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1900s

Vintage: Regrading in Seattle (1900s)

4 December 2022 0

Seattle’s first 58 regrades “consisted largely of cutting the tops off high places and dumping the dirt into low places and onto the beach”. The most dramatic result of this was along that former beach, filling the land that constitutes…

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Vintage: Cliff House in San Francisco (1900s)

1 July 2022 0

In 1896, Adolph Sutro rebuilt the Cliff House from the ground up as a seven-story Victorian chateau, called by some “the Gingerbread Palace”, below his estate on the bluffs of Sutro Heights. This was the same year work began on…

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Flying Train “Wuppertal Schwebebahn” in Germany, 1902

15 July 2021 0

Construction on the actual Schwebebahn began in 1898, overseen by the government’s master builder, Wilhelm Feldmann. On 24 October 1900, Emperor Wilhelm II participated in a monorail trial run. In 1901 the railway came into operation. It opened in sections:…

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Vintage: Historic B&W photos of Brussels in 1908

30 June 2021 0

During the 19th century, the population of Brussels grew considerably; from about 80,000 to more than 625,000 people for the city and its surroundings. The Senne had become a serious health hazard, and from 1867 to 1871, under the tenure…

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Vintage: Young Winston Churchill (1884-1904)

28 December 2019 0

Churchill was born at the family’s ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, on 30 November 1874, at which time the United Kingdom was the dominant world power. Direct descendants of the Dukes of Marlborough, his family were among the highest…

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Vintage: New York’s original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (1903)

18 November 2019 0

The original Waldorf-Astoria was among America’s first big hotels. When it was built during the Victorian era, and for years thereafter, it was considered the finest hotel in the world — and it soon became the most famous, for its…

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Vintage: Midwest (1910s) Glass photo negatives

16 September 2019 0

Collection of antique glass plate negatives found by William Creswell. Most of these supposedly date from around 1913 and originate in the Midwest. At least one clue places these images in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area.

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Vintage: Paris by Émile Zola (1900s)

26 August 2019 0

Émile Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French novelist, playwright, journalist, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of…

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Vintage: R.M.S. “Mauretania” (1906)

18 August 2019 0

RMS Mauretania was an ocean liner designed by Leonard Peskett and built by Wigham Richardson and Swan Hunter for the British Cunard Line, launched on the afternoon of 20 September 1906. Mauretania departed Liverpool on her maiden voyage on 16…

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Vintage: Midwest (1910s) Antique glass photo negatives

20 July 2019 0

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Vintage: Portrait Photos of the Dare Sisters: Phyllis and Zena (early 20th Century)

12 June 2019 0

Two of the most stunning and popular actresses of Edwardian England were the sisters Dare, Phyllis and Zena, who for decades delighted audiences in London’s West End and on tour. At the height of their fame, their likenesses graced hundreds…

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Vintage: Claude Monet in His Studio at Giverny

18 March 2019 0

Monet’s ambition of documenting the French countryside led him to adopt a method of painting the same scene many times in order to capture the changing of light and the passing of the seasons. From 1883, Monet lived in Giverny,…

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Vintage: Daily Life of Suffolk, England (Edwardian Era)

15 March 2019 0

By the fifth century, the Angles (after whom East Anglia and England are named) had established control of the region. The Angles later became the “north folk” and the “south folk”, from which developed the names “Norfolk” and “Suffolk”. Suffolk…

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Vintage: Devon, England (1900s)

8 March 2019 0

The name Devon derives from the name of the Britons who inhabited the southwestern peninsula of Britain at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain known as the Dumnonii, thought to mean “deep valley dwellers” from proto Celtic *dubnos…

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Vintage: Glass plate negative Family Portraits by Michael Miley Studio (early XX Century)

4 March 2019 0

Michael Miley (1841-1918) was a popular commercial photographer based in Lexington, Virginia. He is acclaimed for bringing artistry to the medium of photography and often sought to capture his subjects in more candid poses.

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Vintage: Victorian Play “Death and the Lady” (1906)

1 March 2019 0

A vaudeville performance based on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady.” Photographed by Joseph Hall, 1906. In 1906, The Journal of the English Folk Song Society published a piece on the old English ballad “Death and the Lady.”…

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Vintage: Zahra Khanom Tadj es-Saltaneh – Persian princess

2 January 2019 0

Taj Saltaneh (1883 – 1936‎) was a Persian princess and memoirist of the Qajar Dynasty, a daughter of Naser al-Din Shah, the King of Persia from 1843 to May 1896 by his wife Turan es-Saltaneh. She was married to Amir…

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Vintage: Coney Island, New York City (1900s)

30 December 2018 0

In 1824, the Gravesend and Coney Island Road and Bridge Company built the first bridge across Jamaica Ditch (by now known as Coney Island Creek), connecting the island with the mainland. The company also built a shell road across the…

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Vintage: A journey with the Orient Express from Vienna to Constantinople (1903)

20 December 2018 0

A journey with the Orient Express from Vienna to Constantinople in the year 1903. From a set of originally more than 200 negatives. Unfortunately many of them were exposed to moisture during the last 114 years and are irretrievable lost.…

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Vintage: Mug-shots of Prisoners (1900s)

10 December 2018 0

“Some years ago I discovered a cache of glass negative mug shots taken in the early 20th century; each negative was inscribed with the man’s name and alleged crime. In order to research the life of each man pictured in…

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