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Ziegfeld Girls

May 23, 2013, 9:51 am
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The Ziegfeld Follies were theatrical productions modeled after the French Folies Bergères.  They have been described as something of a cross between Broadway shows and Vaudeville reviews. Prominently featured in the Follies were the iconic "Ziegfeld girls" who were the mainstay of these shows. They were actresses and dancers, many quite accomplished. [Here's a full-length feature produced by Ziegfeld, titled "Glorifying the American Girl".]

Alfred Cheney Johnston took many photographs of the Ziegfeld girls. Many of these were tasteful nudes; the ones here are all clothed (or at least half-clothed).

 Alexandra Carlisle

 Anne Lee Patterson, 1931

 Anne Lee Patterson
 
 Barbara Stanwyck
[she became a big Hollywood star]
 
 Bea Ackerman of the Ziegfeld Follies, 1923-24

 Billie Dove, 1920s

 Claudia Dell

 Dog and Model

 Drucilla Strain

 Frieda Mierse - Ziegfeld girl

 Hazel Forbes - Ziegfeld girl

 Helene Costello

 Kay English, Ziegfeld girl, 1929

 Margaret Horan with dog

Marion Davies, Ziegfeld girl, 1924
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Marjory Collins

May 24, 2013, 9:48 am
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Marjory Collins photographed life on the "home front" in the United States during World War II.

 Apparently prosperous gentleman gives his name and address to school teacher who fills out his ration card - one pound every two weeks, 1942

 Applicants for sugar rationing cards. Adams School, Washington, DC, 1942

 Arlington, Virginia. FSA trailer camp project for Negroes. 
Hanging out washing in front of the community building, 1942

 Baltimore, Maryland. Rushing to catch a trackless trolley home from work at four pm, 1943

 Baltimore, Maryland. School children and workers returning home on a trolley at five pm, 1943

 Baltimore, Maryland. Second shift workers leaving the Bethlehem Fairfield 
shipyard at three p.m. making a dash for cars, buses and trolleys, 1943

 Baltimore, Maryland. Waiting for a bus at a busy intersection at four pm, 1943

 Mechanicsville, Maryland. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Herbert sitting on the porch of the home which he helped to build when he first came here thirty-six years ago to be a express agent, 1942

 New York. Central Park lake on Sunday, 1942

 New York. Chinese-American playing Chinese checkers 
with a Jewish friend in her Flatbush home,  1942

 New York. Dancing and music on Mott Street, at a flag raising ceremony 
in honor of neighborhood boys in the United States Army, 1942

 New York. Italian-American cafe espresso shop on MacDougal Street where coffee and soft drinks are sold. The coffee machine cost one thousand dollars, 1942

 New York. Italian-Americans in the rain watching a flag raising ceremony 
in honor of the feast of San Rocco at right, 1942

 New York. Italian-Americans on MacDougal Street relaxing on Sunday, 1942

 New York. Italian-Americans watching parade on Mott Street and flag raising ceremony 
in honor of boys from the neighborhood in the United States Army, 1942

New York. Italian-Americans watching parade on Mott Street and flag raising ceremony 
in honor of boys from the neighborhood in the United States Army, 1942
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Eva Besnyö

May 28, 2013, 9:38 am
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More from this Hungarian-born photographer. Previous set here.

 Self-portrait
 Starnberger Strasse, Berlin, 1931
 Strong Back
 Untitled
[looks like an Escher drawing]
 
 Woman and cat enjoy the view

 Workers

Shipyard
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Dorothea Lange - Japanese Internment

May 29, 2013, 10:09 am
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 Supper time. Meal times are the big events of the day within an assembly center. This is a line-up of evacuees waiting for the B shift at 5-45 P.M. San Bruno, California, 1942

 The Manzanar Free Press, the local newspaper at this War Relocation Authority center, 
is published twice a week and is delivered free to evacuees. 1942

 The Shibuya family on the lawn in front of their beautiful home before evacuation 
to War Relocation Authority centers. Mountain View, California, 1942

 The family unit is kept intact in various phases of evacuation of persons 
of Japanese ancestry. San Francisco, California, 1942

 These children have just arrived at Turlock assembly center. 1942

 These children have just arrived at Turlock assembly center. 1942

 These evacuees of Japanese ancestry have just arrived at this Assembly Center 
and are awaiting the inspection of their baggage. Turlock, California, 1942

 These people of Japanese ancestry are awaiting the special bus which will take them, and other evacuees, to the Tanforan Assembly Center. Hayward, California, 1942

 These two girls peer out of a window in their quarters 
just after their arrival at Turlock assembly center. 1942

 Third grade students working on their arithmetic lesson at this 
first volunteer elementary school. School equipment was not yet available 
at the time this photograph was taken. Manzanar, California, 1942

 This assembly center has been open for two days. Bus-load after bus-load 
of evacuated persons of Japanese ancestry are arriving this day. 
San Bruno, California, 1942

 This girl, who worked as a strawberry picker on an Alameda County farm, 
awaits evacuation bus. Centerville, California, 1942

 This young woman of Japanese ancestry received credentials from 
the San Jose State College to teach in Junior High, Primary 
and Kindergarten schools of the State. Sacramento, California, 1942

 Two children of the Mochida family who, with their parents, 
are awaiting evacuation bus. Hayward, California, 1942

 Young evacuees at this assembly center are happy to have their pictures taken. 
Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942

 Young evacuees at this assembly center who begged to have their pictures taken.
Tanforan Assembly Center, San Bruno, California, 1942

 Young persons of Japanese ancestry, second and third generation Americans. They have been in camp about a week, where there is little for them to do as yet. Stockton, California, 1942

These young evacuees are attending the first elementary school at this 
War Relocation Authority center. There are six grades with volunteer teachers 
and voluntary attendance. Manzanar, California, 1942
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Peter Henry Emerson

May 30, 2013, 8:53 am
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Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) was a British photographer. He specialized in scenes of rural life. Some of his photos are obviously staged, while others look more candid.

 A Dame's School

 A Fisherman at Home, 1887

 A Reed Cutter at Work, 1885

 A Spring Idyl

 A Suffolk Dike, 1887

 A Winter's Morning, 1887

 An Autumn Pastoral, 1887

 At plough - the end of the furrow, 1887

 Blackshore, River Blythe, Suffolk, 1888

 Coming Home from the Marshes, 1886

Confessions, 1887
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George Brassaï

May 31, 2013, 9:19 am
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Previous set here.

 Girls at a Café

 Kiki and her Accordionist

 Le Pont Neuf

 Les Escaliers de Montmartre, Paris, 1936

 Lesbian Bar

 Lovers Beneath a Streetlight, 1932

 Matisse sketching a model, Paris, 1939

 Matisse with his model, Paris, 1939

Montmartre, Paris
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Jack Delano

June 3, 2013, 8:38 am
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Photos of "old fashioned" dances at the "World's Fair" in Tunbridge, Vermont in 1941.







 


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David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson

June 4, 2013, 8:57 am
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These two were early Scottish photographers. They teamed up to take more than 3,000 photos, mostly portraits. It seems that the division of labor here was Hill, with an artistic background, providing guidance in composition and lighting, with Adamson doing the actual camera work. These are some of the earliest photos featured on this site so far.

 Covenanter’s Tomb, Greyfriars Churchyard, Edinburgh, c. 1843-1847

 Edinburgh Ale, 1843-48

 Ellen and Agnes Milne, 1843-48

 Fisher Lassies

 Fisherwomen baiting lines, Fishergate, North Street, St Andrews, 1845

 Group Portrait, ca. 1845

 Harriet Farnie and Miss Farnie with a Sleeping Puppy, Brownie, ca. 1845

 His Faither’s Breeks, ca. 1843-47

 Master Grierson, c. 1843-1847

 Mr. and Mrs. Wilkinson, 1845

 Patrick Byrne, 1845

 Rev. Peter Jones or Kahkewaquonaby, 1802 - 1856. 
Indian chief and missionary in Canada

 Sir John Steell, Sculptor, 1845

 Sophia Finley and Harriet Farnie

 The Misses Binney, c. 1843-1847
[the Misses Binney look like trouble to me]
 
 The Pastor's Visit, ca. 1843-47

 The Scott Monument
[in honor of Sir Walter Scott]

 Through the Trellis, ca. 1861-62
[amazingly good quality image]
 
 Lady Ruthven, 1843

 Newhaven Fishwives, 1845
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Interesting women

June 5, 2013, 9:38 am
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From Harris & Ewing, here are some photos of interesting women.

 A rare picture is this one of the women members of the 75th congress who were photographed today following an informal luncheon in the Speaker's dining room at the Capitol. 1938

 Col. Roscoe Turner, winner of speed trophies in the air, dropped down to Washington Airport today with a red high wing monoplane which he presented to the friends of New China, represented by Miss Hilds Yen, Chinese Aviatrix. 1939

 Miss Elizabeth Funk, in laboratory, 1917

 Miss Sigrid Holmquist

 Mrs. Albert F. Walker of Westmoreland Hills, Maryland, has been declared 1937 women's skeet shooting champion of the country by the National Skeet Shooting Association

 Mrs. G. Owen

 Munitions workers. Women, 1918

 One volt after another is all in the day's work for Mrs. L.H. Brickwedde, 
who is a battery expert for the National Bureau of Standards. 1937

 Queenie Ladovitch

 Ruth Baxter, 1937-38

 Sally Halterman, 1937

 Señorita Erma Castillo Nauera, daughter of the Mexican Ambassador and Senora de Castillo Nauera, has taken up the study of hula dancing at a local dance school. 1939

 Woman on bicycle, 1917-1918

 Woman playing with drums, ca. 1940

 Women's Press Club skit instructs future first ladies on how to get along. 2. 'Retaliate, reciprocate, 
at any rate, cooperate. If I scratch your back, then you'll scratch mine.' March 1940

 Miss Edith Gracie. Dog show, 1915

Miss M.K. Little
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Lewis Hine

June 6, 2013, 8:48 am
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 Lewis Hine - 5 year old Helen and her stepsisters "hulling" strawberries at 
Johnson's Hulling Station, Seaford, Delaware. Helen is an orphan, who one month 
after death of her widowed mother, was adopted by the Hope family of Seaford, Del. 
This is her second season at Johnson's Hulling Station. 1910

 6 AM at Post Office Square. Truck load of tobacco workers bound for American Sumatra 
Tobacco Farm. They return about 7 PM.  Hartford, Connecticut, 1917

 Alberta McNadd on Chester Truitt's farm at Cannon, Delaware. Alberta is 5 years of age 
and has been picking berries since she was 3. 1910

 Alma Crosien, three-year-old daughter of Mrs. CoRa Croslen, of Baltimore. Both work in the Barataria Canning Company. The mother said, "I'm learnin' her the trade." 1911

 Group of young cutters in Seacoast sardine factory, going for a swim Sunday morning. They all said they cut their fingers a good deal, "and then the salt makes 'em 'pickle-sores." 1911

 Luft family, farm near Sterling. Mother, 9 yr. old Amelia, and 12 yr. old Mary working 
while father hauls the beets to factory. Sterling, Colorado, 1915

 Mother and children hulling strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station. Cyral (in baby cart) 
is 2 yrs. old this May and works steadily hulling berries. 1910
 
 New York tenement, 1910

 Nine of these children from 8 years old up go to school half a day, and shuck oysters 
for four hours before school and three hours after school on school days, 
and on Saturday from 4 A.M. to early afternoon. 1911

Three families is the rule in these shacks, one room above and one below, 
but sometimes four families crowd in. Maryland, 1909
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André Kertész

June 7, 2013, 8:31 am
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 Ballet, New York City, 1938

 Child Reading Comics

 Detail of women’s legs and shoes on rocks and river, 1940s

 Girls in Fairy Costumes, New York

 MacDougal Alley, New York City, 1977

New York City, November 10, 1962
 
 Nude Study, 1939

 Untitled, 1941

 Washington Square, Winter, 1954

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Bruno Braquehais

June 10, 2013, 8:56 am
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Bruno Braquehais (1823-1875) was an early French photographer who pioneered the art of photojournalism during the Paris Commune of 1871. The Musée d'Orsay has a page about Braquehais.  He also photographed nudes, but I'm sure enterprising readers can seek them out if interested...

 Barricade in the Rue de la Paix (Place Vendôme)

 Barricades on the Quai Pelletier and on the Pont d'Arcole, 1870-71

 Batterie d'artillerie installée à la Porte Maillot, sous le feu des batteries versaillaises, 1871

 Battery of the Montmartre Hills, 1870-71

 Commander of the Place Vendôme under the Commune, 1870-71

 Commune de Paris barricade de la rue de Castiglione, 1871

 Corner of Boulevard Saint Martin and Rue de Bondy, 1870-71

 General Staff of the Place Vendôme, under the Commune, 1870-71

 Hôtel de Ville before the Fire, 1870-71

 National Guards and curious citizens at the foot of the Vendôme Column

 Partial View of the Destroyed Balcony of the Ministry of Finance, 1870-71

 Place Vendôme (Group of Federated Soldiers near the Barricade in the Rue Castiglione), 1870-71

 Place Vendôme; the Right Side of the Barricade in the Rue de la Paix, 1870-71

 Ruins near the Pont d'Auteuil and the Gare d'Auteuil, 1870-71

 Statue of Napoleon I after the Fall of the Vendôme Column, 1870-71

 Tuileries Palace, View of the Destroyed Interior, 1870-71

 Last House on the Avenue de Neuilly, 1870-71

Parc de Saint-Cloud, Bathing Pavilion and Armored Crossing of the Prussians, 1870-71
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Gustave Le Gray

June 11, 2013, 9:45 am
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Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) was an important early French photographer. Trained as a painter by some prominent artists, he switched to the medium of photography in the 1840s (today we'd call him an "early adopter"). He became in time the official photographer to Emperor Napoleon III. 

Much of his work consisted of landscapes and seascapes; he also did portraits. 

 Alpine village

 Boats leaving the port of Le Havre, 1856

 Brig on the Water

 Céline Cerf, muse of fifteen and a half years, 1848

 
 Chateau de Fontainebleau reflecting in the water

 Entrance to the port of Brest, 1858

 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Palermo, 1860
[he is considered the father of united Italy 
(this is not the Garibaldi who was the security chief on Babylon 5!)]
 
 Group by the Millpond at Petit-Mourmelon, 1857

 Jacques Cœur’s palace, Dauphiné

 La Reine Hortense - Yacht of Emperor Napoléon III, Le Havre, 1856

 Large Wave, Mediterranean Sea

 Margaret Palace, fiancée mourning, 1848
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Ben Shahn

June 12, 2013, 8:44 am
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Photos taken in Arkansas.

 Picking cotton on Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecropper's child, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecroppers in Marked Tree, Arkansas, 1935

 Sharecroppers' children on Sunday, near Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935
["no more write on this house" - I love it!]
 
 Washing facilities in the Ozarks, Arkansas, 1935

 Wife and child of sharecropper, Arkansas, 1935

Wife of sharecropper, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935
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National Photo

June 17, 2013, 9:29 am
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 Apple Blossoms at Winchester, Virginia, 1926

 Auto school, 1921-22

 Babe Ruth knocked out, July 1924
 
 Canoe Regatta and Water Carnival, Tidal Basin, August 1924
 
 Chinese legation, 1926
 
 Classy Camp group, 1915
 
 Couples dancing, 1910-20
 
 Dancing at a Service Club, World War I
 
 Debutantes to serve as waitress at horse show, 1925
 
 DeGrout family group
 
Detroit Tigers' Harry Heilmann, in a poorly executed slide, is tagged out by Washington Senators' third baseman Howard Shanks. Senators beat the Tigers 6-2. June 8, 1921
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Samuel Gottscho

June 18, 2013, 9:08 am
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Samuel Gottscho (1875-1971) specialized in cityscapes and dwellings. His photographs of the New York City skyline remain some of the most iconic images of the city.

 A Pier in Brooklyn, with views to Manhattan over East River, April 1934
 
 Central Park, ca. 1935
 
 Chrysler Building, 1934
 
 Empire State Building, New York City to Chrysler Building and Queensboro Bridge, 1932
 
 Helena Rubenstein, 655 5th Ave. Hair dryers, 1961
 
 Helena Rubenstein, 655 5th Ave., New York City. Gym class I, 1961
 
 New York City Public Market at 1st Avenue and East 73rd Street, 1948
 
 New York City skyline from City Hospital, 1950
 
 Plaza buildings, reflected in open lake February 1933
 
 River House, 52nd St. and E. River, New York City. 
Parapet, 27th floor, against light, 1931
 
 River House, 52nd St. and E. River, New York City. Shore line with clouds, 1931
 
 Rockefeller Center and RCA building from 515 Madison Avenue, 1933
 
The opening day of the Empire State Building, 1931
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Marjory Collins

June 19, 2013, 9:11 am
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 At 7 a.m. on June 21, 1942, the day before stricter gas rationing was enforced, 
cars were pouring into this gas station on upper Wisconsin Avenue
 
 New York. Janet and Marie Wynn (lower left), Czech-American children, 
climbing on monkey bars in Central Park playground, 1942

 New York. Mall fountain in Central Park on Sunday, 1942
 
 New York. Manicurist at Francois de Paris, a hairdresser on Eighth Street, 1942
 
 New York. O'Reilly's bar on Third Avenue in the Fifties, 1942
 
 New York. O'Reilly's bar on Third Avenue in the Fifties, 1942
 
 New York. The mall restaurant in Central Park on Sunday, 1942
 
New York. Train gate at the Pennsylvania railroad station, 1942
 
 New York. Waiting for trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, 1942
 
 New York. Waiting room at the Pennsylvania railroad station, 1942
 
 Residents of one of Washington's best residential sections 
apply for sugar ration cards at Adams School, 1942
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Cabinet Cards

June 20, 2013, 10:19 am
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 Couple in Parkersburg, Iowa
 
 Couple with woman sitting at man's feet
 
 Elderly couple
 
 Elegant young woman, Rockland, Maine
 
 Family portrait, Duluth, Minnesota
 
 Family portrait, Great Falls, Montana
 
 Family portrait, Prague
 
 Fashionable black woman, Reno, Nevada
 
 Florence Mette Young, Mount Vernon, Ohio
 
 General Horace Porter, Civil War hero
 
Hershey family, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1907
[I wonder if the gentleman is Milton Hershey, who gave the world the "Hershey bar".
Comparing this with the picture at the link, I can't tell. On second look, they can't be the same,
because the photo at the link was taken in 1905, and he is clearly older than the fellow above.
Maybe they're at least related?]
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A 19th century couple

June 21, 2013, 8:30 am
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This is one of my favorite 19th century portraits, an unknown couple. Just look at the expression on the woman's face! She is clearly sick of the whole business of sitting for a portrait.


This was one of my biggest cleanup jobs yet - I've been working on it sporadically for months. Below is the version I was working from, a real mess. Clearly I could have spent more time working on it, but I've had enough!




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Francis Stewart - Japanese Internment

June 22, 2013, 9:04 am
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 Residents of Colorado River Relocation Center for persons 
of Japanese ancestry requesting repatriation to Japan, 1942
 
 Robert Naeda, 9, son of the first family to arrive at this War Relocation Authority center, 
studies his school lessons in a home-made chair, Poston, Arizona, 1942
 
 Rose Nakagawa, former student from San Francisco, California, now works 
as a mimeograph operator on the Topaz Times. Topaz, Utah, 1943

 S. Hanasaki, former vegetable seed specialist from San Jose, California, shown inspecting 
carrot plants, now ready to be harvested for seeds, Rivers, Arizona, 1942
 
 Selling skates in community store in Block 30. 
(L to R) Betty Yasunobu, Nellie Arai, salesgirl. Hunt, Idaho, 1943
 
 Sewing school. Evacuee students are taught here not only to design 
but make clothing as well, Poston, Arizona, 1943
 
 Student Mary Sakai, former resident of Stockton, California, is shown 
putting sliced carrots in a double boiler in preparation for the drying process, 1943
 
 Takeshi Shindo, Reporter for the Manzanar Free Press, and his girl friend Toshiko Mikami, 
enjoy a pleasant afternoon at the picnic ground at this War Relocation Authority Center. 
Manzanar, California, 1943
 
 The baggage, belonging to evacuees who have just arrived from the assembly center at Puyallup, Washington, is sorted and trucked to their barrack apartments. Hunt, Idaho, 1942
 
 These two little evacuees of Japanese ancestry are getting acquainted at this 
War Relocation Authority center, Poston, Arizona, 1942
 
 These youngsters are playing in the field of a nursery school at Manzanar. 1942
 
 Two young girl evacuees of Japanese ancestry invite their boy friends 
to dance at a barn dance given by Block 12, Poston, Arizona, 1942

 View in the home of Eizo Nishi, showing attractive way this evacuee family 
has decorated their barrack apartment. Hunt, Idaho, 1943
 
 Watering chrysanthemum plants in Nakata and Son hot house. Many rare and 
patented flowers have been developed by this firm, Rivers, Arizona, 1942
 
 Welders in the machine shop at this War Relocation Authority Center, 
Poston, Arizona, 1943
 
 Winter time panorama view. Hunt, Idaho, 1943
 
Yachiyo Honda and Sakae Nakasaki pin a favor on Jean Honda at a barn dance 
given by Block 12 at the War Relocation Authority center where evacuees 
are spending the duration, Poston, Arizona, 1942
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