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Dorothea Lange

February 13, 2015, 8:05 am
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 8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day."Near Meloland, Imperial County, California, February 1939
 
 Contra Costa County, California. Bringing cattle in from the range. 
Common sight on California highways, November 1938
  
 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars monthly. February 1936
  
 El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. One hundred homes, all occupied, each with three quarters of an acre land. Average family income, eight hundred dollars per annum. February 1936
  
 Family of four to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. "They won't go until they get so hungry that there's nothing else for them to do. They won't go--not twenty-five percent will go" said a transient case worker in Imperial County. This family was hungry. They lost a two-year-old baby as the result of exposure during the winter. Holtville, California. March 1937
  
 Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. Brawley, California. Father is home after a day in the pea fields. Note tent platform, standard equipment in FSA camps. February 1939
  
 Gang of migratory carrot pullers in field. Wages, fourteen cents per crate 
of forty eight bunches. Imperial Valley, California, February 1939
  
Japanese agricultural workers packing broccoli near Guadalupe, California, March 1937
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Mack Hughes

February 14, 2015, 12:03 pm
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From Mack Hughes, these look like photos of a Valentine's Day dance in the 1950s. Only caption is "Lebus" - completely opaque to me!





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Adam MacLay

February 16, 2015, 8:00 am
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 Family in front lawn of single story wooden house, 1905-26
  
 Group of men, women and girls outside a tent, 
possibly Sumner, Christchurch, 1905-26
  
 Group portrait of two men and two women dressed in finery, 1905-26
  
 Men playing cards and musical instruments, 
next to tents at a camp site, 1905-26
  
Portrait of a young girl standing on sacking in a lace dress 
with a large collar, with a black Cocker Spaniel dog, 1905-26
 
Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library
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Lafayette Studio

February 17, 2015, 8:18 am
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 Miss Kentucky beauty contest, 1935
  
 Packard Motor Cars, group of people gathered outside of building, 1936
  
 S. Karpen & Brothers, workers upholstering furniture, 1941
  
 Scabbard and Blade military ball, 1935
  
Southeastern Greyhound Lines, banquet for drivers and families, 1939
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Frederick Nelson Jones

February 18, 2015, 8:05 am
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 A Ford motor car, ca. 1916
  
 Crowd walking along Nelson wharf during farewell to 
25th New Zealand Regiment, World War I, 9 January 1917
  
 Hospital supplies being packed and sent to Egypt and 
England from the Nelson Red Cross depot, ca. 1915
  
 Regatta (?) at a Nelson wharf, ca. 1910
  
Road damaged by earthquake and flood, Tahuna Hillside, Nelson, 1929
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
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Marion Post Wolcott

February 19, 2015, 8:53 am
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 "That's what you wanna see and that's what you will see and don't 
bring bashful with you 'cause he can't take it." An outdoor carnival comes 
once a year to the mining section. Granville, West Virginia, September 1938
 
 A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro owner, Wess Cris, a tobacco farm of about 165 acres in a prosperous Negro settlement near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. They are straining it into a barrel, measured by a gallon can. September 1939
 
 Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Playing checkers outside 
a service station on a Saturday afternoon, June 1939
  
 Group of sixth and seventh grade boys constructing poultry yard fence. 
Brooder was built in their shop class at school. Flint River Farms, Georgia, May 1939
  
People at the Shelby County Horse Show and Fair 
eating a picnic lunch. Shelbyville, Kentucky, August 1940
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William Archer Price

February 20, 2015, 8:07 am
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 Cobb and Co coach on board a punt on the Buller River, ca. 1910
  
 Crowd in the vicinity of Shortland Wharf, Thames, ca. 1910
  
 Four Maori girls on a home-made raft paddling down the Kai Iwi Creek, ca. 1910
  
 View of a bus which ran between Blockhouse Bay, 
Avondale and Pitt Street, Auckland, ca. 1910s
  
View of adults and children swimming and 
playing at Shelly Beach, Auckland, ca. 1914
  
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
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World War II

February 21, 2015, 8:14 am
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 These were found at this site.

 German soldier with cat, Voronezh Oblast, USSR, July 16, 1942
  
 Observer who spotted a machine gun nest finds its location on a map so they can send the information to artillery or mortars. Iwo Jima, February 1945
  
 Soldiers in bunks on Army transport, S.S. Pennant, 
Port of Embarkation, San Francisco, California. November 1942
  
 The crew of B-29 Superfortress 42-24598 "Waddy's Wagon. 
Saipan, November 24, 1944
[this may be one of the coolest photos ever!]
  
VMF 214 "Black Sheep" Squadron at Espiritu Santo. September 7, 1943
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Skateboarding

February 22, 2015, 5:50 pm
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Albert Percy Godber

February 23, 2015, 7:55 am
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 Albert Percy Godber boating on the Waihou River at Te Aroha, in 1917
  
 Four people with a car parked at the Summit on the Rimutaka Road, 1924
  
 Group outside the fire damaged soap factory of Allender & Co, Petone, 21 January 1906
  
 Men camping near the Waipapa River, 1918
  
Men in a scow being towed by two horses, on the Waipapa River, near Rangiahua, 1918

Albert Percy Godber Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand
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Harris & Ewing - Kids

February 24, 2015, 8:09 am
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 "Our Gang" comedy stars call on President Coolidge, May 18, 1927
  
 Children crossing street, February-March 1935
  
 Despite a cold drizzle, nearly 1000 Washington youngsters romped over 
the south grounds of the White House today as the guests of President and 
Mrs. Hoover at the traditional Easter eggrolling. Washington playground 
teachers staged a number of games for the enjoyment of the children. March 28, 1932
 
 Navy children boxing, 1932-33
[this is wrong on so many levels]
  
 Safety first for this Miss, Washington, D.C. August 8. Equipped with 
bumpers fore and aft, 4-year-old Betty Buck is taking unnecessary 
chances as she tries her first pair of roller skates, August 8, 1936
   
Snow, children sledding, Washington, DC, 1915-23
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Leslie Jones

February 25, 2015, 7:59 am
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 Cowgirls at Boston Garden for the Rodeo, November 1931
  
 Faneuil Hall Market, South Market Street, ca. 1930
  
 Girls at clam bake, 1947
  
 Kids dressed to go to the old fishing hole
  
Skater Barbara Ann Scott in action, 1951
 
Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection
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21st Birthdays

February 26, 2015, 8:07 am
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From Revelle Jackson, these are pictures taken at 21st birthday parties - apparently a big deal in 1960s New Zealand.


 November 1965
 
 October 1967
 

 May 1968
 

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Dorothea Lange

February 27, 2015, 8:06 am
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 Latter Day Saints portrait group. These people, man and wife, are both 
eighty-five years old. Converts to Mormonism from South Africa. 
She was the first schoolteacher in Escalante, April 1936
   
 Log house now occupied and enlarged by the Halley family. Mrs. Halley in doorway with youngest child. Bonner County, Idaho, October 1939
  
 Longshoremen's lunch hour. San Francisco waterfront. California, February 1937
  
 Lunchtime for young migrants at Shafter Camp, California. The nursery school for migrant children is conducted in camp under nursery school teachers trained by WPA (Work Projects Administration), and assigned to work in the camp under WPA project. February 1939
  
 Meeting of the Mothers' Club in Arvin camp for migrant workers, an FSA camp. The discussion this evening centers on the possibility of buying kerosene oil in large quantities and distributing it cooperatively in camp, to cut costs. Kerosene is used both for cooking and for lighting purposes. November 1939
 
 Migrant agricultural labor family. Tenant farmer with six children, refugees from Texas, near Wasco, California. "People just can't make it back there with drought, hailstorms, windstorms, duststorms, insects. They'll all be here in another year or two. People exist here and they can't do that there. You can make it here if you sleep late and eat little, but it's pretty tough--there's so many people." June 1938
  
Migrant agricultural workers' home. California, February 1937
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World War I - women workers

February 28, 2015, 7:38 am
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These photos of women workers during World War I come from here.

 A woman delivers coal in France
  
 A woman makes and repairs shoes
  
 Women filling shells in a munitions factory in Scotland
  
 Women grease and inspect the signals at the Gare du Nord, in Paris, France
  
 Women pilots in flying suits
  
 Women shovelling snow from the road, in Paris, France
  
Women unloading a coal wagon in England
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Marion Post Wolcott - Kids

March 1, 2015, 8:44 am
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 Mountain children playing marbles after school in Breathitt County, Kentucky, September 1940
  
 Playtime in front of migratory packinghouse worker's camp. Child is from Tennessee and his parents are away most of the time. Belle Glade, Florida, January 1939
  
 Schoolchildren doing dance on May Day health day at 
Ashwood Plantation, South Carolina, Spring 1939
  
 Street in Negro section. Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938
  
WPA (Works Progress Administration) worker's children with their toys in their play yard. South Charleston, West Virginia, September 1938
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Jack Delano

March 2, 2015, 8:07 am
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 Backstage at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941
  
 Barker at the grounds at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941
  
 
 On the ferris wheel at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941
 
 Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico, December 1941
   
 Men and a woman reading headlines posted in street-corner window of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office on Christmas Eve, Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940
  
 Near White Plains, Georgia, 1941
   
 Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op 
orange packing plant, Redlands, California, March 1943
  
Skating, vicinity of Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940
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The Roosevelts

March 3, 2015, 8:06 am
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From Harris & Ewing come these photos of Franklin and Eleanor.

 First Lady meets Democratic Party mascot, 1940?
  
 First Lady welcomes Easter egg rollers. Because of the cold 
weather the crowd was the smallest in 15 years. 25 March 1940
  
 Franklin D. Roosevelt throwing out ball at baseball game, 1932-33
  
 Group on back of train; includes John Nance Garner, 
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933-40
  
 Indians visit Great White Father. President Roosevelt receives Drag Wolf (l) and Foolish Bear while Arthur Mandan interprets. The purpose of the visit was to thank the Great White Father for his help in restoring the 'sacred bundle' to the Water Buster Clan of the Gros Ventre tribe of North Dakota, a tribal relic whose loss in 1907 has been followed by such a period of drought as none among them can remember. With the return of the bundle the Indians think the drought will be over. 13 January 1938
  
 May Day, designated by President Roosevelt as Child Health Day, was observed at the White House when two capital youngsters presented a basket of flowers to Mrs. Roosevelt, 2 May 1938
  
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker christening 
the flagship of the Eastern Air Lines Washington-New York run, 17 May 1937
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Adam MacLay

March 4, 2015, 8:03 am
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 Four young men and a dog, with a variety of equipment 
including a gun, an axe and a sign saying 'Okapara Boys'
  
 Group of men and women with a dog, 1905-26
  
 Group of young men and women in front of two tents 
with overlapping awning, Christchurch, 1905-26
  
 Jack Suckling, and a row of cyclists, outside 
Suckling's cycle shop, Christchurch, ca. 1912-14
  
Portrait of eight unidentified young women in costumes, 
wearing dresses or men's suits, 1905-26
 
Adam MacLay Collection, Alexander Turnbull Library
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George Frederick Kaye

March 5, 2015, 8:13 am
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 A New Zealand Infantry platoon pictured near Monte Cassino 
on the 5th Army Front in Italy, 8 March 1944
  
 A scene in the forward area of the Sangro River Front, in Italy, 
showing villagers outside their wrecked homes, 10 December 1943
  
 An American military police officer on point duty and two Kiwi soldiers 
seen together on the 5th Army Front in southern Italy, 10 February 1944
  
 Competitor taking part in the high jump at 5 NZ Infantry 
Brigade Sports Meeting in Italy, 11 May 1944
  
New Zealand soldiers, out of the line for a rest in Italy, await their turn for a 
hot shower provided by a NZ Field Hygiene Section, 6 January 1944
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