Quantcast
Channel: History in Photos
Viewing all 1436 articles
Browse latest View live
↧

Frank Hohenberger

November 14, 2013, 8:13 am
$
0
0
I find that I am loving this guy's work more and more. He was a small town photographer and his subjects were as humble as his environment - no portraits of the rich and glamorous for him, nor any gleaming cityscapes. Just local down-home folks, caught in daily life, for the most part. He did do a lot of portraits where people were posing, but even these have a fresh quality about them. 

It's true that the Depression-era photographers (Dorothea Lange et al.) photographed "down-home" folks as well, but they were looking in from the outside and their work sometimes comes across almost like "poverty porn." (In retrospect, that was a poorly chosen phrase and implies that I lack respect for the work of the Depression-era photographers. I do not - their work was great and very valuable in portraying the dire conditions in the country to the nation and particularly to those in a position to do something about it.) In Mr. Hohenberger's work, one gets the sense that he knew most of the people he was photographing, and even the poverty-stricken among them have some sense of dignity.

 11th Infantry coming through Nashville, Indiana, 1931
  
 Alex Mullis and wife, Mandy (Fleetwood) Mullis seated 
under cottonwood tree, Van Buren, Indiana, 1922
  
 Backyard at Wash Barnes place, Mrs. Barnes in picture, with hat, 1922
  
 Baptizing near Anderson church, Brown County, Indiana, 1927
  
 Barnum & Bailey circus ticket booth, 1942
  
 Boys smoking bees from cabin, 1933
  
 Community Club, Martinsville visit, 1927
  
 Crowd at auto, 1924
  
 Crowd at Collins Calvin sale, 1923
  
 Daughter of Dr. Weinstein and son, posing for Shulz painting, 1925
  
 Don McClure and group near Rose hill road turn, 1929
 
Elkins home and portraits of sisters, Elkinsville, 1929
↧
Search

San Francisco Earthquake

November 15, 2013, 8:14 am
$
0
0
More photos from 1906.

 Armed soldier or National Guardsman walking up Market Street while San Francisco burns
  
 Bread line
  
 Buyers of relics of fire
  
 City Hall in ruins
  
 Gough and Page Street, San Francisco, California. City Hall and Call Building identified
  
 Group of refugees pose with a damaged cannon. Makeshift shacks and tent in background
  
 Nob Hill looking south
  
 Panorama from Nob Hill, view to the northeast. Telegraph Hill at left, sloping southward 
into the Barbary Coast district; Chinatown, foreground
  
 Refugees with belongings
  
 San Francisco fire. Workers clearing ruined lot
  
 Soldiers and police officers patrol Sixth St. near burning building
  
Sunken Valencia St. Hotel after earthquake
↧
↧

Hikaru Iwasaki

November 16, 2013, 7:32 am
$
0
0
These are photos of Japanese-Americans, post-Internment.

 A moment of relaxation at Bill Mori's K & J Restaurant, 
88 E. Main Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1944
  
 Alice Yamaoka, formerly of Poston, Marci Sakai, formerly of Gila River, and Florence Abe, formerly of Tule Lake, in Alice and Florence's apartment in St. Louis, Missouri, 1945
  
 During a recess at Emerson School, the children are all enjoying 
a ride on the Merry-Go-Round. St. Louis, Missouri, 1944
  
 Group of girls thinning grapes at the C. R. Van Buskrik vineyard near Lodi, California, 1945
  
 I'm very proud of my husband, says Mrs. John M. Sakai, as she shows the Purple Heart 
to her guest Aiko Shintani. Her husband was wounded in Italy in July, 1944
  
 Ichi Kawajiri (left) and Takeo Yoshino (right) are shown with Wilfred Johnson, a Jamaican, 
filling sacks with carrots in the Vegetable Packing House on Chicago's west side, 1944
  
 Little Judith Yamamoto went to the grocery store with her mother but was stopped outside 
by some admiring children. The Verlin Yamamoto family, formerly of San Francisco 
and Gila River, have resettled in Des Moines, Iowa, 1945
  
 May Ideta, oldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kiyoshi Ideta-Minami, formerly 
of Seattle and the Minidoka Center, at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 1945
  
 Mineko Hirasaki of Gilroy in the foreground and her sister Fumiko at the fish pond 
of the beautiful family residence on their 550-acre vegetable farm. Gilroy, California, 1945
  
 Mr. and Mrs. Ryozo Hirata and son, as well as Mr. T. Yonemura, father of 
Mrs. Hirata and S. Koyama, 2050 Harrison Street, Arlington, California, 1945
  
 Mr. and Mrs. Shigeharu Takahashi and son, Jerrold, age 19 months, 
are standing in front of their home in San Mateo, 1945
  
Mrs. Chick Uno with her daughters, Sheila and Naomi, 
in their flower garden at their home in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 1944
↧

Miscellaneous

November 17, 2013, 9:19 am
$
0
0
Some random vintage photos, found here.

 A huge wild boar, Galacia. December 1916
  
 As an eternal memento of the Spartacist War in Munich, Bavaria 
(attempted Communist coup, 1918-19)
[is this real or posed?]
  
 Don't Hit Me With Your Swagger Stick. ca. 1920
  
 
 The Snake Charmers, ca. 1920
[same group as above]
 
 Entertaining troops in North Africa during World War II, 1943. 
From the left, Jack Benny, Anna Lee, Wini Shaw (person on right unknown)
  
 Greyhound station and diner
  
 Group playing cards
  
 Mom and baby, Bronx, New York, 1953
  
 Unknown family, 1940
[this one conveniently dates itself!]
  
Woman with Chrysler car, California, 1942
↧

Vintage Australia

November 18, 2013, 8:43 am
$
0
0
These are from the collections of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

 A farm homestead
  
 A halt for refreshment
  
 A lookout, Katoomba
  
 A pioneer settler
  
 A rabbiter's pack, Darling district
  
 A sawmill in the interior
  
 A wheat field
  
 Bare foot boy wearing a hat, seated on a log, ca. 1900
  
 Blue gums
[referring to the trees]
  
 Bondi Bay, Sydney
  
 Bridge Street, Sydney from George Street
  
 Bush camping scene with four men
  
 Bush scene, small bullock cart
  
 Children riding a pony to school
  
CIB (Criminal Investigation Branch) Ball at Mark Foy's Empress Ballroom, 1938
↧
↧

William Henry Jackson

November 19, 2013, 8:25 am
$
0
0
He joined the 1870 and 1871 expeditions led by Ferdinand Hayden to do geological surveys of the American west, where most of these pictures are from. And something you would only find on Wikipedia: he was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol Uncle Sam.

At first I thought the first two pictures here were the same image, but then I saw the subtle differences. They must have been taken less than a minute apart (or as soon as was possible with 1870 photographic technology - probably longer than a minute).
 
 A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden's camp of the U.S. Geological Survey. 
Red Buttes, Wyoming Territory, August 24, 1870
  
 A noon meal in Ferdinand V. Hayden's camp of the U.S. Geological Survey. 
Red Buttes, Wyoming Territory, August 24, 1870
   
 Botanist Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, left, ca. 1877
[I assume that's the guy sitting on the ground]
  
 Boteler Brothers Ranch, Paradise Valley, 1871
  
 Geological Survey Expedition members at Firehole Basin, 1872
  
 Hayden & Walter Pairs, in camp, 1871
  
 Hayden expedition in camp, 1872
  
 Horse-drawn odometer, 1871
  
 Individuals on horseback, Garden of the Gods, Colorado
  
 Joe & Jose Clark, Hayden Expedition, 1871
 
 Nez Perce Encampment on Yellowstone River, 1871
 
 Seattle dock, 1901-06
  
 Street view in Corinne, Boxelder County, Utah, 1869
  
 The U.S. Geological and Geophysical Survey of the Territories en route with 
pack train upon the trail between the Yellowstone and East Fork Rivers, 1871
↧

Cabinet cards

November 20, 2013, 8:17 am
$
0
0
 Christmas portrait, mother and child, Békéscsaba, Hungary
  
 Elegant woman, Vienna, Austria
  
 Girl posing, Jgló és Poprád, Hungary, 1890-1910
  
 Happy couple, Budapest, Hungary
  
 Hunter, Vienna, Austria
  
 Irma Kail, Györ, Hungary
  
 Little girl, Hungary
  
 Little girls (Iluska and Manci), Szombathely, Hungary, 1910
  
Odd family portrait, Hermannstadt, Germany
[I love this...amazing that the guy is sufficiently secure to engage in some gender-bending fun]
  
 Siblings, Budapest, Hungary
  
 Six women, Budapest, Hungary
  
 Women and young child, Budapest, Hungary
  
 Women in ethnic dress, Vöcklabruck, Austria
  
Young girl dressed for first communion, Brno, Moravia, Czechia
↧

Henri Cartier-Bresson

November 21, 2013, 8:34 am
$
0
0
 Beynac, France, 1956
  
 Dublin, Ireland, 1952
  
 Political meeting, Parc des Expositions, Paris, 1953
  
 Rome, 1952
  
 Rome, 1959
  
 Sumatra, Indonesia, 1950
  
 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 1958
  
 Vaucluse, France, 1956
  
World's Fair, Brussels, Belgium. 1958
↧
Search

Vintage LA

November 22, 2013, 8:32 am
$
0
0
These are from the archives of the University of Southern California.

 6th Avenue School activity, parent teachers association, Los Angeles, CA, 1932
  
 20th annual beauty contest, 1951
  
 40th division wives club, 1951
  
 46th annual Iowa summer picnic, 1951
  
 160th officers wives picnic at Southgate Park, 1951
  
 2700 East Anaheim Street, Long Beach, California, 1933
  
 A man gets his change from the woman working at the egg counter at the outdoor Farmers Market, while two young women with wicker shopping carts stand nearby, 1942
  
 Friendly bunch, 1923
[I can't decide if this caption is tongue in cheek or not]
  
 Helen of Troy Virginia Tongue and the members of her Court, 1949
  
 Homecoming Queen Charlene Hardey, 1948
  
 Looking north along Main Street at the many businesses 
between Fifth Street and Sixth Street, Los Angeles
  
 Stepping through the pansy ring was a privilege 
of graduating women who had become engaged, 1933
  
Trojan co-eds announce engagements in Pansy Ring ceremonies, 1935
↧
↧

Robert Doisneau

November 23, 2013, 7:40 am
↧

National Photo

November 24, 2013, 9:07 am
$
0
0
 Oldsmobile truck, Thomas J. Crack, ca. 1920
  
 Pageant, Vets of Foreign Wars, fall of the Alamo, Mexican war, ca. 1920
  
 People dressed as pilgrims carrying three signs for amnesty for political prisoners 
standing in front of the White House. ca. 1918
  
 People on horseback going up mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
  
 Portrait of five young women related to Navy officials, 1922
  
 Post Office clerks. Calisthenics. 1923
  
 Relay team (shrine), 1923
  
 Salvation Army House girls, 1921
  
 Shad fishing on the Potomac
  
Sidney Lust girls, 1910-20
[the jokes write themselves]
↧

Photochroms - UK

November 25, 2013, 8:26 am
$
0
0
 Aquarium, Brighton, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Bridlington, children's corner, Yorkshire, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Caius College and Senate House, Cambridge, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Cheapside, London, England, ca. 1890-1900
 
 Citadel, Carlisle, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Cliffs and beach, Clacton-on-Sea, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Clock tower, Herne Bay, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Cockington Village, Torquay, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Cowes, marine promenade, Isle of Wight, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 Eastgate Street and Newgate Street, Chester, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 From North Pier, Blackpool, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 From the pier, Clacton-on-Sea, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 From the pier, Littlehampton, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 High Street, Clovelly, England, ca. 1890-1900
  
 High Street, Dumfries, Scotland, ca. 1890-1900
  
 High Street, Hawick, Scotland, ca. 1890-1900
  
London Bridge, London, England, ca. 1890-1900
↧

Vintage Harvard

November 26, 2013, 8:16 am
$
0
0
 Mount Auburn Street at Dunster, looking east, ca. 1930
  
 Observatory computer room and staff, 1891
  
 Observatory girls with Mrs. Draper, 1891
  
 Observatory group, ca. 1910
  
 Observatory staff members and visitors, 1910
  
 Observatory women computers, 1891
  
 Student room in Randolph Hall, ca. 1897
  
 Students in Harvard Yard, ca. 1957
  
 Summer School in Chemistry, Harvard College Chem Laboratory, 1890
  
 The Reischauer family at their home in Belmont, Massachusetts, 1961
  
Widener Memorial Library, general reading room, 1915
↧
↧

Edward Bangs Drew

November 27, 2013, 8:25 am
$
0
0
Edward Bangs Drew joined the Chinese Maritime Customs Service in 1864 after earning his BA degree from Harvard. In 1868, Drew was appointed a Commissioner of the Service, a position he held for decades. During that time he collected photographs that document clothing, customs, and daily life in 19th century China, and of Drew's life and career, including family and social gatherings, public appearances, and events and ceremonies.

 A Chinese merchant's family, ca. 1886
  
 Anna Drew (second from left) with daughters Lucy and Dora 
and group of unidentified people, Canton, 1893
  
 Anna Drew having tea at home in Canton, ca. 1893
  
 Assu, amah, holding Lionel, 6 weeks old, Peking, March 9, 1890
  
 Cheong Loong merchants selling preserved ginger, Canton, ca. 1893
  
 Costumes. Chinese women, 1876-77
  
 Fancy dress party, Foochow [Fuzhou], ca. 1876
  
 Group of people outdoors posing among large rocks, somewhere near Canton, ca. 1893
  
 Group of Western women visiting unidentified site in China
  
 Group portrait of mostly German diplomats, interpreters, military officers, 
and a missionary posing with Chinese government officials in traditional dress
  
 Kidnapped girls, Foochow. Found hidden in a junk by customs inspector. 
These girls would have been sold for slaves. 1904
  
 Mrs. Wilkinson's school for the blind, Foochow city, 1905
  
 Roman Catholic orphanage (near or in Kiukiang); 
nun inspecting babies in the baskets, 1892
↧

Harris & Ewing

November 28, 2013, 8:17 am
$
0
0
 Eastern High School
  
 Genevieve Clark, 1912
  
 Seen lunching together at the senate restaurant in the Capitol today were Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of senator from Idaho, and Mme Hirosi Saito, wife of Japanese Ambassador. May 24, 1937
  
 Senator Hattie Caraway, Arkansas, left, and Senator Dixie Bibb Graves, Alabama. 1937
  
 Senator Joseph Guffey, (D. Pa.) today received from the Johnstown, PA quintuplets a unique invitation which he was asked to present to President Roosevelt requesting his attendance 
at the 50th anniversary of the Johnstown Flood of 1889. 1938
  
 Society circus. Clowns on horseback, 1909-1923
  
 Striking Seamen picket Commerce Department. Washington, D.C. January 18, 1937
  
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, and his wife, sat with other mothers and fathers 
watching their offspring say 'Merry Christmas' in their native tongues. December 1939
↧
Search

Hoagy Carmichael

November 29, 2013, 9:16 am
$
0
0
Photos of an American composer. He wrote my mother's favorite song.

 Crowd in Portland, Oregon handing records to Hoagy Carmichael to sign
  
 Harold Russell and Hoagy Carmichael in 'The Best Years of Our Lives'
  
 Hoagy and Ruth Carmichael (left of Hoagy) at a Halloween party
  
 Hoagy and Ruth Carmichael at a piano
  
 Hoagy Carmichael and unidentified woman with Stardust Road record 
on stage at autograph signing in Culver City, California
  
 Hoagy Carmichael composing in the den of his Los Angeles home
  
 Hoagy Carmichael in 'To Have and Have Not' with Lauren Bacall
  
 Hoagy Carmichael on stage in La Grange, Georgia, 
playing piano, crowd in background, 1951
  
 Hoagy Carmichael standing behind a bar motioning toward a picture 
on the wall that he painted, "Serenade to a Blue Nose"
 
 Hoagy Carmichael with Dana Andrews and Merle Oberon in 'Night Song'
  
 Hoagy Carmichael with Dana Andrews and Merle Oberon in 'Night Song'
  
 Hoagy Carmichael with unidentified woman, 1951
 
 People buying copies of Stardust Road, 1946
  
 Randy, Hoagy Bix and Hoagy Carmichael at his radio show, 1946-47
  
Young woman presenting Stardust Road for Hoagy Carmichael to sign
↧

UC Berkeley

November 30, 2013, 7:56 am
$
0
0
More from the UC Berkeley photo archives.

 Bicycle with third wheeler
  
 C.U. brawl, ca. 1900
  
 Fillmore St. Hill, 1915
  
 Group of settlers rebuilding Mr. Merrifield's barn
  
 Group portrait of women with Joaquin Miller
[he was a poet...with groupies, apparently]
  
 "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than to be crowded on a velvet cushion"
  
 Man, girl and Jersey calf
  
 Outdoor Life - Noyo River Tavern
  
 S.W. on Howard St. from 13th Street, San Francisco, March 1925
  
The Basketball Team of the Mercantile Trust Co. of California, 1926
↧
↧

Panoramas

December 1, 2013, 8:58 am
$
0
0
 Harvard-Yale football game, 1913
   
 Labor Party, First National Covention, Chicago, November 22, 1919
  
 Los Angeles, California, Feb. 23rd, 1909, looking northwest from 4th and Broadway Sts
  
 Mariposa Big Tree Grove panorama, ca. 1906
  
 May Day at Baldwin College, 1907
  
 Motor Transport Co. 554 enroute to Santa Cruz, August 29, 1919 
to escort the Pacific fleet to San Francisco
  
 Motoring tourists homecoming, Arcadia, Florida, Jan. 4-10, 1932
  
 National Women's Trade League Convention, New York City, 1924
  
 National Women's Trade League Convention, St. Louis, 1913
  
Naturalization of aliens, June 25, 1918, 310th Cavalry, Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont
↧

Frank Hohenberger - Kids

December 2, 2013, 8:11 am
$
0
0
Pictures of children from this Indiana photographer.

 Boys drinking from creek, Deckard school, 1933
  
 Coaster, Federal Bldg., April 6, 1912
  
 Crabtree children in Jackson Branch, Indiana, 1931
  
 Doc Winter's boy and companion on Morse wagon, 1923
  
 Dorothy Allison in Turner's swing, 1923
  
 Dr. Gravis's little daughter, making goo-goo eyes, Martinsville, Indiana, 1926
  
 Group of children, Jackson Branch, Indiana, 1931
  
 Group of girls at Edell Roberts school, 1933
  
Group of Indian children at reservation, 1928
↧

Hedda Morrison

December 3, 2013, 8:15 am
$
0
0
Hedda Morrison was a German-born photographer who worked extensively in China in the 1930s and 40s. These photos are from the Harvard University collection.

 Activity on a waterway, Nanking
  
 Barefoot girl with a child strapped to her back amid large planks 
of wood and hanging laundry, Hong Kong, 1946-47
  
 Basket maker, Nanking
  
 Bell and Drum Towers (children playing in fields)
  
 Blacksmith and assistant hammering a piece of heated metal in a shop
  
 Calligrapher, Nanking
  
 Casting a wok at an outdoor foundry to the west of Beijing
  
 Child in hovel, Nanking
  
 Children playing in a shanty town, Shau Kei Wan, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
  
 Crowded alleyway with street vendors, 
Western District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
  
 Dock workers waiting for cargo from cargo junks, 
Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
  
Duck farming
↧
Viewing all 1436 articles
Browse latest View live
Search
<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>