Vintage Photos Index
Places
Alabama, Muscle Shoals: TVA phosphate smelter; Birmingham Roadside Stand;
Alaska: Anchorage paper boy; Mother (1909): Pipe-smoking tot (1898); Madonna of the North (1919);
Arizona: Tucson, 1940; Native American children, early 20th century;
California:
Downey: Apple bobbers (1935);
Huntington Beach: Goats, houses and oil rigs; Roadside stand;
Los Angeles: Wilshire Blvd, 1950s; Zep Diner 1930s; 1932 Olympic wrestlers; WWII Paper Drive 1; Paper Drive 2; Beaches, early 20th century; communists; burning Hitler in effigy, 1941; Bathing Beauties, 1935; Bishop Demetrios and a swimmer; May-December romance; 1943 car wreck; Cats audition for movie; Easter at the Hollywood Bowl (1947); Reading Little Black Sambo (1947); Jehova's Witnesses (1947); Various Arrest/drag photos; Nuns & Kids (1950); WWII Bond Drive (1942); Back to School; Vintage Wireless; Crossdressing for Mom; Driving Under the Influence; Arrested (1925); Girl in jail arrested with Errol Flynn (1957); Prohibition repeal (1933); Model atop a bomb shelter (1951); Loud shirt contest (1937); elderly woman bomb shelter (1942); aliens surrender guns, cameras radio sets (1941);
Pomona County: The Fair; More Fair;
San Diego: Child Beauty Pageant (1920s);
Santa Monica: 1920; woman lifting weights (1949);
Venice Beach: Family Picnic (1930); pet show (1936); pet show (1936);
Colorado: White City; Silverton;
District of Columbia (Washington): Prohibition Era Hooch bust; 1924; Indecency Police 1922; girl mechanics (1927); Young girls 1909-1923); Western Uninion Messenger Girls (1925); White House Easter Egg Roll (1922); Girls at the beach (1920s); kid and Mom (1921-1924); New Bicycle (1921); Herbert Hoover's pets (1929); Mrs. Harding's dog; Mrs. Coolidge's raccoon & Cat; Little girl at the beach; liquor sniffing dog (1922); Beauty Pageant (1919); Dog catchers (1924); Wrecker (1921); Beauty pageant (1922); Rock Creek Park (1920); Car wreck (1923); National Zoo; National Zoo (1917); Civil War vets (1902); Service Station;
Florida, Key West: Bait Shop (1936) Arthur Rothstein for Farm Secrity Adminstration;
Georgia, Atlanta: Loews & Paramount Theaters night 1951; Paramount 1947 & 1956 day; Baseball Team;
Hawaii: After Pearl Harbor; Boy Scouts recylcling rubber (1942); Navy pilots relaxing (1944);
Idaho: Pea Picker 1930s;
Illinois
Chicago: 1914; stock yards strike (1904); immigrants; stock yards; Newsboys (1902); blind newsboy, State Street (1st Walgreen's); children's picnic (1902); Air Raid; Baby X-ray (1942); Skyline & Lake (1948); Oak Street Beach 1925 & with palm trees 2007; Santa Claus (1902); Vera Ellen promotional photo; Chicago River/Merchandise Mart (1951); South Shore 1941-1942; Saturday in the park and at the beach, 1940s; Washington and Dearborn (1941); West Side Park, 1907; Holy Angels Fire (1958); Peoria, Tavern (1938); Peoria (1938);
Naperville: Train wreck, 1946;
Wilmette: Bahai Temple near Chicago (contemporary);
Kansas, Argentine: Santa Fe Railroad Diesel Locomotive (1943);
Kentucky, Hazard: collecting rubber for the war, 1942; Saving rubber #2;
Louisiana, New Orleans: Mardi Gras (1900); Old French Market (c 1890); Farmers Market (c 1900);
Maine: photographer 1904;
Maryland: Takoma Park (1922); Takoma Park July, 1922;
Massachusetts, Brockton: Jack Delano; Jack Delano 2; Nantucket 1880; Nantucket 1880; Cady's Food Shop 1933; Bon Ton Fish Market;
Michigan, Flint: Children man the picket lines (1937);
Mississippi: Natchez storefront, 1943; Vicksburg, Mississippi 1959;
New Jersey, Passaic: basement military subcontractor (1942);
New Mexico: Pie Town Fair (1940);
New York:
Brooklyn, Trolley Dodger; Brooklyn Bridge; Coney Island (1909);
Coney Island, Brooklyn: Lost Child; Parachute Jump; sailor & woman;
Far Rockaway: Tent City;
Manhattan: The Dakota; Empire State Bldg 1; Rockefeller Center-30 Rock Construction; Ellis Island; Post-war housing shortage; Chaplin & Fairbanks war bond drive; Rooftop Rowboat; Sleeping Above Manhattan (1932); Relaxing Above Manhattan (1932); USS Nautilus, nuclear submarine, entering NY Harbor 1956; Men in Battery Park (1941); Lower Manhattan 1942; Central Park Zoo (1942); Coney Island (1910); Brooklyn Bridge Pedway (1910); Sammy's Bowery Follies (1947); War on Drugs (1949); Sufragsists (1915); Possum for eatin' (1916); Gang Murderers (1959); Soda Jerk (Alan Fischer, (1936); Sailors shooting craps (1910);
North Carolina: Family photo, Yancey County;
Pennsylvania:
Gettysburg: Reunion 1938; Reunion 1913;
Philadelphia: Overbrook School, blind children hide-and-seek; Betsy Ross House;
Tennessee: General Store, 1936;
Virginia, Alexandria: A Narrow House;
West Virginia: Culling chickens;
Texas
Dallas: War Veterans, 1964;
Fort Worth: Female lathe operator (1942);
Houston: Victorian fixer-upper, 1942;
South Dakota: family cabin, c 1910;
Virginia, Alexandria: a tiny house;
Wisconsin, Barronett: fractional street names; Girls at papermill; Milwaukee (1939); Letter Carriers Convention (1939);
Outside the U.S:
Canada, Ontario: Kids & Hockey (1908);
England
London: 1; 2; 3; Victory celebration 1945; sprucing up turtles; Blitz evacuees;
France
Paris: American soldier & French Partisan; girl publicly punished for relationship with German; Les femmes et ses vélos (1936); Les Enfants de la Place Hebert (Robert Doisneau, 1957); Robert Doisneau 2; Le Baiser du Troittoir; M-4 Tank Machine Gunner 1944; Nazi Occupied Paris (Andre Zucca); Children in liberated France; Joy Riders (Robert Doisneau, 1934;
Holland: 1900;
Isle of Man:
Douglas: c 1900 at the beach;
Iran:
Israel:
Italy
Prato: 370th American Infantry Regiment (1945);
Sicily: medic 1943;
Japan (1945): US Marine sits atop Samurai swords; Child of the Occupation (1950);
Pacific: WWII, Iwo Jima, Gen Lemuel Shepherd (1942); Burial at sea, USS Intrepid (1944);
The Photographers
Ackerman, George: Farmer in Texas, 1931;
Bransby, David: Aircraft plant worker, WWII;
Bubley, Esther: Memorial Day, Boy Scount (1943); Sun bathers, Maryland (1943) Soldier sleeping on train (1943); Maid in restroom, bus station in Cincinnati (1943);Tomb of Unknown Soldier (1943);
Collier, John Jr: Child pumping water in Maine 1942; Acadian Catholic School 1942; Children 1942-43; More Children, 1942-43; Mennonite schoolchildren, 1942; Portuguese fishermen (Provincetown, 1942); kids studying, New Mexico; resident nurse, Taos, NM;
Collins, Marjory: Newark, 1942; New York children (1942);
Delano, Jack: Farm Security Administration (1940); Vermont State Fair (Rutland, 1940); More Vermont State Fair photos; Brockton (Massachusetts) Enterprise newspaper office; Santa Fe Railroad Super Chief 1943; Brockton, MA Hardware and Pluming store, 1940; Connecticut; potato weigh in, Caribou Maine (1940); Roundhouse wipers, Iowa 1942; Charleston, SC (1939); Tap Dancers (1942); Brockton, MA; Children (Puerto Rico, 1942); Connecticut Tobacco Farmers 1940;
Ebbets, Charles: Rockefeller Center-30 Rock Construction; Sleeping Above Manhattan (1932); Relaxing Above Manhattan (1932);
Evans, Walker: Alabama Roadside Stand (1936); Moundville, Arkansas, 1936; Atlanta, auto parts store, 1936; Bethlehem, PA 1935; Shoeshine stand; Grocery Store, Alabama 1936; Selma, AL 1935; Tennessee Church (1936); New Orleans Feed Store 1935; Winston-Salem market 1935; Waveland, Mississippi (1936); Boys, Bethlehem PA (1935); Vicksburg, MS (1936); Hale County, Alabama (1936); New Orleans (1936); Selma, AL 1936; New Orleans (1935); Negro Barbershop Atlanta (1936); Forest City, AR (1937); Sprott, AL (1936); Alabama feed store (1936); Temporary infirmary, AR (1937); Circus posters (1938); New Orleans (1936); Tennessee Church (1936);
Frissell, Tony: Tuskegee Airman (1945);
Guerin, Fitz W: kids in the hall (St. Louis); General Store, Moundville, Arkansas (1936);
Harris & Ewing: Senate barber shop 1937; Senate page, D.C (1937); Senator Napping (1938); First Senate "page girl" (1939); Senate fillibuster, anti-lynching law (1938);
Hine, Lewis W: Empire State Bldg 1; Comanche, OK fingernail inspection; pin boys (1909-1911); S. Manchester, CT Silk Mill (1924); Boot Blacks, NYC (1924); Cranberry pickers (1911); Newsboys near Brooklyn Bridge (1908); Kids working Night Shift (1909); working girl (1910); Children shuck oysters 1911-1912; Cincinnati 1910; Working kids: 1908-1917; Rolling Cigarettes (1909); Laborers, Learners and Loafers; Newsboys; St. Louis Newsboy (1910); Powerhouse mechanic (1920); Bicycle Messenger, Waco, TX; Italian woman carrying enormous box; Bassket maker (1908); Messenger Boy, 1913; Carnegie Playground 1910; Lancaster, SC (1908); Ice cream cone factory (1917); School for the deaf (1917); Newark Newsies (1909); Child mine worker (1908); Newsboys (1909); Young Weaver (1916); Messenger boy (1910); Havlin's Theater (1904); More Newsboys (1910); Chattanooga (1910); West Point, Mississippi (1910); Macon, GA (1909); S. Carolina (1908); Gastonia N.C. (1908); Newsboy (1910); Roanoke Cotton Mill (1908); Newsboy Picnic, Cincinnati (1908); Cigar makers, Tampa (1909); young spinners (1911); Italian children selling in market (Boston, 1915); Girl, West Point, MS (1911); Messenger boys, Chatanooga (1910); Young doffer, Cannon Mill, NC (1912); 14-year-old job applicant, Fall River, MA (1917); Messenger boy (1913); Boston, boy selling in market (1915); immigrant children in night school, Boston (1909);
Jacobs, Fenno: Memorial Day, Southington CT (1942);
Johnston, Frances Benjamin: 'Fancy Step' 1899;
Lange, Dorothea: FSA, Shoofly, NC 1939; Country Store: N. Carolina 1939; Oakland, California 1941; Bakersfield, California 1940; Coca Cola Baby Bottle (migrants, California 1939); Damaged Child & Delta Children (1936); Daughter of Migrant, near Sacramento 1936; Sharecropper Family, 1939; Malheur County, Oregon; Imperial Valley, CA (1937); Japanese-American children (1942); Resettled Farm Child N.M. (1935); Children, Oklahoma (1936); Tavern, Merrill, OR (1939); Social Security Tattoo (1939); Elm Grove, OK (1936); Texas Migrant Family (1936); BuenGonzales, TX country fair (1939)a, Washington (1939); Colored Only Theatre (1937); Drought Refugees in California (1935); Marion County, OR (1939); Thurston County, WA (1939); Kern County, CA (1938); Yakima (1939); San Joaquin Valley (1936); Farm Child (1935); California (1935); Earle Arkansas (1936); Former slave, 1936; waiting for relief checks (1937); Shafter Camp (California 1938); sick child, Yakima (1939);
Lee, Russell: Possum Family; Coal Miner bathing; pickle factory; Georgia Dance; Pie Town, New Mexico 1943; Coal Miner's Chidlren, W.VA 1938; Alpine, Texas (1939); Oklahoma City Streetcar Terminal, 1939; Jeanerette, Louisiana (1939); Japanese-Americans (1942); Llano de San Juan, New Mexico; Children, Klamath County, Oregon; Milford, Iowa (1936); Easter in Chicago (1941); Mound Bayou, MS (1939); Fort Gibson, OK (1939); Soda Jerk, Corpus Christi, TX (1939); New York City (1936); chicken vender, Weatherford, TX (1936); Neches, TX (1939); Pie Town, NM (1940); Easter, Chicago (1941);( Easter 2); Iowa (1935); Shasta County, CA (1940); Caruthersville, MO (1938); Dumas, TX (1939); Spencer Iowa, (1936); Fortune Teller (1938); Chicago (1941); Baseball Player at Migratory AZ Camp; Mound Bayou, MS (1939); Former Slave, Marshall TX 1939; fiddlers in Michigan (1937); evicted MO sharecroppers (1939); Child Harlingen, TX (1939); child Harlingen TX (1939); Spiro, OK (1939); Edinburg TX (1939); Fort Gibson, OK (1939); Agua Fria labor camp, AZ (1940); Mother & child, Harlingen TX (1939); Spiro OK (1939); Dumas, TX hamburger stand, swastikas/cattle brands (1939); Gonzales TX County Fair (1939); Vintage Saloons (1937); Mother & daughter, Gemmel, Minnesota (1937); Craigsville MN saloon (1937);
Locke, Edwin: Walden Massachusetts (1937);
Mydans, Carl: D.C. apartment (1935); farm critters (1935); children in DC slums (1935); VT woodcutter's son (1936); Children slum (1936); Iowa slums (1940); child Lexington, TN; children Lexington, TN; Miner & mule, Mt. Pleasant, PA (1936); Children playing D.C. (1935); miner Mt Pleasant, PA (1936); Morrisville, Vermont (1936);
Palmer, Alfred: Welder, Douglas Dam 1942; Carpenter Douglas Dam; 1942 Douglas Aircraft; 1942; Working in an aircraft plant ; Huge Torch and die, 1942; B-25 Wind Tunnel Tests; Women working in Aircraft plants;
Parkinson, M.B: Little girl with doll (NY c 1898);
Rosener, Ann: Save Fats for the War (1942); More wartime conservation; More Conservation; More Conservation;
Rosskam, Edwin: Child's funeral (1938); Silver Salesman showing his wares (1940); Easter Parade (1940); Puerto Rico 1938; Washington, DC 1942; Chicago (1941); Movie theater Chicago (1941); Chicago (1941);
Rothstein, Arthur: (Farm Security Administration): Texas, 1942; TVA-eggs; Key West, Mullet stand; Robstown, Texas kids; 4H Member, Central Iowa Fair; Dallas, Texas 1942; Drought Refugees, Montana; Roswell New Mexico (1936); cigarettes & pop, Iowa (1942); Nethers, VA (1935); Peoria, IL Tavern (1938); Peoria (1938); Peoria Men on a Bench (1938); Evicted share croppers 1 (1939); Evicted Share croppers 2: Evicted share croppers 3; Mother & child, Johnston Cty, NC (1936); Marshall County, Iowa, farmer eats burger (1939);
Shahn, Ben: girls in Amite, Louisiana (1935); Men hanging out (Marion, Ohio: 1933); Mother & Child, Ozarks; young boy, Ozarks; New Orleans floph house (1935); Family photos, Mechanicsburg, Ohio (1938);
Stewart, Francis: Manzanar internment camp;
Vachon, John: Houston fruit stand and Victorian, Schoolchildren in Texas; Old boardinghouse in Michigan; Grocery Store, Ohio, 1942; West VA, 1939; Indiana, 1938; Georgia Ballplayers, 1938; Farm Boy, Georgia 1938; The Lincoln Highway (1940); Lincoln, Nebraska (1942); Child migrants Berrien, MI (1940); Wife of Ozark Mountain Farmer (1940); Atlanta billboards (1938); Lincoln Nebraska (1942); New York Camel billboard (1942); Trucker (1943); Farm wife (1938); Pittsburgh rain (1941); Homesteader's Daughters (1939); Milwaukee Letter Carriers Convention (1939); Letter Carriers Convention (1939); Migrant child, Berrien MI (1940); Omaha, Nebraska Saloon (1938); Minneapolis (1938);
Witzel, Albert: woman;
Wolcott, Marion Post: Juke joints in Louisiana and Florida; Belle Glade, FL migrant quarters 1941; Horse show, Shelbyvile, Kentucky (1936); Mississippi Delta sharecropper's house (1939); Mississipi card playing (1939); Osage, West Virginia (1938); Milleston, MS (1939); Pembroke Farms, North Carolina; Strikers, Ducktown, TN;
Misc.
Apparitions: Tow Truck Jesus;
Automobiles: 1952 Nash Rambler; Electric Model T Ford (contemporary); Velie;
Autumn: Ax wielding woman & Turkey;
Bashful students kissing in a Columbia film class (1927)
Birthday at Ringling Circus
Cats: great photo!;
Children: Acrobats; Strikers; St. Rita's School for the Deaf;
DC Children: Morrison Marshall (1919); Owens children (1920); Jack Baker (1919); Lord Fauntleroy Suits (1920); Eating Watermelon; Boy with Lawnmower (1922); Chester children (1922); CN O'dell Children (1918); Flyth children (1922); Andrea Children (1912); Kids driving (1910); Waiting for the president (1929);
Dogs: with kids 1910-1915; White House Dogs;
Christmas: Chicago, (1902); White House (1961); boy with electric train (1935); Christmas 1953; Field Hospital Philippines, 1944; Department Store Santa (1939); Christmas Cards Not Sent (1963); Stockings Hung From Rifles (1941); Gifts from home (1944); Santa choir, salvation army and vintage street Santas; Happy Kid; Christmas 1941 &1942; New Year's Revellers, NY; Happy New Year: Santa Rests on Arctic Beach; Returning Soldier (1945); Long Beach, CA (1920); Baby plays tuba; Toys for the needy (1930); Los Angeles (1929);
Circus photos: Ringling Chicago, 1940s; Clown at childrens hospital (1926);
Dancers: Washington, DC (c. 1919); SoCal (1938); L.A. (1944);
Derny Tandem Scooter: France
Douglas Dam Construction: French Broad River, Tennessee Valley Authority: Welders; Carpenter;
Easter: Lake Placid, NY;
Eggs: TVA; Jack Delano/Farm Security Administration;
Girls Rifle Team: Drexel University
Home Ec class: 1915;
Four Little Dudes: San Francisco 1880;
Ku Klux Klan: Baseball Team;
Mail Service, Mail Carriers: Many vintage images.
Marathon Dancers: Washington DC & Venice Beach;
Modern Vintage American kitchen of the 1920s;
Monkey at the dentist;
No Fly Zone 1940s
Nuns: smoking; doing the jig;
Optical Illusion: Marilyn Monroe or Einstein?; Illusion 2, sandbox;
Pissed-off First Communion
Pugilist Collection: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8. 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15;
Prohibition: Prohibition Era Hooch bust; Federal agents raid;
Ridgewood, NY Girls Basketball 1908-09
WWII: Sailors and Tattoos;
Saloon singer: North Platte, Nebraska;
Smokers: 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23;
Telephone Switchboards: Springfield & Cantral, Illinois (1917);
Tennessee Valley Authority: Eggs; TVA phosphate smelter; French Broad River, Tennessee Valley Authority: Welders;
Thanksgiving: kids; Turkey shopper, 1910; Thanksgiving Maskers (1910);
Ty Ziegel (Marine) and wife
USS Saratoga (1943)
University of Wisconsin women tug-o-war
War: communications; 1941; Japanese prisoners on Guam (V-J Day); Kiss the boys goodbye (1950); Soldiers with prosthetic arms light cigarettes;
Women in college football: Occidental College (1928);
Women at War: 1942; Working in an aircraft plant (Alfred Palmer); David Bransby and Alfred Palmer; Working on an aircraft engine, California, 1944; WACs (1944);
World War I: Doughboy Goodbye Kiss 1917; Chemical Weapons; Influenza Pandemic of 1918;
White House Pets: Hoover's Possum and dogs; Mrs. Harding's dog; Mrs. Coolidge's raccoon & Cat;
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