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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: 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: Irish War of Independence (1919-1921)

25 April 2018 0

Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the British security forces in Ireland. It was an escalation of the Irish revolutionary period into warfare. via National Library of Ireland

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Vintage: Portraits of Lillian Gish (1920s)

12 February 2018 0

After 10 years of acting on the stage, she made her film debut opposite Dorothy in Griffith’s short film An Unseen Enemy (1912). At the time established thespians considered “the flickers” a rather base form of entertainment, but she was…

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Vintage: Margaret Gorman, The First Miss America (1920s)

27 January 2018 0

Gorman was a junior at Western High School in Washington, D.C. when her photo was entered into a popularity contest at the Washington Herald. She was chosen as “Miss District of Columbia” in 1921 at age 16 on account of…

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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: Death Valley Road Trip in 1926

27 December 2017 0

The Death Valley Automobile Trip photograph album containing 76 prints appears to be the record of a sightseeing trip made from Los Angeles to Death Valley in 1926. A written record–in the form of diary entries–is also included and consists…

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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: 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 in Mongolia (1925)

5 November 2017 0

With the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, Mongolia under the Bogd Khaan declared independence. But, the newly established Republic of China considered Mongolia to be part of its own territory. Yuan Shikai, the President of the Republic of…

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Vintage: Cycling down the Eiffel Tower (1923)

11 October 2017 0

In 1923, as France was recovering from the first World War, journalist Pierre Labric decided to ride a bicycle down the stairs from Level 1 of the Eiffel Tower (there are three levels). The Eiffel tower is 324 metres in…

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Vintage: Daily Life in Galicia, Eastern Europe (1920s)

27 September 2017 0

Collection of photographs taken around 1920 when Galicia belonged to Poland. Today it is the western part of the Ukraine. All the photographs were taken in Rohatyn, Kuniuszki by unidentified photographer. via Wolfgang Wiggers

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Vintage: Glass Plate Collection from the Illinois State Journal (1929 – 1936)

19 July 2017 0

Raymond Hodde was the Illinois State Journal’s first staff photographer. He began taking pictures for the newspaper in 1929, just a year after Col. Ira Copley bought the Journal and put into place a plan to modernize it and update…

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

27 June 2017 0

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Vintage: Building the Tyne Bridge (1927 to 1929)

11 June 2017 0

The Tyne Bridge is one of the North East’s most iconic landmarks. These photographs were taken by James Bacon & Sons of Newcastle and document its construction from March 1927 to October 1928. They belonged to James Geddie, who was…

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Vintage: Glass Plate Collection from the Illinois State Journal (1929 – 1936)

19 May 2017 0

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Vintage: Japanese Maikos and Geikos Girls (Taisho Period – 1910s-1920s)

3 May 2017 0

Maiko originated from women who served green tea and dango (Japanese dumpling made from rice flour) to people who visited the Kitano Tenman-gū or Yasaka Shrine (these are the two of the famous shrines in Kyoto) at teahouses in the…

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Vintage: U.S Airmail Service (1918-1927)

18 April 2017 0

The first scheduled U.S. Air Mail service began on May 15, 1918, using six converted United States Army Air Service Curtiss JN-4HM “Jenny” biplanes flown by Army pilots under the command of Major Reuben H. Fleet and operating on a…

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Vintage: Portraits of First Miss Europe in 1929

7 March 2017 0

Miss Europe was a first annual beauty pageant with female contestants from all over Europe. It was established in February 1929 by French journalist Maurice de Waleffe, who also created, in 1920, what by 1927 had become the Miss France…

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