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22 Wonderful Photos That Capture Sweet Kisses of Edwardian Couples

54 Beautiful Photos of Grace Kelly in the Early 1950s

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American actress who, after starring in several significant films in the early to mid-1950s, became Princess of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III in April 1956.

After graduating from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1949, Kelly began appearing in New York City theatrical productions and over 40 live drama productions broadcast in early 1950s Golden Age of Television. She gained stardom from her performance in John Ford’s adventure-romance Mogambo (1953), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the drama The Country Girl (1954). Other notable works include the western High Noon (1952), the romance-comedy High Society (1956), and three consecutive Alfred Hitchcock suspense thrillers: Dial M for Murder (1954), Rear Window (1954), and To Catch a Thief (1955). Kelly worked with some of the most prominent leading men of the era, including Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Ray Milland, James Stewart, Bing Crosby, William Holden, Cary Grant, Alec Guinness, and Frank Sinatra.

Kelly retired from acting at age 26 to marry Rainier, and began her duties as Princess of Monaco. Hitchcock hoped that she would appear in more of his films which required an “icy blonde” lead actress, but he was unable to coax her out of retirement. The Prince and Princess had three children: Princess Caroline, Prince Albert, and Princess Stéphanie. Princess Grace retained her link to America by her dual U.S. and Monégasque citizenship. Her charity work focused on young children and the arts, establishing the Princess Grace Foundation to support local artisans in 1964. Her organization for children’s rights, AMADE Mondiale, gained consultive status within UNICEF and UNESCO. Her final film contribution was in 1977 to documentary The Children of Theatre Street directed by Robert Dornhelm, where she served as the narrator. The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

Kelly died aged 52 at Monaco Hospital on September 14, 1982, from injuries sustained in a car crash the previous day. She is listed 13th among the American Film Institute’s 25 Greatest Female Stars of Classical Hollywood Cinema. Her son, Prince Albert, helped establish the Princess Grace Awards in 1984 to recognize emerging performers in film, theatre, and dance. (Wikipedia)

38 Vintage Photos Showing U.S. Classroom Scenes From the Late 1800s to the Early 1900s

**Thanksgiving Day lesson at Whittier, 1899**

**Outdoor class in botany, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Students of 8th Division school using rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tape in school yard, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Two girls and a boy pumping water at well of Hampton Institute graduate, 1899-1900**

**Women painting at easels in a class at the Art Students’ League, Washington, DC, 1889**

**Group of public school children offering peanuts to animals in the National Zoo, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Isadora Duncan’s dance students, 1899**

**Machine shop class, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Art class, sketching ducks at zoo, Normal school, 1899**

**Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va., 1898**

**Louis Firetail (Sioux, Crow Creek), wearing tribal clothing, giving a presentation in an American history class, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899-1900**

**6th Division mathematics class on a street paving problem, 1899**

**A class at the zoo – the bird cage, 1899**

**A class in dressmaking, Hampton Institute, Hampton, Virginia, 1899**

**Art class with live model, Normal School, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Classroom scenes in Washington, D.C. public schools – outdoor exercise with rods, 1899**

**History class at the Tuskegee Institute**

**School children conducting simple experiments, Washington, DC, 1899**

**School children examining wild flowers on field trip, Washington, DC, 1899**

**School children learning a dance in a school yard, Washington, DC, 1899**

**School children measuring and sketching at a stone building, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Elementary school class on Native American Culture**

**Female students exercising with dumbbells, Western High School, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Geography class at the Hampton Institute**

**Girls in a science laboratory at Eastern High School, Washington, DC, 1899**

**2nd Division grade school pupils examining a mailbox**

**6 girls in art class, drawing at easels, Eastern High School, Washington, DC, 1899**

**Academie Julian, Paris, group of art students, 1885**

**Children and teacher in classroom studying corn and cotton, Annie Davis School, near Tuskegee, Alabama, 1902**

**Schoolgirls with teacher, learning to cook on a wood stove in classroom, 1899**

**Class of the Sixth Division at the Library of Congress, 1899**

31 Fantastic Colorized Photos of Classic American Automobiles of the 1910s and 1920s

Miss Correct Posture: Pictures From a Chiropractor’s Beauty Contest in Chicago in 1956

Beauty contests were a way for people, places and businesses to celebrate events, highlight pop culture and promote various products or ideas.

In the 1950s and 1960s, chiropractors around the United States found themselves with a PR problem. So they decided to utilize beauty contests as a way to legitimize their profession. Through these pageants they hoped to gain credibility with traditional doctors. Additionally, the contest winners would win money or scholarships thus increasing the profession’s popularity with the general public. “Miss Correct Posture” was one of the few titles used in these chiropractic pageants.

When the nation’s chiropractors descended on Chicago for a weeklong convention in May 1956, they threw a beauty contest. The judges crowned Lois Conway, 18, Miss Correct Posture. Second place went to Marianne Caba, 16, according to an account in the Chicago Tribune. Ruth Swenson, 26, came in third.

“All three were picked not only by their apparent beauty, and their X-rays, but also by their standing posture,” the Tribune reported. “Each girl stood on a pair of scales — one foot to each — and the winning trio each registered exactly half her weight on each scale, confirming the correct standing posture.”

(Photos by Wallace Kirkland/LIFE Magazine)

63 Vintage Photos of Edwardian Maids from the early 20th Century

41 Fabulous Photos of Dubrovnik, Croatia in the 1970s

Dubrovnik, historically known as Ragusa, is a city on the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterranean Sea, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva County. Situated in an exclave, it is connected to the rest of the country by the Pelješac Bridge. Its total population is 42,615 (2011 census). In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in recognition of its outstanding medieval architecture and fortified old town.

The history of the city probably dates back to the 7th century, when the town known as Ragusa was founded by refugees from Epidaurum (Ragusa Vecchia). It was under the protection of the Byzantine Empire and later under the sovereignty of the Republic of Venice. Between the 14th and 19th centuries, Dubrovnik ruled itself as a free state. The prosperity of the city was historically based on maritime trade; as the capital of the maritime Republic of Ragusa, it achieved a high level of development, particularly during the 15th and 16th centuries, as it became notable for its wealth and skilled diplomacy. At the same time, Dubrovnik became a cradle of Croatian literature.

The entire city was almost destroyed when a devastating earthquake hit in 1667. During the Napoleonic Wars, Dubrovnik was occupied by the French Empire forces, and then the Republic of Ragusa was abolished and incorporated into the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy and later into the Illyrian Provinces. Later on, in the early 19th to early 20th century, Dubrovnik was part of the Kingdom of Dalmatia within the Austrian Empire. Dubrovnik became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia immediately upon its creation, and it was incorporated into its Zeta Banovina in 1929, before becoming part of the Banovina of Croatia upon its creation in 1939. During World War II, it was part of the Axis puppet state Independent State of Croatia, before being reincorporated into SR Croatia in SFR Yugoslavia.

In 1991, during the Croatian War of Independence, Dubrovnik was besieged by the Yugoslav People’s Army for seven months and suffered significant damage from shelling. After undergoing repair and restoration works in the 1990s and early 2000s, it re-emerged as one of the Mediterranean’s top tourist destinations, as well as a popular filming location.

Here is a color photo collection that shows everyday life of Dubrovnik in the 1970s.

48 Stunning Photos of Actress Greta Thyssen in the 1950s and 1960s

Born 1927 in Hareskovby, Danish film actress and former model Greta Thyssen arrived in the United States after winning the Miss Denmark crown in 1952. She attempted to follow in the footsteps of the reigning blonde sex symbols Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield by forging a movie career. She was Monroe’s double in Bus Stop, and appeared in Accused of Murder, Terror Is a Man, Three Blondes in His Life and Journey to the Seventh Planet.

In addition to her appearances on the television series Dragnet and Bachelor Father, she appeared as Roxy Howard, the title character in the Perry Mason episode, “The Case of the Nervous Accomplice”. Thyssen also appeared on Broadway in Pajama Tops as a replacement for June Wilkinson.

Thyssen is probably best remembered for her appearances in the Three Stooges films Quiz Whizz, Pies and Guys and Sappy Bull Fighters. From 1956-1958, Thyssen was the original Pirate Girl on the game show Treasure Hunt, assisting host Jan Murray with presenting prizes hidden in miniature treasure chests. After appearing in the musical comedy Cottonpickin’ Chickenpickers (1967), she retired from acting.

Thyssen died of pneumonia in 2018 at her home in Manhattan, aged 90.

These glamorous photos that show the beauty of this Danish blonde bombshell in the 1950s and 1960s.

40 Vintage Photos Showing People’s Couches From the 1960s

45 Amazing Colorized Vintage Photos of the Life in America during the 1940s

These incredibly amazing photos were colorized by photographer Marie-Lou Chatel. “I’ve always been fascinated with the work of the great photographers of the 20th century. Yet, when I look at their photos, I wonder what they saw in color while taking the photograph.”

**Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue on a rainy day, New York, March 1943**

**Homeless man at The Bowery at night, New York, Sept. 1942**

**Girl sitting alone in the Sea Grill, a bar and restaurant waiting for a pickup, Washington D.C, Apr. 1943**

**Listening to a murder mystery on the radio in a boarding house room, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943**

**Grand Central Terminal, New York City, Oct. 1941**

**Sideshow at the cicus, Klamath Falls, Oregon, July 1942**

**Teenagers at a party in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1947**

**Guests of Sarasota trailer park, Sarasota, Florida, Jan. 1941**

**Time Square in a raining day, New York City, 1943**

**In the cafe at a truck drivers’ service station on U.S. 1 (New York Avenue), Washington D.C, June 1940**

**Woman in the shower bath in a boarding house, Washington D.C, Jan. 1943**

**In town on a Saturday afternoon, Heard County, Georgia, 1941**

**Listening to the teacher’s instructions in a physical education class at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington, Oct. 1943**

**Lower Manhattan seen from the S.S. Coamo leaving New York, Dec. 1941**

**An administration clerk at the U.S. Office of Price, Washington, D.C, Jan. 1943**

**Men of the Quartermaster Truck Company of the 25th service group having a card game in one of the barracks, Greenville, South Carolina, July 1943**

**Children bringing their weekly contribution of scrap paper to school, Washington, May 1942**

**Moccasins are worn without socks at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943**

**New Year’s Day Bleeker Street in New York, Jan. 1943**

**Soldier in front of the Capitol theatre, Washington D.C, March 1943**

**South Side market, Chicago, Arpril 1941**

**Spectator in the National Gallery of Art on a Sunday afternoon, Washington D.C, March 1942**

**Storefront church and lunch wagon, Chicago, Illinois, Apr. 1941**

**Sunday bench sitters in front of the Central Park Zoo restaurant, New York, Sept. 1942**

**Waiting for a train in the concourse of the Union Station, Chicago, Illinois, Jan. 1943**

**Waiting for the trains at the Pennsylvania railroad station, New York, Aug. 1942**

**Watching a football game, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943**

**Woman with chili peppers, Concho, Arizona, Sept. 1940**

**Women talking in a drugstore over cokes, Washington D.C, March 1943**

**7th Street and Florida Avenue, Washington, Aug. 1942**

**1917 vintage trolley, Baltimore, Maryland, Apr. 1943**

**A corporal in the army takes his girl to dinner, California, May 1942**

**A Greyhound bus trip from Louisville, Kentucky, to Memphis, Tennessee, and the terminals, Sept. 1943**

**Soldiers and girls saying goodbye at the Greyhound bus station, Indianapolis, Indiana, Sept. 1943**

**A student at Woodrow Wilson High School, Washington D.C, Oct. 1943**

**A woman and her dog in the Harlem section, New York, May 1943**

**Boys and girls, Caldwell, Idaho, 1941**

**Bus passenger enroute from Nashville to Memphis, March 1948**

**Children going home from school, Chillicothe, Ohio, Feb. 1940**

**Children playing, New York City, Dec. 1941**

**Chinese grocery store in Chinatown, New York, Aug. 1942**

**Farmer couple living in an old mansion in southern Greene County, Georgia, June 1941**

(Restored and colorized by Marie-Lou Chatel)