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1910s

Vintage: WorldWar1 submarine U-118 at Hastings (1919)

12 August 2022 0

U-118 was to be transferred to France, but while in tow from Harwich to Brest, in company with UB-121, in the early hours of 15 April 1919, she broke tow in a storm, and ran aground on the beach at…

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Vintage: Princess May aground on Sentinel Island (1910)

8 July 2022 0

On 5 August 1910, Princess May, having departed from Skagway under the command of Captain MacLeod with 80 passengers, 68 crew, and a shipment of gold, was proceeding south down Lynn Canal in heavy fog. At a speed of about…

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Vintage: Christmas in New York City (1910s)

15 December 2021 0

The date of Christmas and some American traditions have pagan roots. In the Roman Empire, December 25th was the day of “natalis solis invict” (the Roman birth of the unconquered sun), and the birthday of Mithras, the Iranian “Sun of…

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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: Glass Plate Negatives of Norfolk, Virginia (1919)

6 August 2019 0

In the 1980’s 46 glass plate negatives were found in the attic of a Norfolk home. The plates measured 8.5” x 6.5”. Through the generous support of the Norfolk Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Old Dominion University, and Colorcraft…

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Vintage: Midwest (1910s) Antique glass photo negatives

20 July 2019 0

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Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Norfolk, Virginia (1919)

2 June 2019 0

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Vintage: Portraits of Geraldine Farrar (1910s)

26 May 2019 0

Geraldine Farrar (1882- 1967) was an American soprano opera singer and film actress. Farrar was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, the daughter of baseball player Sidney Farrar, and his wife Henrietta Barnes. At age 5, she began studying music in Boston…

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Vintage: Broken Blossoms (1919)

12 May 2019 0

Broken Blossoms is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D.W. Griffith. Cheng Huan (Richard Barthelmess) leaves his native China because he “dreams to spread the gentle message of Buddha to the Anglo-Saxon lands.” His idealism fades as he…

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Vintage: Old Hamburg (1910s)

27 February 2019 0

After periodic political unrest, particularly in 1848, Hamburg adopted in 1860 a semidemocratic constitution that provided for the election of the Senate, the governing body of the city-state, by adult taxpaying males. Other innovations included the separation of powers, the…

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Vintage: Titanic before Its Sinking in 1912

23 January 2019 0

The passenger facilities aboard Titanic aimed to meet the highest standards of luxury. According to Titanic’s general arrangement plans, the ship could accommodate 833 First Class Passengers, 614 in Second Class and 1,006 in Third Class, for a total passenger…

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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: Clémentine Delait – French bearded lady

19 December 2018 0

Clémentine Delait (1865 – 1939) was a French bearded lady who kept a café. Delait and her husband kept a café in Thaon-les-Vosges, in Lorraine, France. According to later accounts, Clémentine Delait visited a carnival, saw a bearded woman with…

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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…

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Vintage: First Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914)

4 August 2018 0

In 1911 a group of scientists and adventurers left Hobart under the leadership of Dr Douglas Mawson. They were bound for Macquarie Island and the then unknown parts of Antarctica. The scientists of the expedition produced information that later made…

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Vintage: London by Rex Hazlewood (1918-1919)

29 July 2018 0

David ‘Rex’ Hazlewood (1886 – 1968) was born in Dulwich Hill in Sydney’s Inner West and grew up in the suburban areas around Homebush, Chatswood and Epping. He first trained as a tailor in a city clothing warehouse but it…

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Vintage: Hamburg, Germany (1910s)

22 July 2018 0

When Jan van Valckenborgh introduced a second layer to the fortifications to protect against the Thirty Years War in the seventeenth century, he extended Hamburg and created a “New Town” (Neustadt) whose street names still date from the grid system…

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Vintage: 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin

18 June 2018 0

On the morning of Monday 24 April, about 1,200 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army mustered at several locations in central Dublin. Among them were members of the all-female Cumann na mBan. Some wore Irish Volunteer and…

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Vintage: Ivyhurst (early 20th Century)

25 May 2018 0

Ivyhurst’ was the home of Robinson Franklin Downey (1849-1923) and his wife, Ella Jean ‘Jennie’ (Wilson) (Lindsey) Downey (1860-1934), prominent citizens with influential political ties. ‘Ivyhurst’ played host to such celebrities as President William H. Taft, Woodrow Wilson’s Vice President…

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Vintage: Harriet Quimby, the First Licensed U.S. Woman Pilot (1910s)

17 May 2018 0

Harriet Quimby became interested in aviation in 1910, when she attended the Belmont Park International Aviation Tournament in Elmont, New York. There she met John Moisant, a well-known aviator and operator of a flight school, and his sister Matilde. On…

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