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Lafayette Photo Studio

 Loom & Needle clothing store, models for advertisement, 1941    Man and a woman in formal dress, 1939    Mr. & Mrs. Albert B. "Happy" Chandler and their Packard motor car, 1935    MRS Super...

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Nurse Training

The final set of photos by Fritz Henle of these ladies learning the art of hospital caregiving in 1942. Previous sets here, here, and here.Student nurses must be versed in occupational therapy. This...

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Adam MacLay

 Group of four boys at a campsite, interior of a tent visible beyond, 1905-26    Group of men and women under trees, probably Christchurch district, 1905-26    Group, probably a family, in front of...

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Mack Hughes

 Booneville bridge construction, ca. 1950s    Booneville bridge construction, ca. 1950s    Booneville bridge construction, ca. 1950s    Booneville bridge construction, ca. 1950s    Booneville bridge...

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Photochroms - UK

 The Pantiles, looking North, Tunbridge Wells, England, ca. 1890-1900    The pier, Clacton-on-Sea, England, ca. 1890-1900    The pier, Dunoon, Scotland, ca. 1890-1900    The pier, Portobello, Scotland,...

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Russell Lee

 At the Imperial County Fair, California, February-March 1942    Beer party given by contractor at the Umatilla Ordnance Depot for employees. Hermiston, Oregon, September 1941    Children resting...

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Gallipolis

These photos of Gallipolis, Ohio were taken by Arthur Siegel in 1943. Gate man opening front gate of Gallipolis lock as steamboat goes through    Girl flag bearers at Decoration Day ceremonies    Girl...

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Agustín Centelles

Agustín Centelles was a Spanish photographer who documented the Spanish Civil War - a brutal, bloody affair, as civil wars always are. Warning: some of these photos are quite intense. An assault guard...

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Marion Post Wolcott

 "Cherished customer." Negro buying gas, near Atlanta, Georgia, June 1939    A portable cane mill. The owner gets every sixth gallon for making the sorghum syrup. This is on the property of a Negro...

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Winter Is Coming

No, not the next season of "Game of Thrones," just these of Boston in winter from Leslie Jones.Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

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Albert Percy Godber

Four people with a car on the Akatarawa Road, 1923   Group of men at rest, playing cards on the grass under a tree, on the Mendip Hills sheep farm, 1917   Hutt Railway Workshops, Woburn. The pattern...

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Randolph Henry High School

Another set of photos by Philip Bonn of this Keysville, Virginia high school; first seen here. Kitchen of cafeteria    Kitchen of cafeteria. Lunches cost about fifteen cents.    School band which...

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John Vachon

 Children living on the outskirts of Washington, DC, September 1937    Crowd at Father Walsh's carnival. Trenton, New Jersey, August 1938    Man and dogs in front of grocery store, Robinson, Illinois,...

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The Roosevelts

From Harris & Ewing come these photos of Franklin and Eleanor. A serious President Roosevelt broadcasts to the nation on the European war crisis, Washington, DC, 3 September 1939    Eleanor...

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Steffano Webb

 Amateur boxing match, Christchurch, ca. 1910    Atlas Confectionary, factory workers, interior, Christchurch, 1880s-1920s    Buyers examining wool bales in store, Christchurch, ca. 1913    Group of...

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Dorothea Lange

 Drought refugee living in a ditch bank camp. Imperial County, California, March 1937    Drought refugees from Oklahoma in cotton camp near Exeter, California, November 1936    Fighting sand. Childress...

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African-American Portraits

Another group of portraits of black Americans from the late 19th-early 20th centuries by Joseph Pennell. Portrait of Hazel Mcelroy, 1922    Portrait of Hazel Prewitt and children, 1917    Portrait of...

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Louis Edward Nollau

 4-H entrants in musical competition, Boy's Reform School Band with band leader, Greendale, Kentucky, 1926    4-H Students and teachers from Kentucky rural schools during Rural School Week in front of...

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Leslie Jones

 Canoers    Chorus line    College women    Cow gals with the W.T. Johnson Rodeo, ca. 1936    Crowd listening to speech by a "Red" on Boston Common, 1931    Dancer    Dirty alley, Boston, 1942...

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Lafayette Studio

 Lexington’s Children’s Theatre group, 1944    Man and woman sitting on brick wall drinking soda, 1939    Miss Kentucky beauty contest, 1932    Mr. & Mrs. Guy Preston Richardson wedding, 1949...

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