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1910s

Vintage: Everyday Life in Saskatchewan, Canada (early 20th Century)

4 May 2018 0

On September 1, 1905, Saskatchewan became a province, with inauguration day held September 4. The Dominion Lands Act permitted settlers to acquire one quarter of a square mile of land to homestead and offered an additional quarter upon establishing a…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Guatemala (1910s and 1920s)

1 May 2018 0

After the assassination of general José María Reina Barrios on 8 February 1898, the Guatemalan cabinet called an emergency meeting to appoint a new successor, but declined to invite Estrada Cabrera to the meeting, even though he was the designated…

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Vintage: Roskilde in Denmark (1900s and 1910s)

20 April 2018 0

Roskilde has a long history, dating from the pre-Christian Viking Age. Its UNESCO-listed Gothic cathedral, now housing 39 tombs of the Danish monarchs, was completed in 1275, becoming a focus of religious influence until the Reformation. With the development of…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of People during Edwardian Era

11 April 2018 0

The upper-classes embraced leisure sports, which resulted in rapid developments in fashion, as more mobile and flexible clothing styles were needed. During the Edwardian era, women wore a very tight corset, or bodice, and dressed in long skirts. The Edwardian…

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Vintage: Antique Automobiles And Their Owners (1900s-1910s)

2 April 2018 0

Antique automobile photos from William Creswell‘s collection from the 1900s to 1910s.

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Vintage: Trench Rats Killed by Terriers During World War I

22 February 2018 0

The trench soldier of World War I had to cope with millions of rats. The omnipresent rats were attracted by the human waste of war – not simply sewage waste but also the bodies of men long forgotten who had…

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Vintage: Daily Life of Ringling Bros. Circus (1910s)

18 February 2018 0

Harry A. Atwell (1879-1957) was an American photographer. He was hired for his first circus assignment in 1910 to travel with the Ringling Bros. Circus. Over the next forty years he documented the roustabouts, big top crowds, sideshow performers and…

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Vintage: Portrait Postcards of the German Actresses (1910s-1920s)

8 January 2018 0

The German film industry (during Weimar Republic), which was protected during the war by the ban on foreign films import, became exposed at the end of the war to the international film industry while having to face an embargo, this…

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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: Boston during the Winter (1910s and 1920s)

22 December 2017 0

Here’s a selection of photographs taken by Leslie Jones, staff photographer for the Boston Herald-Traveler from 1917 to 1956, documents daily life in Boston from between the 1910s and 1920s, including during its snowiest days.

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Vintage: Everyday Life and Street Scenes of Nuremberg (1910s)

3 December 2017 0

Nuremberg held great significance during the Nazi Germany era. Because of the city’s relevance to the Holy Roman Empire and its position in the centre of Germany, the Nazi Party chose the city to be the site of huge Nazi…

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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: Life in Sweden by Oskar Jarén (1910s-1920s)

27 November 2017 0

Oskar Jarén was born in Kasper Borg Frinnaryd in 1877 and died in his hometown in 1954. In 1960s all of his 2,000 glass plates were rescued from oblivion with the help of Frinnaryds photoclub. This collection documents daily life…

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Vintage: Everyday Life around the Yangtze River, China (1910s)

15 November 2017 0

“Yangtze” was actually the name of Chang Jiang for the lower part from Nanjing to the river mouth at Shanghai. However, due to the fact that Christian missionaries carried out their activities mainly in this area and were familiar with…

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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: Daily Life of Paris during World War I by Charles Lansiaux

1 November 2017 0

Charles Lansiaux (1855-1939) became a photographer at the end of the 19th century. He established his own business in 1903, describing his company purpose as “Artistic and industrial photography, city works, emergency works, interior photography with artificial light, enlargements, amateur…

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Vintage: Paris during World War I by Charles Lansiaux

30 October 2017 0

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Vintage: Panama Canal (1914-1915)

3 October 2017 0

The Canal was begun working on by France in 1881, but after that was taken over by the United States in 1904, and opened on August 15, 1914. It is considered as one of the largest and most difficult engineering…

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Vintage: Everyday Life in the U.S by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1900s-1910s)

15 September 2017 0

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was born during the American Civil War. In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national reputation as a professional photographer…

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