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Giorgio Sommer

June 24, 2013, 8:45 am
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Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914) was an important 19th century Italian photographer.

 Amalfi Marina (Napoli)

 Boys eating pancakes
 
 Capri Marina
 
 Cascata di Caserta
 
Bootblack and pickpocket
 
 Delousing
 
 Donkey driver in Naples
 
 Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, 1872
 
 Macaroni eaters, Naples, 1880
 
 Macaroni Factory
 
Naples - coast
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Josef Jindřich Šechtl

June 25, 2013, 8:22 am
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Josef Jindřich Šechtl was a Czech who took some chilling photographs of Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

 Berlin during the Olympic Games, 1936
 
 Calvary in Miličín 1934
 
 Countryard of u Dvou slunců, Tábor, 1935
 
 Josef Jinřich Šechtl with son, 1935
 
 Tábor, 1931 (son Josef at first day of new school at Maredův Vrch)
 
 Trip to Horky, Pintovka, Tábor, 1939
 
 Žižka Square, Tábor, 1942
  
Kuratorium exercises, Tábor, 1939–1945
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue

June 26, 2013, 8:38 am
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was a French photographer who liked taking pictures of people in movement.

 Anna La Pradvina, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 1911
 
 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris 1911
 
 Bella
 
 Bibi and her son, 1923
[Bibi was the photographer's wife]
 
 Bibi and the actress Louise Lagrange, Deauville, 1922
 
 Bibi in Normandy, 1921
 
 Bibi, Arlette and Irène. Storm in Cannes. Cannes, May 1929
 
 Bichonnade Leaping
 
 Bois de Boulogne, 1910
 
Girls in a car
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Summer fun

June 27, 2013, 8:19 am
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From National Photo.

 Bathing beach, 1920s
["well, we were having fun till some perv came along and took our picture..."]
 
 Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued an order that bathing suits 
at the Washington bathing beach must not be over six inches above the knee. 1922
 
 Girls from Keiths at Arlington Beach, 1925
 
 Group winners, bathing beach, June 1922
 
 Icing off at the tee. 1920s
 
 Lansburg bathing girls, 1922
 
 Life saving device, 1922
 
 Mah-Jong at bathing beach, 1924
 
 Mary Claphet, Irene & Ella Sherer, Mary Facenire on the beach, 1920
 
 Models, Washington fashion show, 1924
 
Two women in bathing costumes drying their hair
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Roman Vishniac

June 28, 2013, 8:46 am
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Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) was a Russian Jewish photographer who documented the life of Eastern European Jewry before it was swept away by the Holocaust. This is a set of untitled photos from that time.

The International Center of Photography (ICP) has a Vishniac Archive.





















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Russell Lee

July 1, 2013, 8:14 am
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 Old Spanish-American woman, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940
 
 Oldest daughter of Pomp Hall, tenant farmer, with an ear of corn 
which she is shelling to feed her chickens, Creek County, Oklahoma, 1940
 
 Part of flood refugee family in a tent at Tent City, near Shawneetown, Illinois, 1937
 
 Paying off time for potato pickers near Spiro, Oklahoma, 1939
 
 Pea picker. Nampa, Idaho, 1941
 
 Pecan shellers eating lunch, San Antonio, Texas, 1939
 
 Petaluma, Sonoma County, California. Packing eggs into cartons, 1942
 
Picking oranges near Weslaco, Texas, 1939
 
 Picking peas, labor contractor's crew. Nampa, Idaho, 1941
 
 Princesses at the National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938
 
Quilting in sharecropper's home near Pace, Mississippi, 1939
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Fourth of July, 1941

July 5, 2013, 10:00 am
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These photos were taken at the July 4th celebration in Vale, Oregon, in 1941. The photographer was Russell Lee.

 At the picnic grounds on the Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Boy on float in Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Cold drink stand at the picnic grounds on the Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Decorated car in the Fourth of July parade at Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Decorating a car for the Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Farmer with his granddaughter at picnic on Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
Fighting a grass fire, Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Fireworks for sale, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Float in the Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Greased pig race, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Greased pig race, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
  
 Little girl plays with prizes won at concession, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Motorcycle racers, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Picnic on the Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 The Fourth of July parade at Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Tired picnickers, Fourth of July, Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
 Watching greased pig race on the Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941
 
Watching the parade on the Fourth of July at Vale, Oregon, 1941
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Robert Doisneau

July 6, 2013, 7:15 am
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Robert Doisneau was a prominent French photographer. This set offers some of his earlier work, from the 1930s through World War II. One imagines that the pictures of Nazi-occupied Paris were taken at some personal risk.

 Les filles du diable, 1933
["the devil's daughters"? wtf]
 
 Papa's airplane, 1934
 
 Le dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1936
[there's a painting by Manet of the same name]
 
 The first teacher, 1935
 
 The gate of poplars, 1932
 
Marching band, occupied Paris, 1940s
 
Place De La Concorde, July 1944
 
Queue in occupied Paris
 
 Barricades, Paris, 1944
 
 Camille Folliet, the Resistance priest supporting and advising the French Resistance fighters 
in the outpost of the Parisian Barriers, in August 1944
 
 Camouflage, liberation of Paris, 1944
 
 Love and Barbed Wire, Tuileries, Paris, 1944
 
Resistance fighter resting, 1944
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George Brassaï

July 8, 2013, 11:25 am
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Napping Show Girls
 
 Opium party, 1931
 
 Picasso and Jean Marais Posing as Painter and Model, 1944
 
 Picasso
 
 Seated Lovers, Bal Musette des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe, ca. 1932
 
 The Eiffel Tower at Twilight, 1932
 
 The Kiss, 1935-37
 
 Two prostitutes, Boulevard Montparnasse
 
Women Dancing
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Peter Henry Emerson

July 9, 2013, 11:13 am
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 Crusoe's Island, River Granta
 
 East Coast Fishermen, ca. 1886
 
 Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886
 
 Going to market - a winter scene
 
 In the Barley Harvest, 1888
 
 Ricking the reed, 1886
 
 Rowing home the Schoof, 1886
 
 The Clay Mill
 
 The Grafter
 
 The Mangold Harvest
 
The Stickleback Catcher
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John Collier

July 10, 2013, 9:14 am
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 Aroostook County, Maine, 1942
 
 Around the Jukebox. Dance hall, Richwood, West Virginia, 1942
 
 Bryant Friend and his family in their home, vicinity of Richwood, West Virginia, 1942
 
 Children help with the work in the fields, Fort Kent, Aroostook County, Maine, 1942
 
 Children of Edward Daigle, near Fort Kent, Maine, 1942
 
 Churning butter after a hard day in the saddle. 
Moreno Valley, Colfax County, New Mexico. 1943
 
 Councilman and family on the stoop of their house, 
FSA agricultural workers' camp. Bridgeton, New Jersey. 1942
 
 Dancing in the recreation tent. FSA agricultural workers' camp. 
Bridgeton, New Jersey. 1942
 
 Dentist making an extraction in the clinic operated by the Taos County 
cooperative health association. Questa, New Mexico. 1943
 
 Dinner on the Daigle farm, Fort Kent, Maine, 1942
 
Going to the mountains for wood. Juan Lopez, the majordomo, 
and his son. Trampas, New Mexico, 1943
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Weegee

July 11, 2013, 8:26 am
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 Gold-painted stripper
 
 Operators of a wire service arrested at their headquarters after a gambling raid, 1941
 
 Subway Serves as Blackout Shelter, August 13, 1943
 
 Summer on the Lower East Side, 1937
 
 The dead man's wife arrived, and she collapsed, ca. 1940
 
 The show's going to start any minute, ca. 1950
 
 Then She Cries, Frank Sinatra Concert, Paramount Theater, 
New York, November 5, 1944
 
 Title unknown
 
 Untitled [Police officer and lodge member looking at blanket-covered body of woman 
trampled to death in excursion-ship stampede, New York], 1941

 Vegetable Dealer, 1946
 
 Woman signing autographs
[anyone recognize her?]
 
Woman sleeping in movie theater, ca. 1943
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Harris & Ewing

July 12, 2013, 8:49 am
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 A get-acquainted tea at which students present their parents and friends to members of the faculty was given at Immaculata Junior College today. February 1939
 
 Apparently happy to get back to work these three senators, Senator Warren R. Austin of Vermont, Senator Herbert E. Hitchcock of South Dakota, and Senator Hattie Caraway. November 1937
 
 Arriving early at the Capitol today for an appearance before the 
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, screen actor Robert Montgomery 
was kept busy autographing until called to the stand. 1939
  
 Brewers Girls softball team from New Orleans & Senator Ellender. 1939
 
 California Fig Ball. April 1938
 
 California orange week festival ball display. 1938
 
 Crow Indian group
 
 Daniel Boone group, 1920s
 
 Daughters of members of the House have now organized a social 
and luncheon club and meet regularly at the Capitol. March 1940
 
 District of Columbia street car traffic, 1918
 
Eastern High School
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Helen Levitt

July 13, 2013, 12:29 pm
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Helen Levitt was a "street photographer" who worked mainly in New York City.
















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Constant Puyo

July 14, 2013, 3:58 pm
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Constant Puyo (1857-1933) was an early French photographer who championed the use of photography as an art form.

 A note, 1896
 
 Alma Mater, 1904
 
 Asleep
 
 Fantasy in White, 1895
 
 In the Flower Garden
 
 In the Reeds, 1903
 
 June
 
 Lost Profile
 
 Maternal Serenade
 
 On the Banks of the Seine, 1907
 
 Serious Business, 1896
 
 The Old Shepherd
 
 The Tapestry
 
White Bouquet, 1896
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Gretchen Van Tassel

July 15, 2013, 8:34 am
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Gretchen Van Tassel photographed Japanese-Americans during and after the wartime internment.

 1st Lt. Shigeru Tsubota playing bridge with other officer patients at the Moore 
General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. Lt. Tsubota was wounded in the leg 
by shrapnel while serving with the 100th Battalion in Italy. 1944
 
 A group of the hostesses at the Washington USO for Nisei servicemen and their guests. 
The USO is run by Miss Gretchen Feiker, assisted by Miss Helena Johnson. 1945
 
 Between dances at the Washington USO for Nisei servicemen and their guests, 
several boys from Hawaii and their partners, USO hostess Sophie Ravetta, 
and a guest, Tess Amitrano, chat outside the USO. 1945
 
Feeding pigeons in front of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. are Jane Oi from Granada Relocation Center, Harrio Najima from Tule Lake, and Sally Tsujimoto from Manzanar. 1943
 
Jane Oi and Sally Tsujimoto show privates Katsujii Nakamoto and Harold Matsumura 
the Capitol in Washington. Jane, from Granada, and Sally, from Manzanar, 
work as secretaries for the War Relocation Authority. 1943
 
 Pvt. Kenichi Kawakami receives physio-therapy treatments at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa, North Carolina. Pvt. Kawakami was serving with the 100th Battalion in Italy 
when he was wounded in action by shrapnel fragments. 1944
 
 Sightseeing in Washington, D.C. Harrio Najima, from Tule Lake, Kiyoka Nagai from Jerome, 
Jane Oi from Granada, Sally Tsujimoto from Manzanar, and Paul Matsuki from 
Central Utah Project visit the Lincoln Memorial. 1943
 
 Small boy at the Jerome Relocation Center. Denson, Arkansas, 1944
 
 Soldiers and their partners pause for some refreshment between dances 
at the Washington USO for Nisei servicemen. 1945
 
 The Washington USO for Nisei servicemen and their friends is a gay place 
on Saturday night. Veterans returned from overseas make up a large part of the
 group who come for an evening of dancing, ping-pong, checkers, or just talk. 1945
 
 Young children at Jerome Relocation Center. Denson, Arkansas, 1944
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Gertrude Käsebier

July 16, 2013, 8:20 am
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 Fruits of the Earth, 1901
 
 Harmony, a study of the Brundigee family and their musical instruments, 1900
 
 Josephine Brown, a young woman brought to the photographer's studio 
in New York City, ca. 1900
 
Manger, ca. 1899
 
 Mina Turner and her cousin Elizabeth in Waban, Massachusetts, 1910
 
 Rita de Acosta Lydig, 1905
 
 Rose O'Neill
 
 The Clarence White family in Maine, 1913
 
The Gerson Sisters in Costume for the Crinoline Ball, 1906
 
 The letter, 1906

 
 The silhouette, a study posed by the Gerson sisters 
in their Crinoline Ball costumes, 1906
 
 The sketch, posed by Beatrice Baxter in Newport, Rhode Island, 1902
 
 The Turner garden at Waban, Massachusetts, 1910
 
 Wife of American Horse, Dakota Sioux, ca. 1900
 
 Woman reading, ca. 1910
 
 Young woman working amid clotheslines heavy
with sheets and stockings. Newport, Rhode Island, 1902
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Neurdein Frères

July 17, 2013, 8:31 am
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The Neurdein Frères (Neurdein Brothers) were Etienne and Louis Antonin Neurdein, a pair of late 19th century French photographers whose work focused on architecture and scenes from France's North African possessions.

 Algerian woman spinning wool
 
 Biskra. Street of Ouled-Naı̈ls
["Ouled-Naı̈ls" is an Algerian mountain range, home to Berber tribesmen]
 
 Chateau de Chantilly. Deer Gallery
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. Apse of the Church
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. The Cloister
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. The Cloister
 
 Mont Saint-Michel Abbey. The Promenade
 
 Mortrée. Le Chateau d'O
 
 Varengeville-sur-Mer, France. Ango Manor
 
 Woman seated on rug on ground, facing front, using mortar and pestle, Constantine, Algeria
 
 Young girl of Ouled Naı̈ls, Algeria
 
 Young girl selling bread, Algeria
 
 The Cathedral, Carthage, Tunisia, ca. 1885
 
Tunis. La Porte de France
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Marjory Collins

July 18, 2013, 8:32 am
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 St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942
 
 St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. A Sunday picnic in Rock Creek Park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Audience of wives watching their husbands play amateur baseball on a diamond near Lincoln Memorial on Sunday. Woman in the rear left is keeping score, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Government workers lunch outside the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington Monument park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Government workers lunch outside the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington Monument park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Municipal swimming pool on Sunday, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. On Sunday people wait as long 
as one hour to get into the municipal swimming pool, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Picnickers in East Potomac Park, 1942
 
 Washington, D.C. Relaxing on the edge of the municipal swimming pool on Sunday, 1942
 
But what's this...?
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National Photo

July 19, 2013, 9:44 am
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 Food show, Foulds Milling Co., 1921-22
 
 Four adults and six children, from Passaic, N.J., picket the White House following President Coolidge's refusal to listen to their complaints about wage cuts in the textile industry. 1926
 
 Four unidentified women on tennis court, 1922
 
 Fritzi Ridgeway, 1924
  
 George Washington University, 1916-17
 
 Girls rifle team, University of Maryland, 1910-25
 
 Group of beauties, 1922
 
 Group of debutantes, 1923
 
 Group of debutantes, 1923
 
 Group of debutantes, 1923
 
Group of women doctors at Walter Reed Hospital, 1919
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