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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...

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Vintage 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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Markets

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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Musicians

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:...

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Ice 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...

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Horse 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...

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Dancing

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...

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Picnics

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...

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People 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:...

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Celebrities

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,...

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Schools

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...

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Shows

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...

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Protests

 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:...

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Great 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...

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People 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,...

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Artists

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...

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Steamships

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...

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People 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...

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Oddities

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...

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Sports

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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