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Arlington Farms

Arlington Farms was "a residence for women who work in the U.S. government for the duration of [World War II]". Photos are by Esther Bubley. A girl in her room playing a phonograph at Arlington Farms,...

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University of Kentucky

 Alice, Mary, and Mary, ca. 1906    Camp Robinson; Roger Barbour, left, assistant professor of zoology at UK, briefs a group of staff members and students before a field trip into the surrounding...

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University of Michigan

Some vintage photos from the home of the Wolverines. A woman walks by the Hamilton Fountain in filtered light, University of Michigan, early 1930s[what a gorgeous photo!]    Class of 1872's 35th...

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World War II

World War II action from multiple viewpoints. These pictures come from here.6th Panzer Division in France, 1940   A Japanese bomb explodes on the flight deck of USS Enterprise during the Battle of the...

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Vintage Australia

 Three women and two men in the garden of a terrace house    Three young women in light dresses holding tennis racquets    Two men fencing with sticks    Two small boys, one on tricycle, ca. 1900...

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Lafayette Studio

 Ada Meade Theatre, 1938    Adath Israel Temple (bridesmaids?), 1934    Admiral Richard Byrd with Man O' War, 1932[Man O' War was one of the greatest racehorses of the 20th century. videovideoWho was...

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Dick Whittington - Kids

 Dance of all nations, Southern California, 1932    Dancing pupils, Southern California, 1926    Echo Park children, Rose Bowl festival, Los Angeles, 1932   Fashion show models, Los Angeles, 1926...

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Frank Hohenberger

 Harry Cobb and group in auto, 1921    Pete Miller pulling the mail, 1926    Pup and cat at Shipley's, 1946    Rex King hauling mail, 1937    Sara Moore and Nannie Moser going to shower, Brown County,...

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Woodrow Wilson High School

Photos of a Washington, D.C. area high school by Esther Bubley, taken in 1943.I see that my most of my bw photos are still uploading in sepia. I've decided that Blogger is the Microsoft Word of posting...

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Bohemian Grove

 Actors    Bar in tent, Bohemian Grove, 1878    Camp tipi, Bohemian Grove    Camp with men seated outside of tent, Bohemian Grove    French horn quartet, Bohemian Grove    Group portrait of men in camp...

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Hedda Morrison

 Two women, Nanking    Typical food market with fresh produce vendors and fixed stalls, Eastern Districts, Hong Kong Island, 1946-47    View of beach with a few anchored sampans close to shore, Cheung...

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University of Kentucky

I guess this post can be in honor of UK making it to the Elite Eight...Group portrait of Elmendorf students, with teacher Ella Ford  Loading tobacco on wagon in field  Loradale students receiving soup...

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Dick Whittington

 Dedication of Olympic pool, Los Angeles, 1932    Dinner dance at Bay Club, Southern California, 1931   Dorothy Day, publicity shot, 1929   Dorothy Day, publicity shot, 1929    Drug store fountain,...

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Arthur Siegel

Arthur Siegel was a photographer for the Office of War Information during World War II. After the war  he became a pioneer in the creative use of color photography. Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards,...

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Esther Bubley

These photos were taken in boarding houses in the Washington, D.C. area during World War II. A boardinghouse rule forbids men guest to come into girls' rooms and vice versa. Washington, DC, 1943[and...

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Robert Capa

 Cerro Muriano, Córdoba front, 5 September 1936    Children in Barcelona pretending to be a firing squad at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War, ca. 1936[I am told by commenter Michel Simon that this...

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Lafayette Studio

 Ben Snyder department store, formal opening with shoppers, 1949    Ben Snyder department store, formal opening with shoppers, 1949    Betty Coed and the Debs performing at Joyland Club in February...

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Leslie Jones Collection

Leslie Jones was a Boston-based photographer.  Bathing beauties    Beach scene, South Boston, ca. 1920    Beauty contest    Bozo and his bathing girls at "L" Street beach, South Boston, ca. 1930...

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Joseph Pennell

 Four people playing cards, 1899    Girls of High School Club, Junction City, Kansas, 1901    Group of children and women on lawn at Montgomery baby party, 1905    Literary Society Group in Schoolroom,...

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Arnold Genthe

Final batch of Genthe's photos of Japan.This is an enlargement of the sign posted on the beach in the above picture. Can anyone who reads Japanese translate it for us? My guess is it's something like...

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