Vintage Glass Stereographs from France (1920s)
Collection of Vintage Glass Stereographs from France (around Fountainebleau and the Normandy coast ) in 1920s from James Morley @ flickr.
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Historic B&W photos of Rome, Italy (19th Century)
In 1861 Rome was declared capital of Italy even though it was still under the Pope’s control. During the 1860s, the last vestiges of the Papal States were under French protection, thanks to the foreign policy of Napoleon III. It…
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Vintage Glass Plate negatives of workers and the machinery they manufactured (1900s)
Almost all of the glass plate negatives in the Clyde photograph collection were taken at the Clyde works in Granville, and depict both the workers and the machinery they manufactured. Subjects covered include: railway locomotives and rolling stock; agricultural equipment;…
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Vintage: historic B&W Streets of New York City (1900s and 1910s)
Collection of historic black and white photos of City Life and Streets of New York City (1900s and 1910s).
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Vintage: The Third Man (1949)
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. It is considered one of the greatest films of all time, celebrated for its atmospheric cinematography,…
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Vintage: photos of St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec and Ottawa (1906)
Vintage photographs of St. Anne de Beaupre in Quebec and Ottawa by Joseph Burr Tyrrell taken in 1906.
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Vintage 19th century Victorian Era Cabinet Cards (1880s to 1890s)
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…
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Vintage: Photos of West African Villages and its People (1910-1913)
Photos in this set were taken by H. Hunting of the Paterson Zochonis trading company between approximately 1910 and 1913. The company began as a trading post in 1879, and began shipping African products to the United Kindom and importing…
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Vintage Black and White Portraits of Hollywood Actresses (1930s)
Photo collection of Vintage Black and White Portraits of Hollywood Actresses from 1930s.
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Vintage: The Public Enemy (1931)
The Public Enemy (released as Enemies of the Public in the United Kingdom) is a 1931 American all-talking pre-code crime film produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film was directed by William A. Wellman and stars James Cagney, Jean…
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Victorian Era Daguerreotypes of Men in Hats (1850s)
Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotypes of men in hats (1850s) from Lisby @ Flickr.
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Historic photos of The Times of India in Mumbai (Bombay) in 1898
The Times of India is the world’s largest selling English-language daily newspaper. It is also third largest selling newspaper in any language in the world and the largest selling newspaper outside Japan. The Times of India is the most widely…
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Vintage photos of City Life of Berlin during the interwar period (1920s)
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…
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Historic B&W photos of Warsaw under Russian Partition in the 19th century
Partitions of Poland were a series of three partitions that took place towards the end of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years. The partitions were…
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Vintage: Portraits of Women Smoking Pipes (1900s)
Photo collection of vintage portraits of women smoking pipes from the 1900s.
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Vintage: New York’s Bohemian Greenwich Village (1910s – 1920s)
Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870 – 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States mostly known for her portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich Village. Greenwich Village became widely identified as America’s bohemia by…
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Vintage Glass Plate portraits by Freeman Brothers Studio (1871-1880)
The Freeman Brother Studio lays claim to being the longest running studio in Australia. It was established as the ‘Freeman Brothers and Wheeler’ by William Freeman and his brother James in George Street in 1854; it was still running nearly…
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Vintage: Queensboro Bridge Under Construction (New York, 1907-1909)
The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge – because its Manhattan end is located between 59th and 60th Streets – and officially titled the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in…
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Historic B&W photos of Bosnia in 19th Century
Bosnia and Herzegovina fell under Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878 when the Congress of Berlin approved the occupation of the Bosnia Vilayet, which officially remained part of the Ottoman Empire. Three decades later, in 1908, Austria-Hungary provoked the Bosnian crisis by…
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The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and the most well-known and commercially successful adaptation based on the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
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