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Ziegfeld Girls
The Ziegfeld Follies were theatrical productions modeled after the French Folies Bergères. They have been described as something of a cross between Broadway shows and Vaudeville reviews. Prominently...
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Marjory Collins
Marjory Collins photographed life on the "home front" in the United States during World War II. Apparently prosperous gentleman gives his name and address to school teacher who fills out his ration...
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Eva Besnyö
More from this Hungarian-born photographer. Previous set here. Self-portrait Starnberger Strasse, Berlin, 1931 Strong Back Untitled[looks like an Escher drawing] Woman and cat enjoy the view...
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Dorothea Lange - Japanese Internment
Supper time. Meal times are the big events of the day within an assembly center. This is a line-up of evacuees waiting for the B shift at 5-45 P.M. San Bruno, California, 1942 The Manzanar Free Press,...
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Peter Henry Emerson
Peter Henry Emerson (1856-1936) was a British photographer. He specialized in scenes of rural life. Some of his photos are obviously staged, while others look more candid. A Dame's School A Fisherman...
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George Brassaï
Previous set here. Girls at a Café Kiki and her Accordionist Le Pont Neuf Les Escaliers de Montmartre, Paris, 1936 Lesbian Bar Lovers Beneath a Streetlight, 1932 Matisse sketching a model, Paris, 1939...
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Jack Delano
Photos of "old fashioned" dances at the "World's Fair" in Tunbridge, Vermont in 1941.
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David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson
These two were early Scottish photographers. They teamed up to take more than 3,000 photos, mostly portraits. It seems that the division of labor here was Hill, with an artistic background, providing...
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Interesting women
From Harris & Ewing, here are some photos of interesting women. A rare picture is this one of the women members of the 75th congress who were photographed today following an informal luncheon in...
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Lewis Hine
Lewis Hine - 5 year old Helen and her stepsisters "hulling" strawberries at Johnson's Hulling Station, Seaford, Delaware. Helen is an orphan, who one month after death of her widowed mother, was...
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André Kertész
Ballet, New York City, 1938 Child Reading Comics Detail of women’s legs and shoes on rocks and river, 1940s Girls in Fairy Costumes, New York MacDougal Alley, New York City, 1977New York City,...
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Bruno Braquehais
Bruno Braquehais (1823-1875) was an early French photographer who pioneered the art of photojournalism during the Paris Commune of 1871. The Musée d'Orsay has a page about Braquehais. He also...
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Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) was an important early French photographer. Trained as a painter by some prominent artists, he switched to the medium of photography in the 1840s (today we'd call him an...
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Ben Shahn
Photos taken in Arkansas. Picking cotton on Alexander plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935 Sharecropper's child, Pulaski County, Arkansas, 1935 Sharecroppers in Marked Tree, Arkansas, 1935...
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National Photo
Apple Blossoms at Winchester, Virginia, 1926 Auto school, 1921-22 Babe Ruth knocked out, July 1924[about this incident] Canoe Regatta and Water Carnival, Tidal Basin, August 1924 Chinese legation,...
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Samuel Gottscho
Samuel Gottscho (1875-1971) specialized in cityscapes and dwellings. His photographs of the New York City skyline remain some of the most iconic images of the city. A Pier in Brooklyn, with views to...
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Marjory Collins
At 7 a.m. on June 21, 1942, the day before stricter gas rationing was enforced, cars were pouring into this gas station on upper Wisconsin Avenue New York. Janet and Marie Wynn (lower left),...
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Cabinet Cards
Couple in Parkersburg, Iowa Couple with woman sitting at man's feet Elderly couple Elegant young woman, Rockland, Maine Family portrait, Duluth, Minnesota Family portrait, Great Falls,...
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A 19th century couple
This is one of my favorite 19th century portraits, an unknown couple. Just look at the expression on the woman's face! She is clearly sick of the whole business of sitting for a portrait.This was one...
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Francis Stewart - Japanese Internment
Residents of Colorado River Relocation Center for persons of Japanese ancestry requesting repatriation to Japan, 1942 Robert Naeda, 9, son of the first family to arrive at this War Relocation...
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