Cute Kids
I'm taking a break from posting new material for awhile. In the meantime, I'll be posting some previous photos arranged thematically, starting with this set of "cute kids" photos.Ben Shahn - Children...
View ArticleVintage Bicycling
Adam MacLay: Women with bicycles in a garden, 1905-26 Bus strike can be fun, 1955 (USC archives) Cyclist Thomas Stevens and Oakland cyclists Frank Denton: Five unidentified men and women of the...
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1949 May 1, at the Shanghai market bazaar, vendors selling “555" branded pots A woman wearing a palm tree brooch is being assisted by a man working at the produce stand at the Farmers Market, southern...
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Adam MacLay: Outdoors portrait, three unidentified men playing violin, flute and large harp, Christchurch, 1905-26 Ben Shahn: Mrs. Mary McLean, Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937 Charles Elliott Gill:...
View ArticleIce Skating
Boston Public Garden, ice skating Detroit Publishing: Skating at Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan, 1900-1910 GG Bain: Skaters on Tuxedo Lake, Tuxedo Park, New York State, 1910-20 Leslie Jones: Ice...
View ArticleHorse and Buggy
Adam MacLay: Outdoors on dirt road with poplar trees behind, a girl riding a two wheeled sprung cart being pulled by a Shetland pony, 1905-26 Barbara Wright: Finland, ca. 1941 Detroit Publishing: A...
View ArticleDancing
Arthur Rothstein: Dance hall, Saturday night, Marshalltown, Iowa, 1940 Charles Fenno Jacobs: Southington, Connecticut. Dancing at the Old Mill, May 1942 Esther Bubley: In the canteen for enlisted men...
View ArticlePicnics
Adam MacLay: Group picnicking, showing men, women and children sitting around food and crockery which is laid out on a cloth, ca. 1910 Albert Percy Godber: Group having a picnic in bush beside the...
View ArticlePeople in Costume
Adam MacLay: Outdoor portrait of an unidentified child in fancy dress as a 'Aulsebrook Biscuit' box, ca. 1915-20 Dick Whittington: May Company circus, Southern California, 1930 Harris & Ewing:...
View ArticleCelebrities
Addison Scurlock: Marian Anderson is shown greeting Interior Secretary Harold Ickes in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC April 9, 1939 Dick Whittington: Amelia Earhart & plane,...
View ArticleSchools
Arthur Rothstein: School at Skyline Farms, Alabama, 1937 Carl Mydans: School at Skyline Farms, near Scottsboro, Alabama, 1936 Frances Benjamin Johnston: African American children and teacher in...
View ArticleShows
Animal trainer Clyde Beatty in cage with tigers and lions, Toronto, Canada Floats in the parade on the occasion of the inaugurationcelebrations of Queen Wilhelmina on September 13, 1898 GG Bain: 13...
View ArticleProtests
Addison Scurlock: Early civil rights group picket, 1947 Arthur Rothstein: Strike pickets, New York City, 1937 GG Bain: Protest against child labor in a labor parade, 1909 Harris & Ewing:...
View ArticleGreat Scenery
A woman walks by the Hamilton Fountain in filtered light, University of Michigan, early 1930s Ansel Adams: Fountain Geyser Pool, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Ansel Adams: Tenaya Lake, Clouds...
View ArticlePeople Swimming and Diving
André Kertész: Underwater swimmer, 1917 Arthur Rothstein: Homemade swimming pool built by steelworkers for their children, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1938 Leo White: Swimming pool at Milford,...
View ArticleArtists
Arthur Griffin Collection: Artists, Ogunquit, Maine. Perkins Cove, 1939 Dick Whittington: Girls with drawings for Valencia Orange show, Southern California, 1930 Frances Benjamin Johnson: Women...
View ArticleSteamships
Albert Percy Godber: S S Albatross, ferry, at Home Bay, Motutapu Island, taking firemen to their picnic, 1909 Crowd boarding a steamer, Portrush, Co. Antrim, 1907-14 Frank Denton: Paddle steamers on...
View ArticlePeople Eating Together
Ben Shahn: Sunday school picnic, Penderlea Homesteads, North Carolina, 1937 Detroit Publishing: Diamond Jubilee banquet, 1911 Lafayette Studio: Group at fancy dinner, 1931 Leslie Jones: Clam bake...
View ArticleOddities
Cliff Henderson Collection: Showgirls as airplanes Dick Whittington: Old fashioned bathing suit scene, Southern California, 1936 George Brassaï: The Kiss, 1935-37 Harris & Ewing: Man painting...
View ArticleSports
Anglican Church, Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia, 1950s Charles Lee: Sunday baseball game outside Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1925 Football, scrimmage line, Harvard University, ca. 1905 Harris & Ewing:...
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