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Cotton Carnival

This Cotton Carnival, held in Memphis, Tennessee in May 1940, was photographed by Marion Post Wolcott.

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Harris & Ewing

 Air field, 1919-21    Child roller skating with pillows, 1924    Children playing in a park, 1919-21    Children playing jump rope in a park, 1919-21    Debutantes playing horse shoes. Left to right,...

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Russell Lee

 Agricultural workers wait in the clinic at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farm workers community, Woodville, California, Mar 1942    Bedding of agricultural workers' family near Vian, Sequoyah...

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John Dobree Pascoe

 Children during VE day celebrations, Lambton Quay, Wellington, May 1945    Women, with a child in a pram, at the fence around Government Buildings, Wellington, on VE day, May 1945  Land girls moving...

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Frank Denton

Another set from this New Zealander. Boys playing with a rugby ball, and girls looking on, Bell Street, Wanganui, 1906    Children performing a haka, ca. 1910    Group at the Adkin property of Cheslyn...

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Leslie Jones

 College girls   Crowded Scollay Square, Boston, ca. 1942    Girls in bathing suits sit on grass in park, 1936     Harvard Bridge traffic jam, 1923    Horse-drawn produce cart spills contents in Market...

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Dorothea Lange

 "Skid Row." Howard Street, the street of the unemployed in San Francisco, California, February 1937    After a lift of five miles by a passing motorist, the family of homeless, walking people are left...

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George Frederick Kaye

 A group of Italian women in the village of Alvito, which is well known to the men of 2 NZEF, 8 June 1944    A mule, a man and his dog. An Italian muleteer makes his way forward with supplies of the...

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Boston: Homefront

These photos of Boston during World War II were taken by Leslie Jones. Dorothy Lamour in Boston for war bond drive, 1942    Girls on sun deck, Franklin Square House[Franklin Square House was a rooming...

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Winter: New England

These photos of New England in winter were taken by Marion Post Wolcott. Berlin, New Hampshire. Children of paper mill workers bringing home groceries, 1939-40    Car stalled after snowstorm,...

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Harris & Ewing

 15th and NY Ave., Washington, DC, rush hour, April-May 1930    Aircraft on the Potomac River, 1931    Fingerprinted. Fred Sandberg, District police fingerprint expert, tells Daisy and Violet Hilton,...

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Steffano Webb

 Art school sculpture class, Christchurch, 1910    Christchurch fire brigade, with horse-drawn engine, ca. 1914    Clothing factory, Christchurch, August 1911    Costume party on roller skates,...

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Dorothea Lange

 Desert agriculture. Brushed chili field. Replanting chili plants on a Japanese-owned ranch. Imperial Valley, California, Feb 1937    Families are left stranded without means of support when the lumber...

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Marion Post Wolcott

 Coal miner and wife and children. He has been injured in mines four times. Since last year, has been refused work, now is on relief. Pursglove, Scotts Run, West Virginia, September 1938    Company...

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Leslie Jones

 Dancers in action, Scotch picnic, Brookline, 1952    Figure skaters    Girls under tree, possibly at Boston Common    Harvard crew, Charles River, ca. 1930    Ike parades through Boston on the day...

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Transylvania College

It's a small liberal arts college in Kentucky. Now it's Transylvania University. These are from Lafayette Photo Studio archives. Glee Club, 1932    Alpha Delta Theta formal dance, 1932    Classroom,...

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Russell Lee

 Child of migrant worker in front of trailer home, Weslaco, Texas, January 1939    Chopping ice before shaving it to be used in icing shrimp boat, Morgan City, Louisiana, October 1938    Edgar Allen,...

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George Robert Bull

New Zealander who photographed troops in World War II.    Boat building at 1 NZ Convalescent Depot in Santo Spirito, Italy, 17 May 1944    Carrier pigeons settling in the loft after training flight,...

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Adam MacLay

 Driver and car outside a building, 1905-26    Elderly couple with flowers surrounded by extended family, 1905-26    Extended family group portrait on garden lawn with dog, 1905-26    Exterior of a...

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George Frederick Kaye

 A group of American soldiers and two dispatch riders of the New Zealand Division on the 5th Army Front in Southern Italy, 10 February 1944    Italian partisani on the move near the Reno River in...

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