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Charles Bayliss

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Charles Bayliss was a 19th century Australian photographer. These photos all date to 1886.

 "Flooded out!", a homestead lease on Toorale Station, Darling River, New South Wales
  
 Bullock teams at Wilcannia, Darling River, New South Wales
  
 Group of Aboriginals at Chowilla Station on the lower Murray River, South Australia
  
 Group of Aboriginals at Dunlop Station homestead, Darling River, New South Wales
  
 Junction of Darling and Murray Rivers, taken from Victorian side
  
 Lake Woytchugga near Wilcannia, Darling River, New South Wales
  
On Culpaulin Station on the Darling River, New South Wales

Louis Edward Nollau

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 Women making formations on gymnasium floor
  
 Cooking class, 1941
  
 Group picture of women (cadets?)
  
 Student demonstration, angel food cake, Campbell County, 1934
  
Three women doing headstands

Marion Post Wolcott

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 Negro sharecropper and two wagehands shucking corn for the landlord, a white woman. On road to Cedar Grove, west of highway No. 14, Orange County, North Carolina, September 1939
  
 Playing checkers with bottle caps along highway between 
Charleston and Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, September 1938
  
 Political poster on sharecropper's house, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi, October 1939
  
 Project family picking peas in their garden, Flint River Farms, Georgia, Spring 1939
  
Rolling store which goes from door to door selling groceries, hardware, drygoods, drugs, and a variety of household and farm supplies. Near Montezuma, Georgia, May 1939

Edgar Richard Williams

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Edgar Richard Williams was a New Zealand photographer. Most of the photos in his collection were taken by his father, William Williams.

 Bull, sledge, boys and dog at Surat Beach, 1895-1900
  
 Edgar and Owen Williams and Edith Kenworth inspect a Nikau palm flower bud, 1901
  
 Group of children, Motohou, near Wanganui, 1903
  
 Group of women at Waiwhetu Pa, ca. 1880s
  
Lydia Myrtle Williams, reclining in a hammock with a book and a fan, 
in the garden of the house in Carlyle Street, Napier, ca. 1889
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Ann Rosener

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 I'll carry mine. Delivery vans, 1942 style, line up outside a Greenbelt, Maryland, grocery store awaiting customers. Tire scarcity and gasoline rationing have placed such service at a premium, and these youngsters who are using their express wagons to carry home Mrs. America's purchases are doing their country a real service. November 1942
  
 I'll carry mine. Junior should wipe that worried frown off his face, for he's doing his Uncle Sam a favor by sharing the carriage with his mother's purchases, November 1942
  
 I'll carry mine. There's nothing like a husky and willing escort to simplify a shopping expedition, now that deliveries of goods have been curtailed to conserve tires and gasoline, December 1942
  
 In the war against waste, American housewives are learning the basic steps of wise buying - buy by weight, not by number; buy in quantity, February 1942
  
 That washing machine has to last for a long time, so keep it in good 
condition. Drain it immediately after use, rinse tub thoroughly, 
remove agitator or suction cups and rinse with clear water. February 1942
 
 There's no June in January for the housewife with economy and Victory on her mind. Buying foods out of season means less food for more money, and less money available for household staples and defense stamps. February 1942
 
 Wartime food demonstration. With wartime food shortages creating many nutritional problems for housewives, Ida Lansden, home economist, explains the necessity of preserving the vitamin content of available foods to war workers' wives in an Alexandria, Virginia housing settlement. March 1943
 
Women in war. Supercharger plant workers. A good day's work done, employees of a large Midwest supercharger plant line up to punch their timecards. With women comprising 80 percent of its workers, its nothing unusual to find an all-female contingent like this one at the plant. Allis Manufacture Company. October 1942

Russell Lee

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 Children of Negroes dressed in Sunday best for ceremonies, memorial services. 
All Saint's Day, New Roads, Louisiana, November 1938
  
 Mrs. Erasty Emvich in her kitchen. Mrs. Emvich is the wife of a tenant farmer and mother of twelve children, eleven of them living. Near Battle Ground, Indiana, March 1937
  
 Mrs. Ray Allen and two of her children in their home 
near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, June 1937
  
 One of Erasty Emvich's sons weaving a rug in farmhouse near Battle Ground, Indiana. Mr. Emvich, tenant farmer and father of twelve children, also weaves in his spare time, March 1937
  
 Prizewinning stallion bought with Farm Services Administration loan to 
serve cooperative group in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, Summer 1939
  
 Railroad workers, Port Barre, Louisiana, October 1938
  
 Some of the residents of the transient camp operated by the state of Michigan at Hagerman Lake. About a hundred men are quartered here, mostly old lumberjacks, miners, and other unemployables. Some of these men stay for just a short time. When men come to camp they are usually undernourished. April-May 1937
 
Washday at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) 
Camelback Farms, Phoenix, Arizona, February-March 1942

James McAllister

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Mr. McAllister was yet another New Zealand photographer.

 At Ngamotu Beach, New Plymouth, ca. 1910
  
 Bushmen's camp, 1901
  
 Group on a grass tennis court in front of a house, probably in Stratford, ca. 1900
  
 Group taking a break during oat harvesting, 1914
  
McAllister family on a horse drawn wagon, 1910s

Jack Delano

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 Along a road near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941
  
 An outdoor potato grader using migratory labor. At the freight station 
in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. July 1940
  
 At the change of the shift at the Penomah Mills Inc., 
Taftville, Connecticut, November 1940
  
 Boys at the riverfront in Norwich, Connecticut, November 1940
  
Cleaning turpentine cups in boiling water at a still near Pembroke, Georgia, April 1941

Dorothea Lange - Kids

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 Children and home of migratory cotton workers. Migratory camp, 
southern San Joaquin Valley, California, November 1936
  
 Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato 
pickers' camp near Shafter, California, May 1937
  
 Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp. California, February 1939
  
 Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. 
Randolph County, North Carolina, July 1939
  
 Entire enrollment of Lincoln Bench School. Teacher in center. 
Near Ontario, Oregon, Malheur County, October 1939
  
 Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. 
Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children 
during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley. February 1939
 
Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. February 1936

Thelma Kent

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Thelma Kent was a New Zealand photographer who had a real eye for landscape photography.

 A woman on horseback and children, ca 1939
  
 At Lake Manapouri, Southland, 1939
  
 Camping in the Lake Coleridge district during a storm. 
Rainbow appearing over the Craigieburn Range, ca. 1939
[this is one I'd like to see in color!]
  
 Group of six women having breakfast at a table while camping. There is a box of Weetbix on the table and some of the women are eating eggs. Ngaire Hooper is seated front left and photographer Thelma Rene Kent is at the head of the table. 1937
  
Karamea Bight, ca 1939

Sydney Charles Smith

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Sydney Charles Smith was a New Zealand photographer active in the 1910s-1940s.

 A crowd of people at Lyall Bay beach, Wellington. There are some 
children playing on a 'Witches Hat' on the beach, 1929
  
 Arawa Street, Rotorua, 1923
  
 Children on the beach, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1929
  
 Families doing laundry at a relief camp for victims of the 
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Palmerston North
  
Horse drawn carriage collecting shingle at Owhiro Bay, Wellington, ca. 1910

Henry Norford Whitehead

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Mr. Whitehead was another New Zealand photographer. 

 A farmer using a plough machine attached to a team of 
work horses in the field, Elsthorpe, Hawkes Bay, 1920s-30s
  
 Apple orchard with apples on the ground, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
 
 Buick convertible with woman and Pomeranian dog 
parked by farmland, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
  
 E Williams and family sitting in front of an open tent, Hawkes Bay, 1920s-30s
  
Hastings High School students exercising on school fields, 
with staff supervising, Hawkes Bay District, ca. 1933

Harris & Ewing

Artur Pastor

Cornell University

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 Frosh Prom, February 11, 1924
  
 Freshman-Sophomore "Mud-Rush" Parade
  
 Mud Rush crowd
  
 Mud Rush on the Ag Quad, 1922
  
Mud Rush

William Hall Raine

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Mr. Raine was from - where else? - New Zealand.

 "Popular Girl" contestants in evening wear, 
Blue Triangle Hall, Boulcott Street, Wellington, 1932
  
 Beauty pageant contestants and crowd, Marine Parade, Napier, probably late 1930s
  
 Dance, possibly at Wellington Town Hall, 1930s
  
 Group picnicking at Titahi Bay beach, ca 1930s
  
Members of Ngati Poneke preparing for their first concert as a club, ca. 1937

Frederick Nelson Jones

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 Group alongside a Newman's service car, Murchison, ca. 1929
  
 Group at a diving pool, ca. 1910
  
 Spring-board jumping, ca. 1910s
  
 Two rows of Newman's buses and service cars filled with passengers, Murchison, 1927
  
Typesetting workshop with linotype machines, 1926

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Northwood Brothers

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They were a family of photographers in New Zealand. The father, Richard Arthur Northwood, was a pharmacist who encouraged his sons to take up photography. Three of them did: Arthur James, Richard Alfred, and Hubert Charles.

 A fisherman stands in the shallows holding his large catch 
on his back. A dog, probably his, stands close. ca. 1915
  
 Automobiles carrying the "Winterless north" tour 
in Commerce Street, Kaitaia. 21 January 1917
  
 Boating party, Northland, ca. 1910s
   
 Broadwood Saddle road, Hokianga County, ca. 1930s
   
Commerce Street, Kaitaia, showing horse-drawn carts, early 1900s

Lafayette Studio

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 May Day parade and festivities, 1939
  
 May Day Parade, three women riding a float, 1941
  
 May Day, University of Kentucky, two women on the "Snow White Wishing Well" float, 1940
  
 May Queen, University of Kentucky, 1936
  
University May Queen, Easter Briggs, 1935

Greene County Fair

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From Jack Delano come these photos of the Greene County Fair, Greene County, Georgia. Taken in October 1941.




 White schoolchildren were admitted free one day, Negro schoolchildren the next.
  

 Negro schoolchildren came to the Greene County fair in trucks. 
 
Schoolchildren getting off the bus for free day at the fair
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