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Vintage: American West During the American Frontier Days

27 March 2018 0

By 1848 the United States had acquired official title to the contiguous land stretching westward to the Pacific, south to the Rio Grande, and north to the 49th parallel. Americans had long since explored and settled in many of these…

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Vintage: Whitby, England in the Late Victorian Era by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

23 March 2018 0

Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1853 – 1941) was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century.

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Siberia (1900s)

8 February 2018 0

The growing power of Russia in the West began to undermine the Siberian Khanate in the 16th century. First, groups of traders and Cossacks began to enter the area. The Russian Army was directed to establish forts farther and farther…

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Vintage: Lewis Cycle and Motor Works Factory in Adelaide (1904-1906)

4 February 2018 0

In 1900, Lewis Cycle Works made the leap from bicycles to motor driven vehicles with the creation of the Lewis motor car. Built in-house, the company soon realized that there would be no profit in hand-built cars, when they could…

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Vintage: New York City before the Indoor Toilets

10 January 2018 0

If you’ve ever bemoaned the fact that you share a bathroom with several family members or housemates, you’re not alone. Most New Yorkers live in apartments and most units have just a single bathroom. A hundred and fifty years ago,…

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Vintage: Early 20th Century Kids Playgrounds

23 December 2017 0

On warm spring evenings, blustery fall afternoons, and sticky summer days, when nostalgia and memories brush past you, where does your mind go? Where did you spend many hours as a school-age child? For most of us it was a…

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Vintage: People Mesmerized by Holiday Windows in New York City (1900s)

20 December 2017 0

Each year department stores unveil their holiday window displays to admiring crowds. Festive windows have been a tradition in New York City since the 1870s; R.H. Macy, of the retailer Macy’s, is largely credited with having created one of the…

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Vintage: Canadian Cowboys (late 19th to early 20th Centuries)

7 December 2017 0

Southern Alberta was, and still is, ranching country, with millions of acres of grasslands providing pasture for hungry cattle. Many ranches were established in the province beginning in the 1880s, and cowboys were hired to help take care of the…

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Vintage: Portraits of President Theodore Roosevelt (1900s-1910s)

29 November 2017 0

When Theodore Roosevelt became president of the U.S. in 1901 America’s society and economy were changing rapidly, and with his energy and visionary leadership he set the maturing nation on the path to prosperous growth and diplomatic influence that would…

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Vintage: 1906 San Francisco earthquake

21 November 2017 0

The 1906 earthquake preceded the development of the Richter magnitude scale by three decades. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the quake on the modern moment magnitude scale is 7.8; values from 7.7 to as high as…

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Vintage: Portrait of Miss Lily Elsie (1900s and 1910s)

11 November 2017 0

Lily Elsie’s biggest success came in creating the title role in the English-language version of The Merry Widow in the London production. Edwardes took Elsie to see the original German version (Die Lustige Witwe) in Berlin. Elsie was at first…

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Vintage: Scotland during the Edwardian Era (1900s)

26 October 2017 0

The Edwardian era was a time of unprecedented social and political revolution in Britain. By the start of the new century, the country had reached a level of such general prosperity that, for the first time, working men and women…

1900s

Vintage: Everyday Life of Native American People (Early 20th Century)

21 October 2017 0

For thirty years, with the backing of men like J. Pierpont Morgan and former president Theodore Roosevelt, but at great expense to his family life and his health, Edward S. Curtis lived among dozens of native tribes, devoting his life…

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Vintage: Public portraits of President Theodore Roosevelt (1900s)

15 October 2017 0

On September 6, President McKinley was attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York when he was shot by Leon Czolgosz. Roosevelt was vacationing in Vermont, and traveled to Buffalo to visit McKinley in the hospital. It appeared that McKinley…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Mexico City (1900s)

13 October 2017 0

Under the rule of Porfirio Díaz, Mexico City experienced a massive transformation. Díaz’s goal was to create a city which could rival the great European cities. He and his government came to the conclusion that they would use Paris as…

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Vintage: Everyday Life in Belgium (1900s)

7 October 2017 0

Belgium was one of the first countries to experience an Industrial Revolution, which brought prosperity in the 19th century but also opened a political dichotomy between liberal businessmen and socialist workers. The king set up his own private colonial empire…

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Vintage: Cléo de Mérode Portraits (1890s and 1900s)

5 October 2017 0

Posing for many photographers who diffuse her image worldwide, in newspapers and postcards, she is elected Beauty Queen in 1896 among various celebrities. The same year, she enhances her fame when a white marble sculpture, La Danseuse, by Alexandre Falguière,…

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Vintage: Shipwrecks from Isles of Scilly (Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries)

1 October 2017 0

From 1869 onwards, members of the family systematically recorded most of the great shipwreck disasters that occurred around the Isles of Scilly — a small group of islands off the coast of Cornwall in southern England. Patriarch, seaman, and pioneering…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Austria (1904)

22 September 2017 0

Collection of images shot by an unknown photographer on a “Grand Tour” through Europe in 1904. via Bill Nelson

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Vintage: Streets of St. Louis, Missouri (early XX Century)

21 September 2017 0

When Missouri became a state in 1821, St. Louis County was created from the boundaries of the former St. Louis subdistrict of the Missouri Territory; St. Louis city existed within the county but was not coterminous with it. Starting in…

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