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African American Portraits

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These portraits of black Americans were done by Joseph Pennell.

 Double Portrait of Ellen Marks, 1899
  
 Double portrait of Phoebe Ottery, 1901
  
 Higdon Family, 1898
  
 Alex Johnson family, 1913
  
 America Hurley, 1912
  
 Ellen Marks, 1897
  
 Eva Williams, 1901
  
 Ike Perkins and wife, 1903
  
 Jim Richardson's girl, 1902
  
 Lt. Barnes' children, 1917
  
 Maggie Davis children, 1905
  
Malissa Hardin, 1910

San Francisco Earthquake

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 Refugee camp at Lobos Square, April 18th, 1906
  
 Refugee camp in Golden Gate Park
  
 Refugee camp near Presidio
  
 Refugee camp, possibly Jefferson Square
  
 Refugee lines patrolled by U.S. Navy troops
  
 Refugees at makeshift camp near Market St. and Buchanan
  
 Refugees living in houses made from dry goods boxes. Near Lobos Square. April 1906
  
 Ruins of Grace Cathedral, California and Stockton Streets, Nob Hill
  
 San Francisco looking northeast from Atlas Building
  
Scene along Geary St. during street city-wide cleaning day. 
Relief tables and temporary buildings, including Hotel St. Francis

The Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection

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The Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection consists of photographs produced and gathered by Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) and his daughter Frances (1890-1972) to illustrate his writings on travel and world geography. Carpenter's works helped popularize cultural anthropology and geography in the early years of the twentieth century. 

The ones in this set are of scenes from Japan. They form a nice complement to the previous sets of Japan because these include some intimate household scenes.

 Drying fish, Japan, 1890-1923
  
 Family meal, Japan, 1890-1923
  
 Japanese bedroom with thick quilt [probably a futon] used as a bed, and a piece of wood padded with paper used as a pillow to keep the women's hair from becoming mussed, 1890-1923
  
 Japanese house with sliding walls, 1890-1923
  
 Kitchen of a Japanese house, 1890-1923
  
 Peasant wearing raincoat of straw, Japan, ca. 1880s
  
 Tea house in a woodland, Itsuku-Shima, Japan, 1890-1923
  
 Three children at tea party, Japan, 1890-1923
  
 Three children drawing on panels, Japan, 1909
  
 Woman placing seaweed, which is an important item 
of the Japanese diet, on rack to dry, Japan, 1890-1923

Arnold Genthe - Europe

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Here are "Travel Views of Europe." I'm having a fun time trying to guess the country each photo is from.

 [these look like Spanish gypsies to me]
 
 [I'm guessing Spain or some other Mediterranean country]
 
 [my guess is Western Europe - Holland, France, Belgium...?]
 

 [this also looks Mediterranean to me - Spain, Italy?]
 
 [the headscarves say Eastern Europe to me]
 
 [Greece, maybe?]
 
 [my best guess here is Spain]
 
 [there's a sign posted at center-left that is frustratingly just outside the bounds 
of legibility...what I can see of it looks possibly German, Polish or Dutch]
  
[I'm going with Holland on this one]

Hedda Morrison

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 Street vendor
  
Street cooking, Nanking
  
Street market in Kowloon Peninsula, Hong Kong, 1946-47
 
 Street scene, Nanking
  
 Street scene, Nanking
  
 Street scene, Nanking
  
 Street scene, Nanking
  
 Street vendor with brooms
  
 Terraced balconies with wrought-iron railings above shophouses, 
Western District, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47
  
 Three Hakka women carrying backets suspended from long poles 
across their shoulders, Hong Kong, 1946-47
  
 Two girls in a small boat
  
 Two girls with a basket of fish, Nanking
  
Two Tanka women rowing in a sampan, Hong Kong, 1946-47

UC Berkeley

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 Three rowboats with duck hunters in marsh
  
 Two men eating by stream
  
 Two women seated on bench, in backyard
  
 U.C. football practice, 1899
  
 Woman playing banjo, San Francisco, 1898
  
 Woman playing guitar to people on swing
[guy on swing looks seriously unimpressed]
  
 Woman with camera, 1940s?
  
 Women conversing by the stairs to a house
  
 Women students modeling senior plugs, University of California at Berkeley
[anyone know what a "senior plug" is?]
  
Women students modeling senior plugs, University of California at Berkeley

Joseph Pennell

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 Cast of The Junction City High School operetta on stage, 1911
 
 Minnie Zimmerman's school, Enterprise, Kansas, 1906
  
 Family in REO auto with trophy on hood, 1909
 
 Girls in high school yard engaged in various activities, Junction City, Kansas, 1901
  
 Group of children and adults on haywagon for Nettie Zimmerman Hayride, 1905
  
 Group of D, 11 Soldiers at Pig Roast, Fort Riley, 1905
[Note the guys at left wearing horse collars. I'm guessing 
a fair amount of spirits were consumed at this function :)]
  
 Group of women in Coryell's horse-drawn carriage decorated for Corn Carnival parade, 1907
  
 High School Chorus, 1916
  
 People at Miller party, 1909
  
 Portrait of H. H. Ziegler Group, July 4, 1909
  
 Portrait of Mrs. Dot Kline and dog, 1909
  
Portrait of soldiers, Manning and Shreppel, 7th Battery with two dogs 
and display of artillery shells, Fort Riley, 1905

Photochroms

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These are from Detroit Publishing.

 Going to the spring, Pueblo of San Juan, New Mexico, 1898-1905
  
 A banana cart, ca. 1902
  
 A Crow indian, ca. 1902
  
 Detroit. Belle Isle, Grand Canal, 1898-1905
  
 
 York Beach, Maine, ca. 1901
  
 On the beach at Coney Island, ca. 1902
  
 Raisin drying racks in Southern California, ca. 1901

And three scenes which appear to be dramatizations of Hiawatha:
 
 The return of the hunters, ca. 1904
  
 
 Minnehaha, ca. 1904
  
Hiawatha's arrival, ca. 1904

Frank Hohenberger

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 Load of baskets and chairs, from Nashville, Tennessee, 1928
  
 Log jail with visitors, Nashville, Indiana, 1927
  
 Maggie King, Taggart settlement, wind charger cabin, 1941
[what's a wind charger cabin?]
  
 Mail buggy, Santa Claus, Indiana, 1925
  
 Marion, Indiana, Garden Club group at Scott Murphy's, 1947
  
 Martinsville telephone exchange operators, 1927
  
 Mary Jane McGuire, 1925
  
 Maypole dance for Blossom Festival, 1929
  
 Milton Newlin, Indian campground, out of Spencer, 1927
  
 Miss Lily Schueler and mother, Alton, Illinois, 1947
  
Misses Gravis and Terhune, dancers, 1927

1950s SoCal

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More from the USC collection.

 Adopted Babies Club annual outing, Silverado Park, Long Beach, 1951
  
 All year Swimming Club members annual New Year swim at Santa Monica Beach, 1958
  
 Bachelors Ball at The Town House, Los Angeles, 1940
  
 Bachelors Ball at The Town House, Los Angeles, 1940
  
 Cathy Hairgrove, All-American High School Girl, 1958
[I guess the Julie Andrews look was in]
  
 Chinese New Year's queens, 1953
  
 Computer machine, 1958
[this is perhaps the UNIVAC II - core memory of 2000 to 10000 words!]
 
 Co-eds off to Hawaii, 1951
  
Girl dressed in orchids, Southern California, 1940
[o-kayyyy]

Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection

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These are photos from various parts of Africa.

 Fruit market at Zanzibar, 1890-1923
  
 African woman, 1900
  
 Dar Es Salaam, Tanganyika. Women convicts working on road, 1890-1927
  
 Four Masai warriors in full war dress, Kenya, 1890-1923
  
 Group of Kavirondo natives posed in standing pyramid with spears and shields, 1910s
  
 Large group of people gathered around some men 
with musical instruments, Mombasa, Kenya, 1890-1925
  
 Musicians of the Sahara Desert
  
 Native types of Africa, 1920s
  
 Native woman and five children in front of huts 
near Bulawayo, Rhodesia, Africa, 1890-1925
  
 Ricksha boys, Durban, South Africa, 1890-1923
  
Warriors - Sudan? 1900-1927

Buzzer the Cat

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Arnold Genthe was a cat fancier. He kept a cat in his studio - four in succession were all named Buzzer. In his portrait work, Genthe often used Buzzer as a prop. The pictures here give some clue as to what Buzzer thought about this.

“It is told that at the age of four, when I was taken by the nurse to look at my newly arrived brother Hugo, I seriously remarked, ‘I’d like a little kitten better.’ I am fond of dogs, but cats have always meant more to me, and they have been the wise and sympathetic companions of many a solitary hour.” –Arnold Genthe, As I Remember (1936)

 Buzzer, ca. 1912
 












Vintage Korea

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These are from the Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection housed at USC. The photographic images in this collection were preserved for posterity by Rev. Corwin Taylor and his wife Nellie Blood-Taylor of Fort Dodge, Iowa, Methodist missionaries to Korea, 1908 to about 1922.

 Girls on a jumping board, Korea
  
 Wash day in Korea
  
 Autobus near Konju
  
 Korean laundry
  
 Lower grade girls, Ewa Haktang school, Seoul
   
 Pig on a jiggy
  
 Shoeing a bullock, Korea
  
Two women grinding at the mill, Korea

Vintage Australia

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 Settlement Ball at the Great Hall, University of Sydney, 1938
  
 Snigging a log
  [snig, verb (transitive): to drag (a log) along the ground by a chain fastened at one end]
   
 Southern road, Mittagong
  
 Storing the harvester
  
 Suburban brick and tile house, Suomi
  
 Sussex Street, Sydney
  
 Sydney Harbour from Macquarie Point
  
 Sydney Harbour from R.Y.S. grounds
[R.Y.S. = Royal Yachting Society (I'm guessing)]
  
 The Corso, Manly
  
 The Ebor Falls, New England, Australia
  
 The farmer's teams
  
The pioneer's wife

Victory Gardens

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Victory Gardens were vegetable, fruit and herb gardens planted at private residences and public parks in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Germany during World War I and World War II to reduce the pressure on the public food supply brought on by the war effort. These photos are of World War II era Victory Gardens in the United States.















Land Girls

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The Women's Land Army (aka "land girls") was an organization set up in the UK during the First and Second World Wars to bring women into the countryside to do agricultural labor, freeing up the men for combat.  If you want to get much more of the flavor of farm life during World War II in England, watch the Wartime Farm series - they talk about the land girls during several of the episodes.

These are all photos of World War II land girls, mostly in England, a few in Australia.













Then there was the Women's Forestry Corps, where women did timber harvesting. These women were known as "lumberjills".



 Note the young lady at left with the notepad. In the "Wartime Farm" show they tell 
how the lumberjills were tasked with taking detailed measurements of their take, 
so that the ministry had good information on which to allocate the timber.


Lafayette Photo Studio

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The archives of the Lafayette Photo Studio of Lexington, Kentucky are housed at the University of Kentucky.

 AHEPA, banquet and parade, 1931
[AHEPA = American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association]
 Air Climbers of America, Lexington Airport, 1930
  
 American Legion Banquet, 1931
  
 Cannery at Reform School, Greendale, 1931
  
 Consolidated Drug Store interior, Maysville, Kentucky, 1930
  
 Consolidated Drug Store, lunch counter and soda fountain; Richmond, Kentucky, 1930
  
 Five African-American musicians in bed of a Guthrie and Stiles truck, 1930
  
 Good Samaritan Hospital, children's porch, 1931
  
 Good Samaritan Hospital, handicapped childrens' ward, 1931
  
 Good Samaritan Hospital, handicapped childrens' ward, 1931
 
 Good Samaritan Hospital, handicapped childrens' ward, nursery, 1931
  
 Good Samaritan Hospital, workshop for children, 1931
  
 Halloween party with men in drag, 1932
  
Piggly Wiggly, interior, 1931

Alfred Palmer

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 "Big Pete" Ramagos, a rigger at work on the TVA's Douglas Dam in Tennessee, 1942
  
 A painter cleans the tail section of a P-51 Mustang fighter prior to spraying with olive-drab camouflage. North American Aviation plant, Inglewood, California, 1942
  
 B-17F Flying Fortress at Douglas Aircraft's Long Beach plant, October 1942
  
 B-25 bomber assembly hall, North American Aviation, Kansas City, 1942
  
 B-25 bomber final assembly line at North American Aviation works, Inglewood, California, 1942
  
 Douglas Aircraft Co. at Long Beach, California. Carefully trained women inspectors check cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage, 1942
  
 Final assembly for a B-25 bomber at North American Aviation, Inglewood, California, 1942
  
 Fort Knox, Kentucky. Infantryman with halftrack. A young soldier 
sights his Garand rifle like an old-timer, 1942
  
 Furnace man at phosphate smelter, TVA chemical plant near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1942
  
 Kansas City, Kansas. B-25 bomber plane at North American Aviation 
being hauled along an outdoor assembly line, 1942
  
 P-51 fighter planes being prepared for test flight at the field of the 
North American Aviation, Inglewood, California, October, 1942
  
 Parris Island, South Carolina. Marine lieutenant glider pilot in training at Page Field, 1942
 
 Servicing an A-20 bomber at Langley Field, Virginia, 1940
  
 Thousands of North American Aviation employees at Inglewood, California, look skyward as the bomber and fighter planes they helped build perform overhead during a lunch period air show, 1942
  
 Touching up the U.S. Army Air Forces insignia on a "Vengeance" dive bomber manufactured at Consolidated-Vultee's Nashville division, 1943
  
Truck driver at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Douglas Dam, 1942

Dick Whittington

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 Babe Stapp and Gregg's ship, Santa Monica Airport, 1933
  
 Bathing girl in cretonne suit, Los Angeles, 1925
  
 Bathing girl, Southern California, 1931
   
 Bathing suits, Southern California, 1931
  
 Bathing suits, Southern California, 1931
  
 Beauty parlor, Southern California, 1933
  
 Betty Garry at Magnolia Park, Burbank, California, 1928
  
 Bill Meikeljohn Show at Bard's Theater, Southern California, 1927
  
 Billie Barnes in Spanish costume, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA, 1928
  
 Boys driving to Mexico City, Southern California, 1930
  
 Breakfast club group, Southern California, 1930
  
Breakfast Club with Olympic champions, Southern California, 1929

Arnold Genthe - Chinatown

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Here are a few of Mr. Genthe's iconic photos of turn-of-the-century Chinatown in San Francisco. 

 A native son, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 Apricot Spring Orchard drugstore, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 At the corner of Dupont and Jackson Streets, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 Children in traditional dress
  
 Chinese and American women walking down a street, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 In softly gaudy colors, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 Loafers, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 On Portsmouth Square, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 Passers-by, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 Reading the Tong proclamation, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 Reading wall notices, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 The fish dealer's daughter, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 The grocery store, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
 The street of painted balconies, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
  
The street of the slave girls, Chinatown, San Francisco, 1896-1906
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