University of Chicago

January 17, 2014, 9:34 am

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).

Nursery school [apf4-01679]

Nursery school, outdoor play [apf4-01689]

Nursery school, outdoor play [apf4-01693]

Peace Strike, 1933-34 [apf4-02513]

Phoenix House wake-up call. Volunteer Karen O’Brien waking up Ann McGown (top bunk)

and Jay Fettermann (bottom bunk) who had 8 AM classes. 1944 [apf4-02896]

Postman Charles Wade with students Karen O'Brien, Mary Elizabeth Speare,

Ann Nichols, and Barbara Van Deventer, 1944 [apf4-02895]

Soda Water caused all this. University of Chicago "Dry Night Club" where Jitterbugs

gather round as Marjorie Kuh and Harry Mendenhall swing out and start

a-peckin' at the dry nightspot on the Midway [apf4-01231]

Students on lawn, 1940-60 [apf4-03607]

Studying [apf4-02922]

University of Chicago Baseball Team in Japan, autumn 1910 [apf4-00142r]

Waiting for a taxi after the prom [apf4-01250]

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Dick Whittington

January 18, 2014, 8:32 am

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More from this southern California photographer.

Actress Janet Gaynor with ice sculpture, Southern California, 1927

Alice Calhoun & Wurlitzer Radio, Southern California, 1928

Ambassador plunge, girls swimming in pool of oranges, Southern California, 1929

Amelia Earhart & plane, Southern California, 1932

Aqua planing at Lido Isle, Newport Beach, 1928

Archery contest, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, 1931

At the race track, Culver City, CA, 1927

Atwater Kent Radio at Fee Gee Inn, Los Angeles, 1929

Autogiro, Jean Harlow & Tito Falconi, Southern California, 1933

[This appears to be an early helicopter. Jean Harlow was probably the most famous movie actress in the 1930s. Falconi was an Italian flying ace who fought on the Axis side during World War II.]

Aviary, Altadena, California, 1927

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Hedda Morrison

January 19, 2014, 1:37 pm

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Peasant woman, vicinity of Nanking

Peasants drying rice in the lowlands, New Territories, Hong Kong, 1946-47

People with camels

Planting rice, vicinity of Nanking

Produce vendors, Nanking

Rooftops, Nanking

Sampans in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Seated man amid baskets of fish and hanging dried fish,

Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Seated woman selling bundles of incense in the

Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Shopkeeper attends to a customer, Central District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47

Shrimp paste spread out on large, circular receptacles, Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, 1946-47

Some kind of farm work, vicinity of Nanking

[anyone know what these people are doing?]

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USC

January 20, 2014, 7:55 am

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More photos from the University of Southern California archives.

$100,000 pearl gown at Bullock's downtown (Damon Runyon Memorial Fund), 1952

60th wedding anniversary, 20 June 1954

A boy standing next to one of the many eucalyptus trees in the eucalyptus grove, ca.1900

A crowded skating rink with a sign announcing a couples contest

on Monday nights and races on Wednesday night

A dance is held for youths of the Overland Avenue School District, 1946

A huge crowd looks at a fancy car as it pulls up to the Fox Westwood Village

during the premiere of the "Adventures of Casanova", 1948

A man pulling a woman sitting on a chariot in Chinatown, Los Angeles

A woman wearing a palm tree brooch is being assisted by a man

working at the produce stand at the Farmers Market, 1946

Airline Stewardesses, Long Beach, 1951

Alert America Show, 1952

[good sampling of Cold War paranoia]

[no doubt there were equivalent displays in the USSR]

Alhambra Junior Firemen have picnic, 1952

All States Picnic at Ontario, 1957

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Vintage Japan

January 21, 2014, 8:23 am

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Woman reading a book, ca. 1880s

Young woman with fan, kneeling beside tea service, and older woman standing, ca. 1880s

Yokohama street scene, ca. 1895

Women drawing water from well, ca. 1890

Woman in basket palanquin, ca. 1880s

Woman in kago (traveling chair) and two bearers

[these guys have some serious ink!]

Woman in rickshaw, with two drivers, ca. 1880s

Woman playing samisen, ca. 1880s

[this woman is to me the very personification of elegance]

Women looking at fabric in a kimono shop

Women performers, possibly dancers, with shamisen players in back row, ca. 1870s

Women playing go, ca. 1876

Women playing the koto and shamisen, ca. 1880s

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Vintage Australia

January 22, 2014, 9:58 am

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Crossing Wollondilly River

Hyde Park, Sydney

Kinema Theatre table at Midnight Theatrical Ball

Lambmarking

Master Pastrycooks Association of New South Wales annual ball, 1939

Mother and son

Murrumbidgee River, Gundagai

North Shore jetty, Circular Quay, Sydney

On Brown Mountain

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San Francisco Earthquake

January 23, 2014, 9:13 am

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Bread line, Sixth and Mission

East Street (the Embarcadero), a few weeks after the fire.

U.S. Army men bivouacked in tents

Food vending carts, wagons, streetcars, tents and rubble along Market Street

Girl on swing, surrounded by rubble-filled lots, Rincon Hill

Looters under guard of U.S. Army troops

Man at street kitchen

Man regarding subsidence of sidewalk and street, Capp Street

McAllister and Market Streets

Mission Relief Headquarters, Guerrero Street near 25th

New Montgomery Street ruins. Rialto Bldg. at right.

Crossley building in foreground at left

Olson family in Jefferson Park

Refugee camp at Fort Mason

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Harris & Ewing

January 24, 2014, 10:54 am

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Members of the Monaghan Men's Irish Dancing Class and their partners, 1905

The Congressional Public Speaking class, composed of wives of congressmen,
is attempting to teach the ladies to search out material and present it effectively
under the direction of Mrs. Hugh Butler, public speaking teacher. 1939

Woman being serenaded, 1940

Trailer Camp, June 1937

Woodrow Wilson, 1910-1917

Worried citizens calling the State Department these days to inquire about
the safety of relatives and friends in the China danger zone are connected with
Mrs. Madge Blessing, in charge of the "Welfare and Whereabouts File," August 1937

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Joseph Pennell

January 25, 2014, 9:43 am

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Double portrait of Rizer sisters and friend, 1898

Five Soldiers Sitting on F, 2nd Artillery Hay Wagon, Fort Riley, 1896

Group portrait of Chapman High School graduates, 1896

Lieutenant Treat and two children with group of dogs, 1898

Miss Lehane with bicycle, 1897

People at Eastern Star Picnic, 1899

Portrait of Andra Schach and group of women, 1895

Portrait of Georgia Gunn, 1896

Portrait of Net Mullis, 1898

["A Prairie Girl"]

Soldier, Cooke, and woman in buggy drawn by two horses, 1897

Soldiers playing cards with a skeleton, Fort Riley, 1902

[typical of soldiers to have a ghoulish sense of humor]

Two women, Herr and Bergreen, in front of tent, Fort Riley, 1897

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USC

January 26, 2014, 8:37 am

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More 1950s Americana from the USC archives.

Alpha Delta Pi planning party, 1951

Annual Coronet Debutante Ball held in Crystal Room of Beverly Hills Hotel, 1951

Anti-bomb test pickets, 1958

Arcadia Peach Blossom Queen, 1951

Atomic energy, 1951

[cause what goes more naturally with atomic energy

than girls in swimsuits?...epic weirdness]

Cabrillo Beach, Fourth of July, Queen and her court, 1958

Baton contest, Rosemead High School, 1954

Beach bonnet contest, Long Beach, 1953

Bus strike can be fun, 1955

Becky Thatcher and Tom Sawyer (Huck Finn Days) going for boat ride in Echo Park, 1958

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UC Berkeley

January 27, 2014, 9:01 am

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Glen Alpine party on steps of cabin

Group portrait on porch

Lawn Party under the Date Palms, Glen Annie, Col. W.W. Hollister's, Santa Barbara, 1885

S.S. Queen, cruise party, June 1897

Smith and Butler's team on 12th Street, opposite Lake Merritt boat houses, Oakland, 1890

Spring Street looking north from 3rd, 1902

[I'm assuming this is San Francisco]

Temporary house. Mrs. Adelia Cummings, allotment #2, August 1920

Ten thousand Beauty of Glazenwood Roses on a single bush

This outmoded bus has become a home for a family of six. Two children

have been sleeping in the luggage compartment visible on the roof.

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January 28, 2014, 8:42 am

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Here are some photos used for advertising, from the USC archives.

An apple a day, ad campaign, 1940

Belcher School and radio, Southern California, 1929

Billie Barnes, ad for Stewart-Warner Radio, Southern California, 1927

Couples dancing, coffee ad, 1930

Dog team, Frank Price Tires, Los Angeles, 1933

[this is one of the most surreal publicity campaigns I've ever seen]

Girl and man eating ice cream cone, Southern California, 1932

Betty Baker, ad campaign, Southern California, 1927

Campaign shots for publicity, Immaculate Heart College, Southern California, 1929

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Robert Capa

January 29, 2014, 8:23 am

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Robert Capa was a photojournalist who took some of the most memorable photos of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. These are the World War II photos.

American troops going from the Chiunzi Pass to Naples. Italy, Late September 1943

Palermo, Sicily, Italy, July 1943

Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne waiting near Sicilian beachheads

before the invasion of mainland Italy, 1943

D-day-landings, Omaha Beach, Normandy, June 6, 1944

Omaha Beach. June 6th, 1944. The first wave of American troops lands at dawn

[this photographer had some serious stones to get pictures like this]

D-Day, Allies coming ashore with wounded

The liberation of Cherbourg, Normandy, June 1944

Soldiers of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division.

Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France, June 16, 1944

Allied troops and press during the liberation of Paris. Paris, August 1944

France, October 1944

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Vintage Korea

January 30, 2014, 8:13 am

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Group of passengers, possibly on train car, ca. 1904

Locomotive on bridge over streetcar, ca. 1904

Middle-class Korean man with warm hat, ca. 1904

Military ceremony

Peasants pounding rice, ca. 1904

Procession of children carrying Korean and American flags, ca. 1904

The man to the right wears a typical topknot hair style called esangtue. The young woman in the center seems to bring wine in a pitcher for the Lunar New Year dinner for her family, ca. 1904

Two Koreans in mourning dress, ca. 1904

Western woman with Korean bearers and palanquin

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Frank Hohenberger

January 31, 2014, 8:46 am

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Irene with basket, near little home, McDonald's, Brown County, Indiana, 1920

Pryor and Raines children under tree, backyard, 1928

Junior Miller looking for "minnies"

Marble game, 1932

Merle Pittman and school children at Seymour, Indiana, 1931

Mill at Brewersvill, closeup of children at edge, 1925

Misses King and Walker at washtub, 1930

On the shoot-the-chutes, public square, 1925

Sam Bradley boys at town pump, 1925

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Arnold Genthe

February 1, 2014, 7:43 am

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Arnold Genthe was a prominent photographer of the early 20th century. He worked all over the world, but is particularly known for his work in San Francisco's Chinatown. The photos here were taken at Long Beach, New York in the 1920s.

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William Letts Oliver

February 2, 2014, 8:44 am

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William Letts Oliver (1844-1918) was a mining engineer by profession. He was also a very competent amateur photographer who documented both his working life and home life in his photos.