Often referred to as “The First Lady of the American Screen,” Bette Davis created a new kind of screen heroine. She was a liberated woman in an industry dominated by men. She was known as an actress that could play a variety of difficult and powerful roles, and because of this she set a newContinue reading “63 Stunning Photos of a Actress Bette Davis During the 1920s and 1930s”
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51 Vintage Photos of American Hollywood Actors of the 1930s
25 Vintage Photographs Show Daily Life of American Children During the Great Depression
During his 50 year career as a photographer, Arthur Rothstein documented a great variety of subjects, including baseball games, war, struggling farmers, and U.S. Presidents. After his graduation from Columbia University, Rothstein’s former professor Roy Stryker, the head of the Photo Unit for the Resettlement Administration (which would later become the Farm Security Administration) madeContinue reading “25 Vintage Photographs Show Daily Life of American Children During the Great Depression”
50 Amazing Vintage Photos from the 1930s Volume 1
The Philadelphia Poison Ring – 21 Incredible Mugshots of Criminals in the Late 1930s
The Philadelphia Poison Ring was a murder for hire gang led by Italian immigrant cousins, Herman and Paul Petrillo who were involved in insurance scams, counterfeiting, and murder. The ring came to light in 1938 and the cousins were ultimately convicted of first degree murder and executed by electric chair in 1941. A Russian-Jewish immigrantContinue reading “The Philadelphia Poison Ring – 21 Incredible Mugshots of Criminals in the Late 1930s”
44 Amazing Photos of Pennsylvania Weddings From Between the 1920s and 1930s
These glass negatives are wedding photos that were captured in the Lehighton, Packerton and Jim Thorp (Mauch Chunk), Pennsylvania area by photographer Ephraim E. Rinker (1886-1950) from between the 1920s and 1930s.
Amazing Photos Showing Life in Texas migrant camps During the 1940s
Migrant Camps, or Weedpatch Camp, has its origins in the migrations during the drought that caused the Dust Bowl in the mid-1930s. Oklahoma was especially hard hit by the drought and many of the farmers there left. They migrated to California where they moved from farm to farm looking for work as farm laborers. TheyContinue reading “Amazing Photos Showing Life in Texas migrant camps During the 1940s”
35 Vintage Photos of What Summer Used to Look Like in America
30 Vintage Photos of Skirt Raising from the 1920s through the 1960s
47 Vintage Photos of Silent Movie Stars of the 1920s
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound (and in particular, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, when necessary, be conveyed by the use of title cards. The term “silent film” isContinue reading “47 Vintage Photos of Silent Movie Stars of the 1920s”
