Days Gone By

Photo Crafts Shop of Denver, Vallecita’s leopards: Female animal trainer and leopard, 1906.

Source: Library of Congress

Elephants from Cole Brothers Circus crossing Olive Street with police escort in Los Angeles, California, 1953.

Source: Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library

Attending surgeon’s office, examination room, Washington, D.C., World War I.

Source: Otis Historical Archives National Museum of Health and Medicine

Lewis Wickes Hine, 10 year old Jimmie. Been shucking 3 years. 6 pots a day, and a 11 year old boy who shucks 7 pots…Bluffton, South Carolina, February 1913.

Source: Library of Congress

Farm Security Administration photo of the sharecropping Handley family in Walker County, Alabama, ca. 1937.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Ben Shahn, Street musicians in Maynardville, Tennessee, USA, October 1935.

Source: Library of Congress

Lew Snowden of the Snowden Family Band, late 19th century.

New York City school children on the first day of school, 1915.

Source: Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection

Russell Lee, Soda jerker flipping ice cream into malted milk shakes. Corpus Christi, Texas, February 1939.

Source: Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection

Berenice Abbott, Penn Station, Interior, Manhattan, 1935-1938.

Source: New York Public Library