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35 Wonderful Vintage Photos of Weddings in the 1900s and 1910s
Louis Armstrong in the Rocking Chair, Photographed by Art Kane in 1958
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Living Mannequins on London’s Carnaby Street in 1966
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30 Fabulous Photos of Jean Rogers in the 1930s and 1940s
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A Collection of 33 Rare and Amazing Childhood Photos of Kurt Cobain
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Vintage Photos of American Indian Cradles and Cradleboards From the Late 19th and Early 20th Century
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Incredible Vintage Photos of Indiana Railroad Disasters in the Early 20th Century
Wooden railroads, called wagonways, were built in the United States starting from the 1720s. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the industrial revolution in the Northeast (1810–1850) to the settlement of the West (1850–1890).
The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the nation of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1827 and the “Laying of the First Stone” ceremonies and beginning of its long construction heading westward over the obstacles of the Appalachian Mountains eastern chain the following year of 1828, and flourished with continuous railway building projects for the next 45 years until the financial Panic of 1873 followed by a major economic depression bankrupted many companies and temporarily stymied and ended growth.
The railroad system was largely built by 1910, but then trucks arrived to eat away the freight traffic, and automobiles (and later airplanes) to devour the passenger traffic. After 1940, the use of diesel electric locomotives made for much more efficient operations that needed fewer workers on the road and in repair shops.
Here below is a set of incredible photos that shows railroad disasters in Indiana from the early 20th century.
Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railway wreck, Porter, Indiana, June 19, 1909. Spot on the picture is headlight of the relief train.
Wabash Valley wreck, 41 killed, Kingsland, Indiana, September 21, 1910.
A switch left open inadvertently caused the eastbound No. 4 Express train’s engine, tender, and two cars to derail on the Grand Trunk Railway track immediately west of the Washington Street crossing in Valparaiso, Indiana, May 30, 1918.
N. Y. Central Engine as it lay and place where most of the bodies were extricated. M. C. and N. Y. C. wreck, Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
N. Y. Central Engine under side, M. C. and N. Y. Central wreck, Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
New York Central Engine after being righted, M. C. and N. Y. C. wreck, Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
View of crowds, part of M. C. wrecked train in distance, M. C. Depot and Tower House to right, Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
View of Tower House and Crossing, N. Y. C. and M. C. R. R., Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
Westbound New York Central passenger train No. 151 plowed through the third coach of eastbound Michigan Central train No. 20, at an interlocked crossing of these lines at Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
Westbound New York Central passenger train No. 151 plowed through the third coach of eastbound Michigan Central train No. 20, at an interlocked crossing of these lines at Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
Westbound New York Central passenger train No. 151 plowed through the third coach of eastbound Michigan Central train No. 20, at an interlocked crossing of these lines at Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
Westbound New York Central passenger train No. 151 plowed through the third coach of eastbound Michigan Central train No. 20, at an interlocked crossing of these lines at Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
Westbound New York Central passenger train No. 151 plowed through the third coach of eastbound Michigan Central train No. 20, at an interlocked crossing of these lines at Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
Westbound New York Central passenger train No. 151 plowed through the third coach of eastbound Michigan Central train No. 20, at an interlocked crossing of these lines at Porter, Indiana, February 27, 1921.
Derailment of Train No. 13, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Suman, Indiana, August 27, 1923.
Derailment of Train No. 13, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Suman, Indiana, August 27, 1923.
Derailment of Train No. 13, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Suman, Indiana, August 27, 1923.
Derailment of Train No. 13, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Suman, Indiana, August 27, 1923.
Derailment of Train No. 13, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Suman, Indiana, August 27, 1923.
Derailment of Train No. 13, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. Engine 5232 after being rerailed, Suman, Indiana, August 27, 1923.
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Stunning Autochromes of Belgium Taken by Georges Gilon in 1913
Portrait of Jeanne Nokin, ca. 1913.
Georges Gilon (1873–1928) was a wool-trader at Verviers in Belgium. He was married to Maria Nokin who bore him 4 children.
Besides his passion for photography Gilon was also a gifted wood-worker. His photographic topics were mainly landscapes, old regional farmhouses, festivities and townscapes of his hometown Verviers. The vast body of his work consists of black and white photographs, although he worked also with the autochrome process. He excelled in rendering colors in fine pastel shades which turned his autochromes into timeless works of art.
See e.g. the three townscapes in which the viewer is captivated by the dreamlike atmosphere. Landscape with windmill is also a fine example of the compositional skills of Georges Gilon. The green foreground gives the eye a resting point, the footpath leads us to the red pastel rooftops and the upstanding sail of the windmill. A small collection of his autochromes can be seen on below.
Family portrait at Roannay, Belgium, ca. 1913.
Landscape with windmill. Ronse, Belgium, ca. 1913.
Schelde river, houses. Oudenaarde, Belgium, ca. 1913.
Saint-Walburgachurch. Oudenaarde, Belgium, ca. 1913.
Pool at Roannay, Belgium, ca. 1913.
Light and shadows at Roannay, Belgium, ca. 1913.
Forest and ferns, ca. 1913.
Bouquet with roses and chrysanths, ca. 1913.
Yellow begonias, ca. 1913.
Red and white begonias, ca. 1913.
Bouquet with roses and gladioli, ca. 1913.
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35 Fabulous Photos of Barbara Carrera in the 1970s and 1980s
Born 1945 in Bluefields, Nicaraguan-American model and actress Barbara Carrera began a career as a model at the Eileen Ford agency at the age of 17. Her first film role was as a fashion model in Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970). In 1972, she appeared on the screen in a publicity role for Chiquita bananas. In 1976, she earned her first Golden Globe nomination (“New Star of the Year – Actress”) for her role in The Master Gunfighter.
Carrera later played in such films as The Island of Dr. Moreau, Lone Wolf McQuade, Condorman, Point of Impact, Tryst and Embryo. For her portrayal of the villainess Fatima Blush in the James Bond film Never Say Never Again, she earned a 1984 Golden Globe nomination for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture”. She worked opposite Laurence Olivier in Wild Geese II the following year.
On television, she played a part in the soap opera Dallas as Angelica Nero, and more prominently, in the historical miniseries Centennial in 1978 and Masada (opposite Peter O’Toole and Peter Strauss) in 1981. These roles brought her to the mainstream attention of American audiences. She also starred as Emma Forsayth in the miniseries Emma: Queen of the South Seas in 1988. Carrera has appeared on the pages and covers of such magazines as Vogue, Paris Match, Harper’s Bazaar, and twice posed for Playboy.
In 1997, she was appointed Ambassador-at-Large for Nicaragua by then-president Arnoldo Alemán. Since Illusion Infinity (a.k.a. Paradise, 2004), Carrera has not appeared in films or television. Take a look at these fabulous photos to see portraits of a young Barbara Carrera in the 1970s and 1980s.
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Roller-Skating Street Ambassador Advertising the Mythical Zohar Photography Studio in Manhattan
This amazing daguerreotype photo may look as if it was taken in 19th century New York, but it is actually the work of California photographer Stephen Berkman, who is an expert in the extremely difficult pre-chemical photographic process of wet-collodion photography.
This is one of 30 photographs Berkman took that was included in art installation called “Predicting the Past—Zohar Studios: The Lost Years” that was exhibited in the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. Other equally bizarre images include a sepia-toned woman with bottle curls wearing formal Victorian dress sitting in a chair calmly knitting what appears to be a condom.
Los Angeles-based artist and Zohar “biographer” Berkman says that the works are “a tribute to the enigmatic 19th century New York City photographic establishment known as Zohar Studios, located in the predominantly Jewish Lower East Side.”
Berkman says that Shimmel Zohar was born in Lithuania in 1822, arrived in New York in 1857, and that his studio was located at 432 Pearl Street. Berkman claims that Zohar’s original glass plates were lost, but Berkman later came across Zohar’s detailed notes of his tableaux, and although that book was later lost, he remembered the contents and was able to recreate the Wandering Jewess, the Merkin Seller, the Co-joined Twins, the Condom Knitter, the Itinerant Phrenologist, the Man with the Down-trodden Banana, and many others.
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