The Monterey Jazz Festival is an annual music festival that takes place in Monterey, California, United States. It was founded on October 3, 1958 by jazz disc jockey Jimmy Lyons. The festival is held annually on the 20-acre (8 ha), oak-studded Monterey County Fairgrounds, located at 2004 Fairground Road in Monterey, on the third fullContinue reading “Photos of Attendees at the Monterey Jazz Festival in California in 1969”
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Handsome Photos of Actor Montgomery Clift During the Filming of ‘Red River’ (1948)
Red River is a 1948 American Western film, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. It gives a fictional account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas along the Chisholm Trail. The dramatic tension stems from a growing feud over the management of the drive, between theContinue reading “Handsome Photos of Actor Montgomery Clift During the Filming of ‘Red River’ (1948)”
Rare Photographs of New York City’s Parade at the End of World War I
On March 25, 1919, 20,000 men of the New York National Guard’s 27th Division owned the streets of Manhattan. Two million people turned out to see the division march five miles up Fifth Avenue after they came home from World War I. City officials estimated Manhattan’s population grew by 500,000 as people came from upstateContinue reading “Rare Photographs of New York City’s Parade at the End of World War I”
Myrtle Crawford: One of the Leading Models of the Late 1940s and Early 1950s
Born 1928 in Stirling, Scottish model Myrtle Crawford started modeling in a small way. She joined the Jean Bell modeling agency, sharing a flat with another top model of the day, Susan Abraham. At 36-19-36, Crawford’s hourglass figure was highly fashionable in the early 1950s. She worked with many celebrated photographers of the day, includingContinue reading “Myrtle Crawford: One of the Leading Models of the Late 1940s and Early 1950s”
Stunning Portraits of Young Navajo Boy, ca. 1907
These photographs were taken in 1905 or 1907 by photographer Carl Everton Moon (1879–1948). According to the Huntington Library, Carl Moon’s title read “Navajo Boy. Che-bah-nah.” There is conflicting information about the identity of the individual depicted. According to the Huntington Library, the man is Diné (Navajo), and the word “Bi-yazh” is transcribed from theContinue reading “Stunning Portraits of Young Navajo Boy, ca. 1907”
Amazing Vintage Photos of the Netherlands During the Mid-1960s
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands consists of twelve provinces; it borders Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, with a North Sea coastline to the northContinue reading “Amazing Vintage Photos of the Netherlands During the Mid-1960s”
50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1930s Volume 11
The 1930s (pronounced “nineteen-thirties” and commonly abbreviated as “the 30s”) was a decade that began on January 1, 1930, and ended on December 31, 1939. The decade was defined by a global economic and political crisis that culminated in the Second World War. It saw the collapse of the international financial system, beginning with theContinue reading “50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1930s Volume 11”
Mick Jagger Posed for the Mug Shot, 1967
In February 1967, two members of The Rolling Stones, lead singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards were arrested at Richards’ home, Redlands, West Wittering, Sussex for drug possession. The raid had been preceded by a major campaign by the tabloid newspaper the News of the World, whom Jagger was suing for libel at theContinue reading “Mick Jagger Posed for the Mug Shot, 1967”
25 Amazing Vintage Photos of Mexico in the Early 1950s
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. MexicoContinue reading “25 Amazing Vintage Photos of Mexico in the Early 1950s”
45 Photos Showing Men’s Fashion in the 1930s
The 1930s were a turbulent decade where the free-spirited, reckless, youthful “me” class of the roaring twenties was replaced by serious, masculine, working-class men who had responsibilities to their home and country. The stock market crash of 1929 not only put men out of work, but also out of reach of high fashions coming fromContinue reading “45 Photos Showing Men’s Fashion in the 1930s”
