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Behind the Scenes: Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

13 November 2015 0

Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 American gangster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, Pat O’Brien, the Dead End Kids and Humphrey Bogart, along with Ann Sheridan and George Bancroft. The film was written by Rowland…

Vintage photos of Warsaw before World War 1914

7 November 2015 0

Warsaw has had a particularly tumultuous history for a European city. It experienced numerous plagues, invasions, and devastating fires. The most destructive events include the Deluge, the Great Northern War (1702, 1704, 1705), War of the Polish Succession, Warsaw Uprising…

Historic photos of The Chicago ’L ’

6 November 2015 0

The first ‘L’ began revenue service on June 6, 1892, when a small steam locomotive pulling four wooden coaches carrying a total of 27 men and 3 women departed the 39th Street station and arrived at the Congress Street Terminal…

Vintage: Bergen-Belsen Nazi Concentration Camp Guards

5 November 2015 0

When British and Canadian troops finally entered Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp in northern Germany they found over 13,000 unburied bodies and (including the satellite camps) around 60,000 inmates, most acutely sick and starving. The prisoners had been without food or water for…

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

4 November 2015 0

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent horror film, directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist…

Vintage Glass Plate negatives of workers and the machinery they manufactured (1900s)

2 November 2015 0

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;…

Vintage Photos of Moscow in 1910s

24 October 2015 0

After losing the status as capital of the empire, the population of Moscow at first decreased, from 200,000 in the 17th century to 130,000 in 1750. But after 1750, the population grew more than tenfold over the remaining duration of…

City life in Belgium (1934)

21 October 2015 0

Berit Wallenberg (1902–1995) was a Swedish archaeologist and art historian. She began photographing as a teenager and she always brought her camera on the many travels she made in Sweden and abroad, sometimes with her family or with other students,…

Werewolf of London (1935)

19 October 2015 0

Werewolf of London is a 1935 Horror film starring Henry Hull and produced by Universal Pictures. This movie represents the first attempt by Hollywood to bring werewolf mythology to the big screen. Mannered and stylized, it contains some intriguing ideas…

Finland during World War II

12 October 2015 0

Finland during World War II encompasses three major conflicts. The first two of these – the defensive Winter War in 1939–1940, and the Continuation War alongside the Axis Powers in 1941–1944 – were waged against the Soviet Union. The third…

Vintage: Mug Shots of Al Capone (1930s)

8 October 2015 0

On March 27, 1929, as Al Capone left a Chicago courtroom after testifying to a grand jury investigating violations of federal prohibition laws, Capone was arrested by FBI agents on charges of having committed contempt of court by feigning illness…

Vintage French Erotic Postcards (1920s)

5 October 2015 0

A French postcard is a small, postcard-sized piece of cardstock featuring a photograph of a nude or semi-nude woman. Such erotic cards were produced in great volume, primarily in France, in the late 19th and early 20th century. The term…

Russian Railroad Workshop

4 October 2015 0

Collection of images from 1912 documenting architecture of railroad workshop in Ribinsk, city close to Moscow. via English Russia

Vintage Daguerreotypes of widows in mourning (Victorian era, 1800s)

2 October 2015 0

Amazing collection of Victorian Era Daguerreotype portraits of women in mourning and widows. Lisby @ Flickr.

Glass-Plate Family Portraits from Romania (1940s)

30 September 2015 0

Amazing collection of family portraits by Romanian photographer Costică Acsinte. Costică Acsinte was born 4th of July, 1897 in a small village called Perieți, Ialomița County, Costică Acsinte fought in WWI. Despite his formation as a pilot, he was a…

Vintage Mug Shot of criminals from North Shields (1902-1905)

25 September 2015 0

Collection of historic photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1902 and 1905 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives.

Historic B&W photos of St. Petersburg, Russia in the 19th Century

22 September 2015 0

With the emancipation of the peasants undertaken by Alexander II in 1861 and an industrial revolution, the influx of former peasants into the capital increased greatly. Poor boroughs spontaneously emerged on the outskirts of the city. Saint Petersburg surpassed Moscow…