This photo gallery is a selection of Black and White vintage photos taken from the Library of Congress in Washington.
“… What I see has been here, in this place which extends between infinity and the subject (operator or spectator); it has been here, and yet immediately separated; it has been absolutely, irrefutably present, and yet already deferred…” Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida
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Child And Chicken Perched On Dog (1920)Photographer: James Abbe (1883-1973)
Tea Party (1909) Photographer: Anonymous
Cambridge, Massachusetts (1917) - Vincenzo Messina and his younger brother Angelo baking bread.Photographer: Lewis Hine (1874-1940)
Too many cooks do not spoil the broth, Rainbow Room kitchen, Sept. 24, 1934.Photographer: Samuel Herman (1875-1971)
Advertisements for Maine potatoes used as decorations during the barrel rolling contest in Presque Isle, Maine (1940).Photographer: Jack Delano
Ledyard, Connecticut (1940) - One of the Crouch children looking to see if the "pudd'n" is ready for their Thanksgiving dinner. Photographer: Jack Delano
The chef at the Rimrock Camp in the central Oregon land development project gets ready to go into action on the dinner gong (1936). Photographer: Arthur Rothstein (1915-)
African-Americans in the lineup for food at mealtime in the camp for flood refugees, Forrest City, Arkansas (1937). Photographer: Evans Walker (1903-1975)
Hunger ist der beste Koch (1898)Photographer: Myra Wiggins !1869-1956)
Indian Women And Child Preparing Dinner At The Camp (1899) Photographer: Heyn
Chickens Dinner Party (1886). Photographer: Anonymous
Natives at breakfast, movable chow shop, Canton (1919) Photographer: Anonymous
Mrs. Kleinschmidt a dinner guest in Eskimo igloo with dinner of frozen crabs (1924). Photographer: Frank Kleinschmidt
Midgets consuming meal-May party-Central Park in New York city Photographer: Anonymous
Syracuse freshmen at dinner, Poughkeepsie (1908). Photographer: Anonymous
Washington, D.C. Lynn Massman, wife of a student at the Naval Air Station, eating while her eight-weeks-old son takes a nap (1943). Photographer: Esther Bubley
Second Annual Dinner of the Transportation Association of Milwaukee, Hotel Pfister, May 2, 1907. Photographer: Anonymous
After dinner coffee, restaurant, Lufkin, Texas (1939). Photographer: Lee Russell
The Black Crook Co. (1893). Photographer: Anonymous
