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Bohemian Grove

February 26, 2014, 8:15 am
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The Bohemian Grove is a large campsite located in the northern California redwoods. It is the stomping ground of the Bohemian Club, which started in 1872 as a gathering of journalists, artists, and musicians, but was soon co-opted by businessmen and the powerful. 


Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (for conspiracy theory buffs)

 Bird's-eye view of members seated at tables in dining area, Bohemian Grove, 1904
  
 Four men [one is William Letts Oliver]. "A Scotch Story," Bohemian Grove
  
 Group of men with horses and wagons, Bohemian Grove
  
 Group portrait of men around piano, Bohemian Grove
  
 Group portrait of men by tent and sign, "Tin-types while you wait"
  
 Group portrait of men with paintings, 1904
  
 Man sitting in camp, with sign, "Holy smoke," Bohemian Grove
  
 Men gathered near campfire, Bohemian Grove
  
 Men in camp with poster "Moulin Rouge," and paper lanterns, Bohemian Grove
  
 Men playing game of chess, Bohemian Grove
  
 Men sitting on long wooden bench, Bohemian Grove
  
 Two men by stream, Bohemian Grove
  
Two men in Japanese robes, Bohemian Grove
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Joseph Pennell

February 27, 2014, 8:49 am
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 Chapman High School Canning Club with display of canned foods, 1917
  
 Chapman High School cooking class, 1917
  
 Chapman High School Home Economics class in session, 1913
  
 Edith Mackey and three friends in rowboat, 1907
  
 Group of women at Miss Boenan's party, 1909
  
 Leo Loeb and friends in auto, 1905
  
 Portrait of Clara Cox and Grace Jones, 1912
  
 Portrait of Harriet Axford, 1904
  
 Portrait of Jacob Posner and wife, 1909
  
 Portrait of Mrs. E. Bradbury, 1919
  
Royal Neighbor Team - group of women holding brooms, 1912
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San Francisco Earthquake

February 28, 2014, 9:13 am
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The disaster continues...

 Refugee camp near Protestant Orphan Asylum. Market and Buchanan Streets
  
 Refugee camp, Fort Mason
  
 Relief camp with refugee tents
  
 S.F. Red Cross and Relief, No. 3, Camp Ingleside, July 1907
  
 Street scene at foot of Market Street
  
 Street scene, Geary St. looking toward Market
  
 Telegraph Hill. From Ferry Building
  
 Temporary houses. Golden Gate Park
  
 Tilted wooden-frame houses, Howard St. between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets
  
U.S. Army Field Hospital. Picturing nurse, officers, and horse-drawn ambulance
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Russell Lee

March 1, 2014, 7:53 am
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 Delta County, Colorado. Hay stack and automobiles of peach pickers, 1940
  
 Main Street, Cascade, Idaho, 1941
  
 Street corner, Dillon, Montana, 1942
  
Summer of 1941
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University of Kentucky

March 2, 2014, 8:01 am
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From the photo archives of the University of Kentucky.

 2 women sitting at a table reading, ca. 1904
  
 4 women sitting together, possibly in a dorm room in Patterson Hall, ca. 1904
  
 Group of women sitting around a table playing music, ca. 1904
  
Alpha Xi Delta Sorority
  
 All graduating students of Fayette County grammar schools 
with Nannie Faulconer at the Fayette County Court House, 1913
  
 A Bluegrass stripper, Weil's Farm, 1919
  
 Brownies enjoying Girl Scout Day at Mt. Brilliant Farm. July 1947
  
 At a strike at the Rosemont Garden plant of General Electric, women are holding picket signs protesting for higher pay and union recognition in March 1948
  
 A student gets fitted for a dress, 1955
  
A man reads to three children from a pamphlet called "Why Go Broke", 1955
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Arnold Genthe - Japan

March 3, 2014, 8:35 am
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Georgetown College

March 4, 2014, 9:44 am
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Georgetown College is a small private religious college in Georgetown, Kentucky. These glimpses of life at GC are from Lafayette Studio.

 Georgetown College, women playing ping-pong, 1946
  
 Georgetown College, women playing ping-pong, 1948
  
 Georgetown College dorm room, 1946
  
 Georgetown College library,  students gathered around the periodicals section, 1948
  
 Georgetown College queens, 1944
  
 Georgetown College student group, 1944
  
 Georgetown College, Future Teachers of America, 1946
 
 Georgetown College, girl standing in room, 1948
  
 Georgetown College, girls standing in bedroom, 1948
  
 Georgetown College, group playing shuffleboard, 1948
  
 Georgetown College, Independent Women, 1946
 
 Georgetown College, three Asian women dressed in kimonos, 1949
  
 Georgetown College, woman bowling, 1946
  
 Georgetown College, women at Yeager Hall, 1948
  
Georgetown College, women in pajamas, Kappa Delta, 1948
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Esther Bubley

March 5, 2014, 8:15 am
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She was active in the Washington, DC area during World War II.

 Glen Echo, Maryland. Servicemen and girls at the amusement park, 1943
  
 Little boy listening to a solo on the trumpet by Henry "Hot lips" Levine 
at a concert by the U.S. Army band in front of the Capitol, 1943
  
 Miss Kathryne Lister, a switching clerk at the 
Western Union telegraph office, Washington, DC, 1943
  
 Mrs. Eva Poovey working with pneumatic tubes from 
which telegrams are taken at the Western Union telegraph office, 1943
  
 Pasting up a telegram at the Western Union telegraph office, Washington, DC, 1943
  
 Preparing an advisory forecast at the U.S. Weather Bureau. 
Transmission of weather data by teletype to military and civilian war centers, 1943
  
 Two corporals and their girls at a party. Washington, DC, 1943
  
 Washington, D.C. A girl in the King's Court section, 1943
  
 Washington, D.C. Dancing to the music of a juke box 
at the Walsh Club for federal employees, 1943
  
 Washington, D.C. Jitterbugs at an Elk's Club dance, the "cleanest dance in town", 1943
  
 Washington, D.C. Jitterbugs at an Elk's Club dance, the "cleanest dance in town", 1943
  
 Washington, D.C. Jitterbugs at an Elk's Club dance, the "cleanest dance in town", 1943
  
 Washington, D.C. Jitterbugs at an Elk's Club dance, the "cleanest dance in town", 1943
  
Washington, D.C. Listening to the orchestra at an Elk's Club dance, 1943
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Frank Hohenberger

March 6, 2014, 8:14 am
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 Motorcycle club officers, 1945
  
 Motormaids at Singing Pines, 1947
  
 Moving day scene near Mt. Zion, horses, wagon, people, 1949
  
 Mr. and Mrs. Lester Nagley and Floyd Roberts, front of studio, 1925
  
 Mr. Chafin plowing, chickens following at rear. Brown County, Indiana, 1922
  
 Mr. Thompson mowing weeds, near public square, Nashville, Indiana, 1941
  
 Mrs. Bourdin and Mrs. McClintock, 1921
  
 Mrs. Fleischer and dogs, 1932
  
 Mrs. Hoss, near Blue Bluff's, 1927
  
 Mules and carriage in front of Dr. Turner's, waiting. Nashville, Indiana, 1926
  
Old lady making soap, Santa Claus, Indiana, 1925
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Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection

March 7, 2014, 8:27 am
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Photos of Korea, dating from 1890-1923.



 Food shop, Seoul, Korea, 1890-1923
  
 Funeral procession, Korea, 1890-1923
  





 Korean women ironing with round wooden sticks, 1910s
  
 Native aristocrat of the old school in his rickshaw after the fall of the government, Korea, 1910-1920
  
 Shoe market, Seoul, Korea, 1890-1923
  
Women washing laundry in stream, Korea, 1890-1923
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Southern California Beauties

March 8, 2014, 8:17 am
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From the USC archives.

 Miss Atomic Energy gets traffic ticket, 25 July 1951
  
 Miss Bay Beach contest, Ocean Park, 1952
  
 Miss Bicycle Queen of 1952
  
 Miss Big 10, 1955
  
 Miss Letter Carrier of 1952
  
 Miss Muscle Beach of 1954
  
 Miss Los Angeles Contest, 1954
  
Miss Recreation contest, 1958
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D-Day, New York

March 9, 2014, 9:38 am
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These are photos taken in New York City on the day of the D-Day invasion of France, June 6, 1944. The photographer is either Howard Hollem, Edward Meyer, or "MacLaugharie".

 A crowd on D-day in Madison Square
  
 A crowd on D-day in Madison Square
  
A crowd on D-day in Madison Square
  
 D-day sevices in a synagogue on West Twenty-third Street
  
 A woman addressing the crowd at the D-day rally at Madison Square
  
 Lily Djanel at the D-day rally in Madison Square
[she was a Belgian operatic soprano; here she sings Carmen]
 
 Mayor La Guardia at the D-day rally in Madison Square
[La Guardia was New York City's legendary mayor]
  
 Preschool children at L'Ecole Maternelle Francais on D-day saluting the French flag
  
 Times Square and vicinity on D-day
  
 Times Square and vicinity on D-day
  
Two sailors at Times Square on D-day looking at the latest news line on the Times building
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Dick Whittington

March 10, 2014, 8:26 am
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 Cabrillo Beach, Los Angeles, 1931
  
 Cake contest, Alhambra High School, Southern California, 1931
  
 California Lingerie Manufacturing Co., Los Angeles, 1931
  
 Cellophane blanket on bathing girl, Southern California, 1932
  
 Chorus girls, Harry Carroll's home, Santa Monica, 1929
  
 Chorus girls, Music Box Theatre, Southern California, 1927
  
 Colored troupe arrives at KMPC, Beverly Hills, CA, 1931
  
 Cooking donuts at Vernon plant, Swift & Co., Southern California, 1931
  
 Crowd of newsboys at Hill Street theater, Los Angeles, 1929
  
 Culver City Women's Club at Montemartre, Culver City, 1929
  
 Dance team, Los Angeles, 1935
  
 Dancers for fiesta program, Southern California, 1931
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Tesla Studio

March 11, 2014, 8:33 am
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Photos from Tesla Studio, New Zealand. Photographer's name given when known.

 Boys of Wanganui Technical College during an engineering class, 1916
  
 Children in Moutoa Gardens, Wanganui
  
 Frank Denton: Five unidentified men and women of the Griffiths family, 1899-1900
  
 Frank Denton: Paddle steamer Manuwai loaded with passengers, 
berthed on the Whanganui River, 1899-1922
  
 Mark Luder Lampe: Scene during an unidentified theatrical production, ca. 1920s
  
Unidentified group of men and women, some holding tennis rackets, ca. 1910
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Esther Bubley

March 12, 2014, 11:29 am
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These are photos of people traveling by bus - something that was a lot more common in the 1940s than it is today. All these were taken in 1943.












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Tau Sigma Dance Group

March 13, 2014, 8:24 am
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This seems to have been a student dance troupe at the University of Kentucky devoted to "modern dance."













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Arnold Genthe - Europe

March 14, 2014, 8:54 am
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Time to play "guess the country" again.

 Holland, Belgium or France, on the coast somewhere
 
 Holland, Belgium or France seems likely
[can't get this to upload in straight bw - Blogger makes it sepia!]
 
 Definitely Greece - old guys in white kilts tossing back shots of ouzo...
 

 Holland or Belgium is my guess
 
 Southern Europe - I can't get much more specific than that
 
 Avila, Spain (thanks to Xudros)
  
 Guessing France, Holland or Belgium here
 

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African American Troops

March 15, 2014, 9:50 am
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Here are photos of African American soldiers in World War II. These come from here.

 A company of men has set up its office between the columns of an 
ancient Greek temple of Neptune, built about 700 BC. Italy, September 1943
  
 Body of American soldier is borne on stretcher from terrain in vicinity of Malmedy, Belgium, where on or about 17 December 1944, the Germans committed many atrocities
  
 Carrying a Japanese prisoner from stockade to be evacuated 
and treated for malnutrition. Iwo Jima. February 23, 1945
  
 Group of CBs acting as stretcher bearers for the 7th Marines. Peleliu. September 1944
  
 Marines, following the rapid Japanese retreat northward on Okinawa, 
pause for a moments rest at the base of a Japanese war memorial. April 1945
  
 Members of a Negro mortar company of the 92nd Division pass 
the ammunition and heave it over at the Germans near Massa, Italy, 1944
  
 Members of the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, are getting last minute instructions 
before going out on patrol in Bougainville jungle. April 1944
  
 Members of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion take part in a parade ceremony 
in honor of Joan d'Arc at the marketplace where she was burned at the stake. May 27, 1945
  
 Moving up through Prato, Italy, April 1945
  
 Negro Marines, attached to the Third Ammunition Company, take time out 
from supplying ammunition to the front line on Saipan. June 1944
  
 Peleliu Island. Marines move through the trenches 
on the beach during the battle. September 15, 1944
  
 The first Negro WACs to arrive on the continent of Europe, 1945
  
This member of the 93rd Infantry Division is among the first Negro foot soldiers 
to go into action in the South Pacific theater, 1944
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Joseph Pennell

March 16, 2014, 8:16 am
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 Company C Banquet, Fort Riley, 1917
  
Group of men in costumes with musical instruments, 1901
  
  Girls Glee Club, Junction City, Kansas, 1909
  
 Group of workers at flood site, 1908
  
 Junction City High School Mandolin Club, 1909
  
 Maude Estes and friends at party, 1911
  
 Miss Hope's School group, 1909
  
 Miss Peterson's School, Woodbine, Kansas, 1897
  
 People at Young party, 1909
   
 Portrait of Daisy Taylor, 1896
  
 Portrait of F. E. Thorpe and wife, 1911
  
Second Battery Gun Squad loading shells into artillery, Fort Riley, 1907
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San Francisco Earthquake

March 17, 2014, 8:26 am
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This is my last set of photos from this disaster.

 Refugees filing en masse along Market Street toward Ferry Building
  
 View east down California St. from Nob Hill above 
Dupont (Grant) St. Merchants' Exchange Building, right
  
 View on Market Street
  
 Woman and children at refugee camp
  
 Woman holding bottle amid glass debris
  
 Woman sitting on edge of fault crevice
  
 Women and children refugees posing along a row of makeshift dwellings
  
 Women at flooded lot. Refugee tents in background
  
San Francisco rising from ruins, April 18, 1907. View southeast 
from Nob Hill showing reconstruction progress
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