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Vintage: Streets of St. Louis, Missouri (early XX Century)

21 September 2017 0

When Missouri became a state in 1821, St. Louis County was created from the boundaries of the former St. Louis subdistrict of the Missouri Territory; St. Louis city existed within the county but was not coterminous with it. Starting in…

Vintage: Everyday Life in the U.S by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1900s-1910s)

15 September 2017 0

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was born during the American Civil War. In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national reputation as a professional photographer…

Vintage: Ottawa – Capital City of Canada (late 19th Century)

13 September 2017 0

Starting in the 1850s, large sawmills began to be erected by entrepreneurs known as lumber barons, and these became some of the largest mills in the world. Rail lines erected in 1854 connected Ottawa to areas south and to the…

Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)

7 September 2017 0

Robert Demachy was the leading French proponent of Pictorialism and the director of the Photo-Club de Paris, the French parallel to the American Photo-Secession (led by Alfred Stieglitz), the Viennese Kleeblatt, and the British Brotherhood of the Linked Ring. Like…

Vintage: San Francisco Before the Quake (1900s)

5 September 2017 0

By 1890, San Francisco’s population approached 300,000, making it the eighth-largest city in the United States at the time. Around 1901, San Francisco was a major city known for its flamboyant style, stately hotels, ostentatious mansions on Nob Hill, and…

Historic B&W photos of Copenhagen, Denmark, late 19th Century

31 August 2017 0

In 19th century, Copenhagen experienced a period of intense cultural creativity known as the Danish Golden Age. Painting prospered under C.W. Eckersberg and his students while C.F. Hansen and Gottlieb Bindesbøll brought a Neoclassical look to the city’s architecture. In…

Vintage: Women’s Styles of Maine from the Late 19th Century

30 August 2017 0

19th century fashions are highly romanticized in books and movies. Despite the prim and proper feminine ideal of the day, fashions in this period created an often exaggerated, ostentatious look. Tight corsets, gigantic hoop-skirts, and outrageous bustles make today’s fashion…

Vintage: New Jersey in the 1910s

28 August 2017 0

American photographer A.L.Opdyke documented everyday life from Trenton, Titusville and Plainsboro in New Jersey in 1912. via Richard

Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s)

26 August 2017 0

Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s). via jessecollectorfreak @ Flickr

Vintage: Studio Pictures of Soldiers in the 1910s

20 August 2017 0

Photo collection of soldiers posing with painting frames in the 1910s.

Vintage: Daguerreotypes of St. Louis from 1848-70 by Thomas Easterly

18 August 2017 0

Thomas Easterly (1809-1882), a native of Vermont, was an itinerant photographer in Iowa and the upper Midwest until 1848 when he settled in St. Louis. He operated a daguerreotype studio in the city until the 1870s. Thomas photographed mostly portrait,…

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

14 August 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…

Historic B&W photos of Berlin, Germany (19th Century)

7 August 2017 0

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century; the city’s economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main railway hub and economic centre of Germany. Additional suburbs soon developed and increased the area and population of Berlin.…

Vintage: Washington DC in the mid-19th Century (1840s-1860s)

5 August 2017 0

In the 1830s, the District’s southern territory of Alexandria went into economic decline partly due to neglect by Congress. The city of Alexandria was a major market in the American slave trade, and pro-slavery residents feared that abolitionists in Congress…

Vintage: Dublin in the late 19th Century (1860s-1890s)

3 August 2017 0

Dublin, unlike Belfast in the north, did not experience the full effect of the industrial revolution and as a result, the number of unskilled unemployed was always high in the city. Industries like the Guinness brewery, Jameson Distillery, and Jacob’s…

Vintage: Everyday Life of Seoul in Korean Empire (1900s)

1 August 2017 0

In the late 19th century, after hundreds of years of isolation, Seoul opened its gates to foreigners and began to modernize. Seoul became the first city in East Asia to have electricity, trolley cars, water, telephone, and telegraph systems all…

Vintage: Portraits of American Silent Film Movie Actresses

28 July 2017 0

Agnes Williams was the piano player at Fargo’s first Nickelodeon Theater, also a tremendous fan of early films, she wrote letters to every actor of the era, and they often replied to her fan letters, enclosing a signed photographic print…

Vintage: Victorian Era Portraits by Lady Clementina Hawarden (1860s)

26 July 2017 0

Lady Clementina Hawarden (1 June 1822-19 January 1865) was a noted portrait photographer of the 1860s. Hawarden first began to experiment with photography in 1857, taking stereoscopic landscape photographs before moving to large-format, stand-alone portraits of her daughters. Much of…

Vintage: Glass Plate Collection from the Illinois State Journal (1929 – 1936)

19 July 2017 0

Raymond Hodde was the Illinois State Journal’s first staff photographer. He began taking pictures for the newspaper in 1929, just a year after Col. Ira Copley bought the Journal and put into place a plan to modernize it and update…

Vintage: Everyday Life of Cairo in the 19th Century (1860s-1880s)

10 July 2017 0

Under the Ottomans, Cairo expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel. The city was the second-largest in the empire, behind only Constantinople, and, although migration was not the primary source of Cairo’s growth, twenty percent of its…

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