, Paris, 1926

[presumably that would be Piet Mondrian, the Dutch painter who was living in Paris in the 1920s]

 

 My Friends at Cafe du Dome, 1928

 Place de la Concorde, Paris, 1928

 Shadows of the Eiffel Tower, 1929

 Washerwoman, Latin Quarter, Paris, 1928

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Cabinet cards - kids

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 Class photo, Cuba, 1936-37

 Elva Hemenway, Waubeek, Iowa

 Girl dressed in kimono, Dowaglac, Michigan

 Nellie and Minnie Maus, Lake Odessa, Michigan

 Smiling child with doll, St. Paul, Minnesota

 Two girls playing a board game

 Xylophone duet, Liverpool, England

 Young girl, Oxford, Indiana

 Young siblings, Lincoln, Nebraska

 Young siblings, Uruguay

Two kids and a hay bale

Adolphe Braun

May 6, 2013, 8:42 am

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 Animal Study. Horses in a Farmyard

 Study of a Bull, with Handler

 Egypt 

 Family portrait

 L'Alsace

 Panorama of Naples

 Persepolis, Palace of Darius

 Persepolis, Palace of Darius

 Place de Belfort following siege of 1870-71

 Belfort, the Citadel

 Steamers on the lake, 1860-70

Switzerland. Mer de Glace from the Montanvert & Aigille de Charmoz, 

Valley of Charmouny ca. 1865

G. G. Bain

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 Board walk and esplanade review, on beach, Asbury Park, New York, 1911

 Brox sisters

[they were a singing trio of vaudeville performers]

 Brox sisters
[movie clip of them]

 Brox sisters
[singing "Red Hot Mama"]

 Chicago Opera Girls knit

 German actress Hedwig Reicher wearing costume of "Columbia" 

with other suffrage pageant participants standing in background 

in front of the Treasury Building, March 3, 1913, Washington, DC

 Helen Keller & Mrs. Macy, 1913

 Jessie Stubbs and "General" Rosalie Jones, who led 

the woman suffrage hikes to Albany, NY, and Washington, DC, 1910-1915

 Mrs. H. Riordan, suffragette, New York, 1910

 New York - Paris racecars lined up to start, New York, 1908

 New York, East Side eviction

 On beach, Belmar

 Robert Cameron Beadle and Alfred H. Brown, members of 

the Men's League for Woman Suffrage with others, outside 48 East 34th St., 

headquarters of the Woman's Suffrage Party of Manhattan, 1913

Suffragette Trixie Friganza, descending steps, New York, 1908

Eugène Atget

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 Avenue de l'Observatoire, 1926

 Balcon 16 Rue Beaujolais, 1913

 Boulevard de Strasbourg, 1912

 Cour 7, rue de Valencia

 Cour du Dragon, 1913

 La Villette, rue Asselin 1921

 Nôtre Dame de Paris, 1922

 Parc de Sceaux, 1925

Three Prostitutes, Rue Asseline 1924-25

Berenice Abbott

May 9, 2013, 8:54 am

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 Lyric Theatre, Third Avenue, New York, 1936

 Miner, Greenview, West Virginia, 1935

 Night View, 1932

 Patchin Place, 1930s

 Pike and Henry Street. New York City, March the 6th, 1936

 Tin Man Wagon

 Triborough Bridge, East 125th Street Approach, New York City, June 29, 1937

 Warehouse (Yuban), Water and Dock Streets, Brooklyn, New York, May 22, 1936

 Zito’s Bakery, New York, 1937

Waterfront, South Street, October 25th, 1935

Atwater Kent radio factory

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The Atwater Kent radio factory, owned by Arthur Atwater Kent, was the largest maker of radios in the United States in the 1920s. This set of photos of work at the facility is from National Photo. The first two show Mr. Kent himself observing various facets of work at the factory.

 Mary Ramsey starting assembly of set, 1925

 Philadelphia factory, 1925

 First loud speaker operation pressing from flat piece of metal, 1925

Radio set assembling room, 1925

 Shaping bell for loudspeaker, 1925

Winding transformer coils, 1925

John Thomson

May 13, 2013, 9:33 am

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More photos of London street life. Previous set by Thomson here.

 The street locksmith

[about this picture]

 London cabmen, 1877-78

[about this picture]

 Mush fakers and ginger-beer makers

[about this picture]

 

 Omnibus driver

 Quack

 Recruiting Sargeants at Westminister, 1877

[about this picture]

 Shoe-shining

[about this picture]

 

 St Giles, cheap fish, 1877

[about this picture]

 Tailor's widow, 1877

Vintage clothing, St Giles

[about this picture]

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Suffragettes

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Some photos from the American suffrage movement, from Harris & Ewing.

 Frank Wheeler Mondell, Representative from Wyoming, with suffragettes at the Capitol, 1914

 Headquarters, National Woman Suffrage Organization, 1913

 Liberty Bell for suffrage, 1916

 Mrs. Ernest Seton with suffrage group

 Woman suffrage at Capitol, 1917

 Woman suffrage banners, 1917

 Woman suffrage picket, 1917

 Woman suffrage pickets, 1917

 Woman suffrage. At headquarters, 1910-1917

 Woman suffrage. March in rain, 1917

 Woman suffrage. March on Capitol, 1916

Woman suffrage. Streetcar, Susan B. Anthony pageant, 1915-1916

Vacation

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Duchess of Devonshire’s Jubilee Costume Ball

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Previous sets of photos from this event here and here.

 Lord Rodney as King Arthur

 Miss Goelet as Scheherazade

 Mr Henry Holden as Will Somers, Queen Elizabeth's court jester

[actually Will Somers was Henry VIII's court jester]

 Mr and Mrs Hall Walker as Merlin and Vivian

 Mrs J Graham Menzies in the role of Titania, Queen of the Fairies

 Mrs Ronalds as Euterpe the Muse of music

 Mrs Von Andre as Desdemona

 Mrs William James as the Archduchess Elizabeth of Austria

 Sir Charles Hartopp as Napoleon I and Lady Hartopp as the Empress Josephine

The Countess of Dalkeith as Helen, Countess of Dalkeith

Gertrude Käsebier

May 21, 2013, 11:03 am

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Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934) was an influential American woman photographer. 

 Adoration, ca. 1898

 American Horse, ca. 1900

 Amos Two Bulls, Dakota Sioux, ca. 1900

 Blessed art thou among women, 1899

 Boy with dog, Oceanside, Long Island, 1904

 Charging Thunder, Sioux and wife, ca. 1900

 Cornelia Montgomery, 1896

 Cornelia Montgomery, full face, holding flowers, square-necked gown, 1900

 Evelyn Nesbit, ca. 1900

[Evelyn Nesbit was a chorus girl and model. She was the central figure 

in a huge scandal when her husband shot and killed her lover.]

 Happy Days: a portrait of the photographer's grandson, 1902

Paul Strand

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Paul Strand (1890-1976) was an American art photographer. His career spanned many decades.

 Blind (1916)

 Boys at Cape Coast, Ghana (1963)

 Broken Glasses

 Building

 L'Armançon, Cuzy Yonne, Burgundy, France (1951)

 Nets, Michoacan (1933)

 Romanian Peasants (1960s)

 Tailor's Apprentice

 Thatch

 The Family, Luzzara (1953)

 Tir A'mhurain, South Uist, Hebrides (1954)

Trees, Winter, near the River Po, Italy (1952)