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Thomas Pringle

 Elderly Maori woman smoking a pipe, ca. 1905    Full length portrait of guide Maggie Tawhai, wearing a korowai (tag cloak) and carrying a mere, 1905    Maori woman preparing food, 1905    Maori woman...

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George Leslie Adkin

The New Zealanders keep coming. Mr. Adkin was apparently quite the Renaissance man: he was a farmer, geologist, archaeologist, ethnologist, photographer, tramper and environmentalist. As an amateur...

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Detroit Publishing

 Bath house, Bois Blanc Island, Michigan, ca. 1903    Bulldog on the beach, 1900-10    Chester Park, the tickler, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1900-15["not as rough as last season" :)]     Children's playground,...

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William Henry Jackson

Citadel Walls, Canon of the Grand, Utah, ca. 1900   City of Erie, ca. 1900   Echo Cliffs, Grand River Canon, Colorado, ca. 1900   Horseshoe Fall, Niagara, ca. 1901     Mission San Juan Capistrano,...

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Louis John Daroux

 Boat on lake, probably South Island, early 1900s    Deer hunting group, early 1900s    Donkeys, Days Bay, early 1900s    Hughson's coach on New Plymouth-Opunake road, ca. 1900s    Pelorus river,...

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William Archer Price

 Tennis courts at Te Awamutu, ca 1910s    Two women sightseers standing on a broadwalk on top of the diversion weir at the site of the power station at Okere Falls on the Kaituna River, ca. 1908...

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Charles Marville

Charles Marville (born Charles François Bossu) was a French photographer, who mainly photographed architecture, landscapes and the urban environment. He used both paper and glass negatives. He is most...

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Samuel Heath Head

 Children playing by and in a flooded river, possibly the Waikato, 1890s-1930s    Clearing the bush for the North Island Main Trunk railway line, 1906    Long tram turning the corner in front of the...

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James McAllister

 Children at Empire Day celebrations, Stratford, 24 May 1903    Four young women wearing large, ornate hats, 1908    Group of children, Stratford district, ca. 1903    Young boy in a dentist's waiting...

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Jim Fitzpatrick

 Josephine Smith digging a grave at the Drouin Cemetery, Victoria, 1944    Main Street, Drouin, Victoria, 1944    Miss Jean Lilburne with her class in the Grade One room at Drouin State School, Drouin,...

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Ann Rosener

 Women in essential services. Ruth Anderson, San Francisco's only woman radio news reporter, has entered a field formerly open only to men. A graduate of radio soap operas, Miss Anderson began her...

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Lafayette Studio

Two children in wheel chairs playing checkers, 1942   Two women in fur coats standing on steps (modeling), 1939   Two women leaning on the hood of a car, 1941   Two women playing in the snow, 1940...

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Tennis

More vintage tennis photos (previous set here). Gladys Roy and Ivan Unger play tennis while in mid-flight, 1925[vintage X-Games]    May Sutton Bundy, the first US player to win the Wimbledon ladies'...

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Marion Post Wolcott

 Spectators picnicking before the Point to Point cup race, of the Maryland Hunt Club, Worthington Valley, near Glyndon, Maryland, May 1941    The "water company" was formed by the people in abandoned...

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Misc New Zealand

 Man with horse drawn cart, by a tree fern, Buller Road, West Coast, ca. 1890s    People on Pohara Beach, 1890s    Three women standing beside the tower at the Karori Reservoir, Wellington, in 1907[see...

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Robert Percy Moore

Intersection of High, Manchester and Lichfield Streets, Christchurch, 8 May 1923   Lake Rotoroa, Westland, 1923-28   Pancake Rocks, Punakaiki, West Coast, 1923-28   Panoramic view of stands and crowd...

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Artur Pastor

More from this Portuguese photographer.

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World War I - women workers

These photos of women workers in England during World War I come from here. Female labourers push loaded wheel barrows on a construction site in Coventry, ca. 1917    A British women's fire brigade...

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Steffano Webb

Group of women from the Canterbury School of Arts, 1909   Swimming pool with diving board and boys swimming, ca. 1920s   The Vacuum Cleaning Company, Canterbury Hall, Manchester Street, Christchurch,...

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Dorothea Lange - Kids

Children just seem to naturally be the best photographic subjects. Migratory child in squatter camp before hop season opens. Her little brothers work in the field. Washington, Yakima Valley, August...

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