Vintage: photos of St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec and Ottawa (1906)
Vintage photographs of St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec and Ottawa by Joseph Burr Tyrrell taken in 1906.
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Vintage 19th century Victorian Era Cabinet Cards (1880s to 1890s)
Historic Victorian Era Cabinet Cards (1870s to 1880s) from the collection of John S. Rochon @ flickr. The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a card typically measuring 108 by 165 mm.
Vintage: Photos of West African Villages and its People (1910-1913)
Photos in this set were taken by H. Hunting of the Paterson Zochonis trading company between approximately 1910 and 1913. The company began as a trading post in 1879, and began shipping African products to the United Kindom and importing English goods. The company grew and expanded to Nigeria in 1899, and these photographs are of company employees and their…
Vintage Black and White Portraits of Hollywood Actresses (1930s)
Photo collection of Vintage Black and White Portraits of Hollywood Actresses from 1930s.
Vintage: The Public Enemy (1931)
The Public Enemy (released as Enemies of the Public in the United Kingdom) is a 1931 American all-talking pre-code crime film produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film was directed by William A. Wellman and stars James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods and Joan Blondell. The film relates the story of a young man’s rise in the criminal underworld…
Victorian Era Daguerreotypes of Men in Hats (1850s)
Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotypes of men in hats (1850s) from Lisby @ Flickr.
Historic photos of The Times of India in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1898
The Times of India is the world’s largest selling English-language daily newspaper. It is also third largest selling newspaper in any language in the world and the largest selling newspaper outside Japan. The Times of India is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a readership of 7.643 million.
Vintage photos of City Life of Berlin during the interwar period (1920s)
1920s Berlin was a city of many social contrasts. While a large part of the population continued to struggle with high unemployment and deprivations in the aftermath of World War I, the upper class of society, and a growing middle class, gradually rediscovered prosperity and turned Berlin into a cosmopolitan city.
Historic B&W photos of Warsaw under Russian Partition in the 19th century
Partitions of Poland were a series of three partitions that took place towards the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years. The partitions were conducted by the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia and Habsburg Austria, which divided up the Commonwealth lands among themselves…
Vintage: Portraits of Women Smoking Pipes (1900s)
Photo collection of vintage portraits of women smoking pipes from the 1900s.
Vintage: New York’s Bohemian Greenwich Village (1910s – 1920s)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 – 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States mostly known for her portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village became widely identified as America’s bohemia by the mid-1910s. The radicals who lived in Greenwich Village in the early 20th century rejected traditional structured socialization, preferring instead…
Vintage Glass Plate portraits by Freeman Brothers Studio (1871-1880)
The Freeman Brother Studio lays claim to being the longest running studio in Australia. It was established as the ‘Freeman Brothers and Wheeler’ by William Freeman and his brother James in George Street in 1854; it was still running nearly 150 years later. From Powerhouse Museum@flickr via Powerhouse Museum@flickr
Vintage: Queensboro Bridge Under Construction (New York, 1907-1909)
The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge – because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets – and officially titled the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City that was completed in 1909.
Historic B&W photos of Bosnia in 19th Century
Bosnia and Herzegovina fell under Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878 when the Congress of Berlin approved the occupation of the Bosnia Vilayet, which officially remained part of the Ottoman Empire. Three decades later, in 1908, Austria-Hungary provoked the Bosnian crisis by formally annexing the occupied zone, establishing the Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina under the joint control of Austria and Hungary.
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the most well-known and commercially successful adaptation based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
Historic Edwardian era Glass Plate photos of Automobiles (1900s)
Historic Edwardian era Glass Plates of Automobiles (1900s) from the collection of John S. Rochon @ flickr.
Vintage Retro Postcards of actress Miss Maude Fealy (1900s)
Photo collection of early XX century Vintage Postcards of actress Miss Maude Fealy (1900s). Maude Fealy (1883 – 1971) was an American stage and silent film actress who survived into the talkie era. At the age of three, she performed on stage with her mother and went on to make her Broadway debut in the 1900 production of Quo Vadis,…
Vintage: Little Caesar (1931)
Little Caesar released at the very beginning of 1931, was the first gangster “talkie” to truly capture that public’s fascination with a genre that has never really gone out of vogue since. The template for the classic gangster film is generally the rise and fall of the criminal and “Little Caesar” sticks to that script closely, telling the story of…
Behind the Scenes: The 39 Steps (1935)
The 39 Steps is a 1935 British thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll. Loosely based on the 1915 adventure novel The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan, the film is about a man in London who tries to help a counter-espionage agent prevent an organisation of spies called The 39 Steps from stealing top…
Historic B&W photos of German Castles
Collection of historic late 19th century black and white photographs of German Castles from 1890s.
