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Vintage: Decayed Daguerreotype Portraits by Mathew Brady (19th Century)

27 September 2018 0

Mathew Brady is one of the most celebrated 19th-century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War which earned him the title of “father of photojournalism”. The Library of Congress received…

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…

Vintage: The Globe Kittens (1902)

19 September 2018 0

In 1895, an amendment to Canadian law allowed the British Museum to receive one copy of all Canadian intellectual property deposted for copyright registration. This situation persisted until 1924, when – as part of a general reworking of Canadian copyright…

Vintage: Portraits of People in Their Traditional Costumes (1893 Chicago World’s Fair)

17 September 2018 0

The World Columbian Exposition was held from May to October 1893 in Chicago in honor of the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ discovery of the new world. In competition with many other cities, Chicago was finally designated the official site and…

Vintage: Smith and Telfer Studio in Cooperstown, New York (1865-1885)

13 September 2018 0

Washington G. Smith (1828-1893) and Arthur J. Telfer (1859-1954) spent almost one hundred years photographing people, events, and scenes in and around Cooperstown. At the time of his gift Telfer was 93 years old and was widely thought to be…

Vintage: Everyday Life of China (1921)

9 September 2018 0

These found photos from motohakone who bought at a flea market in Cannes, France in 1982. Photos were taken by a French speaking person when he made a trip to China (Shanghai, Suzhou, and Beijing) in October 1921. via motohakone

Vintage: Portrait Photos of Cambridge University Men (late 19th Century)

1 September 2018 0

The colleges at the University of Cambridge were originally an incidental feature of the system. No college is as old as the university itself. The colleges were endowed fellowships of scholars. There were also institutions without endowments, called hostels. The…

Vintage: Frances Louisa Clayton (19th Century)

25 August 2018 0

Several hundred women disguised themselves as men and took the bold step of leaving the comforts of home to serve their country during the Civil War. Frances Clalin Clayton disguised herself as a man and took the name Jack Williams…

Vintage: Street Scenes of the Munster Region, Ireland (late 19th Century)

17 August 2018 0

Munster is one of the provinces of Ireland situated in the south of Ireland. In early Ireland, the Kingdom of Munster was one of the kingdoms of Gaelic Ireland ruled by a “king of over-kings”. Following the Norman invasion of…

Vintage: Portraits of Icelandic People by Daniel Bruun (late 19th Century)

13 August 2018 0

Collection of portrait photos by Daniel Bruun (1856-1931), a member of the Danish Army, archaeologist and writer.

Vintage: Views of San Francisco by G. R. Fardon (1856)

9 August 2018 0

Originally published in 1856, George Robinson Fardon’s San Francisco Album is the earliest existing photographic record of an American city. An unmatched historical document of San Francisco during its years of rapid growth and burgeoning prosperity in the wake of…

Vintage: Montparnasse Train Derailment in Paris (1895)

6 August 2018 0

At first glance, the photos look like stills from an old disaster movie or a spectacular example of theme park scenery welcoming visitors to some wild new ride. However, these extraordinary images are actually testament to a real-life tragedy, the…

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…

Vintage: Clubs at North Carolina Women’s Colleges (early 20th Century)

1 August 2018 0

Not all clubs at women’s colleges in North Carolina were highly formal organizations. Many were formed to connect students with similar interests, to connect students from the same state, or purely in pursuit of fun. via North Carolina Digital Heritage…

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…

Vintage: Russian Beauties in Traditional Costumes (late 19th Century)

26 July 2018 0

These photos were taken in the end of 19th century and now are kept in the collection of the Russian Museum of Ethnography. The women in the photos are wearing traditional costumes of different regions of Russia. And though you…

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…

Vintage: Native Americans Dressed in European Attire (early 20th Century)

19 July 2018 0

Forced assimilation is a process of forced cultural assimilation of religious or ethnic minority groups, into an established and generally larger community. This presumes a loss of many characteristics which make the minority different. The Native Americans suffered both ethnic…

Vintage: Glass negatives by Frederick Danvers Power (1898 – 1926)

17 July 2018 0

Frederick Danvers Power (1861-1955 ) was born in England and educated at Malvern College, the Royal School of Mines, London, and the Mining Academy, Clausthal in Germany. In 1884 he migrated to Australia where he settled, initially in Melbourne, pursuing…

Vintage: Portraits of Children Who Lived in Spitalfields, London by Horace Warner (1900s)

16 July 2018 0

Around 1900, photographer Horace Warner took a series of portraits of some of the poorest people in London – creating relaxed, intimate images that gave dignity to his subjects and producing great photography that is without comparison in his era.…

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