Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Henry Norford Whitehead

Mr. Whitehead was another New Zealand photographer. 

 A farmer using a plough machine attached to a team of 
work horses in the field, Elsthorpe, Hawkes Bay, 1920s-30s
  
 Apple orchard with apples on the ground, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
 
 Buick convertible with woman and Pomeranian dog 
parked by farmland, Hawke's Bay District, 1920s-30s
  
 E Williams and family sitting in front of an open tent, Hawkes Bay, 1920s-30s
  
Hastings High School students exercising on school fields, 
with staff supervising, Hawkes Bay District, ca. 1933

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand 

Monday, April 27, 2015

Sydney Charles Smith

Sydney Charles Smith was a New Zealand photographer active in the 1910s-1940s.

 A crowd of people at Lyall Bay beach, Wellington. There are some 
children playing on a 'Witches Hat' on the beach, 1929
  
 Arawa Street, Rotorua, 1923
  
 Children on the beach, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 1929
  
 Families doing laundry at a relief camp for victims of the 
1931 Hawke's Bay earthquake, Palmerston North
  
Horse drawn carriage collecting shingle at Owhiro Bay, Wellington, ca. 1910

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand 

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Thelma Kent

Thelma Kent was a New Zealand photographer who had a real eye for landscape photography.

 A woman on horseback and children, ca 1939
  
 At Lake Manapouri, Southland, 1939
  
 Camping in the Lake Coleridge district during a storm. 
Rainbow appearing over the Craigieburn Range, ca. 1939
[this is one I'd like to see in color!]
  
 Group of six women having breakfast at a table while camping. There is a box of Weetbix on the table and some of the women are eating eggs. Ngaire Hooper is seated front left and photographer Thelma Rene Kent is at the head of the table. 1937
  
Karamea Bight, ca 1939

Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Saturday, April 25, 2015

Dorothea Lange - Kids

 Children and home of migratory cotton workers. Migratory camp, 
southern San Joaquin Valley, California, November 1936
  
 Children from Chickasaw, Oklahoma, in a potato 
pickers' camp near Shafter, California, May 1937
  
 Children of migratory pea pickers in Brawley camp. California, February 1939
  
 Daughter of Negro tenant churning butter. 
Randolph County, North Carolina, July 1939
  
 Entire enrollment of Lincoln Bench School. Teacher in center. 
Near Ontario, Oregon, Malheur County, October 1939
  
 Marble time in Farm Security Administration (FSA) migratory labor camp. 
Plenty of space to play and plenty of companions for the children 
during pea harvest. Near Calipatria, Imperial Valley. February 1939
 
Migrant family in Kern County. This family was sent back at the state line by Los Angeles police. Refused entrance into California, and it was only after they had wired back to Arkansas to borrow fifty dollars cash to show at the border that they were permitted to enter. February 1936

Friday, April 24, 2015

Jack Delano

 Along a road near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941
  
 An outdoor potato grader using migratory labor. At the freight station 
in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. July 1940
  
 At the change of the shift at the Penomah Mills Inc., 
Taftville, Connecticut, November 1940
  
 Boys at the riverfront in Norwich, Connecticut, November 1940
  
Cleaning turpentine cups in boiling water at a still near Pembroke, Georgia, April 1941

Thursday, April 23, 2015

James McAllister

Mr. McAllister was yet another New Zealand photographer.

 At Ngamotu Beach, New Plymouth, ca. 1910
  
 Bushmen's camp, 1901
  
 Group on a grass tennis court in front of a house, probably in Stratford, ca. 1900
  
 Group taking a break during oat harvesting, 1914
  
McAllister family on a horse drawn wagon, 1910s

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Russell Lee

 Children of Negroes dressed in Sunday best for ceremonies, memorial services. 
All Saint's Day, New Roads, Louisiana, November 1938
  
 Mrs. Erasty Emvich in her kitchen. Mrs. Emvich is the wife of a tenant farmer and mother of twelve children, eleven of them living. Near Battle Ground, Indiana, March 1937
  
 Mrs. Ray Allen and two of her children in their home 
near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, June 1937
  
 One of Erasty Emvich's sons weaving a rug in farmhouse near Battle Ground, Indiana. Mr. Emvich, tenant farmer and father of twelve children, also weaves in his spare time, March 1937
  
 Prizewinning stallion bought with Farm Services Administration loan to 
serve cooperative group in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, Summer 1939
  
 Railroad workers, Port Barre, Louisiana, October 1938
  
 Some of the residents of the transient camp operated by the state of Michigan at Hagerman Lake. About a hundred men are quartered here, mostly old lumberjacks, miners, and other unemployables. Some of these men stay for just a short time. When men come to camp they are usually undernourished. April-May 1937
 
Washday at the FSA (Farm Security Administration) 
Camelback Farms, Phoenix, Arizona, February-March 1942