Anne Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) got into show business quite early in life. She was born Ann Marvak on September 16, 1930 in Ossining, New York, the only child of Phillip Marvak, a businessman/salesman, and the former Edith Francis. A natural little beauty, she became a John Robert Powers model atContinue reading “60 Gorgeous Vintage Photos of Actress Anne Francis in the 1950s”
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44 Incredible Photos Of Life Inside Soviet Gulag Prisons
The Gulag was the government agency in charge of the Soviet forced-labour camp-system that was set up under Vladimir Lenin and reached its peak during Joseph Stalin’s rule from the 1930s to the early 1950s. English-language speakers also use the word gulag to refer to any forced-labor camp in the Soviet Union, including camps whichContinue reading “44 Incredible Photos Of Life Inside Soviet Gulag Prisons”
20 Strange Beauty Pageant Queens of Food Industry From the Mid-20th Century
56 Incredible Photos Of Hippies in San Francisco during The 1960s
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in UK English, was a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks who moved into NewContinue reading “56 Incredible Photos Of Hippies in San Francisco during The 1960s”
25 Vintage Photographs Show Daily Life of American Children During the Great Depression
During his 50 year career as a photographer, Arthur Rothstein documented a great variety of subjects, including baseball games, war, struggling farmers, and U.S. Presidents. After his graduation from Columbia University, Rothstein’s former professor Roy Stryker, the head of the Photo Unit for the Resettlement Administration (which would later become the Farm Security Administration) madeContinue reading “25 Vintage Photographs Show Daily Life of American Children During the Great Depression”
14 Amazing Images Showing the American Wild West
The American frontier, also known as the Old West or the Wild West, includes the geography, history, folklore, and culture in the forward wave of American expansion in mainland North America that began with European colonial settlements in the early 17th century and ended with the admission of the last few western territories as statesContinue reading “14 Amazing Images Showing the American Wild West”
25 Amazing Photos Showing Life in Watts a Year After the 1965 Riots
The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. On August 11, 1965, Marquette Frye, a 21-year-old African American man, was pulled over for drunken driving. After he failed a field sobrietyContinue reading “25 Amazing Photos Showing Life in Watts a Year After the 1965 Riots”
36 Vintage Photos of Philippe Petit’s Twin Towers Tightrope Walk in 1974
The original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. It opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. At the time of their completion, the Twin Towers—the original 1 World Trade Center (theContinue reading “36 Vintage Photos of Philippe Petit’s Twin Towers Tightrope Walk in 1974”
14 Vintage Photos Showing Postwomen in the Early 20th Century
Women have been transporting mail in the United States since the late 1800s. According to the United States Post Office archive, “the first known appointment of a woman to carry mail was on 3 April 1845, when Postmaster General Cave Johnson appointed Sarah Black to carry the mail between Charlestown Md P.O. & the RailContinue reading “14 Vintage Photos Showing Postwomen in the Early 20th Century”
Fatal 1912 Scott’s Expedition To The South Pole Documented By Henry Robertson Bowers
What does disappointment look like? What is the expression on a man’s face, expecting death in the icy wilderness? “The worst has happened”, Robert F. Scott wrote in his diary on January 17, 1912. The same day, Scott and four of his men had reached the South Pole after two and a half month’s marchContinue reading “Fatal 1912 Scott’s Expedition To The South Pole Documented By Henry Robertson Bowers”
