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William George Weigel
William George Weigel was a New Zealand photographer. A crowd at Lyttelton who are farewelling troops about to leave to serve in World War II. In the centre front is Jessica Sturt (without a hat and...
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Adam MacLay
Birkenhead double deck steamship moored at the dock, 1905-26 Children sitting with a dog in front of a tent with carpet, 1905-26 Exterior view of a wooden cottage, showing a man and woman with...
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George Frederick Kaye
George Frederick Kaye was a photographer from New Zealand who photographed "Kiwi" troops in the North African and Italian theaters during World War II. After the enemy's retreat, an Italian civilian...
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High School
These photos of Kentucky high schools are from Lafayette Photo Studio. Dunbar High School cheerleaders and gymnasts, 1931 Dunbar High School group, 1931 Dunbar High School group, 1934 Dunbar...
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Cabinet Cards
Alfred C. Thurston and H. Thurston, Columbus, Ohio Couple, Junction City, Kansas, 1885-95 Family portrait, Germany Family portrait, Nagyvárad, Hungary Family portrait, Sutton, Nebraska...
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Scrap Drives
A big way for Americans on the home front to contribute to the war effort in World War II was to collect scrap - metal, rubber, etc. - for repurposing into war materiel. These photos from Leslie Jones...
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Vivian Meier Self-Portraits
Vivian Meier was an amazing photographer who worked most of her life as a nanny, photographing as a hobby. Her work was unknown until 2007. She turns out to have had a discerning eye and a prodigious...
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University of Kentucky
Elementary students working in Mrs. Haines art class at U - Hi, 1955 Group portrait of Greendale students riding in a horse-drawn wagon May Day, 1926. University of Kentucky students having fun...
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Frederick Nelson Jones
Group of Girl Guides outside the Nelson School of Music, ca. 1920s Groups alongside trams and a band rotunda, Christchurch, ca. 1910 Horse drawn buggy, ca. 1914 Ladies' Hockey game, England...
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John Vachon - Color Photos
Children playing by road near school house, Kansas, 1942-43 Eagle Fruit Store and Capital Hotel, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942 Lincoln, Nebraska, 1942 Seed and feed store, Lincoln Nebraska, 1942...
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Vintage Finland
These are taken from this Flickr set. May Day celebrations in Helsinki, ca. 1900 Mikonkatu, Helsinki, ca. 1900 Restaurant Opera Cellar, Helsinki, ca. 1900 Russian military, Helsinki, ca. 1900...
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Winter Fun
Just in time for the height of summer (northern hemisphere, of course), here is a reminder of the cold times. Lady feeding pigeons on Boston Common, in winter, 1923 Making snowmen, 1939 Maple...
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Dick Whittington
Hat manufacturing shop, Ross-Cordez, Southern California, 1931 Hollywood Music Box girls at beach, Southern California, 1927 Jacqueline Logan at her home, Southern California, 1928 Japanese...
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Barbara Wright
Client of Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Corporation, 1938 Pine Mountain Valley, 1938 Fish hatcheries, a public park NYA project near Cheyenne, Wyoming, ca. 1941 National Youth...
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Harold Gear Paton
Harold Gear Paton was a New Zealand photographer active in North Africa and the Middle East during World War II. A member of NZ Divisional Cavalry demonstrates rugby football to Syrian tribesmen during...
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M. D. Elias
Mr. Elias was another New Zealander photographing in the Mediterranean theater during World War II. A crowd of Syrian women and children during the distribution of flour organised by New Zealand troops...
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Kids
I always love vintage photos of kids. They generally make much more natural (i.e., less guarded) subjects than do adults. Halloween party, possibly Children's Hospital Kiddies in wading pool Kids...
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Adam MacLay
More images from early 20th-century New Zealand. A group of unidentified people, two women and 14 children, on the porch and lawn in front of the house, ca. 1915-20 Family birthday portrait, with...
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Lafayette Studio
Hutchinson Drug Store, interior, 1932 Ike Ingles, golden wedding anniversary, 1932 IOOF (Independent Order of Odd Fellows), group portrait, 1941 Irving Air Chute, employees in parachute...
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John Dobree Pascoe
A land girl in overalls standing by cows, Rotorua, 1943 A member of the Women's Auxiliary Air Force hosing down a tractor, 1943 American tanks in a Liberty Loan procession down Lambton Quay,...
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