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Vintage: Hoboken, New Jersey (Early XX Century)

23 January 2018 0

Hoboken was originally formed as a township on April 9, 1849, from portions of North Bergen Township. As the town grew in population and employment, many of Hoboken’s residents saw a need to incorporate as a full-fledged city, and in…

Vintage: Swedish churches (19th Century)

18 January 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: Historical Photos of Harvard University (19th Century)

16 January 2018 0

Established originally by the Massachusetts legislature and soon thereafter named for John Harvard (its first benefactor), Harvard is the United States’ oldest institution of higher learning, and the Harvard Corporation (formally, the President and Fellows of Harvard College) is its…

Vintage: Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th Century (1700s)

14 January 2018 0

Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of People born in the late 18th century (1700s). From the collection of Jesse Cress at flickr

Vintage: Helsinki in the late 19th Century

12 January 2018 0

During the 19th century, Helsinki became the economic and cultural center of Finland; as elsewhere, technological advancements such as railroads and industrialization were key factors behind the city’s growth. The first Helsinki railway station opened in 1862 with service to…

Vintage: New York City before the Indoor Toilets

10 January 2018 0

If you’ve ever bemoaned the fact that you share a bathroom with several family members or housemates, you’re not alone. Most New Yorkers live in apartments and most units have just a single bathroom. A hundred and fifty years ago,…

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…

Vintage: Women Greeting New Year in Swimsuits (1930s)

1 January 2018 0

The ’20s suit which sometimes sported cutout sections in the midriff panel disappeared as it evolved into a two piece garment. By this era most of us would recognize the late 1930s swimsuits as one that bears some relationship to…

Vintage: Girls Celebrating the New Year’s Eve (1930s)

31 December 2017 0

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year’s Eve (also known as Old Year’s Day or Saint Sylvester’s Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on December 31 which is the seventh day of the Christmas season. In…

Vintage: Models in Victorian Era (19th Century)

29 December 2017 0

Toward the end of the era (about the 1890s) women’s fashions became simpler and less extravagant and bustles fell out of fashion. The new, looser dresses gave way to a more flowing look. Corsets were still worn, but became slightly…

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…

Vintage: Snow Removal in the New York City (late 19th Century)

25 December 2017 0

Snow removal was a daunting task at the time, without the more sophisticated equipment that we have today, removing snow meant shovels and carriages. They were still testing out methods of removal, and it wasn’t always quick and efficient. For…

Vintage: Early 20th Century Kids Playgrounds

23 December 2017 0

On warm spring evenings, blustery fall afternoons, and sticky summer days, when nostalgia and memories brush past you, where does your mind go? Where did you spend many hours as a school-age child? For most of us it was a…

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.

Vintage: People Mesmerized by Holiday Windows in New York City (1900s)

20 December 2017 0

Each year department stores unveil their holiday window displays to admiring crowds. Festive windows have been a tradition in New York City since the 1870s; R.H. Macy, of the retailer Macy’s, is largely credited with having created one of the…

Vintage: Portraits of Zsa Zsa Gabor (1950s)

18 December 2017 0

Zsa Zsa Gabor died exactly 1 year ago at the age of 99 of cardiac arrest at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, on December 18, 2016. Gabor began her stage career in Vienna and was crowned Miss Hungary in 1936.…

Vintage: Moving Day (early 20th Century)

16 December 2017 0

For our parents and grandparents, some things were so much harder. Yet, other things were easier because they were less complicated. Moving day is never easy for anyone, but these old photos show us what it was like to move…

Vintage: The Johnstown Flood – Great Flood of 1889

12 December 2017 0

When several days of heavy rain struck the area in late May 1889, club officials struggled to reinforce the neglected dam, which was under tremendous pressure from the swollen waters of Lake Conemaugh. The dam began to disintegrate, and on…

Vintage: Glass Plate Negatives Portraits of Victorian Era Ladies (1860s-1870)

10 December 2017 0

Glass plates were far superior to film for research-quality imaging because they were extremely stable and less likely to bend or distort, especially in large-format frames for wide-field imaging. Early plates used the wet collodion process. The wet plate process…

Vintage: Canadian Cowboys (late 19th to early 20th Centuries)

7 December 2017 0

Southern Alberta was, and still is, ranching country, with millions of acres of grasslands providing pasture for hungry cattle. Many ranches were established in the province beginning in the 1880s, and cowboys were hired to help take care of the…