Hikaru Iwasaki

December 4, 2013, 8:32 am

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A walk through New York City's Riverside Park on a mid-summer

Saturday afternoon is providing exercise and relaxation for four young resettlers, 1944

Hospitalized at Dibble General Hospital, Menlo Park, California is Corp. Minoru Yoshida

of the 100th, from Honolulu, shown here talking with Mrs. Jack Epstein, member

of the Public Relations staff of the hospital, 1945

Miss Tee Mikami, formerly of Los Angeles and the Colorado River Center, discusses plans

for a party menu with an associate at the YWCA, Kansas City, Missouri, 1945

Mr. and Mrs. Zensaku Ichimura, an Issei couple, returned to the farm

of their adopted son, Henry Umino, who is expected to return soon from

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he and his wife have relocated, 1945

Mrs. Henry Akiyama is pictured on her Pacific Gold Fish Farm,

Garden Grove, California, 1945

Mrs. Kim Obata, a registrar for the Girl Scouts,

answers her calls for registration. St. Louis, 1944

On the Roscoe Zukerman farm's repair garage at Camp #21, Mandeville Island, Stockton, California, are employed two former Rohwer evacuees, Tak Wakabayashi and Toru Okazaki, 1945

Shown at the entrance to their new home, a cottage set in an apple orchard

on the outskirts of Wilmington, Delaware, are Mr. and Mrs. Tom Toyoji Yamane,

Issei from the Gila River Relocation Center, and their four children, 1944

Shown is a group of FPHA employees, San Francisco, 1945

[FPHA = Federal Public Housing Authority]

Steven Sakaguchi, left, and Sharon Sakaguchi, cousins, enjoy life in Bellevue farm home of their parents, the Taki and the Takeshi Sakaguchis, who owns a 10-acre fruit and vegetable farm, 1945

Surrounded by members of her typing class is Harriet Yanaga, Nisei student

newly enrolled at the Southeast High School in Kansas City, Missouri, 1944

Thelma Takeda is the first Nisei student to return to San Jose State College, 1945

Virginia Okubo is shown playing with her schoolmates in the playground

of the St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, 1944

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Cornell University

December 5, 2013, 8:35 am

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From the photo archives of Cornell University.

Children at the old South Hill School playing organized

games as part of health program, ca. 1919

Children at the old South Hill School playing organized

games as part of health program, ca. 1919

Flora Rose fishing, around 1910-18

Local Extension leaders drilling in physical exercise in middies and bloomers, outdoors, 1914-18

Nutrition class at public school in Ithaca in 1919

Picnic in Grange Hall, held as a climax to a six-day Extension school held in August 1915

Rochester ''Milk Week''

Senior night ceremony photographed for 1920 home economics catalog

Students and staff of Winter Course, around 1911-12. Among the staff are Flora Rose,

in white shirtwaist behind Helen Binkerd Young, who has her hand on the shoulder

of Martha Van Rensselaer, all to the left of the central rows

The first Extension car - as used in 1913. Home economics Extension trips

started like this before the home bureaus were organized

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Vintage Japan

December 6, 2013, 9:20 am

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These colorized photos of 19th century Japan are from the Harvard University archives.

Blind masseur giving massage to young woman sitting on futon, ca. 1890

Boat on Sumida River, near Tokyo

Buddhist priests and nuns playing musical instruments on the street, ca. 1890

Children learning calligraphy from master calligrapher, hanging scroll

and folding screen with decorative painting in background, ca. 1890

Drawing water from the well, ca. 1890

Ferry boat, somewhere in Japan, ca. 1890

Four Japanese women dressed in kimonos walking on porch at Okano Garden, Tokyo. ca. 1887

Four women having tea, brazier in front of them and

tokonoma with hanging scroll in background, ca. 1890

Japanese mothers with children and cherry trees, ca. 1890

Japanese tea ceremony, ca. 1880s

Japanese travelers in basket palanquins, possibly on the Tokaido near Hakone, ca. 1890

Japanese woman with her children sitting in front of kimono or

cloth merchant's shop, with clerk holding an abacus sitting in back, ca. 1890

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A. L. Westgard

December 7, 2013, 8:10 am

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I haven't been able to find out anything about Mr. Westgard, except that he (presumably a he) took pictures of autos in desolate western settings.

An AAA Good Roads Official on his transcontinental auto trip passes the only

road sign in evidence along the dusty, desolate road near Glendive, Montana. July 1912

Covered wagon with jackrabbit mules encounters an automobile

on the trail near Big Springs, Nebraska, 1912

[this looks like something out of a Twilight Zone episode...]

Members of the Denver Motor Club and Chamber of Commerce test-driving

the Denver to Salt Lake Exposition route near De Beque, Colorado, 1912

Townspeople of Ehrenburg, Arizona Territory, greet a stranger in

an automobile on his pioneer cross country tour. Saloon in background, ca. 1911

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San Francisco Earthquake

December 8, 2013, 10:46 am

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Corner of Fifth and Market Streets, San Francisco

Crowd searching through rubble. At O'Farrell and Market Streets?

Earthquake damage to residences on Howard Street

Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill

Golden Gate Park. Family living in tent

Golden Gate Park. Relief line, with refugees and soldiers

Group of men inspecting damage, Commercial St. Ferry Building in distance

Hot Food Station - Union Square Camp

Information Bureau. Refugee camp, Golden Gate Park

Jefferson Square refugee camp

Large refugee encampment. Crowd gathered for relief distribution, foreground.

Market St. near Buchanan

Makeshift restaurant tent. Ruins of City Hall in distance

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Photochroms - France

December 9, 2013, 8:33 am

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Avenue de la Gare, Nice, Riviera, ca. 1890-1900

Beach at bathing time, Granville, France, ca. 1890-1900

Interior view of the Gallery of Machines,

Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1889, Paris, France

[it's a steampunk paradise!]

St. Augustine Church, Paris, France, ca. 1890-1900

Statue of Joan of Arc by Foyatier in the Martyrs' Place, Orléans, France, ca. 1890-1900

The beach, Dinard, France, ca. 1890-1900

The Bourse, Lyons, France, ca. 1890-1900

The Castle, wing of Francis I, the facade, Blois, France, ca. 1890-1900

The Church in the town, Eu, France, ca. 1890-1900

The Hôpital Spring, Vichy, France, ca. 1890-1900

The Luxembourg Palace, Paris, France, ca. 1890-1900

The market, Nice, Riviera, ca. 1890-1900

The Mer de Glace, Aiguille du Geant and Les Grandes Jorasses,

Chamonix Valley, France, ca. 1890-1900

The Old Lieutenancy, Honfleur, France, ca. 1890-1900

The railway station, Lillie, France, ca. 1890-1900

Washerwomen, Nice, Riviera, ca. 1890-1900

[this one looks like an Impressionist painting]

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The Old West

December 10, 2013, 9:50 am

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C. P. Rich: Holding down a lot in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, ca. 1889

J. M. McMurry: Makah Indians from Nee-oh Bay resting on the beach at Port Townsend, Washington, while en route for the hop fields up Pudget-Sound, ca. 1890

John K. Hillers at work with his negatives. In camp, Aquarius Plateau, Utah Territory.

Hillers was a photographer with the John Wesley Powell Geological Survey, ca. 1872

Looking For A Town Lot. Guthrie, Indian Territory [Oklahoma], ca. 1889

Ore teams on a dusty road, Pinal County, Arizona Territory, ca. 1897

Stanton G. Smith: A rider fills his keg from a desert well 30 miles north of

Palomas, Arizona Territory. His horse refreshes himself nearby, April 5, 1907

Sunday school, Indians and whites. Indian Territory [Oklahoma], ca. 1900

Teacher and children in front of sod schoolhouse.

'Woods County, Oklahoma Territory, ca. 1895

[teacher has a surprisingly stylish blouse]

The Covered Wagon of the Great Western Migration. 1886 in Loup Valley, Nebraska. A family poses with the wagon in which they live and travel daily during their pursuit of a homestead

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Vintage SoCal

December 11, 2013, 8:45 am

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Southern California, of course! From the USC archives.

"Fuzzy Pink Nightgown" Beauty Contest, 1957

"If I Were Rich" players (quintuplets), Southern California, 1927

["quintuplets" means there should be five...I only count four]

"Manya" using Racine inner tube for exercise, Bershon Tire, Southern California, 1928

"Party Daze" week ends with "Beachcomber's Day" at Harbor Junior College, 1953

[holding a beachcomber party indoors in southern California seems a bit weird]

"Skipperettes" for Fishermen's Fiesta (San Pedro), 1951

"Stars" at Exposition Park playground for Christmas festival, Los Angeles, CA, 1930

"You Auto Buy Now" week campaign, 1958

[I'm not 100% certain but I think the blonde lady may be Jayne Mansfield]

The final four are from an ad campaign from 1931, called "Come out of the kitchen". Not sure what they were selling...

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New York World-Telegram & Sun

December 12, 2013, 8:30 am

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Alice Whitman and other performers on stage, 1937

Crowd of people, many waving, in Times Square on V-J Day

at time of announcement of the Japanese surrender in 1945

Female employees of Woolworth's holding sign indicating

they are striking for a 40 hour work week, 1937

[if you like the 40-hour week (instead of 60 or 70), thank these ladies]

Legs and feet of five teenage girls wearing dog collar anklets on their socks, 1953

[add this to the list of weirdest fads you've never heard of]

Many killed in Wall St. explosion, Soldiers and police establishing line at door of the Morgan Bank while bodies of the victims are lying in front of the Sub Treasury. September 16, 1920

People demonstrate outside of the Bank of the United States in 1931 after it failed

Woody Guthrie, 1943

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Panoramas

December 13, 2013, 8:36 am

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Opening of San Francisco's new baseball park, Ewing Field,

May 16th, 1914, 17,500 fans assembled

Panama-Pacific exposition, group portrait, August 1915

Panorama de Constantinople, pris de La Tour de Galata, ca. 1880s

Panorama of San Francisco disaster, 1906

Redondo Beach, California, ca. 1910

Return of W. E. "Pusseyfoot" Johnson to Westerville from London, England, April 24, 1920

[I have tried without success to find out who "Pusseyfoot" Johnson was]

San Francisco from Telegraph Hill, May 9, 1908

Sarah Bernhardt Tent, Chicago, 1906

Sarah Bernhardt Tent, interior, Chicago, 1906

Signal Hill, ca. 1923

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Vintage Iceland

December 14, 2013, 7:06 am

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More old Iceland photos from the Cornell Archives.

A mail train, Iceland, 1911

Búðir near Snæfellsjökull, Iceland, ca. 1900

Family fish washing. Seyðisfjörður, Iceland, ca. 1900

[well, that looks like fun]

Fish drying boards. Akranes, Iceland, ca. 1900

Fish drying, Reykjavík, Iceland, 1911

Group at Galtalækur, Iceland, ca. 1900

[another entry for "awkward family photos"]

Hlíðarendi in Ölves, Iceland, ca. 1900

Lunch under Hlíðarendi, Iceland, ca. 1900

Svínafell. Flosi's home, Iceland, ca. 1900

Þórður Guðjohnsen, Húsavík, with his children, ca. 1900

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

December 15, 2013, 8:06 am

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Here are some of Monsieur Cartier-Bresson's photos from China (pre- and post-Revolution).

A rush to retrieve gold from the bank before the Communist victory, Shanghai, 1949

Beijing, 1948

Beijing, China, 1948

Celebrating the Communist conquest of Shanghai.

The banner in the background reads “President Mao Tse-tung”

China, 1958

Communist students demonstrate against the black market, Shanghai, 1949

Sing-song girl, 1949

["Sing-song girl" was an English term for Chinese courtesans]

The sign above this sidewalk library reads

“Develop production, make the economy prosper.” Shanghai, 1949

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UC Berkeley

December 16, 2013, 8:49 am

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"I earned $40 a week in the West," says this man, "and there we had a good house.

I'm earning $60 a week here, but what good is it? Money's not good at all."

Admiral with parrot

Baldwin Hotel fire, San Francisco, November 23, 1898

Both these families are now forced to live and eat and sleep in and under

the "covered wagon" truck at the right, because the other truck is used

as a "pest house" for two members of the family who are ill

C.U. cadets in front of North Hall

C.U. survey party, Calistoga, 1898

Camp Hard-Tack, U.C. Summer School, 1898

Camp in the North Fork, 6000 feet. 1882

Children's corner, Bella Vista Park, Oakland

Chutes at the Beach or 790 - Great Highway, August 1924

Cruise party, S.S. Queen, 1897

Dining at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California, ca. 1925

Four people in a rowboat at end of railroad and boom, Navarro, Mendocino County, California

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Hedda Morrison

December 17, 2013, 10:22 am

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Family scene, Nanking

Family sitting in a circle on the quay eating, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Farmer working field with a water buffalo, Nanking

Farmers building up vegetables beds, Hong Kong, 1946-47

Farmers by a waterway, Nanking

Farmers engaged in market gardening in Pok Fu Lam valley, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Fisher families with junks in Aberdeen harbor, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Fishermen in a boat fishing in Deep Bay, Hong Kong, 1946-47

Fishing, vicinity of Nanking

Girl carrying baskets with vegetables and baby

Japanese surrender, Beijing, 1945

Landing baskets of assorted small fish from fishing boats

in Aberdeen harbor, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

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Vintage Australia

December 18, 2013, 9:10 am

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More from Sydney's Powerhouse Museum collection.

Canterbury Bankstown Rugby League football club's third annual ball, 1938

Clyde Works, men assembled in yard

Coogee Beach

Cricket grounds, 1895

Debutantes presented to Lady Julius at Grecian Ball, 1934

Debutantes, New South Wales Amateur Swimming Association Annual Ball, 1938

Don Harkness at wheel of Overland 6 after setting Australasian 24 hour record

Family portrait in overgrown garden

Family portrait

Federal Pass

Fern Gully, Blue Mountains

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Frank Hohenberger

December 19, 2013, 8:26 am

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Chief Eaglefeather and Princess Silverheels, 1925

Creek on Steele birthplace, near Gosport, Owen County, Indiana, 1927

[he took some really nice scenery shots]

Ellen Petro, 1935

Fishing on the Mississinewa, Slocum trail, 1926

Geese crossing road, David's Branch Creek, Indiana, 1926

Graduating class of 1935, Nashville, Indiana

Group at Bear Wallow lookout, 1938

Group at Singing Pines, 1947

Group at Whip's Nest, Eli Lilly magazine, 1946

Group in stream of Hamer mill, 1929

High dive at Brown County swimming pool, 1944

High school graduates, 1930

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The Dickey Family Christmas Tree

December 20, 2013, 9:04 am

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From National Photo comes this series of one family and their Christmas tree, almost a decade's worth of awkwardness. All of these photos have lighting issues which I am not skilled enough to address in a truly satisfactory way, but you still get the idea...

Dickey family Christmas tree, 1913

Dickey family Christmas tree, 1914

Dickey family Christmas tree, 1915

Dickey family Christmas tree, 1921

Dickey family Christmas tree, 1922

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University of Chicago

December 21, 2013, 8:51 am

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These photos are from the University of Chicago Photographic Archive, Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library. The coded numbers after the picture caption are identifiers from the collection (their inclusion is requested as a condition of use).

"You’re the tops," say Jean Jacob, Edith Hansen, and Margaret Fairman, University of Chicago co-eds who picked Wilbur Jerger as one of the escorts for the twelve Hollywood beauties, arriving here today, November 19, 1936 [apf4-02116]

Airhostess Alice Brekke shows University of Chicago co-ed applicants for TWA hostess positions how to prepare and serve a seven-course meal aboard one of the airline's twenty-one passenger transports, 1942 [apf4-01322]

Campus Chorines. Marlene Lenski (left) and Solveig Dahl watch as Janet Clifton whirls into one of her dancing steps for the Washington Prom Musical Review, the opening weekend festivities at the University of Chicago, 1949 [apf4-01302]

Carnival [apf4-03428]

Frances Biery (left) 26-year-old, blind Dayton, Indiana organist, converses via Braille with Geraldine Lawhorn (right), a deaf and blind girl who called on Miss Biery as she was practicing on the Rockefeller chapel organ for a concert, 1940 [apf4-03009]

Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago Physical Education class (archery), 1945

[apf4-00005]

In preparation for Drama Week on the campus this spring, students are presenting "Hedda Gabler" and "Green Grow the Lilacs," [known as] "Oklahoma!" to the world, 1944 [apf4-03247]

International House dance [apf4-02852]

International House. Students from various parts of the world, 1945

[apf4-02863]

John Casey and Beryl Walls, 1950 [apf4-03559]

Miss Lucile Pfaender (left) and Miss Maryellen Falconer, co-eds at the University of Chicago, roll merrily down the Midway on their roller skates [apf4-02213]