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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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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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 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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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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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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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...
View ArticleFrank 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,...
View ArticleWoodrow 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...
View ArticleBohemian 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...
View ArticleHedda 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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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...
View ArticleDick 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,...
View ArticleArthur 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,...
View ArticleEsther 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...
View ArticleRobert 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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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...
View ArticleLeslie 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...
View ArticleJoseph 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,...
View ArticleArnold 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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