Quantcast
Channel: History in Photos
Browsing all 1436 articles
Browse latest View live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Frederick Nelson Jones

 A view of Buller Gorge showing three men and a woman, 1930s    Demonstration of hypnotism, ca. 1914    Duke and Duchess of York in Wellington during the 1927 royal tour    Selling tickets by auction...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Cornell University

Here are some from the Cornell University archives. Anna Botsford Comstock with friends[Anna Botsford Comstock was the first female professor at Cornell, starting in 1897]    Camp, Soblolly Bay,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Sayre School for Girls

This school for girls was in Lexington, Kentucky. Photos are from Lafayette Studio, taken in 1944. Drama Club   Gym class   Junior class  Outdoor group

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hedda Morrison

I have previously posted Ms. Morrison's photographs of China. Here is the first of several sets that appear to be from Indonesia (she spent some time working in Sarawak). Family eating    Four men; two...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

William Archer Price

 Coal Creek Falls, near Greymouth, ca. 1912    Crossing the upper reaches of the Waiaua River, Bay of Plenty, 1910-30   Dreadnought railway bridge, 27 miles from Gisborne, early 1900s    Group at...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

John Vachon

 Employees at Mid-Continent Refinery, Tulsa, Oklahoma, ca. 1943    Grocery store, Mt. Orab, Ohio, Route 74, 1942-43    House, Houston, Texas, May 1943    Man shovelling ears of dried corn from wagon...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Adam MacLay

 Four young men, one with an accordian, sitting by a campfire, next to two tents, ca. 1910s    Group of unidentified men and women, all the women wear wide straw hats, sitting on a fallen tree,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Dorothea Lange

 Migrant pea pickers from many states line up with their filled hampers on the edge of the field. They wait their turn for weighing. Near Westley, California, April 1938    Migratory family from...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Leslie Jones

Not that the people of Boston need any reminders of winter, but... Clark's dog sled team - West Milan, New Hampshire    Northern Ave., near fish pier, crowd, sailors in front of the National Shawmut...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

World War II - African American Troops

 Miss Josephine Baker, popular stage performer, sings the national anthem as the finale to the show held in the Municipal Theater, Oran, Algeria, N. Africa. The band is directed by T/Sgt. Frank W....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Egypt

This is a second set of photos taken in Egypt in 1943 by George Frederick Kaye. Previous set here. Man winnowing near Tura, Egypt, 18 July 1943    Native tailors in the street of Maadi village make...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Revelle Jackson

 'The Sound of Music', Taylor House, Geange Street, November 1966[well, I sure recognize a number of the LPs at upper left...I wish I could read the top 40 list though]    Animal Rescue Dog Show,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Greene County

These photos of labor unrest in Greene County, Georgia are from Jack Delano. CIO pickets jeering at few workers who were entering a mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. May 1941    CIO pickets...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Albert Percy Godber

 Hans Peter Knutzen sitting on the verandah of his home, Piha, 1915-16[more about this photo and its subject]    Two men 'tripping' the Anawhata dam, Piha district, to allow logs to flow through, ca....

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Marion Post Wolcott

 Coal miner, his wife and one of their many children. Bertha Hill, West Virginia, September 1938    Coal miner's wife and children (note child's legs) in back of their home. Bertha Hill, West Virginia,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Cornell University

 Classes and class activities, 1905    Cornell University Commencement procession leading to Libe Slope, ca. 1912    Crew from above    Delta Gamma sorority sisters, 1895   First colored women voters,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Steffano Webb

 Adams and Hooper Wedding party, with large automobile, 1913    Aulsebrooks factory, packing chocolates, ca. 1910    Boating, Canterbury Rowing Club, 1910    Bride and three bridesmaids with floral...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Old Peking

These photos of Peking (now Beijing) and its environs are from the Cornell University Archives and date to around 1879. Notice the "ghost people" in many of the photos.

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Ann Rosener

World War II home front pictures. "Can I wear it today?" Attractive playsuits for daughter can be made from that old housedress, the one with the splitting seams, and Junior's first long pants (no...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Harris & Ewing

Here's another set of uncaptioned photos. [nothing creepy about this, no sir!] 

View Article
Browsing all 1436 articles
Browse latest View live


<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>