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Frank Hohenberger

April 7, 2014, 8:36 am
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 Anderson and Carpenter crossing Raccoon Creek on tree, 1927
  
 Boys on stilts, April 7, 1912, Easter
  
 Paul Percifield at auto wreck, Columbus Road, 1922
  
 Row of boys at Byron Huff's, 1924
  
 School picture, Nashville, Indiana, 1946
  
 Sign at Mrs. Shields', Bean Blossom, Indiana, 1942
  
 Sorghum mill on Schooner, boiling syrup, 1937
  
 Susan Thompson Bailey (seated) and Betty Osterbur Fish at Sconce home, wedding gown, 1949
  
 Tarvia truck and driver, 1928
  
 Threshing scene near top of Hamman's hill, 1927
  
Tim Brickey and old Chevrolet, 1931
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USC

April 8, 2014, 8:26 am
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 In Los Angeles''Little Tokyo,' news of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor left shocked silence yesterday
  
 Mrs. Southern California, 6 September 1951. Mrs. Ruth Poger
  
 Posture Queen, Rosemead High School, 1960
[wow. high school has changed pretty radically in the last 50 years!]
  
 Riverside County Fair (Hemet), 26 August 1953. 
Jerra Lynne Tyler ("Farmer's Daughter of 1953")
  
 Santa Barbara road races, 1958
[hard to imagine a more iconic image of 1950s Southern California]
[my subtitle for this: "Fast and Furious: The Prequel" :)]
  
 Santa Monica beach, 1952
  
 USC sorority women gathered around a telephone, 1949
  
 USC sorority women pillow fight
  
Zeta Tau Alpha members costumed for a Halloween party, 1912
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Esther Bubley

April 9, 2014, 9:02 am
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More photos of bus travel, taken in 1943.

 Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Girl baggage clerk loading newspapers onto a bus at Knoxville, Tennessee. These will be left at small towns along the way.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Soldier
saying goodbye to his wife and child at small town in Tennessee.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C.
Bus passengers at Knoxville, Tennessee.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C.
Girl agent checking bag at Knoxville.
 
Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee, to Washington, D.C. Passengers boarding bus at Knoxville.
 
Passengers freshening up in the ladies' restroom at the Greyhound bus terminal, Chicago
 
Passengers in the waiting room at the Greyhound bus terminal at five am, Chicago
 
Passengers leaving a Greyhound bus in a small town in Pennsylvania
 
Passengers on a Greyhound bus going from Washington, DC to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 
Passengers on the Greyhound bus going from Washington, D.C. to
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, some of which were standing all the way
 
Passengers waiting for a Greyhound bus driver to start
loading them on the bus at a small town in Pennsylvania
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Georgetown College

April 10, 2014, 9:09 am
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More photos from this college in Kentucky.

 Group gathered at the counter of a soda fountain, 1948
  
 Group of students sitting in a booth at a cafe, 1948
 
 Group of women performing gymnastics, 1948
  
 Group of women playing basketball, 1948
  
 Group of women standing next to a carnival booth, 1949
  
 Group standing next to a jukebox, 1948
  
 Group standing with records in hand, 1948
  
 Homecoming, football spectators, 1947
  
 Homecoming, people with balloons, 1947
  
 People in the cafeteria food line, 1948
  
 Students socializing, 1949
  
Women exercising, 1948
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Dad

April 11, 2014, 8:30 am
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In memory of my father, who died yesterday at age 99, I'm posting some vintage photos of him.

 1932. His high school picture
 
 December 1941. With army buddies. He's at back left.
 
 1942. With my mother (pre-marriage) in San Antonio, Texas
 
 1942. After the wedding
 
 1943. In Fort Myers, Florida
 
 1944. Fort Myers, Florida
 
 1944
  
 1946. A family now (that's my sister in the middle)
 
 1950-52. In Delaware. 
 
 1955. Yes, that's me he's holding
 
1956. At Atlantic City or thereabouts
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Arthur Siegel

April 13, 2014, 7:02 am
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 Detroit, Michigan. Little girl with ice cream cone in the zoological park, 1942
  
 Detroit, Michigan. Little girls wheeling baby brother in a carriage, 1942
  
 Detroit, Michigan. Marchers in the Labor Day parade, 1942
  
 Detroit, Michigan. Radio broadcast in the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
 Detroit, Michigan. Sailors and girls at zoological park, 1942
  
 Detroit, Michigan. Scrap collected for salvage at a rally sponsored by the 
Work Projects Administration (WPA) at the state fairgrounds, 1942
  
 Detroit, Michigan. War worker and family strolling through the zoological park, 1942
  
 Detroit, Michigan. Woman holding a harness strap 
to prevent child from getting lost in zoological park, 1942
  
Detroit, Michigan. Young mother with her own and neighbor's child, 1942
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Vacation

April 13, 2014, 7:28 pm
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I will be on vacation until Friday April 18. Going to my dad's funeral and won't have time to post...

See you soon!
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Leslie Jones Collection

April 18, 2014, 9:28 am
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More from this Boston photographer - pictures of kids.

 Baby and dog
  
 Benson's Zoo, Nashua, New Hampshire, 1931
  
 Black kids and white kids on street in South End, ca. 1950
  
 Black kids bringing coal home on sled, South End, ca. 1939
  
 Boys in Frog Pond, Boston Common
  
 Boys on cannon on Boston Common
  
 Child and dog in the Public Garden, 1934
  
 Girls at water fountain in park
  
 Group of children (at camp?), 1937
  
Group of kids in backyard of tenement, ca. 1935

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
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Beach time

April 19, 2014, 11:16 am
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It's been a long hard winter for many people, so maybe this will lift your spirits a bit. These are from the Leslie Jones Collection.

 Baby and dog on blanket at Nantasket Beach
  
 1919
  
 1919
  
 1920
  
 1920
  


 Malibu Beach, Dorchester
  
 Revere Beach, 1937
  
 Three girls at the beach, ca. 1940
  
 Wading woman finds the water at the beach a little cold, 1937
  
 Who wouldn't be a life saver? 1917-34
  
Woman at the beach, 1937
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
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Lafayette Studio

April 20, 2014, 8:05 am
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 Sayre College, May Day Queen, 1933
  
 Sigma Chi formal dance, 1935
  
 Soap Box Derby, parade, 1936
  
 Two women leaning on the hood of a car, 1941
  
 University of Kentucky, two women working in a Home Economics classroom, 1941
  
 University of Kentucky, WHAS band, 1933
  
University of Kentucky, woman outside in snow, 1940
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African American Portraits

April 21, 2014, 8:17 am
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Here's another batch of these from Joseph Pennell.

 Ladies Reading Club group, 1914
  
 Portrait of Francis Hooks holding book, 1915
  
 Portrait of Mrs. Ike Perkins and Mrs. Sgt. Dorsey, 1916
  
 Portrait of Mrs. Joseph Bridges, 1910
  
 Portrait of Mrs. Will Richardson, 1907
  
 Portrait of Robinson children, 1898
  
 Portrait of Roger Hammond children, 1923
  
 Portrait of Sgt. Brasee and wife, 1911
  
Portrait of two women, Mrs. Prewitt and relative, 1920-21
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Gordon Burt Photo Studio

April 22, 2014, 8:26 am
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This photo studio was based in New Zealand.

 A fashion show at Kirkaldie and Stains department store, 
on Lambton Quay, Wellington, 1932
  
 Albion 'Shell' petrol truck and driver on Oriental Parade, Wellington, 1920s
  
 Children in the Wellington Public Library, ca. 1935
  
 First trolley bus in Wellington - photographer possibly Sydney Charles Smith, 1924
  
 Lambton Quay and The Terrace, Wellington, 1950s
  
 Outside Whitehead and Pears Ltd, Cuba Street, Wellington, ca. 1930
  
 United States Marines in recreation room, Hotel Cecil, Wellington, 1942-44
  
 United States Marines, Hotel Cecil, Wellington, 1942-44
  
 United States servicemen at the milk bar, Hotel Cecil, corner of 
Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, Wellington, 1942-45
  
Welder working on body of a car, General Motors, Wellington
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Winter

April 23, 2014, 8:31 am
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These photos of winter in Boston were taken by Leslie Jones.

 Abington, Massachusetts snowstorm
  
 Cars abandoned in snowdrift
  
 Corner of Arlington and Boylston Streets during snowstorm, 1940
  
 
 Fun makers in snow shoe race up in New Hampshire, 1936
  
 Girls making snow sculptures, Lasalle Junior College
  
 
 Hamilton statue, Commonwealth Ave. Mall covered with snow, 1928
 
 Horse cutting ice on pond
    
 Horse falls on slippery street in Boston, 1920
  
 Horse plowing snow, Boston Common
  
 Horse-drawn sleigh in Boston neighborhood, 1939
   
 Ice skating, Public Garden, ca. 1940
  
 Ice skating, Public Garden

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
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Crowley-Milner department store

April 24, 2014, 8:36 am
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Photos by Arthur Siegel of this department store in (pre-bankrupt) Detroit.

 Buying a radio in the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
Class for receivers of telephone orders at the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
 Corset department at the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
 Operator taking telephone orders at the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
 Radio broadcast in the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
 Towel department at the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
 Women drying their hair in the beauty shop at the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
 Women paying bills at the charge account window 
at the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
  
Women shoppers at lunch at the Crowley-Milner department store, 1941
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Arnold Genthe

April 25, 2014, 8:24 am
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Here is the last set of Mr. Genthe's unlabeled photos of European scenes.


 Guessing Netherlands or Belgium
 
 Same as above
 
 My initial impression is Ireland but it could be anywhere
 
 My guess is Switzerland or Italy
 
 The massive monumental architecture looks Germanic to me
 


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University of Kentucky

April 26, 2014, 9:03 am
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More photos from their archives.

 "The Medium," 1956
  
 Fans cheering at a sporting event, 1955
  
 Lance's Carnival, 1949
  
 Lance's Carnival, 1949
[funny how "Cleopatra" is dressed like Wonder Woman!]
  
 Lance's Carnival, 1949
  
 Lance's Carnival, 1949
  
 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949
  
 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949
  
 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949
  
 Sadie Hawkins Dance, 1949
  
Women of the Chi Omega sorority socializing, 1955
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Dick Whittington

April 27, 2014, 8:15 am
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 Flower show with Japanese girls, Southern California, 1931
  
 Ginger ale bottling machine, Southern California, 1931
  
 Girls in dress rehearsal, Kenwood Hall School for Girls, Southern California, 1932
  
 Group of high school girls at Hill Street office, Pacific Ready Cut, Los Angeles, 1927
  
 Hikers in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, 1932
  
 Japanese flower girl, Southern California Flower Association, 1934
  
 Marmon car and show girls at Gables Club, Southern California, 1926
  
 Midge Miller & Will Morrisey's "Exposures", Southern California, 1927
  
 Oil well fire, Southern California, 1931
[probably the single most dramatic photo yet posted on this blog]
  
Old time costume party, Southern California, 1928
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Vintage Car Wrecks

April 28, 2014, 8:20 am
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These photos of auto accidents in the Boston area were taken by Leslie Jones.

 Ambulance tips over on Stuart Street, Boston
  
 Auto accident in front of Hotel Vendome
  
 Auto accident in South End, 1931
  
 Auto accident, 1935
  
 Auto accident, corner of Warren Ave. and W. Canton St., South End
  
 Auto goes into pond, ca. 1938
  
 Auto goes into trench in Peabody Square, 1931
  
 Auto overturned at corner of Radcliffe Street, 1938
  
 Auto wreck, Burlington, Massachusetts, 1931
  
 Auto wreck, North Station, ca. 1929
  
Auto wreck, Roxbury crossing Columbus Avenue, 1931

Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
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Arlington Farms

April 29, 2014, 8:22 am
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Here's another set of photos of this "residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of [World War II]". Esther Bubley is the photographer.


 Girl getting food in the service shop at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943
 

 Girl on her way to the laundry room stops in one of the 
small alcoves to talk to some of her girlfriends, 1943
 

 Girls eating hot dogs in the service shop in Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943
 

 Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, Arlington Farms, 1943
 

 Girls entertaining their guests in one of the two card rooms, 
Arlington Farms. More privacy is afforded here than in the main lounge, 1943
 

 Girls in two of the long line of showers at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, 1943
 

 Jitterbugs at the bi-weekly Saturday night "open house" dance at Idaho Hall, Arlington Farms, a residence for women who work in the govermnent for the duration of the war, 1943
 

 Mirrors over the dressing table conceals a cabinet which gives girls 
extra space for their cosmetics, etc., at Arlington Farms, 1943
  
Laundry room in Idaho Halls, Arlington Farms, 1943
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Henry Clay High School

April 30, 2014, 9:23 am
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 From Lafayette Studios, here are photos from Henry Clay High School in Lexington, Kentucky. Their web site calls it "the oldest public high school in Lexington."

 Henry Clay High School group, 1931
  
 Henry Clay High School orchestra with Miss Fox, 1933
  
 Henry Clay High School play, 1935
  
 Henry Clay High School, 1934
  
 Henry Clay High School, girls gymnastics class, 1934
  
 Henry Clay High School, harmonica group, 1933
  
 Henry Clay High School, harmonicas & kazoos, 1936
  
 Henry Clay High School, operetta (Pirates of Penzance?), 1933
  
 Henry Clay High School, orchestra, 1933
  
Henry Clay School, group of girls, 1935
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