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Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Peking, China (19th Century)

18 November 2018 0

During the Second Opium War, Anglo-French forces captured the outskirts of the city, looting and burning the Old Summer Palace in 1860. Under the Convention of Peking ending that war, Western powers for the first time secured the right to…

Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Calcutta, India (1890s)

8 November 2018 0

Throughout the late 18th and 19th century, the city was a centre of the East India Company’s opium trade. By the 1850s, Calcutta had two areas: White Town, which was primarily British and centred on Chowringhee and Dalhousie Square; and…

Vintage: South of India (19th Century)

1 November 2018 0

The appointment in 1848 of Lord Dalhousie as Governor General of the East India Company set the stage for changes essential to a modern state. These included the consolidation and demarcation of sovereignty, the surveillance of the population, and the…

Vintage: Portraits of Clara Bow – Silent Movie Star

25 October 2018 0

Clara Bow (1905 – 1965) was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to “talkies” after 1927. Bow appeared in 46 silent films and 11 talkies.

Vintage: Portraits of Lucette Desmoulins by Biederer Brothers (1920s)

17 October 2018 0

Lucette Desmoulins was a French actress known for a few movies: Le bossu (1934), Un soir de réveillon (1933) and 77 rue Chalgrin (1931). She also appeared in muscials: Ma Femme (1927), Flossie (1929), Arsène Lupin, banquier (1930), Un soir…

Vintage: Portraits of Rudolph Valentino (1920s)

10 October 2018 0

Rudolph Valentino, byname of Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguolla, Alfonso also spelled Alfonzo, Raffaello also spelled Raffaelo, Pierre also spelled Pietro, and Filibert also spelled Filiberto (1895 – 1926), Italian-born American actor who was idolized as…

Vintage: Portraits of Abraham Lincoln (19th Century)

6 October 2018 0

Abraham Lincoln’s personal secretary John Nicolay believed that no photograph could capture Honest Abe’s essence: “There are many pictures of Lincoln,” he said, “[but] there is no portrait of him.” Over 130 photographs of Lincoln exist—here are a few you…

Vintage: Edinburgh, Scotland in Calotype (1840s)

2 October 2018 0

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson were a pair of Scottish photographers working in the 1840s. They are best known for their wonderful portraits, but over the course of their sadly short partnership (Adamson died only five years in, aged…

Vintage: Decayed Daguerreotype Portraits by Mathew Brady (19th Century)

27 September 2018 0

Mathew Brady is one of the most celebrated 19th-century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received…

Vinatge: Flooding in the Thames Valley, December 1915

24 September 2018 0

During a House of Commons sitting in February 1915, the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, replying to a question about the damage caused by flooding, said: “The attention of the Government has been called from time to time to the serious…

Vintage: The Globe Kittens (1902)

19 September 2018 0

In 1895, an amendment to Canadian law allowed the British Museum to receive one copy of all Canadian intellectual property deposted for copyright registration. This situation persisted until 1924, when – as part of a general reworking of Canadian copyright…

Vintage: Portraits of People in Their Traditional Costumes (1893 Chicago World’s Fair)

17 September 2018 0

The World Columbian Exposition was held from May to October 1893 in Chicago in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the new world. In competition with many other cities, Chicago was finally designated the official site and…

Vintage: Smith and Telfer Studio in Cooperstown, New York (1865-1885)

13 September 2018 0

Washington G. Smith (1828-1893) and Arthur J. Telfer (1859-1954) spent almost one hundred years photographing people, events, and scenes in and around Cooperstown. At the time of his gift Telfer was 93 years old and was widely thought to be…

Vintage: Everyday Life of China (1921)

9 September 2018 0

These found photos from motohakone who bought at a flea market in Cannes, France in 1982. Photos were taken by a French speaking person when he made a trip to China (Shanghai, Suzhou, and Beijing) in October 1921. via motohakone

Vintage: Portrait Photos of Cambridge University Men (late 19th Century)

1 September 2018 0

The colleges at the University of Cambridge were originally an incidental feature of the system. No college is as old as the university itself. The colleges were endowed fellowships of scholars. There were also institutions without endowments, called hostels. The…

Vintage: Frances Louisa Clayton (19th Century)

25 August 2018 0

Several hundred women disguised themselves as men and took the bold step of leaving the comforts of home to serve their country during the Civil War. Frances Clalin Clayton disguised herself as a man and took the name Jack Williams…

Vintage: Street Scenes of the Munster Region, Ireland (late 19th Century)

17 August 2018 0

Munster is one of the provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a “king of over-kings”. Following the Norman invasion of…

Vintage: Portraits of Icelandic People by Daniel Bruun (late 19th Century)

13 August 2018 0

Collection of portrait photos by Daniel Bruun (1856-1931), a member of the Danish Army, archaeologist and writer.

Vintage: Views of San Francisco by G. R. Fardon (1856)

9 August 2018 0

Originally published in 1856, George Robinson Fardon’s San Francisco Album is the earliest existing photographic record of an American city. An unmatched historical document of San Francisco during its years of rapid growth and burgeoning prosperity in the wake of…

Vintage: Montparnasse Train Derailment in Paris (1895)

6 August 2018 0

At first glance, the photos look like stills from an old disaster movie or a spectacular example of theme park scenery welcoming visitors to some wild new ride. However, these extraordinary images are actually testament to a real-life tragedy, the…

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