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26 Beautiful Vintage Photos Showing Parisian Women’s Fashion From the 1900s

In 1900 skirts were still that long that they were brushing the floor (and with a train), including day dresses. The fashion houses in Paris presented a new silhouette with thicker waist, flatter bust and narrower hips. By the end of the decade, most fashionable skirts still brushed the floor, but approached the ankle.

In the 1900s, La Belle Époque style was favored by the rich and privileged. Sumptuous fashions were made in luxurious fabrics. Women who were not part of the upper echelons of society, however, had to settle with less expensive clothing.

These fashion photos were published on Les Modes magazine from 1900 to 1907.

25 Vintage Photos Show What People Often Had in the Refrigerators From the 1950s and 1960s

What did you often have in the refrigerators in the 1950s and 1960s? Just check out these pictures to see.

17 Wonderful Photos Showing Fun at Rockaway Beach, New York, 1950

Rockaway Beach is a neighborhood on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is bounded by Arverne to the east and Rockaway Park to the west. It is named for Rockaway Beach, which is the largest urban beach in the United States, stretching for miles along the Rockaway Peninsula facing the Atlantic Ocean; the beach itself is run and operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.

These fascinating snapshots from The Cardboard America Archive that captured people enjoying their summer days at Rockaway Beach, New York in 1950.

40 Incredible Vintage Photos of Ridiculous Stunts from the Past

18 Vintage Photos Showing New York During the 1950s

While looking through his aunt’s attic in 2009, Soren Larson found a treasure trove: His grandfather, an amateur photographer named Frank Oscar Larson whom Soren describes as the “family shutterbug,” had taken a remarkable collection of New York street scene photos in the 1950s.

The pictures had been tucked away in the attic since 1964, when Frank Larson died. Soren developed some of the negatives, and brought them to the Queens Museum of Art. The photos depict street scenes that, according to the Queens Museum, “are at once universal and personal.”

**Three young ladies prepare to have their pictures taken in Manhattan photo booths in April 1954.**

**A rainy day across from St. Patrick’s Cathedral.**

**A rainy evening in New York’s Times Square under the neon lights of the “Black Widow” marquee.**

**A group of businessmen huddle together at the window of the Associated Press office at Rockefeller Center to read the latest news, 1955.**

**The Chrysler Building is reflected in a sidewalk puddle on 42nd St. in April 1954.**

**Two men chat in a coffee shop window near Times Square in April 1954.**

**A Ballantine beer truck stops to make a delivery in front of the NBC Television Theatre.**

**A street performer promotes the film “Johnny Guitar” on the sidewalks of Times Square in Spring, 1954.**

**A woman suns herself outside the entrance to the New York Public Library in 1955.**

**A group poses for a picture at Pier 86, on 46th Street.**

**Professional skaters make a gutsy move in this shot, taken at the Rockefeller Center rink.**

**Two parade officials watch New York’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade pass by on Fifth Avenue as one of them sneaks a cigarette break.**

**The view from the top of a Rockefeller Center escalator looks out onto Fifth Avenue.**

**A candid moment of school girls in 1953.**

**Cops, delivery men, construction workers, cooks, cobblers and kids, just going about their business.**

**A man works on New York City souvenirs with his sewing machine in November 1954.**

**A woman peers out from a ticket booth of a movie theater in New York’s Times Square in 1954.**

**Pigeons gather in Times Square on a rainy day in 1954.**

(Frank Oscar Larson Photography / Courtesy of Queens Museum of Art)

48 Wonderful Vintage Photos of Model & Painter Renée Perle From 1929-1931

Born in Romania, Renée Perle, a Romanian-Jewish girl who moved to Paris, is famous as the first muse of the famous French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986), who is considered one of the leading photographers of the 20th century.

Renée lived with Lartigue as his girl friend, having met her in 1929. Her spectacular beauty inspired some of his best photographs. Renee also painted, and a large number of her quaint and naive self-portraits are seen in some Lartigue photos.

They do not show much mastery of artistic technique, but they have a strange fascination, perhaps because they show something approaching a manic-compulsion by Renee to paint her own face on canvas over and over, almost without end.

Renée also worked as a fashion model. She died in the South of France in 1977.

These fabulous photos that Lartigue took of his favorite muse around 1929 to 1931.

37 Fascinating Photos of People With Their Radios During the Golden Age of Radio, 1920s-1950s

The old-time radio era, sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Radio, was an era of radio programming during which radio was the dominant electronic home entertainment medium. It began with the birth of commercial radio broadcasting in the early 1920s and lasted until the 1950s, when television superseded radio as the medium of choice for scripted programming.

During this period radio was the only broadcast medium, and people regularly tuned into their favorite radio programs, and families gathered to listen to the home radio in the evening.

Take a look at these interesting photos to see how people used their radios during the Golden Age of Radio.

42 Vintage Photos of Life in Paris during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

**Small market in front of the Church of Saint-Médard, Paris, 1898.**

**Lampshade merchant, Rue Lepic, Montmarte, Paris, 1899**

**A man plays guitar at an unspecified location in Paris, 1900.**

**Corner of the rue de Seine and the rue de l’Echaudé.**

**Water lilies likely in a botanical garden of Bagatelle, a park on the outskirts of Paris, 1910.**

**Metalworker’s Shop, passage de la Réunion, 1911.**

**Corset shop, Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris, 1912.**

**Parisians looking at a total solar eclipse, April 17, 1912.**

**Statues in Saint-Cloud, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, circa 1915**

**A horse butcher, Rue Christine, 1920.**

**La Villette, rue Asselin, a sex worker on her shift in front of her door, 1921.**

**Car and two motorcycles in front of garage, Rue de Valence, Paris, 1922**.

**Shopfront of the “Couronne d’or” (Gold Crown), Quai de Bourbon, Paris, 1922.**

**Path near Saint-Cloud, a commune in the western suburbs of Paris, 1923**.

**Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, 1924.**

**Gardens of Château de Sceaux in Sceaux, a commune south of Paris, 1925**

**Butcher shop, Rue Christine, Paris, 1920s.**

**Fruit and vegetable shop, Rue Mouffetard, Paris, 1925.**

**Three women in a doorway on rue Asselin, 1924.**

**Storefront, avenue des Gobelins, 1925.**

50 Amazing Behind the Scenes Photos Showing the Making of ‘Return of The Jedi’ (1983)

After rescuing Han Solo from the palace of Jabba the Hutt, the rebels attempt to destroy the second Death Star, while Luke struggles to make Vader return from the dark side of the Force.

Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi, marketed as simply Return of the Jedi, is a 1983 science fiction film directed by Richard Marquand and written by Lawrence Kasdan and George Lucas. It is the third film in the Star Wars saga, and the third and final film in the original trilogy. It is the sixth chapter internal chronology.

The film is set one year after the Empire’s invasion of Cloud City, when Luke Skywalker and friends travel to Tatooine to rescue their friend Han Solo from the vile Jabba the Hutt. The Empire prepares to crush the Rebellion with a more powerful Death Star, while the Rebel fleet mounts a massive attack on the space station. Luke Skywalker confronts his father, Darth Vader, in a final climactic duel before the evil Emperor.

The film debuted on May 25, 1983, and was released on VHS and LaserDisc in this form multiple times during the 1980s and ’90s. Looking at the behind the scenes photos of Return of The Jedi, producing so many movies simultaneously would have been insane to attempt at the time.