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Steffano Webb

 A bush picnic with three men and a tent, ca. 1900    An outdoor painting class at the University of Canterbury School of Arts, 1907    Art school, University of Canterbury, 1910    Billiard Saloon,...

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Doris Ullman

Doris Ullman was best known for her portraits of people in Appalachia. Aunt C. Ritchie, basket-maker, Hindman, Kentucky    Barefoot boy and girl standing behind woman and three men in doorway with bags...

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Central Kentucky

These are from a collection titled "Central Kentucky Photograph Albums." The photos date from 1905-1920. There is some splendid scenery here - makes me want to visit Kentucky! At Ballou's    At Mrs....

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Mack Hughes

Mack Hughes lived and worked as a professional photographer in Lexington, Kentucky. Harry Mack Hughes received an A.B. in Journalism in 1939 from the University of Kentucky where he was a member of...

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Circuses and Fairs

These are from Boston photographer Leslie Jones. Brockton Fair, showgirls doing gymnastics, 1938    Brockton Fair, showgirls, 1938    Circus aerialist on the high wire, 1948   Circus clowns and...

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TVA - Knoxville

More photos from this set by Barbara Wright.

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Harold Gear Paton

A third set from this New Zealand photographer. New Zealand soldiers with their Bofors ack ack gun, Alamein, Egypt, 16 July, 1942    New Zealand wedding in Cairo. Miss R Claridge and Mr A Mason, both...

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Vintage Finland

Here's another bunch of photos taken from this Flickr set. Ships at the harbor of the market square, Helsinki, ca. 1906    Snapshot in Helsinki, April 1891    Snapshot in Helsinki, April 1891...

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Vivian Meier

This set of photos from Vivian Meier are all taken in New York City in the 1950s.

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Nurse Training

More photos from this group by Fritz Henle. Previous set here.A student nurse, acting as physical therapist, points to the picture book, encouraging a child to learn to use his crutches    A torpedoed...

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Offline

I'm on vacation, away from the computer (yes, it happens) for a few days. I'll resume posting on August 12.Cheers.

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Cabinet Cards

I'm back! Great vacation! Baby in a perambulator, Sofia, Bulgaria    Cowboy and Indians, Rockville, Indiana    Fashionable woman, San Francisco, 1879    Gentleman with a bass, Cornwall, England,...

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John Dobree Pascoe

 Japanese prisoners of war loading sand into a truck, Wairarapa, 1943    Lunch break for a group of women workers from a World War 2 ammunition factory in Hamilton, 13 January 1944    Maori children...

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Albert Percy Godber

Albert Percy Godber was an early 20th-century New Zealand photographer who focused much of his work on the backcountry. A bullock team hauling logs near the timber mill at Piha, 1915-16    A bush...

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Garth High School

This school is in Georgetown, Kentucky (it's now an elementary school). Photos by Lafayette Studio. 8th grade, 1944    Cheerleaders, 1949     Pep club, 1944   Girl's gym, 1945    Girls' gym class, 1945...

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Louis Edward Nollau

 4-H Debating team from Chaplin, Kentucky in Nelson County, 1926    A woman swinging next to two men in front of Buell Armory, 1956    Costume party, Engineering ball    Eleanor Roosevelt in car, 1934...

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Adam MacLay

 Family group outside their home, probably Christchurch district, includes two women with bicycles, 1905-26    Five men in riding attire standing with Singer motorbikes on stands, 1905-26    Group of...

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George Robert Bull

George Robert Bull was a New Zealander photographing their troops in the European theater during World War II. 'Spud barbers' at work near the cookhouse at Hove Supply Dump in the Cassino area, Italy,...

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Steffano Webb

 Billiards Championship, Christchurch, 1909    Cannery at Christchurch Meat Company, 1880s-1920s    Children and men beside a large traction engine with two boys sitting on a large stack of firewood,...

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Albert Rogers Crandall

The photographs of Albert Rogers Crandall date roughly from 1883 to 1890 and were taken mostly in rural Kentucky. Fog over Powell's Valley in the early morning    Group of unidentified men on the...

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