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Dorothea Lange

 8 a.m. Migratory field workers pulling carrots in a field. Note carrot digging tractor in background. "They'll sleep in the row (to hold a place in the field) to earn sixty cents a day."Near Meloland,...

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Mack Hughes

From Mack Hughes, these look like photos of a Valentine's Day dance in the 1950s. Only caption is "Lebus" - completely opaque to me!

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Adam MacLay

 Family in front lawn of single story wooden house, 1905-26    Group of men, women and girls outside a tent, possibly Sumner, Christchurch, 1905-26    Group portrait of two men and two women dressed in...

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Lafayette Studio

 Miss Kentucky beauty contest, 1935    Packard Motor Cars, group of people gathered outside of building, 1936    S. Karpen & Brothers, workers upholstering furniture, 1941    Scabbard and Blade...

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Frederick Nelson Jones

 A Ford motor car, ca. 1916    Crowd walking along Nelson wharf during farewell to 25th New Zealand Regiment, World War I, 9 January 1917    Hospital supplies being packed and sent to Egypt and England...

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Marion Post Wolcott

 "That's what you wanna see and that's what you will see and don't  bring bashful with you 'cause he can't take it." An outdoor carnival comes once a year to the mining section. Granville, West...

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William Archer Price

 Cobb and Co coach on board a punt on the Buller River, ca. 1910    Crowd in the vicinity of Shortland Wharf, Thames, ca. 1910    Four Maori girls on a home-made raft paddling down the Kai Iwi Creek,...

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World War II

 These were found at this site. German soldier with cat, Voronezh Oblast, USSR, July 16, 1942    Observer who spotted a machine gun nest finds its location on a map so they can send the information to...

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Skateboarding

These photos of people skateboarding in New York City in 1965 come from here.

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Albert Percy Godber

 Albert Percy Godber boating on the Waihou River at Te Aroha, in 1917    Four people with a car parked at the Summit on the Rimutaka Road, 1924    Group outside the fire damaged soap factory of...

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Harris & Ewing - Kids

 "Our Gang" comedy stars call on President Coolidge, May 18, 1927    Children crossing street, February-March 1935    Despite a cold drizzle, nearly 1000 Washington youngsters romped over the south...

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Leslie Jones

 Cowgirls at Boston Garden for the Rodeo, November 1931    Faneuil Hall Market, South Market Street, ca. 1930    Girls at clam bake, 1947    Kids dressed to go to the old fishing hole   Skater Barbara...

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21st Birthdays

From Revelle Jackson, these are pictures taken at 21st birthday parties - apparently a big deal in 1960s New Zealand. November 1965   October 1967   May 1968 

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Dorothea Lange

 Latter Day Saints portrait group. These people, man and wife, are both eighty-five years old. Converts to Mormonism from South Africa. She was the first schoolteacher in Escalante, April 1936     Log...

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World War I - women workers

These photos of women workers during World War I come from here. A woman delivers coal in France    A woman makes and repairs shoes    Women filling shells in a munitions factory in Scotland    Women...

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Marion Post Wolcott - Kids

 Mountain children playing marbles after school in Breathitt County, Kentucky, September 1940    Playtime in front of migratory packinghouse worker's camp. Child is from Tennessee and his parents are...

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Jack Delano

 Backstage at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941    Barker at the grounds at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941    On the ferris wheel at the Vermont...

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The Roosevelts

From Harris & Ewing come these photos of Franklin and Eleanor. First Lady meets Democratic Party mascot, 1940?    First Lady welcomes Easter egg rollers. Because of the cold weather the crowd was...

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Adam MacLay

 Four young men and a dog, with a variety of equipment including a gun, an axe and a sign saying 'Okapara Boys'    Group of men and women with a dog, 1905-26    Group of young men and women in front of...

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George Frederick Kaye

 A New Zealand Infantry platoon pictured near Monte Cassino on the 5th Army Front in Italy, 8 March 1944    A scene in the forward area of the Sangro River Front, in Italy, showing villagers outside...

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