black and white

USA
c.1936-1939

A black and white glossy photograph taken in the 1930s, showing a slender woman with gray hair and glasses, standing next to an automobile (possibly a Plymouth, c. 1933-37??); the car is parked in...

March 1st, 1978

(unidentified building; architectural detail, ca. 1920-1930). Photograph. Description: Images taken during first stages of demolition, shop located at 20th and Broadway. Title: The Grey Shop....

March 1st, 1978

(unidentified building; architectural detail, ca. 1920-1930). Photograph. Description: Immages taken during dirst stages of demolition, shop located at 20th and Broadway. Title: The Grey Shop...

March 1st, 1978

(unidentified building; architectural detail, ca. 1920-1930). Photograph. Description: Images taken during first stages of demoliton, shop located at 20th and Broadway. Title: The Grey Shop....

8-Jul-43

This black and white photograph of the launcing of the S.S. John E. Wilkie, at Kaiser's Richmond Shipyard Number Two, appears to have been made just after the christening, as the ship is slipping...

8-Jul-43

This black and white photograph captures the classic ship launching moment when the bottle of champagne breaks, spuing champagne all over the ship sponsor, in this case, Mrs. Mary Lew Chinn....

8-Jul-43

Black and white photograph of eleven shipwrights at the hull of the S.S. John E. Wilkie, preparing the ship for launching. (Other workers are standing in the distance.) This image is interesting...

8-Jul-43

This black and white photograph shows Mrs. Mary Lew Chinn, red, white and blue ribbon covered champagne bottle in hand, taking aim at the S.S. John E. Wilkie, just before she launches the ship....

8-Jul-43

Photograph made of the speakers platform on the day Mrs. Mary Lew Chinn christened the S.S. John E. Wilkie. In the foreground, with her back to the camera is Doreen Jone, Flower girl, wearing a...

8-Jul-43

A black and white photograph taken at the launching of the S.S. John E. Wilkie, showing G. D. Hom, Bette Chinn (then Bette Lew) child in the foreground, Mrs. Mary Lew Chinn (Sponsor of the ship,...

8-Jul-43

This image was taken after the S.S. John E. Wilkie was launched. It shows Vivian Lew, Mrs. Mary Lew Chinn (Sponsor of the ship) and D. G. Hom standing on the speaker's platform, looking out...

8-Jul-43

This black and white photograph of the S.S. John E. Wilkie on launching day is one of a series of images made the day that Mrs. Mary Chinn (Mary Lew Chinn) was the sponsor of the ship and...

8-Jul-43

This photograph from the series about the launching of the S.S. John E. Wilkie, shows Flower Girl, Doreen Jone, with a bow in her hair and a flower lei around her neck. With her is Maid of Honor...

8-Jul-43

This photograph, from the series about the launching of the S.S. John E. Wilkie, shows the ship draped in red,. white and blue bunting, with a worker looking down at another worker nearer the keel...

8-Jul-43

This black and white photograph shows the christening party seated on the speaker's platform, probably before the launching of the S. S. John E. Wilkie at Shipyard Number Two in Richmond,...

8-Jul-43

This photograph shows the speakers' platform (curved "Deco" styling in red, white and blue) set up infront of the S.S. John E. Wilkie before it was christened by sponsor, Mrs. Mary Lew Chinn....

8-Jul-43

This black and white photograph show Mrs. Mary Lew Chinn, sponsor of the ship, S.S. John E. Wilkie before she christened it. She is wearing an embroidered black silk satin jacket, with an orchid...

8-Jul-43

Black and white photograph of the minister for the launching of the S.S. John E. Wilkie at the Kaiser Shipyard Number Two in Richmond, California. He stands behind a microphone in a dark robe,...

1924-1930

Photographiic portrait of an aviator "Friend Lowell Ralph from Sonora [California]." Man with wide smile, dressed in white (shirt?/jumpsuit?-closes with snaps and zipper), white helmet, with...

1929

Photograph of an aviator (John or Tom Penfield) dressed in jodpurs, laced boots, leather flying jacket, helmet, goggles (pushed up on to the helmet) standing behind a biplane in a field of scrub...

1930

Photograph of a tri motor plane with a young man standing in front of it and next to a 1930 Cord convertible (which was blue with light blue trim).

1929-1930

Photograph of an aviator, perhaps Burt Lane, who landed his plane in the city limits of Stockton in order to buy gasoline. He pulled into a Standard Oil Company station and is being serviced with...

1930

Photograph of two planes at the Stockton airfield, with a Cort convertible parked with them. The biplane (90HP K5 engine) evidently is the plane used by the donor's father to get his commercial...

1931

Photograph of an aviator (dressed in slacks and a white shirt) leaning on the tail of an airplane with tail markings: NC 233M StanAvo.

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