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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…

Vintage: U.S. Classroom Scenes (late 19th Century)

5 December 2017 0

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was born during the American Civil War. Her 60-year career as a photographer began with portrait, news, and documentary work then turned to a focus on contemporary architecture and gardens, culminating in a survey of historic…

Vintage: Everyday Life and Street Scenes of Nuremberg (1910s)

3 December 2017 0

Nuremberg held great significance during the Nazi Germany era. Because of the city’s relevance to the Holy Roman Empire and its position in the centre of Germany, the Nazi Party chose the city to be the site of huge Nazi…

Vintage: Helsinki in the late XIX Century (1890s)

1 December 2017 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: Portraits of President Theodore Roosevelt (1900s-1910s)

29 November 2017 0

When Theodore Roosevelt became president of the U.S. in 1901 America’s society and economy were changing rapidly, and with his energy and visionary leadership he set the maturing nation on the path to prosperous growth and diplomatic influence that would…

Historic 19th century Cabinet Card Portraits with reverse side (1870s to 1880s)

28 November 2017 0

Collection of vintage 19th century Victorian Era Cabinet Card Portrait with reverse side (1870s to 1880s). The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on…

Vintage: Life in Sweden by Oskar Jarén (1910s-1920s)

27 November 2017 0

Oskar Jarén was born in Kasper Borg Frinnaryd in 1877 and died in his hometown in 1954. In 1960s all of his 2,000 glass plates were rescued from oblivion with the help of Frinnaryds photoclub. This collection documents daily life…

Historic B&W photos of Lyon, France in 19th Century

26 November 2017 0

Thanks to the silk trade, the Lyon became an important industrial town during the 19th century. In 1831 and 1834, the canuts (silk workers) of Lyon staged two major uprisings for better working conditions and pay. The 1831 uprising saw…

Vintage: Historical views of American National Parks (19th Century)

25 November 2017 0

By the Act of March 1, 1872, Congress established Yellowstone National Park in the Territories of Montana and Wyoming “as a public park or pleasuring-ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people” and placed it “under exclusive control of…

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 – 1860)

24 November 2017 0

Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other…

Vintage: 1906 San Francisco earthquake

21 November 2017 0

The 1906 earthquake preceded the development of the Richter magnitude scale by three decades. The most widely accepted estimate for the magnitude of the quake on the modern moment magnitude scale is 7.8; values from 7.7 to as high as…

Vintage: Lisbon in the 1940s

19 November 2017 0

During the Estado Novo regime (1926–1974), Lisbon was expanded at the cost of other districts within the country, resulting in nationalist and monumental projects. New residential and public developments were constructed; the zone of Belém was modified for the 1940…

Vintage: Everyday Life of Soviet People during World War II

17 November 2017 0

The Soviet Union suffered greatly in the war, losing around 27 million people. Approximately 2.8 million Soviet POWs died of starvation, mistreatment, or executions in just eight months of 1941–42. During the war, the Soviet Union together with the United…

Vintage: Everyday Life around the Yangtze River, China (1910s)

15 November 2017 0

“Yangtze” was actually the name of Chang Jiang for the lower part from Nanjing to the river mouth at Shanghai. However, due to the fact that Christian missionaries carried out their activities mainly in this area and were familiar with…

Vintage: Portrait of Miss Lily Elsie (1900s and 1910s)

11 November 2017 0

Lily Elsie’s biggest success came in creating the title role in the English-language version of The Merry Widow in the London production. Edwardes took Elsie to see the original German version (Die Lustige Witwe) in Berlin. Elsie was at first…

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