Tuesday, 25 April 2017

Sydney Charles Smith

A scene during the seamen's strike of 1922. Two policemen stand in 
the foreground and are separated from a crowd of men by four containers
 
Crowd alongside the Southern Cross aeroplane 
at Wellington Airport, Rongotai, 1933
 
Crowd at a Mahanga Bay military camp 
open day, Miramar, Wellington, 1907
 
Diving platform at Island Bay, 1926
 
Te Aro Baths, Oriental Bay, Wellington, 
during the Wellington Carnival in 1908
 
Courtesy Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand

Monday, 24 April 2017

William Henry Jackson

Mr. Jackson got around. We've previously seen pictures he took in Florida, the Old West, and Mexico. These were taken in Russia (Siberia).

Convict railway workers, Ussuri region, Siberia, 1895
 
Convicts lined up outside dormitory at Khabarovsk, 1895
 
Goldi woman, wife of village chief, smoking pipe, 1895
 
Goldi along the the Amur River, north of Khabarovsk, 1895
 
Goldi chiefs in best clothes, north of Khabarovsk, 1895
 
Goldi family group, north of Khabarovsk, 1895
 
Goldi tribesmen acting out folk drama, "The repulse of the kidnapper", 1895
 
Goldi village along the Amur River, north of Khabarovsk, 1895
 
Goldi village on the Amur, north of Khabarovsk, 1895
 
Source: Wikimedia Commons

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