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George Frederick Kaye

This fellow is rapidly becoming one of my favorites. He seems to have covered every aspect of the soldiering life on the frontlines, as well as that of the civilians caught in the middle. 'Action...

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Cabinet Cards

 Florence St John, English actress, London    James and Herbert Bond, Vevay, Indiana, ca. 1889    Joe and Ann Schweitzer, Canton, Ohio, 1889    Man on bicycle, Lincoln, Nebraska    Mother and children,...

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Steffano Webb

Steffano Webb was a New Zealand photographer active in the first several decades of the 20th century. An informative biography of him is here. A group of men, women and children sitting at a table for...

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Photochroms

 A Lapp family, Norway    Folgefond Glacier, Hardanger Fjord, Norway    Hammersdorf, Hermannstadt, Hungary, Austro-Hungary    Interlaken, highway and hotels, Bernese Oberland, Switzerland...

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Lafayette Studio

 Kawneer Company bowling team, 1949    Kentucky Central Life & Accident Insurance Company, banquet, 1945    Kentucky Coach Company, fair tents, 1929    Kentucky Houses of Reform, group on stage in...

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Joseph Pennell

 Miss Walker's School group, 1910    People in costumes at Officers' barn dance, 1913    Portrait of class in front of school, Junction City, Kansas, 1903    Portrait of John Edward's girl with...

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Vintage Finland

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TVA - Knoxville

These are from a set by Barbara Wright, all labeled simply "TVA - Knoxville." They are dated 1941.

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Harold Gear Paton

More photos of New Zealand troops in the Middle East during the recent unpleasantness (World War II). Game of soccer in progress in the Western Desert between a NZ Battery and an English Mediterranean...

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Charles Fenno Jacobs

 Southington, Connecticut. A one-room school, May 1942    Southington, Connecticut. May 1942    Southington, Connecticut. Southington school children staging a patriotic demonstration, May 1942...

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Leslie Jones

 Canoeists watch crew race in Worcester, 1932    Cars and wagons clutter crowded Quincy Market, ca. 1925    Cherry blossoms, Arnold Arboretum, 1929    Coast Guard boats at East Boston waterfront, ca....

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M. D. Elias

 A line of prisoners passing an armoured car after the Axis collapse in Tunisia, 20 May 1943    Airplanes in formation fly past during parade of Allied forces in Tunis, Tunisia, 21 June 1943    An...

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Frederick Nelson Jones

 At Onekaka Creek, ca. 1910    De Havilland DH9 biplane, 1921    Grocery shop interior, ca. 1910    Men standing in flood waters near a partially submerged car, ca. 1930    Motorcycle racing in front...

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Adam MacLay

 Exterior view of a single-storied wooden house with an iron roof, showing a man, women, and children standing in front, ca. 1910    Fashionably dressed foursome, ca. 1910    Group including a hockey...

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Nurse Training

These photos of nurses in training were taken by Fritz Henle for the War Information Office, in 1942. Nurse training. Fresh from college, twenty-year-old Susan Petty of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, arrives...

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Dick Whittington

 Old fashioned bathing suit scene, Southern California, 1936[This must be for an ad. Whatever the context, it's hilarious]     May Company circus, Southern California, 1930    May Company circus,...

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Photochroms

These are scenes from Italy. A court yard (Calle dell Angelo a San Martino), Venice, Italy    A street, Venice, Italy    Concert in St. Mark's Place, Venice, Italy    Feeding Pigeons in St. Mark's...

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William Archer Price

Mr. Price was yet another New Zealand photographer.A gang of men working on the main trunk line somewhere in the North Island, constructing the railway line through the bush, 1900-30    Albert Park,...

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Louis Edward Nollau

Louis Edward Nollau was a professor of Engineering at the University of Kentucky. Apparently he was also an accomplished amateur photographer. "Lo 1936", Band and singer performing for studio audience,...

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George Frederick Kaye

 A G Trotter talks to three Italian children who have wandered into the middle of artillery positions near Sora, 1 June 1944    R T Stewart hands some washing to two small Italian children who have...

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