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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…

1800s

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…

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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…

1800s

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

1800s

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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

1800s

Vintage: Russian Beauties in Traditional Costumes (late 19th Century)

26 July 2018 0

These photos were taken in the end of 19th century and now are kept in the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. The women in the photos are wearing traditional costumes of different regions of Russia. And though you…

1800s

Vintage: Portraits of American Ladies by Mathew Brady (1863)

1 July 2018 0

During the Civil War, Mathew Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in Washington, DC and New York…

1800s

Vintage: Everyday Life of Ontario, Canada by Reuben R. Sallows (late 19th Century)

29 June 2018 0

At the turn of the 20th century, when most cameras and photographers operated out of a studio, Ontario-based photographer Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937) took his heavy, cumbersome equipment outside. He photographed people at work and play in the small towns,…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of France by Amélie Galup (late 19th Century)

27 June 2018 0

Amélie Galup (1856-1943) taught herself photography in 1895 at the family home in Saint-Antonin-Nobleval, where she spent her vacations, turning the basement into a darkroom. She developed and printed the pictures she took of her husband, their two children and…

1800s

Vintage: Chinese People from Qing Dynasty (1860s)

23 June 2018 0

When the Tongzhi Emperor came to the throne at the age of five in 1861, these officials rallied around him in what was called the Tongzhi Restoration. Their aim was to adopt Western military technology in order to preserve Confucian…

1800s

Vintage: Everyday Life of New York by Wallace G. Levison (19th Century)

15 June 2018 0

Wallace G. Levison was a chemist, inventor, and lecturer who founded the Departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in the latter half of the 19th century. As the dawn of the 20th century…

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