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Giorgio Sommer
Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914) was an important 19th century Italian photographer. Amalfi Marina (Napoli) Boys eating pancakes Capri Marina Cascata di Caserta Bootblack and pickpocket Delousing...
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Josef Jindřich Šechtl
Josef Jindřich Šechtl was a Czech who took some chilling photographs of Nazi-occupied Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Berlin during the Olympic Games, 1936 Calvary in Miličín 1934 Countryard of...
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was a French photographer who liked taking pictures of people in movement. Anna La Pradvina, Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, 1911 Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris...
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Summer fun
From National Photo. Bathing beach, 1920s["well, we were having fun till some perv came along and took our picture..."] Col. Sherrell, Supt. of Public Buildings and Grounds, has issued an order that...
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Roman Vishniac
Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) was a Russian Jewish photographer who documented the life of Eastern European Jewry before it was swept away by the Holocaust. This is a set of untitled photos from that...
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Russell Lee
Old Spanish-American woman, Chamisal, New Mexico, 1940 Oldest daughter of Pomp Hall, tenant farmer, with an ear of corn which she is shelling to feed her chickens, Creek County, Oklahoma, 1940...
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Fourth of July, 1941
These photos were taken at the July 4th celebration in Vale, Oregon, in 1941. The photographer was Russell Lee. At the picnic grounds on the Fourth of July. Vale, Oregon, 1941 Boy on float in Fourth...
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Robert Doisneau
Robert Doisneau was a prominent French photographer. This set offers some of his earlier work, from the 1930s through World War II. One imagines that the pictures of Nazi-occupied Paris were taken at...
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George Brassaï
Napping Show Girls Opium party, 1931 Picasso and Jean Marais Posing as Painter and Model, 1944 Picasso Seated Lovers, Bal Musette des Quatre Saisons, Rue de Lappe, ca. 1932 The Eiffel Tower...
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Peter Henry Emerson
Crusoe's Island, River Granta East Coast Fishermen, ca. 1886 Gathering Water-Lilies, 1886 Going to market - a winter scene In the Barley Harvest, 1888 Ricking the reed, 1886 Rowing home...
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John Collier
Aroostook County, Maine, 1942 Around the Jukebox. Dance hall, Richwood, West Virginia, 1942 Bryant Friend and his family in their home, vicinity of Richwood, West Virginia, 1942 Children help...
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Weegee
Gold-painted stripper Operators of a wire service arrested at their headquarters after a gambling raid, 1941 Subway Serves as Blackout Shelter, August 13, 1943 Summer on the Lower East Side,...
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Harris & Ewing
A get-acquainted tea at which students present their parents and friends to members of the faculty was given at Immaculata Junior College today. February 1939 Apparently happy to get back to work...
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Helen Levitt
Helen Levitt was a "street photographer" who worked mainly in New York City.
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Constant Puyo
Constant Puyo (1857-1933) was an early French photographer who championed the use of photography as an art form. A note, 1896 Alma Mater, 1904 Asleep Fantasy in White, 1895 In the Flower Garden...
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Gretchen Van Tassel
Gretchen Van Tassel photographed Japanese-Americans during and after the wartime internment. 1st Lt. Shigeru Tsubota playing bridge with other officer patients at the Moore General Hospital, Swannanoa,...
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Gertrude Käsebier
Fruits of the Earth, 1901 Harmony, a study of the Brundigee family and their musical instruments, 1900 Josephine Brown, a young woman brought to the photographer's studio in New York City, ca....
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Neurdein Frères
The Neurdein Frères (Neurdein Brothers) were Etienne and Louis Antonin Neurdein, a pair of late 19th century French photographers whose work focused on architecture and scenes from France's North...
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Marjory Collins
St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942 St. Mary's County, Maryland. Sunday school picnic on the edge of the Patuxent River, 1942 Washington, D.C....
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National Photo
Food show, Foulds Milling Co., 1921-22 Four adults and six children, from Passaic, N.J., picket the White House following President Coolidge's refusal to listen to their complaints about wage cuts...
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