Augustus Sherman
Augustus Frederick Sherman worked as a clerk at Ellis Island in the years 1892-1925. He was an untrained, yet highly gifted photographer who created hundreds of images documenting the new arrivals to...
View ArticleEugène Trutat
Automobile, Luchon, 1904 Cabin of Henri Gourdon, Lys Valley, vicinity of Luchon, November 1888[This may be Nicolas JulesHenriGourdonde Genouillac(1826-1898), a historian, novelist, and specialist...
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Floe Sallows Saunders dancing Florence Sallows photographing daughter and dog Portrait of Flo Saunders Portrait of Florence Sallows holding basketball Portrait of woman outdoors, 1908...
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These photos of Canadian nurses in France are from the Alberta Provincial Archives. "The Digits," a soldiers' theatre troupe, 1916 Canadian nurse Madeleine Jaffray, 1917 Canadian Nurse Madeleine...
View ArticlePaul Stang
A woman and man at work cutting stones for the foundation wall in the background, ca. 1910 Dancing at Lushågen, ca. 1910 Group photo by the dam, ca. 1910 Gudrun Friborg Waagen from Bergen, ca....
View Article1950s Missouri
Large group of people gather in river, including several groups in canoes, for pole races, ca. 1955 Man collects sap from maple trees, ca. 1955 Missouri family vacation, 1956 Playing Croquet, ca....
View ArticleVintage USSR
These photos of life in the Soviet Union were taken in 1935 by Norwegian photographer Eirik Sundvor. Collective farm Collective farm Female conductor Flooding in the countryside Group in white...
View ArticleAllied Invasion of Germany
These photos are of the Allied invasion of Germany during World War II, 1944-45. American soldiers take cover on the Nibelungen bridge over the Rhine River, as German snipers on the opposite bank of...
View ArticleWilliam Henry Jackson
Bartlett's carry, Round Lake, Adirondack Mountains, ca. 1902 Canal Street from the Clay Monument, New Orleans, 1880-97 Mountain milk maids, ca. 1900 Street in the French Quarter, New Orleans,...
View ArticleFrances Benjamin Johnston
Outdoor class in botany, Washington, DC, ca. 1899 Students of 8th Division school using rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tape in school yard, Washington, DC, ca. 1899 Thanksgiving Day lesson at...
View ArticleWilliam Archer Price
"Girl Citizens" playing quoits. A movement of the NZ YWCA at the Holiday House, Blockhouse Bay, Auckland; probably ca 1929 School cadets at Northcote Point, Auckland, ca. 1908 View of men working...
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Field work during holidays by high school girls of municipal schools in Bagneux. Schoolgirls distributing manure. In the Tuileries Garden. The crowd listening to the concert by the British royal...
View ArticleAxel Lindahl
Bergen, Tyskebryggen, 1880s Christiania, Carl Johans Gade, 1902 Hardanger, gathering hay, 1892 Hardanger, returning from church, 1892 People outside a storehouse at Gaustadfjell, Telemark,...
View ArticleSiege of Leningrad
The Siege of Leningrad took place in World War II from 1941-44 when the Germans surrounded the city almost completely (save for a narrow corridor which the Soviets were able to open in 1943) in an...
View ArticleDaniel Manders Beere
Erina Beere outside her house in Whataupoko, Gisborne, ca 1880s Family picnic in the park, under a canopy, 1890s Gerald Butler Beere and family at Takapuna, Auckland, 1896 Gum trees alongside and...
View ArticleAnsel Adams
Aspens, Northern New Mexico, 1958 Eagle Peak and Middle Brother, Winter, Yosemite National Park, California, ca. 1968 El Capitan, Sunrise, Winter, Yosemite National Park, 1968 Forest Floor,...
View ArticleToronto Globe and Mail
Christie Party, group, March 25, 1928 Grimsby, picnic party, May 17, 1925 Grimsby, three girls among cherry blossoms, May 13, 1925 Kensington Ave Market, woman carrying hen in arms, July 15,...
View ArticleCostică Acsinte
Child with painting of cats Child with toys Girl with sled[complete with fake snow!] Two boys with an accordion Two children with a New Year fir, 1943-1944 Source: Costică Acsinte Collection
View ArticleHenry Armytage Sanders
New Zealanders in France at Pont-a-Pierre moving wounded German soldiers onto stretchers. The Germans had been brought down on a farm cart from the front line, 1 November 1917 Playing the winners of...
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