April 27, 1922, NYC, NY, USA “Vreeland” ~ The lyric soprano Jeannette Vreeland, whose accomplishments include what is said to be the 1st concert given from an airplane - a radio broadcast from a Fokker over NYC in support of tubercular veterans. Bain News Service glass negativevia

ca 1918 Washington, D.C., USA. In the inimitable stylings of Harris & Ewing: “Cleveland, Esther, Miss. Group.” Esther Cleveland at right, daughter of Grover Cleveland, the only presidential child born in the White House via

ca 1905 The Jersey Shore ~ On the Beach at Atlantic City; Where’s my pail? 8”x10” dry plate glass negative, Detroit Publishing Co via

black-and-white: by lazareva valeria

June 1911; Norfolk, VA, USA; “Gus Hodges, age 11, instructing his brother Julius, age 5, in the finer points of Street Vending. Gus sells as late as 9 pm, and he said that he made over one dollar a day. Julius and another brother, 9 years old, had made 25 cents that day.” Photo by Lewis Wickes Hine. via

September 1938,  Abbeville, LA, USA; “Farmer’s truck at state rice mill” by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration via

4th of July … why do I always find great photos way too late?

Washington, D.C., USA ca 1916. “Society Circus — Ruth Anderson” [presumably on top]; Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative via

1970 Donald Sutherland (Canadian actor, 1935) via

Taken during noon hour, October 23rd, 1912, at the Loray Mills, Gastonia, NC, USA

“They said they were working and went in to work. At night I counted over 30 children coming out when the whistle blew, 10-12-years-old. The Superintendent was much disturbed over the photos”; photograph by Lewis Wickes Hine; via

navajowindpipe: 1893 The catboat “Mary”, based out of Greenwich, Connecticut, USA; photographed just flying across across the water. Lost at sea in 1895 off the coast of South Carolina, USA; via

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varietas: Karol Kállay (Slovakian, 1926) via

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essentz: John Cleese

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ca 1905 The Jersey Shore, “Crowded beach, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA”

These boys have been standing here for over an hour, hoping to spy a bare ankle via