A danish emigrant, settled in New York in 1870, Jacob Riis (1849-1914) becomes a reporter for the New York Tribune in 1888 and covers the police investigations of the Lower East Side. His pictures of the squalid lives of New York’s immigrants made him the most famous photographer of his day – and were creditedContinue reading “32 Unbelievable Photos That Show the Wretched Conditions in New York’s Slums During the Late 19th Century”
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54 Amazing Vintage Photos of Native American Children in the Late 19th Century
28 Amazing Portrait Photographs of Musicians From the Mid-19th Century
These amazing photographs that captured portraits of musicians in the 1850s and 1860s.
46 Haunting Portraits Of 19th Century Mental Asylum Patients
34 Fascinating Photos of Nikola Tesla
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. Born and raised in the Austrian Empire, Tesla studied engineering and physics in the 1870s without receiving a degree,Continue reading “34 Fascinating Photos of Nikola Tesla”
46 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Turn-Of-The-Century New York’s Immigrant Slums
15 Amazing Vintage Photos of Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars, 1858
These remarkable photographs provide probably the only surviving images of veterans of the Grande Armée and the Guard actually wearing their original uniforms and insignia, although some of the uniforms have obviously been recut by tailors of the 1850’s. All the men — at this time in their 70s and 80s — are wearing theContinue reading “15 Amazing Vintage Photos of Veterans of the Napoleonic Wars, 1858”
42 Vintage Photos of Life in Paris during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
28 Remarkable Photos Showing the World in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
40 Amazing Vintage Portraits of Persians Taken During the 19th Century
Antoin Sevruguin is one of the first photographers to document life during the reign of the Qajar dynasty in Persia (1785–1925). Born into a diplomat family in the Russian embassy in Tehran in 1830, Sevruguin traveled around the country as an artist and photographer portraying the everyday lives of the Iranian people from 1870 toContinue reading “40 Amazing Vintage Portraits of Persians Taken During the 19th Century”
