Before Storyville of New Orleans shut down in 1917, it was the only legalized red-light district in North America, and French photographer E. J. Bellocq took portraits inside of these storied brothels. The Storyville photographs not only serve as a record of the prostitutes, but also the interiors of the businesses that housed them. AllContinue reading “Amazing Portraits of Prostitutes From New Orleans’ Storeyville in the Early 1910s”
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30 Incredible Vintage Photos of Beautiful Muscular Women From the Early 20th Century
40 Wonderful Vintage Photos Showing Life in the American Midwest During the Early 1910s
An amazing collection of antique glass plate negatives that shows beautiful life of the Midwest around 1913.
40 Wonderful Photos of Victorian Men With Their Dogs From the 19th Century
42 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Manhattan in 1936
Manhattan is one of the five Boroughs of New York City, made up of Manhattan Island and bounded by rivers. It is the cultural, financial, media, governmental, and retail center of New York City. The area that is now Manhattan was long inhabited by the Lenape Native Americans. At the turn of the 20th centuryContinue reading “42 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Manhattan in 1936”
52 Vintage Photos Showing Life in America during the 1950s
57 Amazing Vintage Photos of Las Vegas in the 1950s
35 Amazing Photos Showing Life of Appalachians in Eastern Kentucky in the Early 1960s
These bleak pictures appear to show America in the grip of the 1920s Great Depression. The reality is that they were taken in the 1960s, in a lonely valley in Eastern Kentucky long forgotten by affluent America. The pictures of Appalachia were taken by photographer John Dominis, and appeared in 1964 issue of LIFE, titledContinue reading “35 Amazing Photos Showing Life of Appalachians in Eastern Kentucky in the Early 1960s”
22 Stunning Photos of Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1948
Jackson Hole (originally called Jackson’s Hole by mountain men) is a valley between the Gros Ventre and Teton mountain ranges in the U.S. state of Wyoming, near the border with Idaho. The term “hole” was used by early trappers, or mountain men, as a term for a large mountain valley. These low-lying valleys, surrounded byContinue reading “22 Stunning Photos of Jackson Hole, Wyoming in 1948”
23 Vintage Photos Showing Everyday Life in Italy During the 1950s
Born in Signa in 1928, Italian photographer Piergiorgio Branzi was raised in Florence, a city that “looks stern”, in which “color is just a pleasant accessory, a filler, although it may appear splendid”. A city that was “born from two stone quarries: one for ‘pietra serena’, the color of gray graphite, and the other “pietraContinue reading “23 Vintage Photos Showing Everyday Life in Italy During the 1950s”
