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Vintage: American Child Laborers by Lewis Hine (1900s-1910s)

14 May 2017 0

In 1908 Lewis Hine became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC), leaving his teaching position. Over the next decade, Hine documented child labor, with focus on the use of child labor in the Carolina Piedmont, to aid…

Vintage: Daily Life of Vienna, Austria by Emil Mayer (1900s-1910s)

13 May 2017 0

From 1891 to 1896 Emil Mayer studied law at the University of Vienna. In 1896, he earned the juris doctorate. In 1894, while still a student, he converted from the Jewish community to Catholicism. After his studies he settled in…

Vintage: Japan in the late XIX Century (Meiji period, 1870s-1880s)

7 May 2017 0

In 1869 The Emperor was restored to nominal supreme power, and the imperial family moved to Edo, which was renamed Tokyo (“eastern capital”). However, the most powerful men in the government were former samurai from Chōshū and Satsuma rather than…

Vintage: Japanese Maikos and Geikos Girls (Taisho Period – 1910s-1920s)

3 May 2017 0

Maiko originated from women who served green tea and dango (Japanese dumpling made from rice flour) to people who visited the Kitano Tenman-gū or Yasaka Shrine (these are the two of the famous shrines in Kyoto) at teahouses in the…

Historic B&W photos of Amsterdam, Holland in the 19th Century

1 May 2017 0

The end of the 19th century is sometimes called Amsterdam’s second Golden Age. New museums, a train station, and the Concertgebouw were built; in this same time, the Industrial Revolution reached the city. The Amsterdam-Rhine Canal was dug to give…

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 – 1860)

29 April 2017 0

Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other…

Vintage: Streets of St. Louis, Missouri (1900s)

25 April 2017 0

During the decades after the Civil War, St. Louis grew to become the nation’s fourth largest city, after New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. It also experienced rapid infrastructure and transportation development and the growth of heavy industry. The period…

Historic B&W photos of Florence, Italy in the 19th Century

21 April 2017 0

Florence replaced Turin as Italy’s capital in 1865 and, in an effort to modernise the city, the old market in the Piazza del Mercato Vecchio and many medieval houses were pulled down and replaced by a more formal street plan…

Vintage: U.S Airmail Service (1918-1927)

18 April 2017 0

The first scheduled U.S. Air Mail service began on May 15, 1918, using six converted United States Army Air Service Curtiss JN-4HM “Jenny” biplanes flown by Army pilots under the command of Major Reuben H. Fleet and operating on a…

Vintage Glass Plate diptych portraits of Women & Girls (1904-1917)

17 April 2017 0

Collection of early 20th century Glass Plate negative diptych portraits of Women & Girls from David Knights-Whittome Photographic Archive 1904-1917.

Vintage: Kids and their Pedal Cars (1920s-1950s)

16 April 2017 0

Reaching the peak of popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s, pedal cars experienced a resurgence in the 1950s to 1960s with chain-driven models. With postwar prosperity in the 1950s, pedal cars grew more popular and were available in…

Vintage Black and White photos of German Castles

13 April 2017 0

The centuries of invasive enterprises of the Romans from the South, Vikings from the North, and the multitude of marauding tribes and nomads from the East, each wreaking their own special brand of terror, necessitated construction of border, royal and…

Vintage: Edwardian Markets in the 1900s

6 April 2017 0

Oliver Williamson gives a transaction cost explanation for the rise of the modern corporation and argues that the wide variety of governance structures and forms of organization were an evolutionary response by businesses to lower the information and coordination costs…

Vintage: The Harlem Hellfighters – 369th Infantry Regiment during World War I

5 April 2017 0

On 5 October 1917 long time secretary to Booker T. Washington, Emmett J. Scott was appointed Special Assistant to Newton D. Baker, the Secretary of War. Emmett was to serve as a confidential advisor in situations that involved the well-being…

Vintage: Railway in Chicago (1940s)

4 April 2017 0

Chicago is the most important railroad center in North America. More lines of track radiate in more directions from Chicago than from any other city. Chicago has long been the most important interchange point for freight traffic between the nation’s…

Vintage: Liverpool (early 20th century)

3 April 2017 0

By the start of the 19th century, a large volume of trade was passing through Liverpool, and the construction of major buildings reflected this wealth. In 1830, Liverpool and Manchester became the first cities to have an intercity rail link,…

Vintage: Rio de Janeiro (1880s-1910s)

31 March 2017 0

When Prince Pedro proclaimed the independence of Brazil in 1822, he decided to keep Rio de Janeiro as the capital of his new empire. Rio continued as the capital of Brazil after 1889, when the monarchy was replaced by a…

Vintage: Early Days of the London Underground

28 March 2017 0

The idea of an underground railway linking the City of London with some of the railway termini in its urban centre was proposed in the 1830s, and the Metropolitan Railway was granted permission to build such a line in 1854.…

Vintage: Soldiers Swimming and Playing in the Water during World War I

27 March 2017 0

Time spent out of the line at least offered the opportunity for the frontline soldier to get clean. Communal baths would be set up and lice-infested clothing steam-cleaned. The chance to be clean was another essential prop to morale.

Vintage: Canadian Pacific Railway Locomotives (1880s)

23 March 2017 0

The construction of the national railway by the Canadian Pacific Railway company in the 1880s is inextricably linked with the settlement and development of Western Canada. Glenbow Museum has an extensive collection of more than 6000 railway-related historic photographs, which…

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