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Vintage: Everyday Life of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in the 1880s

18 April 2018 0

Sri Lanka was known from the beginning of British colonial rule until 1972 as Ceylon. At first the area it covered did not include the Kingdom of Kandy, which was a protectorate from 1815, but from 1817 to 1948 the…

Vintage: Street Scenes of São Paulo, Brazil (1862 -1887)

16 April 2018 0

After Brazil became independent from Portugal in 1822, as declared by Emperor Pedro I where the Monument of Ipiranga is located, he named São Paulo as an Imperial City. In 1827, a law school was founded at the Convent of…

Vintage: Boston Showgirls in the 1940s

13 April 2018 0

A showgirl is a female dancer or performer in a stage entertainment show intended to showcase the performer’s physical attributes, typically by way of revealing clothing or even toplessness or nudity. Showgirls are often associated with Latin music and dance,…

Vintage: Street Shots of Oslo by Carl Størmer (1890s)

12 April 2018 0

Carl Størmer (1874-1957) is one of Norway’s pioneer photographers. He is known as an astronomer and mathematician. In history books Størmer is referred to as “The Northern Lights photographer”: he will go down in history as the first person to…

Vintage: Everyday Life of People during Edwardian Era

11 April 2018 0

The upper-classes embraced leisure sports, which resulted in rapid developments in fashion, as more mobile and flexible clothing styles were needed. During the Edwardian era, women wore a very tight corset, or bodice, and dressed in long skirts. The Edwardian…

Vintage: Everyday Life of Norwegians (late 19th Century)

9 April 2018 0

In 1886 20-year-old Ellisif R. Müller (1866-1949) married her cousin, regional doctor Andreas Wessel. The marriage led her to Kirkenes, where they lived out their lives. It was there, in her new home, that she made her debut as a…

Vintage: The Earliest Known Photographs of White House (1846)

8 April 2018 0

A Welsh immigrant named John Plumbe, Jr., who was one of the country’s first prominent professional photographers, took the daguerreotype in January 1846. The White House as it stands today is a very different building than when it was first…

Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives of Carole Lombard (1930s)

4 April 2018 0

Carole Lombard (1908 – 1942) was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised in Los Angeles by her single mother. At 12, she was recruited by the film director Allan Dwan and made her screen…

Vintage: Antique Automobiles And Their Owners (1900s-1910s)

2 April 2018 0

Antique automobile photos from William Creswell‘s collection from the 1900s to 1910s.

Vintage: Ottoman Clothing (19th Century)

1 April 2018 0

Ottoman clothing is the style and design of clothing worn by the Ottoman Turks. While the Palace and its court dressed lavishly, the common people were only concerned with covering themselves. Starting in the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, administrators…

Vintage: Portraits of Girls in Their First Communion (Edwardian era)

31 March 2018 0

The sacrament of First Communion is an important tradition for Catholic families and individuals. For Catholics, Holy Communion is the third of seven sacraments received. It occurs only after receiving Baptism, and once the person has reached the age of…

Vintage: Paris in the Belle Époque (1871 to 1914)

30 March 2018 0

The population of Paris was 1,851,792 in 1872, at the beginning the Belle Époque. By 1911, it reached 2,888,107, higher than the population today. Three major new French industries were born in and around Paris at about the turn of…

Vintage: American West During the American Frontier Days

27 March 2018 0

By 1848 the United States had acquired official title to the contiguous land stretching westward to the Pacific, south to the Rio Grande, and north to the 49th parallel. Americans had long since explored and settled in many of these…

Vintage: Whitby, England in the Late Victorian Era by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

23 March 2018 0

Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1853 – 1941) was an English pioneering photographic artist whose work presented an enduring record of life in the seaside town of Whitby, England, and surrounding areas, in the late Victorian era and early 20th century.

Vintage: 1930s American Hollywood Actors Portraits

17 March 2018 0

The 1930s was part of the Golden Age of Hollywood, when ‘actors’ were movie stars, and ‘films’ were genre-based masterpieces. This era contains some of the best actors of all time, many of whom are Academy Award winners, as well…

Vintage: The Ovitz Family – Seven Dwarfs of Auschwitz (1940s)

12 March 2018 0

The Ovitz family originated from Maramureş County, Romania. They were descended from Shimson Eizik Ovitz (1868–1923), a badchen entertainer, itinerant rabbi and himself a dwarf. He fathered ten children in total, seven of them dwarfs (afflicted with pseudoachondroplasia), from two…

Vintage: Portraits of Auschwitz Guards During World War II (1940s)

10 March 2018 0

In January 2017, Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance published a massive online record of the Auschwitz staff. The searchable database of the 8,502 overwhelmingly German personnel was created in part to dispel claims that the camp was staffed by many…

Vintage: 19th Century Sexual Revolution by Sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing

9 March 2018 0

Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s (1840 – 1902) principal work is Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie (Sexual Psychopathy: A Clinical-Forensic Study), which was first published in 1886 and expanded in subsequent editions. The last edition from the hand of the author (the…

Vintage: Boston Public Schools (late 19th Century)

4 March 2018 0

The Boston Pictorial Archive holds photographs documenting Boston-area adult and evening classes in the 19th century, with the bulk of the material covering the years between 1890 and 1893. These images offer interior views as well as adult students engaged…

Vintage: Trench Rats Killed by Terriers During World War I

22 February 2018 0

The trench soldier of World War I had to cope with millions of rats. The omnipresent rats were attracted by the human waste of war – not simply sewage waste but also the bodies of men long forgotten who had…

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