In the seven decades since the Holocaust, thunderstruck scholars and laypeople alike have consistently asked themselves how it could have happened. What far too few realize, however, is that just two and half decades before, something like it already had. The Lead Up To The Armenian Genocide Between 1915 and 1923, the Ottoman and TurkishContinue reading “The Forgotten Holocaust: 47 Heartbreaking Photos From The Armenian Genocide”
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42 Vintage Photos of Life in Paris during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Beautiful Color Photographs of Life in Pre-Revolutionary Russia, 1909-1915
36 Incredible Photographs of World War I Taken By Some of the First Color Cameras
At first glance these photos from the First World War appear to have had digitally colorised, but in fact these rare images were taken using some of the world’s first colour cameras. The stunning pictures show French soldiers reading newspapers, pausing for lunch in ruined towns and cities and clearing the rubble after devastating GermanContinue reading “36 Incredible Photographs of World War I Taken By Some of the First Color Cameras”
100-Year-Ago Studio Photography – 41 Vintage Photos of Paper Moon Portraits From the 1900s and 1910s
Long before Instagram, photo booths or even the common ownership of a camera, you could get your photograph taken sitting on the moon. Often a fixture at fairs, parties and carnivals, people sat in the crescent of a smiling “paper moon,” as if lifted to the stars. A photographic phenomena primarily of the early halfContinue reading “100-Year-Ago Studio Photography – 41 Vintage Photos of Paper Moon Portraits From the 1900s and 1910s”
58 Rare Color Photos of Life in Paris in 1914
Tired of the endless series of black and white photos that were popular in the day, French banker Albert Kahn decided to do something about it. In 1909, he commissioned four photographers to take their cameras all around the world, and using Autochrome Lumière, to document in color what they saw. One of the citiesContinue reading “58 Rare Color Photos of Life in Paris in 1914”
54 Vintage Photographs of the Police Officers From Between the 1890s and 1930s
33 Vintage Photos of Passengers on Trains During the Early 20th Century
Trains were one of the main and essential means of transportation in the early 20th century. Not only important for the military, transportation of goods, it was also popular for traveling. These interesting snapshots show what passengers on the trains in the early 20th century looked like.
53 Vintage Photos of American Cities during the 1900s & 1910s
25 Gorgeous Color Photos Taken by Alfonse Van Besten in the 1910s
Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilizing innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid Autochromes. The tableaux of his Autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first color photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. HereContinue reading “25 Gorgeous Color Photos Taken by Alfonse Van Besten in the 1910s”
