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1900s
Vintage: Havana (early 20th Century)

Vintage: Havana (early 20th Century)

19 February 2017 0
As trade between Caribbean and North American states increased in the early 19th century, Havana became a flourishing and fashionable city. Havana’s theaters featured the most distinguished actors of the age, and prosperity among the burgeoning middle-class led to expensive…
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Vintage: Soldiers during World War I (1914-1918)

Vintage: Soldiers during World War I (1914-1918)

3 February 2017 0
Life for soldiers in World War I followed a specific routine that involved waking up at around 5 a.m., performing military drills when not engaged in direct combat, eating breakfast, having an early dinner, sleeping briefly, performing more military exercises…
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Vintage: Life in Sweden by Oskar Jarén (1910s-1920s)

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

26 January 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: Moscow and St. Petersburg during the 1910s

Vintage: Moscow and St. Petersburg during the 1910s

24 January 2017 0
Collection of vintage black and white photos of Moscow and St.Petersburg. Photos were taken by Andy Brill‘s grandfather during trips to England and Europe with the family.
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Vintage: Ellis Island immigrants (1900-1910s)

Vintage: Ellis Island immigrants (1900-1910s)

6 January 2017 0
Between 1905 and 1914, an average of one million immigrants per year arrived in the United States. Immigration officials reviewed about 5,000 immigrants per day during peak times at Ellis Island. Two-thirds of those individuals emigrated from eastern, southern and…
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Vintage: Studio Portraits of Girls with Cat by Arnold Genthe (1910s)

Vintage: Studio Portraits of Girls with Cat by Arnold Genthe (1910s)

25 December 2016 0
Arnold Genthe (1869 – 1942) was a German-born American photographer. Genthe had earned a doctorate in Philology before deciding to pursue photography in the early 20th century. Beginning in 1906, Genthe photographed a number of socialites and young girls with…
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Vintage: Group photos of Dancing Girls (1910s-1930s)

Vintage: Group photos of Dancing Girls (1910s-1930s)

17 November 2016 0
Collection of vintage black and white photos of Dancing Girls (1910s-1930s).
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Vintage Glass Plate diptych portraits of Women & Girls (1904-1917)

Vintage Glass Plate diptych portraits of Women & Girls (1904-1917)

7 November 2016 0
Collection of early 20th century Glass Plate negative diptych portraits of Women & Girls from David Knights-Whittome Photographic Archive 1904-1917.
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Vintage: Panama Canal Construction (1904-1914)

Vintage: Panama Canal Construction (1904-1914)

28 September 2016 0
By the late nineteenth century, technological advances and commercial pressure allowed construction to begin in earnest. An initial attempt by France to build a sea-level canal failed after a great deal of excavation. This enabled the United States to complete…
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Vintage: Women at work during World War I

Vintage: Women at work during World War I

14 August 2016 0
With men recruited for the armed forces, the industrial workforce changed. Women took on previously male-dominated roles in industry during the war, working alongside men in reserved occupations. Women made an increasingly varied contribution, working in labs, mills and factories,…
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Vintage: Circus Performers in Strabane (1910-1911)

Vintage: Circus Performers in Strabane (1910-1911)

27 July 2016 0
The three main circus shows photographed by Herbert Cooper were Duffy’s Circus, Buff Bill’s American Circus and Hanneford’s Canadian Circus. A few circuses toured Ireland in the years before 1914 and it was the heyday for these travelling shows. Big Tops…
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Vintage: historic B&W Streets of New York City (1900s and 1910s)

Vintage: historic B&W Streets of New York City (1900s and 1910s)

23 June 2016 0
Collection of historic black and white photos of City Life and Streets of New York City (1900s and 1910s).
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Vintage: Photos of West African Villages and its People (1910-1913)

Vintage: Photos of West African Villages and its People (1910-1913)

14 June 2016 0
Photos in this set were taken by H. Hunting of the Paterson Zochonis trading company between approximately 1910 and 1913.  The company began as a trading post in 1879, and began shipping African products to the United Kindom and importing…
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Vintage: New York’s Bohemian Greenwich Village (1910s – 1920s)

Vintage: New York’s Bohemian Greenwich Village (1910s – 1920s)

26 May 2016 0
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 – 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States mostly known for her portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village became widely identified as America’s bohemia by…
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Vintage Glass Plate diptych portraits of Women & Girls (1904-1917) part II

Vintage Glass Plate diptych portraits of Women & Girls (1904-1917) part II

22 April 2016 0
Collection of early 20th century Glass Plate negative diptych portraits of Women & Girls from David Knights-Whittome Photographic Archive 1904-1917.
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Vintage Glass Plate portraits of Pets (1910s)

Vintage Glass Plate portraits of Pets (1910s)

14 April 2016 0
Collection of early 20th century Glass Plate portraits of Pets from David Knights-Whittome Photographic Archive (1910s).
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Glass Plate Female Mugshots from Australia

Glass Plate Female Mugshots from Australia

25 March 2016 0
In 1990 the Historic Houses Trust rescued a remarkable collection of NSW Police forensic photographs from a flooded warehouse in Lidcombe. Created between 1912 and 1964, the archive contains approximately 130,000 glass plate negatives depicting crime scenes, police activities, forensic…
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Vintage: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1915 expedition to the Antarctic

Vintage: Sir Ernest Shackleton’s 1915 expedition to the Antarctic

23 February 2016 0
Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 – 1922) was a polar explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Here is a collection of…
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Vintage photos of Warsaw before World War 1914

Vintage photos of Warsaw before World War 1914

7 November 2015 0
Warsaw has had a particularly tumultuous history for a European city. It experienced numerous plagues, invasions, and devastating fires. The most destructive events include the Deluge, the Great Northern War (1702, 1704, 1705), War of the Polish Succession, Warsaw Uprising…
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Vintage Photos of Moscow in 1910s

Vintage Photos of Moscow in 1910s

24 October 2015 0
After losing the status as capital of the empire, the population of Moscow at first decreased, from 200,000 in the 17th century to 130,000 in 1750. But after 1750, the population grew more than tenfold over the remaining duration of…
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