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Vintage: It Happened One Night (1934)

19 October 2016 0

It Happened One Night is a 1934 American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed by Frank Capra, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father’s thumb, and falls in love…

Vintage: City Life in Poland (1959) by Gerald Howson

16 October 2016 0

In 1959, Gerald Howson was sent to Poland by The Queen magazine. He was supposed to come back to England with photographs depicting the Cold War reality. This inconspicuous Englishman who did not speak any Polish packed two Leica cameras…

Vintage: Trams in Poland (1920s)

10 October 2016 0

The history of tram transport in Poland dates back to 1866 when a 6-kilometre long horsecar line was built in Warsaw to transport goods and passengers between the Vienna Railway Station and the Wilno and Terespol stations across the Vistula…

Vintage: Traffic control in occupied Poland (1940-1941)

9 October 2016 0

Under the terms of two decrees by Hitler (8 October and 12 October 1939), large areas of western Poland were annexed to Germany. These included all the territories which Germany had lost under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, such as…

19th century Victorian Era Cabinet Cards (1870s to 1880s)

29 September 2016 0

Historic Victorian Era Cabinet Cards (1870s to 1880s) from the collection of John S. Rochon @ flickr. The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph…

Vintage: Panama Canal Construction (1904-1914)

28 September 2016 0

By the late nineteenth century, technological advances and commercial pressure allowed construction to begin in earnest. An initial attempt by France to build a sea-level canal failed after a great deal of excavation. This enabled the United States to complete…

Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844-1860)

25 September 2016 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: Greta Garbo Portraits (1920s-1930s)

24 September 2016 0

Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American film actress and an international star and icon during the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Stockholm, Sweden, she was the youngest of three children of a working class family. In 1920, she took a…

Historic B&W photos of Vienna, Austro-Hungary (19th Century)

23 September 2016 0

In 1804, during the Napoleonic Wars, Vienna became the capital of the Austrian Empire and continued to play a major role in European and world politics, including hosting the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867,…

Vintage: The Golden Twenties in Berlin (1920s)

21 September 2016 0

1920s Berlin was a city of many social contrasts. While a large part of the population continued to struggle with high unemployment and deprivations in the aftermath of World War I, the upper class of society, and a growing middle…

Vintage: The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)

19 September 2016 0

The Adventures of Robin Hood is a 1938 American swashbuckler film directed by Michael Curtiz. The film is about a Saxon knight who, in King Richard’s absence in the Holy Land during the Crusades, fights back as the outlaw leader…

Vintage: Toronto, Canada from the Top of Rossin House Hotel (1856)

18 September 2016 0

A number of panorama shots were included among these photographs by Armstrong Beere and Himes, taken from the roof of the Rossin House Hotel, which together provide an almost 360 degree view of the City of Toronto as it existed…

Vintage: Nudes/Erotica (1920s)

17 September 2016 0

Photo collection of 1920s French postcards of nude women and vintage erotica.

Historic B&W photos of Tunis, Tunisia, late 19th Century

14 September 2016 0

During the later 19th century, Tunis became increasingly populated by Europeans, particularly the French, and immigration dramatically increased the size of the city. This resulted in the first demolition of the old city walls, from 1860, to accommodate growth in…