Daily Life in Historical Context

Photography evidencing daily life, including customs processes, communal dining, and auction events, illuminating past societal behaviors.

Vintage photograph. New York General Post Office. Mail dumped from "hopper" to face up table for facing and cancelling.

Airport in Warsaw. Foreign station - passport and clearing briefing (customs officers and travelers during luggage control); Photography from the series to the photojournalism "Please open!" (from the work of the Customs Office at the Foreign Station of the Airport in Warsaw), "Świat" 1959, No. 7; Prażuch, Wiesław (1925-1992); 1959 (1959-00-00-1959-00-00);

Gospoda of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Moniuszki 2; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Anefo photo collection. Christmas and New Year's letters etc. (at the post office). December 27, 1945

Anefo photo collection. View day KLM auction in Uithoorn of found item. February 15, 1955. Noord-Holland, Uithoorn

Haper of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Wośkowa 43; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Anefo photo collection. Series about the Limburg families Smedts and Poels from Horst who shot about 300 Allied pilots during the Second World War (above the Netherlands) in the farm "the black slice" helped to bring over border to belgium .. visitors on the farm. 1945. America, Horst, Limburg

Vintage photograph. New York General Post Office. Mail dumped from "hopper" to face up table for facing and cancelling.

The restoration of books after the Flood 4th november 1966, florence, Tuscany, italy, 1967.

Anefo photo collection. Repatriation center in Eindhoven. Report from the Repatration Center in Eindhoven. 1945. Eindhoven

Anefo photo collection. Dutch association "The collector" in the Koopmansbeurs in Amsterdam holds its New Year exchange exchange. January 4, 1959

Haper of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Tamka 45 A; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Citizens' Committee of Warsaw. Department Shopowy, ul. Jasna 19; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Anefo photo collection. Christmas rush at PTT. December 20, 1947

Vintage photograph. New York General Post Office. Distributing weekly magazines to city stations

Madeleine Farm near PAU. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vermont , Civil defense, Disaster victims. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Anefo photo collection. Vote. The oldies in the Municipal Care House Roeterstraat release their vote. May 15, 1963

Anefo photo collection. Election plate from Volendam. 25 June 1952. Noord-Holland, Volendam

Operation 'Alert' - Boston Regional Office - 1954 , Offices, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Lunch Scores -- Diners watching the scoreboard in operation today. Note waitresses in white trousers. A Cricket scoreboard has been created in the restaurant of Messrs. Pontings' Stores, so that the diners in London may watch the progress of the test match, run by run. Watch run is recorded immediately it is scored. June 8, 1934. (Photo by London News Agency Photos Ltd.).

Italy. friulia venezia giulia. monfalcone. mental hospital. 1910-1920.

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Risk information service own, photo number 156-0362. 1956

Anefo photo collection. Sign up in the green meadow for Elfstedentocht. The registration table. December 29, 1961. Friesland

Bingo game, Tulare migratory labor camp, Visalia, California, USA, Arthur Rothstein, U.S. Farm Security Administration, March 1940

firenze, topografi presso l'istituto geografico militare, 1900 1910

Unemployed in St. Mark's N.Y. ca. 1910-1915 .

Mrs. Churchill Briefs Winston's Aide - Mrs. Churchill addressing the helpers during her visit to her husband's committee rooms. Mrs. Churchill, wife of Conservative Party leader Winston Churchill, candidate for this Essex constituency in the General Election, visited the party's committee rooms at Snaresbrook House here, where about a hundred women are helping their leader's campaign. February 07, 1950. (Photo by Planet News Ltd.).

Store No. 14 of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Brick 1; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

pesatura merci e bagagli, 1951

Anefo photo collection. Emigration Canada Department of Registration for Local. April 17, 1948. Canada

Codex Sinaiticus (Ancient Bible) - Religion. February 05, 1934. (Photo by Keystone View Company Ltd.).

French Food and Agricultural Team Visits US. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Vintage photograph. New York General Post Office. Opening bundles of City mail received from distributing unit (battleship)

Operation 'Alert' - Boston Regional Office - 1954 , Offices, Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Store No. 45 of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Wilcza 19; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Anefo photo collection. Reproductions Hiroshima (Royal Film). March 4, 1954. Hiroshima

04/30/1917. The Red Cross festival in Barcelona. One of the Petition Tables that Collected Donations for the Dispensaries and hospital of the Charitable institution.

Anefo photo collection. Order RKJWV. July 4, 1946

British Railways at War - Hello and Goodbye- Transport and Travel in Wartime, UK, 1944 Service call at the HM Forces Baggage Room at a busy railway station (possibly Euston station in London) to deposit or collect their luggage. This service is free of charge. Signs indicate where personnel should go for 'kits in' and 'kits out', and a third sign reminds them that no coats or respirators may be deposited.

Anefo photo collection. Commemoration of Philips Anniversary Eindhoven. May 16, 1951. Eindhoven

St. Malo Conference, July 1950. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

The Renewal Committee of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Wiejska 3; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Here with photo of the "Butter Queue" taken in our Grocery Department this morning, when 8,000 pounds of butter, brought by Grace Bros. from Interstate, was released to the public. June 29, 1951. (Photo by Grace Bros. Pty. Ltd.).

Store No. 4 of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Ordynacka 7; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Treasury Department - Packing internal revenue stamps for shipment Stamps to the value of $1,000,000 packed daily. ca. between 1909 and 1932.

08/07/1922. Madrid. At the Post Office. The distribution yard, as it was yesterday afternoon, from a bird's eye view. (photo Larregla).

Fulbright Students in Paris. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Picture of Otto Cantzler's book "When the radio came to town". Picture from Östergötland Örkr. 1930.

Semester Hemmet in Fredensborg under Traffic Council 23-24 April 1955.

Anefo photo collection. Large annual market in Staphorst. Pressed the goods market. April 18, 1961. Overijssel, Staphorst

Opening ballot boxes

Store No. 35 of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Ilazna 84; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Martial law in Egypt: Examining passports at Port Said since Turkey formally declared war. 1914

Merchant Navy Hotel- Naval Accommodation in Bedford Square, London, England, UK, 1944 Mr R W Smith, Head Porter at the Merchant Navy Hotel on Bedford Square, checks over the baggage of newly-arrived guests in the hotel lobby. The notice boards above his head give official information to guests and there are also lists of 'what's on' in London. According to the original caption, Mr Smith is an old sailor, who first went to sea in 1902.

Anefo photo collection. Pledge for a chore Started pad finders hoist menu flags. 25 April 1962

San Francisco, California: c.1920 A small line of anonymous women made history by becoming the first of their sex to vote in an election after the 19th Amendment was passed.

San Franciscans of Japanese ancestry, appearing at the Civil Control Station for registration. In accordance with the Army's exclusion order No. 20, Japanese Americans would be interned in remote concentration camps for the duration of World War 2. (BSLOC_2014_10_249)

Anefo photo collection. Pledge for a chore Started pad finders hoist menu flags. 25 April 1962

Orangerie Exhibit (Opening of the crates at the Orangerie). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Anefo photo collection. Repatriation center in Eindhoven. Report from the Repatration Center in Eindhoven. 1945. Eindhoven

Store of the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Leszno, corner of Wronia; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Passover matzo were given to poor Jewish people in New York City. Jewish communities established mutual-aid societies to aid the poor in their neighborhoods. April 1908

12/19/1918. In the Spanish press. The Teachers of Albacete Pensioned by the Ministry of Public Instruction to tour Toledo and Madrid, during the visit they made yesterday to the Black and White and ABC Workshops.

Citizens' Committee of Warsaw. Hostel at ul. Ch Odna 49; F.S. (Fl. Ca 1915); 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Anefo photo collection. Captain Olivet (Empire State). Offering role 5000 signatures Stadhuishuis Amsterdam. July 18, 1953. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Rugles, Eure. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

Image of the distribution cards in the Buurkerk (Buurkerkhof) in Utrecht.

04/30/1938. General appearance of the Large room intended for the Free dining room, in the old convent of La Latina.

Anefo photo collection. Reception Hoornse Crediet Effectenbank (Lord Bak). January 2, 1954

Poston, Arizona. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are being registered upon first arrival at this War Relocation Authority center 5/10/1942.

Kitchen and tea room for the Citizens' Committee of Warsaw at ul. Wolska 40; 1915 (1915-00-00-1915-00-00);

Anefo photo collection. Sinterklaas printed in the Parcel Post department of the postal services in Amsterdam. December 2, 1960. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Appointments enter the necessary forms with a crowns pen and an ink pot. Wrong to printed photo.

Liberty Bonds - Advertising Methods - RESIDENTS OF CHINATOWN, N.Y., reading first Liberty Loan appeal. June 1917

Handmade sign boards. 40s.

International Union of Railways (UIC) kongress - 1960

Madrid, 31/07/1908. The exchange of duros. The collection of the Seville duros at the Mint.

Anefo photo collection. Registration National Reserve in Amsterdam for the inspection. December 12, 1956. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

New Hampshire, 1956 , Civil defense. Records of the Office of Civil Defense and Defense Mobilization

Jewish protest demonstrations against Palestine White Paper, May 18, 1939. Young men subscribing or 'enlisting'. 1939, Jerusalem

The fleetal mushroom (flame) in the Marvahuisje in The Hague, 1955.

Photo collection Government information service. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection Photo collection Government information service own, photo number 156-0353. 1956

St. Malo Conference, July 1950. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel

One of the first jobs in the re-construction of Hong Kong was to replace the yen with the new Hong Kong Dollar. October 08, 1945. (Photo by Royal Naval Official Photograph).

Illustration showing a bird singing match, in progress in a public house, in the East End of London, 1903. The birds, in little cages on the back wall, would be given a certain amount of time to sing and the number of notes that they produced would be recorded (in this case on the dining table in the foreground). Date: 21/02/1903

Abandoned tunnels provide emergency storage. The U.S. Office of Civil Defense used one of Boston's old Metropolitan Transit Authority tunnels to supplies of food, water, containers, sanitation kits, and medical supplies for nuclear war or other catastrophic disasters. Jan. 16, 1964.

Records of St. Elizabeths Hospital. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Photographic Prints of Buildings, Grounds, and People

Convention of Unemployed, N.Y.: J.E. How & Alex. Berkman dispute

08/24/1912. The charity party yesterday afternoon distribution of Bonds to the Poor Verified in the house of mercy of Santa Isabel under the presidency of the deputy mayor of the district.

Anefo photo collection. 80th anniversary of the National Academy of Visual Arts. December 22, 1950

Versorgung eines Verunglückten auf einer Hauptrettungswache in Berlin, Deutschland, 1895, Historisch, digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus ...

September 17, 1909. Barcelona. Distribution of Aid to the Wives of the Reservists. Every Saturday they are given an amount equal to the daily wage their Husbands earned. The Marchioness of Castellflorite (X), Founder of the Beneficial Association, appears in the group.

December 5, 1952 - 10,000th Visitor to Amerika Haus.

Anefo photo collection. Congress Insurance doors The Hague. September 7, 1954. The Hague, South Holland

Place where a sign for foreigners indicates the ban on the use of drugs. macao. China. asia. 1920-30.

Anefo photo collection. Drive for passport applications in connection with raising Leges Amsterdam, pressed. November 19, 1971. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland

Auction of secondhand goods 1941. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Idaho , Boise, Idaho , Ada County

12/31/1899. Antonio Maura at a polling station during an Election.

Anefo photo collection. Tour de France. Overview of the press halls where journalists prepare their stories. July 1, 1959

CCC-ID Party. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Pierre Agency. 1954-1972. Decimal Correspondence

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