Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s)
Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s). via jessecollectorfreak @ Flickr
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Vintage: Studio Pictures of Soldiers in the 1910s
Photo collection of soldiers posing with painting frames in the 1910s.
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Vintage: Daguerreotypes of St. Louis from 1848-70 by Thomas Easterly
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,…
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Vintage: Everyday Life and Street Scenes of Nuremberg (1910s)
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…
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Historic B&W photos of Berlin, Germany (19th Century)
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.…
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Vintage: Washington DC in the mid-19th Century (1840s-1860s)
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…
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Vintage: Dublin in the late 19th Century (1860s-1890s)
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…
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Vintage: Everyday Life of Seoul in Korean Empire (1900s)
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…
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Vintage: Portraits of American Silent Film Movie Actresses
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…
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Vintage: Victorian Era Portraits by Lady Clementina Hawarden (1860s)
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…
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Vintage: Glass Plate Collection from the Illinois State Journal (1929 – 1936)
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…
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Vintage: Everyday Life of Cairo in the 19th Century (1860s-1880s)
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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Vintage: Young Tasha Tudor and Her Children (1940s)
Tasha Tudor (1915–2008) is one of America’s best-known and beloved illustrators. Her first little story, Pumpkin Moonshine, was published in 1938. She illustrated nearly one hundred books, the last being the 2003 release, The Corgiville Christmas. She received many awards and…
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Vintage: New York City Manhattan Skyscrapers (early 20th Century)
New York has architecturally significant buildings in a wide range of styles spanning distinct historical and cultural periods. These include the Woolworth Building (1913), an early Gothic revival skyscraper with large-scale gothic architectural detail. The 1916 Zoning Resolution required setback…
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Vintage: Soldiers during World War I (1914-1918)
Despite the chaotic nature of war, the lives of soldiers followed relatively predictable schedules. Soldiers rose before dawn each morning, around 5 a.m. They performed standing drills called “Stand-to-Arms,” then received a daily ration of rum around 5:30 a.m. Soldiers…
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Vintage: Japan Daily Life by Arnold Genthe (1908)
Arnold Genthe was born in Berlin, Prussia, to Louise Zober and Hermann Genthe, a professor of Latin and Greek at the Graues Kloster (Grey Monastery) in Berlin. Genthe followed in his father’s footsteps, becoming a classically trained scholar; he received…
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Vintage: Life in Sweden by Oskar Jarén (1910s-1920s)
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…
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Vintage: The sinking and raising of U-Boat 110 (1918)
This collection is taken from an album of photographs found in the Swan Hunter shipbuilders collection at Tyne & Wear Archives. The album is from 1918 and documents the U.B. 110 before she was scrapped on the dry docks of…
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Vintage: Elisabeth Bridge in Budapest
The original permanent crossing, a decorative suspension bridge of chains, was built between 1897 and 1903, amid a corruption scandal. The Buda end of Erzsébet bridge runs directly into the massive foot of Gellért Hill, necessitating a complicated arrangement of…
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Vintage: 19th Century Photographers with their Cameras
Collection of vintage black and white photos of photographers with their cameras. From Beverly’s Flickr collection.
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