Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the east, the Severn Estuary to the south-east, the Bristol Channel to the south-west and the Irish Sea to the west and north. It had an estimated population of 3,170,000 in 2020 and has a total area ofContinue reading “17 Vintage Photos of Streets in Wales during the 1910s & 1920s”
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49 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Valencia, Spain in 1973
Valencia is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-largest city in Spain after Madrid and Barcelona, with 789,744 inhabitants in the municipality. The wider urban area also comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6 million. Valencia is Spain’s third-largest metropolitan area, with a population ranging from 1.7 toContinue reading “49 Vintage Photos Showing Life in Valencia, Spain in 1973”
50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1950s Volume 8
The 1950s (pronounced nineteen-fifties; commonly abbreviated as the “Fifties” or the ” ’50s”) (among other variants) was a decade that began on January 1, 1950, and ended on December 31, 1959. Throughout the decade, the world continued its recovery from World War II, aided by the post-World War II economic expansion. The period also sawContinue reading “50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1950s Volume 8”
40 Interesting Photos of Paris in 1942
(Photos by André Zucca) André Zucca was born in 1897 in Paris, the son of an Italian dressmaker. Zucca spent part of his youth in the United States before returning to France in 1915. Following the outbreak of World War I, he joined the French Army where he was wounded and decorated with the CroixContinue reading “40 Interesting Photos of Paris in 1942”
Vintage Pre-War Photos Of Women And Their Motorcycles
42 Color Photos Show Life of Milan in the Early 1980s
Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4 million, while its metropolitan city has 3.26 million inhabitants. Its continuously built-up urban area, that stretches well beyond the boundaries of the administrative metropolitan city andContinue reading “42 Color Photos Show Life of Milan in the Early 1980s”
59 Amazing Photos Showing Life in the 1850s
73 Amazing Photographs of New York City During the Late 1970s
There is a strong current of nostalgia for the late ’70s, even among those who never lived through it — the era when the city was edgy and dangerous, when women carried Mace in their purses, when even men asked the taxi driver to wait until they’d crossed the 15 feet to the front doorContinue reading “73 Amazing Photographs of New York City During the Late 1970s”
30 Incredible Color Photos of Montreal, Canada in the 1960s
Montreal is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as Ville-Marie, or “City of Mary”, it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill around which the early city of Ville-Marie is built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal, whichContinue reading “30 Incredible Color Photos of Montreal, Canada in the 1960s”
23 Vintage Photos Showing Massachusetts During the Winter of 1940-1941
Massachusetts, officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the United States. It borders on the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Maine to the east, Connecticut to the southwest and Rhode Island to the southeast, New Hampshire to the northeast, Vermont to the northwest, and New YorkContinue reading “23 Vintage Photos Showing Massachusetts During the Winter of 1940-1941”
