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1920s

Vintage: Panoramic photos of New Zealand by Robert Percy Moore (1920s)

4 January 2017 0

Robert Percy Moore is considered to be New Zealand’s greatest panorama photographer. He travelled extensively photographing homesteads, public events, royal visits, groups, and urban and rural scenery. 2489 of his panoramic negatives are held at the Alexander Turnbull Library. During…

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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: Trams in Poland (1920s)

10 October 2016 0

The history of tram transport in Poland dates back to 1866 when a 6-kilometre long horsecar line was built in Warsaw to transport goods and passengers between the Vienna Railway Station and the Wilno and Terespol stations across the Vistula…

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Vintage: Greta Garbo Portraits (1920s-1930s)

24 September 2016 0

Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American film actress and an international star and icon during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she was the youngest of three children of a working class family. In 1920, she took a…

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Vintage: The Golden Twenties in Berlin (1920s)

21 September 2016 0

1920s Berlin was a city of many social contrasts. While a large part of the population continued to struggle with high unemployment and deprivations in the aftermath of World War I, the upper class of society, and a growing middle…

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Vintage: Nudes/Erotica (1920s)

17 September 2016 0

Photo collection of 1920s French postcards of nude women and vintage erotica.

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Vintage Glass Stereographs from France (1920s)

1 July 2016 0

Collection of Vintage Glass Stereographs from France (around Fountainebleau and the Normandy coast ) in 1920s from James Morley @ flickr.

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Vintage photos of City Life of Berlin during the interwar period (1920s)

1 June 2016 0

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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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Historic photos of City Life and Streets of Dandong, China (1920s)

13 April 2016 0

Collection of historic photos of City Life of Dandong (1920s). Dandong, previously known as Andong and Antung, is a prefecture-level city in southeastern-eastern Liaoning province, People’s Republic of China.

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Historic photos of City Life of Berlin during the interwar period (1920s)

7 April 2016 0

The Golden Twenties in Berlin was a vibrant period in the history of Berlin, Germany, Europe and the history of the world in general. After the Greater Berlin Act the city became the third largest municipality in the world. Berlin…

1910s

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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History of Mercedes-Benz in Motorsport

19 December 2015 0

From the first automotive competition in history to its return to the Formula One championship with a works team for the 2010 season, the racing activities of Mercedes-Benz tell a success story that has its roots in the early days…

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

4 November 2015 0

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist…

1920s

Vintage French Erotic Postcards (1920s)

5 October 2015 0

A French postcard is a small, postcard-sized piece of cardstock featuring a photograph of a nude or semi-nude woman. Such erotic cards were produced in great volume, primarily in France, in the late 19th and early 20th century. The term…

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40 Glass Plate Mugshots from the 1920s

7 September 2015 0

These are wife killers, petty thieves, dealers of fake opium, hustlers – plucked from the street by the police of 1920s Sydney, Australia and photographed, fresh from the scene of the crime. These photographs reveal a lot more than the usual…

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Vintage: Wall Street bombing in 1920

31 July 2015 0

At 12:01pm on Thursday, September 16th, 1920, a blast shook the Financial District of New York City immediately killing 30 people, with another 8 to die later of wounds sustained in the blast. On top of the dead, there were…

1920s

Vintage: Poland during Interwar period (1918-1939)

20 July 2015 0

The History of interwar Poland comprises the period from the re-recreation of the independent Polish state in 1918, until the joint Invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939 at the onset of World War II.…

1920s

Vintage: Motor Racing from the 1920s-30s

13 July 2015 0

Donald James Harkness, pioneer in the Australian automotive and aeronautical industries, racing driver and record breaker, was born in Leichhardt, NSW in December 1898. On leaving school he became an apprentice in general engineering. At the age of 20 he…

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Vintage: photos of Ku Klux Klan Parade in 1920s

8 July 2015 0

The Ku Klux Klan was a secret organization; apart from a few top leaders the members never revealed their membership and wore masks in public. Investigators in the 1920s used KKK publicity, court cases, exposés by disgruntled Klansman, newspaper reports,…

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