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Sydney Charles Smith

 Group diving into Te Aro Baths, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1926    Loading the ship Eleanor Bolling with supplies for Byrd's Antarctic expedition, Wellington, 1928    Man addressing crowd at a mass...

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Frank Rinehart

Like his better-known contemporary Edward S. Curtis, Frank Rinehart made sensitive portraits of Native American people. Rinehart, a commercial photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, was commissioned to...

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Herbert F. Cooper

 Castle Street, Strabane, ca. 1930    Castle Street, Strabane    Comic duo on horseback in Bowling Green, ca. 1910    Lower Main Street, Strabane, ca. 1930   Strabane Fair, ca. 1910  Source: Public...

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Alexander Hogg

Here is another set of Mr. Hogg's photos of Belfast slums. Barrack Street, showing National School & entrance to Old Military Barracks, Belfast, 29 January 1913   Divis Street, Millfield, Belfast,...

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1934 Longshoreman's Strike

The Longshoreman Strike of 1934 was a labor action lasting 83 days and spanning the entire west coast of the USA. The strike, which the authorities attempted to violently suppress, resulted in the...

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Burt V. Brooks

The artist Burt Vernon Brooks was one of the outstanding chroniclers of daily life in the Swift River Valley before it was inundated to create the Quabbin Reservoir. Born in Brimfield, Mass., in 1849...

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Scott's Run

Photos from a West Virginia mining town, by Lewis Hine. Scott's Run, West Virginia. Children of employed miner at Sessa Hill - Ewra Hennar's children, 1936    Scott's Run, West Virginia. Children of...

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Charles C. Pierce Collection

Friday Morning Club entry in La Fiesta de Los Angeles, 1896   Los Angeles Fiesta. East from 5th from Hill. Business men as clowns, 1901   Los Angeles, Adams & Figueroa looking West, 1924   Luncheon...

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Henry Charles Wright

Three people and two dogs by the verandah of a house    Unidentified Maori group, Captain William Shilling (back, kneeling) and the photographer's daughter, Amy Elizabeth Wright, photographed at Karaka...

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Costică Acsinte

Source: Costică Acsinte Collection

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Abbot Academy

Abbot Academy (also known as Abbot Female Seminary) was an independent boarding preparatory school for women boarding and day students in grades 9 to 12 from 1828 to 1973. Located in Andover,...

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Augustine H. Folsom

Augustine H. Folsom, also know professionally as A. H. Folsom, was a commercial photographer based in Roxbury, listed in the City Directory from 1879-1903 at 48 Alleghany St. He was also the owner of a...

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Fergus O'Connor

The Fergus O'Connor collection consists, for the most part, of topographical views of locations in Cork city and county. Also featured are images of townscapes in Dublin, Ballycastle and Lurgan and...

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Vintage Sweden

 A farmer plowing a field with oxen, Hjortsberga, Småland, Sweden, ca. 1945    The local choir at the artist Zorn's Gammelgård (Old farmhouse) in Mora, Dalarna, 1931    Two women in a yard in...

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World War I

 Arrival in Marseille of a new Russian contingent. The men line up on the dock.   European war. Bombardment of Senlis by the Germans. General view of the neighborhood of La Licorne in Senlis.   In...

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Paul Stang

 17th of May celebrations in Stongfjorden in the early 1900s[May 17 is Constitution Day in Norway]     Jakob Osland worked for a few years at the iodine factory which was opened in 1897, ca. 1910...

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Dorothea Lange

 Woman in auto camp for migrant citrus workers. Tulare County, California, November 1938    Women packing apricots in large open sheds adjoining the orchards. Brentwood, California, January 1938...

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Harold McMurrich Rathbun

Aileen & Mr Freer at Duck Lodge, July 1909    Group on Steamer Reindeer on way to Sand Banks, Prince Edward County, Ontario, ca. 1914    The photographer's younger sister, Bunella 'Pansy' Jones,...

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Joseph Pennell

 Costume party, Junction City, Kansas, 1907    Fort Riley Baseball Team and unidentified woman, Kansas, 1907    Fort Riley telephone exchange, Kansas, 1905   Group of friends, Junction City, Kansas,...

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Arthur Griffin Collection

 Art festival, Boston Public Garden    Boston Public Garden, ice skating    Breakfast or what would you call it at 4 am Saturday, February 15, 1939    Cleaning and cutting mackerel for canning, New...

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