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Vintage: photos of Ku Klux Klan Parade in 1920s

8 July 2015 0

The Ku Klux Klan was a secret organization; apart from a few top leaders the members never revealed their membership and wore masks in public. Investigators in the 1920s used KKK publicity, court cases, exposés by disgruntled Klansman, newspaper reports,…

Vintage: Chicago’s 1919 race riot

7 July 2015 0

The riots began after an incident at a South side beach where an African-American teenager was killed, setting off five violence-filled days where dozens died and hundreds were injured. The rioting wasn’t quelled until Gov. Frank Lowden sent in 6,500…

Historic B&W photos of Naples, Italy (19th century)

6 July 2015 0

After the Expedition of the Thousand led by Giuseppe Garibaldi, which culminated in the controversial Siege of Gaeta, Naples became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861 as part of the Italian unification, ending the era of Bourbon rule.…

Vintage: Prohibition in Boston (1920s)

3 July 2015 0

Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1920 to 1933. The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down…

Vintage Glass Plate portraits of Animals and Birds from Australia

2 July 2015 0

Amazing collection of early 20th century Glass Plate negative portraits of Animals and Birds from Sydney Zoo in Australia.

Historic B&W photos of Rotterdam, Holland (19th century)

29 June 2015 0

The port of Rotterdam grew slowly but steadily into a port of importance. The greatest spurt of growth, both in port activity and population, followed the completion of the Nieuwe Waterweg in 1872. The city and harbor started to expand…

Vintage Mug Shot of Women criminals from North Shields (1903-1905)

27 June 2015 0

Collection of vintage photographs of prisoners brought before the North Shields Police Court between 1903 and 1905 in the collection of Tyne & Wear Archives.

World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893

27 June 2015 0

The World’s Columbian Exposition was a World’s Fair held in Chicago in 1893 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in the New World in 1492. The Exposition was an influential social and cultural event and had a…

Neofuturistic architecture of Eero Saarinen (1950s and 60s)

22 June 2015 0

Eero Saarinen was a Finnish American architect and industrial designer of the 20th century famous for shaping his neofuturistic style according to the demands of the project: simple, sweeping, arching structural curves or machine-like rationalism. Photographer Balthazar Korab worked for…

Vintage: Dracula (1931)

19 June 2015 0

Dracula is a 1931 vampire-horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Bela Lugosi as the title character. The concept of Dracula is taken from the stageplay as opposed to the novel, and the results are highly theatrical. Lugosi laughs…

Vintage: Altstadt, Dresden, Saxony, Germany in the late 19th Century

18 June 2015 0

The city of Dresden had a distinctive silhouette, captured in famous paintings by Bernardo Bellotto and by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl. Between 1806 and 1918 the city was the capital of the Kingdom of Saxony (which was a part…

Stanley Kubrick’s Photos from the 1940s

17 June 2015 0

Stanley Kubrick—who wrote and directed Lolita, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining—was one of America’s most influential filmmakers. Directors ranging from the Coen Brothers to Tim Burton paid visual homage to his works in…

Historic 19th century Cabinet Cards with reverse side (1870s to 1880s)

16 June 2015 0

Collection of historic 19th century Victorian Era Cabinet Cards with reverse side (1870s to 1880s). The cabinet card was a style of photograph which was widely used for photographic portraiture after 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph mounted on a…

Vintage: historic photos of Peking, China (1920s)

16 June 2015 0

An older English spelling, Peking, is the Postal Map Romanization of the same two characters as they are pronounced in Chinese dialects spoken in the southern port towns first visited by European traders and missionaries. Those dialects preserve the Middle…

The Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919

12 June 2015 0

The Boston Molasses Disaster occurred on January 15, 1919, in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. A large molasses storage tank burst, and a wave of molasses rushed through the streets at an estimated 35…

Cats and Dogs Dressed as People (1910s)

10 June 2015 0

Harry Whittier Frees (1879–1953) was an American photographer who created novelty postcards and children’s books based on his photographs of live, posed animals. He dressed the animals and posed them in human situations with props, often with captions; these can…

Fairy Tale Glass-Plate Portraits from Norway (1909)

6 June 2015 0

Amazing collection of early 20th century Fairy Tale Glass-Plate portraits by Norwegian photographer Eivind Enger.

Historic photos of China from 1889-1891

25 May 2015 0

In the 19th century, the great Chinese Diaspora began. Losses due to emigration were added to by conflicts and catastrophes such as the Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–79, in which between 9 and 13 million people died. In 1898, the…

Tod Browning’s Freaks (1932)

19 May 2015 0

Freaks is a rarity, a horror film that horrifies rather than frightens. It was slated on its release in 1932, has been blamed for the downhill career trajectories thereafter of the key players, and was banned in many countries for…

Shanghai postcards from 1930s

29 April 2015 0

For centuries a major administrative, shipping, and trading town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five opened to foreign trade following…

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