1940s Vintage: Photos of American women in World War II 4 March 2016 0 During World War II, approximately 400,000 U.S. women served with the armed forces and more than 460 – some sources… Read more
1940s Vintage Photos of Rural Romania in 1940s 3 February 2016 0 During the Second World War, Romania tried to remain neutral, but on 28 June 1940, it received a Soviet ultimatum… Read more
1940s Vintage Glass-Plate Portraits from Romania (1940s) 29 January 2016 0 Amazing collection of portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in a small… Read more
1940s Vintage: Classic Polish Films (1940s and 50s) 10 December 2015 0 After the horrors of the Nazi occupation and repressive postwar Soviet domination, Polish cinema suddenly took off in the mid-50s… Read more
1940s Vintage: Bergen-Belsen Nazi Concentration Camp Guards 5 November 2015 0 When British and Canadian troops finally entered Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in northern Germany they found over 13,000 unburied bodies and (including… Read more
1940s Finland during World War II 12 October 2015 0 Finland during World War II encompasses three major conflicts. The first two of these – the defensive Winter War in… Read more
1940s Glass-Plate Family Portraits from Romania (1940s) 30 September 2015 0 Amazing collection of family portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in a… Read more
1930s Vintage: Police archives in Sydney (1930s and 40s) 15 August 2015 0 The Historic Houses Trust in Australia has a forensic photography archive at the Justice & Police Museum which contains an… Read more
1940s Stanley Kubrick’s Photos from the 1940s 17 June 2015 0 Stanley Kubrick—who wrote and directed Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining—was one of… Read more
1940s Broken Glass-Plate Portraits from Romania (1940s) 22 April 2015 0 Amazing collection of broken glass-plate portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in… Read more
1940s Mugshots of Female Nazi Concentration Camp Guards 23 March 2015 0 Portraits of the female prison camp guards which were taken after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen, a Nazi concentration camp,… Read more