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 Six-year-old Reiko Masado, convalescing from a serious illness, is looked after 
by nurse's aide, Chiyo Okata. Denson, Arkansas, 1943
  
 The ice cream counter in the community operated stores. 
Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1942
  
 The kitchen of the interior of the store in Block 8, 
showing the grocery section. Denson, Arkansas, 1942
  
 The magazine counter at one of the cooperative stores 
in the Amache Relocation Center, 1942
  
 The Ninomiya family in their barracks room at the Amache Center, 1942
  
 The youngest of the Kobayashi family, out for an afternoon 
sunning with a neighbor. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Three young evacuees drop their baggage and relax to argue about whose bunk goes 
in which corner on arriving at their new quarters. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Transplanting trees from existing farms to the hospital area 
at the Topaz Relocation Center. Topaz, Utah, 1942
  
 Two adult women and a small girl occupy this 
barracks room at the Amache Center, 1942
  
 Two days after arrival and the first Sunday afternoon finds 
these volunteer workers of the first contingent have arranged 
their barracks as comfortably as possible. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Two Nisei girls perform a Hawaiian Hula at a block talent show 
held in the mess hall. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 Typical scene in the Community Enterprise Stores at the 
Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1942
  
 When the Uno baby takes his sunning, it is a block attraction, 
and papa Howard Uno, who has since volunteered in the United States Army, 
just stands around and beams. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 With her son, young Dennis, in her arms, Mrs. T. Sasabushi, Nisei resident at the 
Granada center, registers for defense employment. Amache, Colorado, 1943
  
 With makeshift equipment and arrangements, the cooperative beauty salon 
does a rushing business. Amache, Colorado, 1942
  
 With the coming of cold Wyoming temperature, Ice rinks were flooded 
and many former Californians of Japanese ancestry, now residing 
at Heart Mountain, had their first experiences on ice skates. 1943
  
Sunday afternoon and the three girls who occupy this barracks room relax. 
The furniture, the book niches, flower pot and print mats are all made by the girls 
from scrap lumber and scrap pieces of wall board, Amache, Colorado, 1942

Lifestyles of the Rich

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From Harris & Ewing.

 A typical Hollywood reception was accorded Miss Marion Weldon, 
Paramount starlet, as she arrived in Washington today to represent the 
movie city in participating in National Airmail Week. May 1938
  
 Colonel and Madame Nicolai Golejevski of the Russian Embassy at a horse show, 1915
  
 Dolly Madison Breakfast. Genevieve Clark, 1912
[daughter of Champ Clark, Speaker of the House]
  
 Dolly Madison Breakfast. Mrs. William F. Dennis, 
Mrs. Chase Riker, Mrs. Mann Barker, 1912
  
 Edgewood Hunt. George H. Chase, Mrs. Chase, 
Mrs. Tuckerman, Mrs. R. H. Chapman, 1912
  
 Gladys Ingalls at dog show, 1916
    
 Miss Laura Merriam, married James F. Curtis, 1912
    
 Miss Lucy Bowles at horse show, 1917
  
 Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean
[this fantastically wealthy couple had a hard go of it]
  
 Mrs. Drew Pearson
  
Mrs. William Howard Taft

Cabinet Cards

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 Bearded man, Pawtucket, Rhode Island
  
 Maid serving tea in the garden
  
 Old man with horse and buggy, Nunda, Illinois
  
 Phyllis and Zena Dare having tea
  
 Seven men from Sleepy Eye, Minnesota
  
 Six ladies, Kassel, Germany 1904
  
 Tennis players
  
 Three young women, Sistov, Bulgaria
  
 Two young women, Hoopeston, Illinois
  
Woman from Columbus, Ohio

Duchess of Devonshire’s Jubilee Costume Ball 1897

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Final set from this high-society fling.

 The Countess of Gosford as Minerva, period of Louis XV
  
 The Countess of Kilmorey, Ellen Constance née Baldock as Comtesse du Barri
  
 The Countess of Mar as Beatrice Portinari the woman who inspired Dante
  
 The Hon Mrs Baillie as Mrs James Baillie from the family group by Gainsborough
  
 The Hon Mrs Maguire as Dido, Queen of Carthage and Major Wynne Finch with her
  
 The Hon Mrs Reginald Talbot as a Valkyrie
[Not many ladies can pull off posing as a valkyrie. This one certainly does.]
  
 The Ladies Churchill as Watteau shepherdesses
  
 The Mademoiselles de Courcel as Valkyries
[they may be cuter than the Valkyrie above, but with only half the presence]
  
 Unknown lady as Cleopatra
  
Viscountess Milton as Marie Antoinette’s court painter Madame Le Brun

Born in Slavery

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More pictures of former slaves.

 Adeline Cunningham, age 85, 1936-38
  
 Andrew Goodman, ex-slave, age 97, Dallas, Texas, 1937
  
 Angie Garrett, 1936-38
  
 Campbell Davis, age 85, Karnack, Texas, 1937
  
 Carrie Pollard, age 78, 1936-38
  
 Charlie Crump, age 82, and granddaughter, North Carolina, 1936-38
  
 Lizzie Hill, age 94, 1936-38
  
 Matilda Pugh Daniel, age 96, 1936-38
  
 Monroe Brackins, ex-slave, Hondo, 1930-40
  
 Pauline Grice, ex-slave, age 81, Ft. Worth, Texas, 1937
  
Walter Calloway, age 89, 1936-38

National Photo

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 Laurel bicycle races, 1925
  
 Miss Elsie Tydings who had the distinction of purchasing the first ticket sold for a
World Series in the National Capital. She was no. 1 in the 1st line this morning.
October 1924
  
 Miss Lois Hoover and pet pig, 1925
  
 Miss Lorraine Bunch, 1923
  
 Miss Mae Esterley with Sgt. Jiggs, 1925
  
 Miss Marjorie Joestring, 1926
  
 Uncle Sam's Follies, 1925
  
 Unidentified woman, 1922
  
 Unidentified women, 1923
  
Unidentified women, 1922

Marjory Collins

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 Washington, D.C. Salvage drive, Victory Program. "Cleaning" metal 
 by hammering off parts to separate kinds of metal, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. 
Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. 
Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. People bring 
their junk to a retail junk yard in everything from a pushcart to a limousine, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Schoolchildren bring their scrap paper from their classrooms into the cellar, where it is picked up by paper company truck, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. This wagon 
has been used to collect scrap. It is parked outside a retail junk yard, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Scrap salvage campaign, Victory Program. Washington schoolchild 
brings a load of scrap paper to school once a week, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Sunbathers in East Potomac Park on Sunday, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Sunday swimmers at the municipal swimming pool, 1942
  
 Washington, D.C. Taking snapshots on Sunday in Rock Creek Park, 1942
  
Washington, D.C. Watermelon vendor at the farmers' market, 1942

Russell Lee - Japanese Internment

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 Los Angeles, California. Japanese-Americans boarding a train for Owens Valley, 1942
  
 Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from 
West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order, 1942
  
 Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of the Japanese-Americans from West Coast 
areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese-Americans going to camp 
at Owens Valley gather around baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station, 1942
  
 Photographers at the train taking Japanese-Americans to Owens Valley, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Japanese-Americans waiting to be registered, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Japanese-Americans waiting to be registered, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Japanese-Americans waiting to be registered, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of Japanese 
and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency 
order. Registering Japanese-Americans as they arrive, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of 
Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army 
war emergency order. Registering Japanese-Americans, 1942
  
 Santa Anita reception center, Los Angeles, California. The evacuation of 
Japanese and Japanese-Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army 
war emergency order. Registering Japanese-Americans, 1942
  
 Soldiers supervising the loading of the baggage of Japanese-Americans 
en route to Owens Valley reception center, 1942
  
 Malheur County, Oregon. Japanese-American girls 
washing celery sprouts for transplanting, 1942
  
 Malheur County, Oregon. Japanese-American 
who lives on the farm as a day laborer, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. A Japanese-American farm laborer 
from the camp selecting a gramaphone record in the recreation tent, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. A Japanese-American 
farm worker's family having lunch, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm worker's family outside near the tent, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp to work in the fields, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp to work in the fields, 1942
  
 Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp, 1942
  
Nyssa, Oregon. FSA mobile camp. Japanese-American 
farm workers leaving the camp, 1942

Julia Margaret Cameron

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Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was a pioneering English photographer. There is a great article about her online.

 'The Little Novice and the Queen', plate XI from The Idylls of the King, 1874
  
 Alfred Lord Tennyson and his sons Hallam and Lionel, ca. 1862
  
 Alice Liddell as St. Agnes, 1872
  
 Charles Darwin
  
 Charles Darwin
  
 Circe, 1865
  
 Our Royal Cousin
  
 Paul and Virginia, 1864
  
 Petite fille, 1870
  
“Wist ye not that your father and I sought thee sorrowing?” (1865)

Harris & Ewing

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 For each block of 1,000 Social Security account applications 'work' cards 
are prepared. One work card is made for each operation incident to 
setting up individual accounts and necessary indexes. 1937-38
  
 Fourth of July celebration at Walter Reed Army Hospital, 1919
  
 Francis Sayre, Jr., baby, with father and Woodrow Wilson
  
 General view of the thousands of Youngsters who today took part in the traditional 
Easter egg rolling on the historic White House lawn. April 1939
  
 Genevieve Clark and parents. Married James Thomson in 1915.
  
 German sailor interned in US, 1916
  
 Honorable Champ Clark with family
  
 John H. Togo Gibbons, Captain, USN, 1911
  
 Junior High School. Shop
  
Laying the cornerstone for the Lincoln Memorial, 1914-1918

Toni Frissell

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Toni Frissell did fashion and portrait photography, and did a stint in World War II photographing American servicemen in Europe.

 Abandoned boy, London, 1945
  
 American soldier, Red Bull Regiment, Italy, Easter Sunday, 1945
  
 Girl among the ruins, British flag overhead. Corresponds to 
V2 rocket bombing of Battersea, in London, of 27 January 1945
  
 Crazy with the heat, July, 1937
  
 Galloping horses, Parker Ranch, Hawaii, 1938
  
 Jackie Kennedy, 1957
  
 Lady in the water, 1939
[An amazing photo. I didn't realize they had decent underwater cameras in 1939.]
  
 My Shadow
  
 Style in motion. Dovima in gown, Tryall Plantation, Jamaica, 1948
  
 Underwater view of a woman, wearing a long gown, floating in water, 1947

Ansel Adams

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 Leaves, in Glacier National Park Montana
  
 Mt. Williamson, Sierra Nevada, from Manzanar, California, 1944
  
 Sand Fence, Keeler, California, 1948
  
 Storm, Point Sur, Monterey coast, California, 1942
  
 Tenaya Lake, Clouds
  
 Trees
  
Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, 1941

Photographic Times 1895

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From a photography periodical.

 Alfred Clements: Where the Nightingale Sings
  
 Alfred Stieglitz: Going to Prayers
  
Alfred Stieglitz: Mushrooms by the Sea
  
 Charles Berg: My Lady Disdain
  
 Constance Parsons: Child Study
  
 E.E. Barnard: Star Cloud in the Milky Way
[Barnard pioneered sky photography. Little did he know it would lead to this.]
  
William B. Post: Summer Days

Harris & Ewing - Kids

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 Christmas greetings in all tongues were broadcast all over the world today 
by the tiny sons and daughters of foreign diplomats participating in Annual 
International Children's Christmas Program staged by the National Broadcasting Co. 1938
  
 Frances E. Lucks
  
Helen Marye, 1913-1917
  
 Helen Minnegerode
  
 Joan Johnson and unidentified girl on bike at office door of Jed Johnson, Oklahoma. 1939

  
 Mrs. Thomas Swann and children, December 1936
  
 Naon children, 1912
  
 Sakiko Saito, daughter of the Japanese Ambassador and Mme. Saito, was crowned 
Queen of the Cherry Blossoms, Washington, DC, April 1937
  
Teresa Castro, daughter of the Minister of El Salvador and Señora de Castro, 1938

Lewis Hine

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 "Radishes! Penny a bunch!" Sixth St. Market, Cincinnati. 10 PM, 1908
  
A group of girl workers at Greenabaum's Cannery. 
They range from 6 years of age up. Seaford, Delaware, 1910
  
 Callie Campbell, 11 years old, picks 75 to 125 pounds of cotton a day, 1916
  
 Fruit venders, Indianapolis Market, 1908
  
 Some of the young girls who roll cigarettes, Danville, Virginia, 1911
  
 Starting in business early. Selling vegetables in the market. Boston, Massachusetts, 1909
  
 Tending stand, Canal St. New York, New York, 1910
  
 Vendors. Bowery. New York, New York, 1910
  
 Young workers at a Lawrence, Massachusetts, manufacturing concern, 1911
  
Lena Lochiavo, 11 years old, Basket Seller, Sixth Street Market, Cincinnati, 1908

Robert Doisneau

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 A young girl crossing the street on roller skates on chaussée de la Muette in Paris, 1955
  
 Accordionist playing in a bistro near Les Halles, ca. 1950
  
 At the Café, Chez Fraysse, Rue de Seine, Paris, 1958
  
 Baiser Blotto, 1950
  
 Be Bop cellar, Saint-Germain-des-Pres, 1951
  
 Casting at Concert Mayol, 1953
  
Concert Mayol, 1952
 
 Children in the Palais Royale garden, ca. 1950
  
 Couple from the Quai de la Rapée, 1951
  
 Dream girls, 1952
  
 Fishermen, Pont De La Tournelle, Paris, 1951
  
 Harvesting, 1957
  
 Jacqueline Delubac in the balcony, Paris, 1951
  
 Jacques Prevert at a coffee table, 1955
  
 Jardin Des Plantes, 1951
  
 July 14 Party in the Street, Paris, 1956
  
Le Java, 1951

Neurdein Frères

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 Algeria. Tlemcen. Young Moorish woman
  
 Chateau de Caze
  
 Constantine. Ancien Palais d'Ahmed-Bey
  
 Constantine. Maures
  
 Eiffel Tower during 1889 Exposition
  
 Femme des Ouled Naı̈ls
  
 Le Grand Palais - L'exposition de sculpture
  
 Mauresque
  
 Nice. Winter Garden in the Municipal Casino
  
 Odalisque
  
 Soubassement d'une pile. Septembre 1888
  
 Tunis. La Porte de la Folle (Bab-Menara)
  
 Tunis. Mosquée Sidi-ben-Ziaa
  
Young Jewish girls, Tunis

Roman Vishniac

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 Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s
  
 Beth Israel Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, early 1940s
  
Children playing on a street lined with swastika flags, probably outskirts of Berlin, mid-1930s
  
 During the Summer Olympic Games, Wittenbergplatz, Berlin, 1936
  
 Factory worker cutting and grinding glass, Hoffman MF & Co., New York, 1942-44
  
 German family walking between taxicabs in front of the 
Ufa-Palast movie theater, Berlin, late 1920s-early 1930s
  
 Girls
  
 Jewish refugee from Europe arriving on a children's transport under 
 the sponsorship of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 
a Quaker organization, City College of New York, West Harlem, 1941
  
 Lublin Ghetto in Poland
  
Recalcitrance, Berlin, 1926

San Francisco Earthquake

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The great earthquake of April 18, 1906 that leveled San Francisco still ranks as one of the greatest disasters to strike an American city. Here are some photos taken in the aftermath of that event.

 Aftermath of San Francisco earthquake
  
 Burning of San Francisco. Mission District
  
 Clearing away the debris
  
 Fresh vegetables and fruits for special diet
  
 Main Building. Agnew State Hospital
  
People leaving the city
  
This is the famous photo by Arnold Genthe of the city burning
  
 San Francisco in ruins
  
 SF earthquake damage. Photo by John Molfino
  
 Dead horses in the earthquake's aftermath
 
 Soldiers in San Francisco ruins
  
Stockton Street from Union Square, looking toward Market Street
  
 Typical bread line in the early stages of relief distribution 
after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
  
Bread line
 
 Van Ness Avenue at Vallejo Street
 
A refugee camp (possibly) in the vicinity of Haight Street and Central Avenue

Russell Lee

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 Stevedores at work on bow of packet boat El Rito on lower Mississippi River, 1938
  
 Street dance, National Rice Festival, Crowley, Louisiana, 1938
  
 Supervisor of the Work Projects Administration nursery school and boys with vegetables 
from the community garden at the Casa Grande Valley Farms, Pinal County, Arizona, 1940
  
 The district manager of the American Red Cross is holding the first two children to be born 
at Tent City, the flood refugee camp near Shawneetown, Illinois, 1937
  
 The Ingraham family who share a shack with another family near 
Alvin, Wisconsin. Mrs. Ingraham is sick in bed, 1937
  
 Tourists waiting to go into Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, 1939
  
 Two Spanish-American girls dressed in fiesta costumes 
eating popsicles, Taos, New Mexico, 1940
  
 Walla Walla County, Washington. Farmer and the mules 
which pull the combine through the wheat fields, 1941
  
 Watching the Fourth of July parade. Vale, Oregon, 1941
  
Water boy along Bayou Teche, near Jeanerette, Louisiana; rice fields, 1938
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