I’m traveling for work this week and everything is always a bit jumbled when you travel, isn’t it? At any rate, it’s resulted in a jumbled post!

Every now and then I upload images to this website’s library intending to post them later, and then I forget about them.  I like the posts to have a theme but, in this case, the only thing these pictures have in common is that they’ve all been forgotten in the Old Spirituals library for quite some time!

Jackson Police Dept. Jackson, Mississippi, 1914. Almost everyone is in uniform, but the ones who aren’t blend in pretty well—except the three sitting in front. Who do you suppose they were?

No information on who this fascinating fellow is. I could make up a story about him and where he’s going or coming from. He’s got some game. Washington state, circa 1915

The subject of this photograph is Gertrude Boswell. Photographed by Arthur Glines, Boston, in 1905.

Unattributed. A busy corner at New Year’s (San Francisco).

Edward “Monk” Eastman, the New York Gangster.

A black tenement on Central Street. Feb 1, 1935.

Portrait of Mrs. C. Photographed by J. Craig Annan.

The Sheik’s daughter, 1923.

Nadezhda Plevitskaya, Russian folk singer and spy, photographed in 1909.