Photographer Cornel Lucas was a pioneer of film portraiture. He made his name shooting studio portraits of film stars of the 1940s and 1950s and was said to have done more for the images of many of those he photographed than their performances on celluloid. His big break came in 1948 when he was askedContinue reading “Beautiful Portraits of Marlene Dietrich While Filming ‘No Highway in the Sky’ in 1948”
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Vintage Photos of Men Shaving Their Faces With Axes From the 1930s and 1940s
Believe it or not, there is photographic evidence of men, some who were lumberjacks or loggers, who shaved their own faces, and the faces of others, with an ax. There were a couple of notable manly men who were known for performing the feat in front of crowds such as Paul Criss whose moniker wasContinue reading “Vintage Photos of Men Shaving Their Faces With Axes From the 1930s and 1940s”
Women Workers at a Naval Air Base in Texas 1942
In August 1942, the US Farm Security Administration took these color photographs of women working in the Assembly and Repair Dept. of the Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression. In these stunning photographs it’sContinue reading “Women Workers at a Naval Air Base in Texas 1942”
The Employees of the Danzig Post Office Fought the Germans For 15 Hours During the Invasion of Poland Before They Were Captured
In 1939, it was obvious that Nazi Germany was on the war path. Austria had been annexed just a year earlier, and so also was the Sudetenland that belonged to Czechoslovakia. The British and French, who represented the defenders of the 1919 Treaty of Versaille, hesitated, hoping that Hitler’s imperialistic thirst was going to beContinue reading “The Employees of the Danzig Post Office Fought the Germans For 15 Hours During the Invasion of Poland Before They Were Captured”
35 Vintage Color Photos of Women’s Swimsuits from the 1940s
1940s Printing Technique: When Printing Photos on Fabric Was the Next Big Thing
In the 1940s, men and women had been pushing the technical limits of photography ever since the medium was born, well over a century before — but no one , it seems, had ever bothered to devote the energy, time and money it would take to devise a method for printing pictures directly on toContinue reading “1940s Printing Technique: When Printing Photos on Fabric Was the Next Big Thing”
28 Vintage Childhood Photos of Frank Zappa From the 1940s
Frank Zappa was born on December 21, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Rosemarie (née Collimore) was of Italian (Neapolitan and Sicilian) and French ancestry; his father, whose name was anglicized to Francis Vincent Zappa, was an immigrant from Partinico, Sicily, with Greek and Arab ancestry. Frank, the eldest of four children, was raised inContinue reading “28 Vintage Childhood Photos of Frank Zappa From the 1940s”
56 Wonderful Vintage Photos of Classic Movie Stars Spending Time With Their Pets
Here is an interesting collection of lovely vintage pictures of classic movie stars spending time with their pets. From Rita Hayworth to Alfred Hitchcock, looks like these celebrities had a soft spot not only for dogs and cats, but for all kinds of creatures of the animal kingdom. As you will see below for example,Continue reading “56 Wonderful Vintage Photos of Classic Movie Stars Spending Time With Their Pets”
101 Black And White Photos of Women during the 1940s & 1950s
(Photos By Nina Leen)
30 Wonderful Vintage Photographs of Women Posing With Their Bicycles
Today’s fashionable “lady cyclist” is likely wearing spandex, skin-tight bicycle shorts. Consider the women of 1894 and their persistence in finding some way to enjoy that new contraption, the bicycle. “What shall we wear?” is a query rising from every channel of woman’s life: for upon each occasion we must be suitably clad to enjoyContinue reading “30 Wonderful Vintage Photographs of Women Posing With Their Bicycles”
