Sketches

2/26/2022 - Taken in Donetsk in 1932-33, this photograph shows a “kulak” woman and her small child being evicted from their home in winter, dispossessed of everything but a small wagonload of their belongings pulled by hand behind them. Photo by Marko Zhelizniak

2/21/2022 - Edith Piaf reading Django Rheinhardt’s palm in Paris, 1940s. Photo by Michael Ochs.

2/14/2022 - A photochrom of Belgian milk peddlers with a dogcart, c. 1890–1900

2/6/2022 - A Soviet soldier smokes a cigarette at a checkpoint of the Soviet military airport in Kabul on February 10, 1989 as the other one forbids pictures.

1/29/2022 - a soviet soldier smashes a portrait of adolf hitler in the liberated city of gatchina (Гатчина), leningrad oblast, jan 1944

1/23/2022 - defense worker who is on night shift. during the day he works on the new home which he is building. detroit, mi. (1941)

1/18/2022 - eric bouvet - battle of grozny 1995 - chechnya wars

1/13/2022 - the close of a career in new york, handwritten: byron ny (between 1900-1906) (alt url https://www.thehenryford.org/collections-and-research/digital-collections/artifact/174075)

1/12/2022 - workers remove last of old type arc streets lights, meldrum and forest, detroit MI (1946)

1/10/2022 - inspection of landing gear at willow run (between 1941-1945)

1/8/2022 - welder oak ridge, manhattan project (1945) (source for 1945 being the year hinted at here in the photographer's obituary](https://www.wbir.com/article/news/do-not-publish-ed-westcott-photographer-for-the-manhattan-project-passes-away/51-7bf51211-cac6-4108-8986-6b150d3157dd))

12/31/2021 - nikolaj kassatkin - rival ladies (1890)

12/27/2021 - fedor vasilev - the thaw (1871)

12/26/2021 - isaac leviton - by the water's edge (undated)

12/25/2021 - isaac leviton - winter in the forest (1885)