Portraits from the first 100 years of photography
The young man in this small snapshot is wearing a military tunic with no insignia. He may have been serving as a musician in the Imperial Japanese Army. The photo is blank on the back, so it's hard to say when it was taken, but I'd guess it was printed in the 1930s. At the... Continue Reading →
March is Women’s History Month in the United States, and few professions have historically been as closely associated with women as nursing. Update, April 11, 2019: I made a significant error in the initial version of this post. When I first searched online for information related to the Montefiore Hospital School of Nursing, the only... Continue Reading →
The Soviet Union (USSR) formally came into existence on December 30, 1922, after three years of world war and five years of civil war. When this photo was taken, sometime in 1933, the country had existed a little more than ten years. On the back is the following note in Russian: Собрание уполномоченных артели "Кр.... Continue Reading →
According to the Fall 2008 newsletter of the Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society, in 1928 Ed and Florence Clark moved to the town of Lincoln in the White Mountains of New Hampshire to raise sled dogs and demonstrate their abilities for tourists. On April 5, 1932, Florence summited Mt. Washington with a team of dogs, becoming... Continue Reading →
"The forty children of the open air school--where underweight children are brought up to normal--in their polar suits which are worn when the temperature is low. The windows are never closed. The observation of health rules becomes a pleasure under the direction of Mrs. Mary Hoover, supervisor, and Miss Emily Rogler and Miss Vivian Peabody,... Continue Reading →
The woman on a cruise in 1934 in the previous two posts is now standing in front of Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana, Cuba. A date stamp on the back of this snapshot indicates it was printed on Jan. 18, 1939. The man with her looks vaguely familiar to me, but he isn't the man... Continue Reading →
As in the previous post, this photo was taken on the Holland-America Line’s S.S. Rotterdam IV (1908-1940). It was taken either on New Year's Eve or during the early hours of January 1, 1935. The couple who originally owned the photo can be seen at upper right in the detail image below. The other end... Continue Reading →
In December 1934 the people in this room were on a cruise on the Holland-America Line's S.S. Rotterdam IV (1908-1940). I have several photos which once belonged to the dark-haired couple sitting in the back of the room. He has his left arm around her and a glass raised in his right hand. Their identities... Continue Reading →
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