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30 Wonderful Vintage Photos Showing Life in Stockholm During the 1950s

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. It has the most populous urban area in Sweden as well as in Scandinavia. Approximately 975,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. It is also the county seat of Stockholm County.

Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country’s GDP, and is among the top 10 regions in Europe by GDP per capita. Ranked as an alpha-global city, it is the largest in Scandinavia and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europe’s top ranking universities, such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Karolinska Institute, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University. It hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the city’s most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited non-art museum in Scandinavia. The Stockholm metro, opened in 1950, is well known for the decor of its stations; it has been called the longest art gallery in the world. Sweden’s national football arena is located north of the city centre, in Solna. Avicii Arena, the national indoor arena, is in the southern part of the city. The city was the host of the 1912 Summer Olympics, and hosted the equestrian portion of the 1956 Summer Olympics otherwise held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Stockholm is the seat of the Swedish government and most of its agencies, including the highest courts in the judiciary, and the official residencies of the Swedish monarch and the Prime Minister. The government has its seat in the Rosenbad building, the Riksdag (Swedish parliament) is seated in the Parliament House, and the Prime Minister’s residence is adjacent at Sager House. Stockholm Palace is the official residence and principal workplace of the Swedish monarch, while Drottningholm Palace, a World Heritage Site on the outskirts of Stockholm, serves as the Royal Family’s private residence. (Wikipedia)

Gunnar Smoliansky (1933) hails from the island of Gotland, in Sweden. He started his career as an assistant to a photographer in Sao Paulo, who specialised in industrial photography. On his return to Sweden, he started work at Atlas Copco as their inhouse photographer, while studying at Christer Strömholm’s photography school. He has numerous exhibitions and publications to his name, and books such as Barn, Slussen and Waldemarsudde.

Gunnar Smoliansky works exclusively in black and white, and always develops his photographs himself. Throughout his career, he has transformed his photographed motifs into completed photos in the darkroom. Stockholm is the main focus of Smoliansky’s photographic world, particularly the areas of Södermalm and Saltsjö-Boo, the two parts of the city he has lived and worked in for most of his life.

57 Vintage Photos of Sydney, Australia in the early 1900s Volume 2

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia’s east coast, the metropolis surrounds Port Jackson and extends about 70 km (43.5 mi) on its periphery towards the Blue Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as “Sydneysiders”. As of June 2020, Sydney’s estimated metropolitan population was 5,367,206, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state’s population. Nicknames of the city include the ‘Emerald City’ and the ‘Harbour City’.

Indigenous Australians have inhabited the Sydney area for at least 30,000 years, and thousands of engravings remain throughout the region, making it one of the richest in Australia in terms of Aboriginal archaeological sites. Around 29 clan groups of the Eora Nation inhabited the region at the time of European contact. During his first Pacific voyage in 1770, Lieutenant James Cook and his crew became the first Europeans to chart the eastern coast of Australia, making landfall at Botany Bay and inspiring British interest in the area. In 1788, the First Fleet of convicts, led by Arthur Phillip, founded Sydney as a British penal colony, the first European settlement in Australia. Phillip named the settlement after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney. Penal transportation to New South Wales ended soon after Sydney was incorporated as a city in 1842. A gold rush occurred in the colony in 1851, and over the next century, Sydney transformed from a colonial outpost into a major global cultural and economic centre. After World War II, it experienced mass migration and became one of the most multicultural cities in the world. At the time of the 2011 census, more than 250 different languages were spoken in Sydney. In the 2016 Census, about 35.8% of residents spoke a language other than English at home. Furthermore, 45.4% of the population reported having been born overseas, and the city has the third-largest foreign-born population of any city in the world after London and New York City. Between 1971 and 2018, Sydney lost a net number of 716,832 people to the rest of Australia but its population has continued to grow, largely due to immigration.

Despite being one of the most expensive cities in the world, Sydney frequently ranks in the top ten most liveable cities in the world. It is classified as an Alpha Global City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network, indicating its influence in the region and throughout the world. Ranked eleventh in the world for economic opportunity, Sydney has an advanced market economy with strengths in finance, manufacturing and tourism. There is a significant concentration of foreign banks and multinational corporations in Sydney and the city is promoted as Australia’s financial capital and one of Asia Pacific’s leading financial hubs. Established in 1850, the University of Sydney was Australia’s first university and is regarded as one of the world’s leading universities. Sydney is also home to the oldest library in Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, opened in 1826.

Sydney has hosted major international sporting events such as the 2000 Summer Olympics. The city is among the top fifteen most-visited cities in the world, with millions of tourists coming each year to see the city’s landmarks. Boasting over 1,000,000 ha (2,500,000 acres) of nature reserves and parks, its notable natural features include Sydney Harbour, the Royal National Park, Royal Botanic Garden and Hyde Park, the oldest parkland in the country. Built attractions such as the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the World Heritage-listed Sydney Opera House are also well known to international visitors. The main passenger airport serving the metropolitan area is Kingsford Smith Airport, one of the world’s oldest continually operating airports. Established in 1906, Central station, the largest and busiest railway station in the state, is the main hub of the city’s rail network. (Wikipedia)

**Queen Victorian Markets (now Queen Victoria Building), Sydney**

**Queens Statue, entrance to Hyde Park**

**Railway Square, Kerry and Co, Sydney**

**St Mary’s Cathedral and entrance to Domain**

**Sydney, looking east, from GPO Tower**

**Sydney, looking south-east, from Australian Hotel**

42 Stunning Black & White Photographs of Tina Turner on Stage From Between the 1960s and 1980s

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer, songwriter and actress. Widely referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before launching a successful career as a solo performer.

Turner began her career with Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm in 1957. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, “Boxtop”, in 1958. In 1960, she was introduced as Tina Turner with the hit duet single “A Fool in Love”. The duo Ike & Tina Turner became “one of the most formidable live acts in history”. They released hits such as “It’s Gonna Work Out Fine”, “River Deep – Mountain High”, “Proud Mary”, and “Nutbush City Limits” before disbanding in 1976.

In the 1980s, Turner launched “one of the greatest comebacks in music history”. Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. At age 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her chart success continued with “Better Be Good to Me”, “Private Dancer”, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)”, “Typical Male”, “The Best”, “I Don’t Wanna Fight”, and “GoldenEye”. During her Break Every Rule World Tour in 1988, she set a then-Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience (180,000) for a solo performer. Turner also acted in the films Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Last Action Hero (1993). In 1993, What’s Love Got to Do with It, a biopic adapted from her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, was released. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour, which is the 15th highest-grossing tour of the 2000s. In 2018, she became the subject of the jukebox musical Tina.

Having sold over 100 million records worldwide, Turner is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She has received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, three Grammy Hall of Fame awards, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the first black artist and first female to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone ranked her among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.

She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She is a two-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. Turner is also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and Women of the Year award. (Wikipedia)

55 Vintage Photos Showing Women’s Fashion during the 1950s

48 Amazing Photos Showing Men’s Beard Styles From the 19th Century

57 Vintage Historical Photos of London in the 1920s

**Construction workers taking lunch break on the edges of the building they’re working on, London, 1929.**

**Boys boxing barefoot while their friends look on, London, 1920.**

**Fog encases workers at Ludgate Circus, London, November 1922**

**Thames and Tower Bridge in London, 1920s.**

**In 1921, early suffragettes often donned a bathing suit and ate pizza in large groups to annoy men.**

**Two women having a laugh on a delivery bike in 1927.**

**The lights of Piccadilly Circus, just around the corner, London, 1928.**

**Trinity Almshouses, Mile End Rd, 1920.**

**Wembley, 1923, West Ham fans at the turnstiles.**

**An ice cream vendor and his customers on the streets of London, 1920s.**

**The gentleman plays the concertina, with the lady perhaps collecting money, or even singing, London, 1920s.**

**Photographer over Fleet Street, December 1929.**

**Covent Garden market traders preparing for business in the 1920s outside Theatre Royal Drury Lane.**

**Buses line up to take racegoers to the Epsom Derby near Morden Underground Station, 1920.**

**In the 1920s and 1930s, sheep were routinely introduced into London parks to keep the grass under control and reduce mowing costs.**

**Tram emerging from the Kingsway Tunnel, 1920.**

**Clapham South underground Station, 1926.**

**A commuter roller skates to work during the General Strike, 1926.**

**The engineer is attaching the main telephone cable to a new support wire, suspended between Maddox Street and Conduit Street in Mayfair, London, c.1920s.**

**Street traffic on London Bridge, 1927.**

**An underground train being transported on wheels through the streets of London, 1926.**

**A worker inside Big Ben, London, 1920.**

**Bank of England Watchman, London, 1925.**

**A young visitor and her toy elephant finds that the elephant house at London Zoo is closed for their winter holidays.**

**London Pavillion Theatre and Coventry Street from Piccadilly Circus, 1920s**

**Trafalgar Square from the steps of St Martin’s-in-the-Fields, 1920s**

**Trafalgar Square looking south, 1920s**

**Whitehall from Parliament Square, 1920s**

**Children beneath Southwark Bridge, 1920s**

**Putting on the glitz – flappers at the bar of Isa Lanchester’s nightclub in London. 1920s**

**In 1929, just a year after winning the right to vote on the same terms as men, a carload of women arrive at a polling station to celebrate a Conservative Party election victory.**

**Making the best of a rainy day, these ladies tuck in to lunch during a race meeting.**

**Two friends stroll in Hyde Park in the early 20s.**

**Starting her own fashion career, this young girl is named ‘Miss 1926’ at a New Year’s Party.**

**Houses of Parliament from County Hall**

**J Lyons Corner House on Strand and Craven Street, 1920s**

**King William IV Street and Charing Cross Hospital from Strand, 1920s**

**Market porters in Drury Lane, Covent Garden, 1920s**

**Monument Street near Billingsgate Market, 1920s.**

**Sailing barge at Greenmoor Wharf rubbish depot, Bankside, 1920s.**

48 Amazing Vintage Autochrome Photographs of America during the Early 20th Century

The Autochrome Lumière was an early color photography process patented in 1903 by the Lumière brothers in France and first marketed in 1907. Autochrome was an additive color “mosaic screen plate” process. It was the principal color photography process in use before the advent of subtractive color film in the mid-1930s.

Prior to the Lumière brothers, Louis Ducos du Hauron utilized the separation technique to create colour images on paper with screen plates, producing natural colours through superimposition, which would become the foundation of all commercial colour photography. Descendants of photographer Antoine Lumière, inventors Louis and Auguste Lumière utilized Du Hauron’s (1869) technique, which had already been improved upon by other inventors such as John Joly (1894) and James William McDonough (1896), making it possible to print photographic images in colour. One of the most broadly used forms of colour photography in the early twentieth century, autochrome was recognized for its aesthetic appeal. (Wikipedia)

**A Hopi Indian and his burro stand at the edge of a high mesa. 1916**

**Shasta, California – A woman stands at the edge of a pond observing the view. 1916**

**Portrait of a Hopi Indian holding one of the baskets she has made. 1916**

**A woman and child do laundry outside in Sperryville, Virginia. 1926**

**Virginia – a girl poses with corn and pumpkins during corn harvest. 1926**

**Three men stand in front of a plane on the Crow Reservation. Montana, 1927**

**A Native American family relaxes inside their tipi. Montana, 1927**

**A chief on the Crow Indian Reservation. Montana, 1927**

**Stowe, Vermont – Two women look west from the village of Stowe at Mount Mansfield. 1927**

**Bennington, Vermont – Two people stand among white birches in the Battenkill Valley. 1927**

**People enjoy the falls of a brook during a warm summer day. 1927**

**Washington, D.C. – A scenic fall view of the capitol. 1927**

**Crow Indian Reservation, Montana – Men stand at the site of the monument to the Seventh Cavalry. 1927**

**San Antonio, Texas – Cowboys and riders sit along a fence at the Rodeo. 1928**

**Fort Worth, Texas – Three young women attend a rodeo. 1928**

**San Antonio, Texas – A trick rider poses with her blue pony at the rodeo. 1928**

**Galveston, Texas – Men load storage bins with sulfur on the docks. 1928**

**Galveston, Texas – A man shovels sulfur in storage bins on the docks. 1928**

**Hopi Indian Reservation – Two men stand by a car in a field looking at the nearby canyons. 1929**

**Arizona – Dude ranch guests pretend to be cowboys. 1929**

**Ohio – People walk through stands at a Loundonville fair. 1929**

**Ohio – Four women stand beside an apple stand at a fair in Loundonville. 1929**

**New Orleans, Louisiana – A boy sits on a barrel outside a brewery in the French Quarter. 1929**

**A woman sits outside the doorway of the Absinthe House in New Orleans. 1929**

**New Orleans, Louisiana – A view of galleries in the French Quarter. 1929**

**New Orleans, Louisiana – A woman sitting on stone steps in The French Quarter sells pralines. 1929**

**New Orleans, Louisiana – A vendor sells pralines in the French Quarter. 1929**

**New Orleans, Louisiana – Children gather by a vendor selling “snowball” treats. 1929**

**Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota – Boys pose outside a sod roof house. 1929**

**Fort Worth, Texas – A cowgirl shows her sister how to handle the ropes. 1929**

**Columbus, Ohio – A view of the high street in Columbus’ business district. 1929**

**Manhattan, New York City – A view of Washington Square. 1929**

**New York City – A view of Washington Square at Fifth Avenue. 1929**

**New York State – A group of students relaxes on the terrace at Cornell University. 1929**

**Atlantic City, New Jersey – A panoramic view of the beaches, piers and hotels along the boardwalk. 1929**

**Ashtabula, Ohio – Coastguardsmen go out in their boat. 1929**

**Gettysburg, Pennsylvania – Four tour guides of the Gettysburg battlefield wait for tourists. 1929**

**Louisiana – Four children cultivate cotton in a field. 1930**

**Manhattan, New York City – The sixty-story Woolworth Building in New York’s skyline stands tall. 1930**

**Miami Beach, Florida – A group of people sunbathe and look out on the ocean. 1930**

**Washington, D.C. – A woman looks at fruit from a vendor in front of the U.S. Capital. 1930**

**St. Petersburg, Florida – Six women sit on the beach with the water behind them. 1930**

**Washington, D.C. – A group of kids looks at an elephant in the National Zoo. 1930**

**Atlantic City, New Jersey – Life guards of the Beach Patrol push a boat into the water. 1930**

**Miami Beach, Florida – Crowds form at a pool for a swim competition. 1930**

**New York City – A view of the Hudson River. 1930**

**New York City – An aerial view of Manhatttan. 1930**

**Manhattan, New York City – Commuters stop to look at hardware for sale along downtown streets. 1930**

Amazing Photos Showing Paris During the Belle Époque (1871-1914)

Paris in the Belle Époque was a period in the history of the city between the years 1871 to 1914, from the beginning of the Third French Republic until the First World War. It saw the construction of the Eiffel Tower, the Paris Métro, the completion of the Paris Opera, and the beginning of the Basilica of Sacré-Cœur on Montmartre.

Three lavish “universal expositions” in 1878, 1889 and 1900 brought millions of visitors to Paris to sample the latest innovations in commerce, art and technology. Paris was the scene of the first public projection of a motion picture, and the birthplace of the Ballets Russes, Impressionism and Modern Art.

The expression Belle Époque (“beautiful era”) came into use after the First World War; it was a nostalgic term for what seemed a simpler time of optimism, elegance and progress. Below is a collection of 30 Beautiful Photochrom pictures of Paris from between the 1890s and 1910s.

23 Incredible Photographs Showing Daily Life in the Netherlands in 1904

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. In Europe, the Netherlands consists of twelve provinces, bordering Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with those countries and the United Kingdom. In the Caribbean, it consists of three special municipalities: the islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba. The country’s official language is Dutch, with West Frisian as a secondary official language in the province of Friesland, and English and Papiamento as secondary official languages in the Caribbean Netherlands. Dutch Low Saxon and Limburgish are recognised regional languages (spoken in the east and southeast respectively), while Dutch Sign Language, Sinte Romani, and Yiddish are recognised non-territorial languages.

The four largest cities in the Netherlands are Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. Amsterdam is the country’s most populous city and nominal capital, while The Hague holds the seat of the States General, Cabinet and Supreme Court. The Port of Rotterdam is the busiest seaport in Europe. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the busiest airport in the Netherlands, and the third busiest in Europe. The country is a founding member of the European Union, Eurozone, G10, NATO, OECD, and WTO, as well as a part of the Schengen Area and the trilateral Benelux Union. It hosts several intergovernmental organisations and international courts, many of which are centred in The Hague, which is consequently dubbed ‘the world’s legal capital’.

Netherlands literally means “lower countries” in reference to its low elevation and flat topography, with only about 50% of its land exceeding 1 m (3.3 ft) above sea level, and nearly 26% falling below sea level. Most of the areas below sea level, known as polders, are the result of land reclamation that began in the 14th century. Colloquially or informally the Netherlands is occasionally referred to by the pars pro toto Holland. In the Republican period, which began in 1588, the Netherlands entered a unique era of political, economic, and cultural greatness, ranked among the most powerful and influential in Europe and the world; this period is known as the Dutch Golden Age. During this time, its trading companies, the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company, established colonies and trading posts all over the world.

With a population of 17.6 million people, all living within a total area of roughly 41,800 km2 (16,100 sq mi)—of which the land area is 33,500 km2 (12,900 sq mi)—the Netherlands is the 16th most densely populated country in the world and the second-most densely populated country in the European Union, with a density of 526 people per square kilometre (1,360 people/sq mi). Nevertheless, it is the world’s second-largest exporter of food and agricultural products by value, owing to its fertile soil, mild climate, intensive agriculture, and inventiveness.

The Netherlands has been a parliamentary constitutional monarchy with a unitary structure since 1848. The country has a tradition of pillarisation and a long record of social tolerance, having legalised abortion, prostitution and human euthanasia, along with maintaining a liberal drug policy. The Netherlands abolished the death penalty in Civil Law in 1870, though it was not completely removed until a new constitution was approved in 1983. The Netherlands allowed women’s suffrage in 1919, before becoming the world’s first country to legalise same-sex marriage in 2001. Its mixed-market advanced economy had the eleventh-highest per capita income globally. The Netherlands ranks among the highest in international indices of press freedom, economic freedom, human development and quality of life, as well as happiness. In 2020, it ranked eighth on the human development index and fifth on the 2021 World Happiness Index. (Wikipedia)

**Old fisherman in traditional Marken garb.**

**Street scene in front of the Hotel Spaander in Volendam.**

**Two girls dressed in traditional Marken costume in a typical Marken fisherman’s cottage. Marken was an island, now joined to the mainland, just Northwest of Amsterdam.**

**Canal and cheese market in Alkmaar. Alkmaar is noted for its open-air cheese market, barely visible on the plaza ahead.**

**Two windmills along a canal in Landsmeer.**

**This is a no longer existing windmill called “De Maagd” in Dordrecht.**

17 Amazing Vintage Photographs Showing Native American’s Life From the Early 20th Century

Edward S. Curtis, a professional photographer in Seattle, devoted his life to documenting what he perceived to be a vanishing race. His monumental work The North American Indian was published between 1907 and 1930 and contained over 2000 photogravures in its volumes and portfolios. It presented an extensive ethnographical study of numerous tribes, and the photographs of Curtis remain memorable icons of the American Indian. Although the Smithsonian Libraries owns a complete set of Curtis’ publication, only a small portion of the photogravures has been digitized.