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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.…

Vintage: Mugshots of Prisoners (1900s)

10 July 2018 0

“Some years ago I discovered a cache of glass negative mug shots taken in the early 20th century; each negative was inscribed with the man’s name and alleged crime. In order to research the life of each man pictured in…

Vintage: Sydney during the 1900 Bubonic Plague

3 July 2018 0

When bubonic plague struck Sydney in 1900, George McCredie was appointed by the Government to take charge of all quarantine activities in the Sydney area, beginning work on March 23, 1900. At the time of his appointment, McCredie was an…

Vintage: Portraits of American Ladies by Mathew Brady (1863)

1 July 2018 0

During the Civil War, Mathew Brady and his associates traveled throughout the eastern part of the country, capturing the effects of the War through photographs of people, towns, and battlefields. Additionally, Brady kept studios in Washington, DC and New York…

Vintage: Everyday Life of Ontario, Canada by Reuben R. Sallows (late 19th Century)

29 June 2018 0

At the turn of the 20th century, when most cameras and photographers operated out of a studio, Ontario-based photographer Reuben R. Sallows (1855-1937) took his heavy, cumbersome equipment outside. He photographed people at work and play in the small towns,…

Vintage: Everyday Life of France by Amélie Galup (late 19th Century)

27 June 2018 0

Amélie Galup (1856-1943) taught herself photography in 1895 at the family home in Saint-Antonin-Nobleval, where she spent her vacations, turning the basement into a darkroom. She developed and printed the pictures she took of her husband, their two children and…

Vintage: Chinese People from Qing Dynasty (1860s)

23 June 2018 0

When the Tongzhi Emperor came to the throne at the age of five in 1861, these officials rallied around him in what was called the Tongzhi Restoration. Their aim was to adopt Western military technology in order to preserve Confucian…

Vintage: 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin

18 June 2018 0

On the morning of Monday 24 April, about 1,200 members of the Irish Volunteers and Irish Citizen Army mustered at several locations in central Dublin. Among them were members of the all-female Cumann na mBan. Some wore Irish Volunteer and…

Vintage: Everyday Life of New York by Wallace G. Levison (19th Century)

15 June 2018 0

Wallace G. Levison was a chemist, inventor, and lecturer who founded the Departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in the latter half of the 19th century. As the dawn of the 20th century…

Vintage: Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD

13 June 2018 0

This set shows photos of Swedish churches from 1100-1900 AD – a mix of stone and wooden churches, cathedrals and chapels – country churches as well as city churches. We think that these pictures well describe the wide range of…

Vintage: Victorian Fashion (19th Century)

10 June 2018 0

During the Victorian Era, a woman’s place was at home. Unlike in the earlier centuries when women could help their husbands and brothers in family businesses, in the nineteenth century, the gender roles became more defined than ever. Their dress…

Vintage: American Indian Girls (1900s)

6 June 2018 0

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. A vast variety of peoples, societies and cultures subsequently developed. Native Americans were greatly affected by the European colonization…

Vintage: Volcanoes and Avalanches by Tempest Anderson (1900s)

2 June 2018 0

Tempest Anderson (1846 – 1913) was an expert amateur photographer and vulcanologist. He was the world’s first volcano-chaser, scaling the world’s most dangerous slopes in his quest to photograph volcanoes as they erupted. He was a member of the Royal…

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