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Frank Hohenberger

I find that I am loving this guy's work more and more. He was a small town photographer and his subjects were as humble as his environment - no portraits of the rich and glamorous for him, nor any...

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San Francisco Earthquake

More photos from 1906. Armed soldier or National Guardsman walking up Market Street while San Francisco burns    Bread line    Buyers of relics of fire    City Hall in ruins    Gough and Page Street,...

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Hikaru Iwasaki

These are photos of Japanese-Americans, post-Internment. A moment of relaxation at Bill Mori's K & J Restaurant, 88 E. Main Street, Waterbury, Connecticut, 1944    Alice Yamaoka, formerly of...

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Miscellaneous

Some random vintage photos, found here. A huge wild boar, Galacia. December 1916    As an eternal memento of the Spartacist War in Munich, Bavaria (attempted Communist coup, 1918-19)[is this real or...

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Vintage Australia

These are from the collections of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney. A farm homestead    A halt for refreshment    A lookout, Katoomba    A pioneer settler    A rabbiter's pack, Darling district    A...

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William Henry Jackson

He joined the 1870 and 1871 expeditions led by Ferdinand Hayden to do geological surveys of the American west, where most of these pictures are from. And something you would only find on Wikipedia: he...

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Cabinet cards

 Christmas portrait, mother and child, Békéscsaba, Hungary    Elegant woman, Vienna, Austria    Girl posing, Jgló és Poprád, Hungary, 1890-1910    Happy couple, Budapest, Hungary    Hunter,...

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Henri Cartier-Bresson

 Beynac, France, 1956    Dublin, Ireland, 1952    Political meeting, Parc des Expositions, Paris, 1953    Rome, 1952    Rome, 1959    Sumatra, Indonesia, 1950    Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 1958...

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Vintage LA

These are from the archives of the University of Southern California. 6th Avenue School activity, parent teachers association, Los Angeles, CA, 1932    20th annual beauty contest, 1951    40th division...

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Robert Doisneau

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National Photo

 Oldsmobile truck, Thomas J. Crack, ca. 1920    Pageant, Vets of Foreign Wars, fall of the Alamo, Mexican war, ca. 1920    People dressed as pilgrims carrying three signs for amnesty for political...

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Photochroms - UK

 Aquarium, Brighton, England, ca. 1890-1900    Bridlington, children's corner, Yorkshire, England, ca. 1890-1900    Caius College and Senate House, Cambridge, England, ca. 1890-1900    Cheapside,...

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Vintage Harvard

 Mount Auburn Street at Dunster, looking east, ca. 1930    Observatory computer room and staff, 1891    Observatory girls with Mrs. Draper, 1891    Observatory group, ca. 1910    Observatory staff...

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Edward Bangs Drew

Edward Bangs Drew joined the Chinese Maritime Customs Service in 1864 after earning his BA degree from Harvard. In 1868, Drew was appointed a Commissioner of the Service, a position he held for...

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Harris & Ewing

 Eastern High School    Genevieve Clark, 1912    Seen lunching together at the senate restaurant in the Capitol today were Mrs. William E. Borah, wife of senator from Idaho, and Mme Hirosi Saito, wife...

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Hoagy Carmichael

Photos of an American composer. He wrote my mother's favorite song. Crowd in Portland, Oregon handing records to Hoagy Carmichael to sign    Harold Russell and Hoagy Carmichael in 'The Best Years of...

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UC Berkeley

More from the UC Berkeley photo archives. Bicycle with third wheeler    C.U. brawl, ca. 1900    Fillmore St. Hill, 1915    Group of settlers rebuilding Mr. Merrifield's barn    Group portrait of women...

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Panoramas

 Harvard-Yale football game, 1913     Labor Party, First National Covention, Chicago, November 22, 1919    Los Angeles, California, Feb. 23rd, 1909, looking northwest from 4th and Broadway Sts...

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Frank Hohenberger - Kids

Pictures of children from this Indiana photographer. Boys drinking from creek, Deckard school, 1933    Coaster, Federal Bldg., April 6, 1912    Crabtree children in Jackson Branch, Indiana, 1931    Doc...

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Hedda Morrison

Hedda Morrison was a German-born photographer who worked extensively in China in the 1930s and 40s. These photos are from the Harvard University collection. Activity on a waterway, Nanking    Barefoot...

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