These portraits of African American men and women from locations in Texas were taken in the late 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Work Progress Administration (WPA). They are part of a group of 500, together with more than 2,000 first-person accounts of the experience of being a slave. PeopleContinue reading “60 Amazing Portraits of African-American Ex-Slaves in the Late 1930s”
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35 Vintage Photos Showing Women Beautifying Themselves in Front of Mirrors
22 Amazing Portrait Photos of Iranian Women From Between the 1920s and 1950s
Parisa Damandan (born 1967) is an Iranian photographer and art historian. She received a degree in photography from the University of Tehran. She is the author of Portrait photographs from Isfahan: Faces in transition, 1920-1950, a book illustrating the history of Isfahan in the early 20th century with portrait photographs, which she collected over aContinue reading “22 Amazing Portrait Photos of Iranian Women From Between the 1920s and 1950s”
40 Amazing Photos Showing Women’s Fashion in the 1950s
The 1950s were a time when fashion exploded into new directions, new colors, and new silhouettes. Cocktail dresses, circle skirts, short shorts, playsuits, or pants and capri… they all made the 1950s is one of the most glamorous eras of women’s fashion.
63 Beautiful Vintage Photos of Young Ladies from the Early 20th Century
48 Amazing Photos Showing Men’s Beard Styles From the 19th Century
31 Vintage Photos Showing Women During the 1940s
37 Beautiful Portrait Photos of Hungarian Women in the Early 1900s
45 Vintage Photos Of The Great Depression’s Forgotten African-American Victims
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States. The timing of the Great Depression varied around the world; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. It was the longest, deepest, and most widespread depression of theContinue reading “45 Vintage Photos Of The Great Depression’s Forgotten African-American Victims”
