Yearly Archives: 2021

23 Interesting Photos Showing Street Scenes of Vancouver From Between the 1950s and 1970s

Fred Herzog was born in Germany in 1930. Immigrating to Canada in 1952, he took odd jobs wherever he could find them. He rented a place at a rooming house, which is where he met Ferro Shelley Marincowitz, a South African who also happened to be a medical photographer. Herzog had an interest in photography;Continue reading “23 Interesting Photos Showing Street Scenes of Vancouver From Between the 1950s and 1970s”

35 Vintage Photos of Life in Puerto Rico in the Late 1930s & early 1940s.(1938-1942)

Puerto Rico (Spanish for ‘Rich Port’; abbreviated PR; Taino: Boriken, Borinquen), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. ‘Free Associated State of Puerto Rico’) is a Caribbean island and unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km)Continue reading “35 Vintage Photos of Life in Puerto Rico in the Late 1930s & early 1940s.(1938-1942)”

52 Stunning Photos of Classic Beauties Taken From the 1950s and 1960s

Born 1925 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Burt Glinn served in the United States Army between 1943 and 1946 before studying literature at Harvard University where he edited and photographed for the Harvard Crimson college newspaper. From 1949 to 1950, he worked for Life magazine before becoming a freelancer. Glinn became an associate member of Magnum inContinue reading “52 Stunning Photos of Classic Beauties Taken From the 1950s and 1960s”

46 Stunning Photos of Actress Anne Shirley From the 1920s to the Early 1940s

Manhattan-born Anne was christened Dawn Evelyeen Paris on April 17, 1918. Her father died while she was still a baby and she and her widowed mother lived a very meager New York existence at first. Beginning her career as a child actress under the stage name Dawn O’Day, Shirley adopted the name of the characterContinue reading “46 Stunning Photos of Actress Anne Shirley From the 1920s to the Early 1940s”