Stockholm is the capital of Sweden. It has the most populous urban area in Sweden as well as in Scandinavia. Approximately 975,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area,[6] and 2.4 million in the metropolitan area.[10] The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea.Continue reading “39 Wonderful Vintage Photos Showing Life of Stockholm During the 1940s and 1950s”
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25 Vintage Pictures of Smoking Camel Signs in Times Square From Between the 1940s and 1960s
Before Times Square was all flat LCD panels its signs were far more textural. Bent tin, neon, flashing light bulbs, and all manner of mechanical contraptions animated the signs that covered the walls of the great canyon of advertising. One of the most famous signs from the 1930s through the ’60s was the Camel CigaretteContinue reading “25 Vintage Pictures of Smoking Camel Signs in Times Square From Between the 1940s and 1960s”
45 Beautiful Photos of WWII Soldiers With Their Brides
During the Second World War there was a sudden increase in the number of weddings. Unsure of what the future held and anxious to formalise their relationships – and perhaps in need of some hope and joy – men and women overcame the obstacles of bombs and rationing with ingenuity on their way to theContinue reading “45 Beautiful Photos of WWII Soldiers With Their Brides”
34 Wonderful Vintage Photos Showing Life in America During the 1940s
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”
The Oldest Living Supermodel: Stunning Photos of Actress & Model Carmen Dell’Orefice in the 1940s and 1950s
Born 1931 in New York City, American model and actress Carmen Dell’Orefice was approached to model by the wife of photographer Herman Landschoff while riding a bus to ballet class at the age of 13. In 1946, her godfather introduced her to Vogue and the 15-year-old signed a modeling contract for $7.50 an hour. SheContinue reading “The Oldest Living Supermodel: Stunning Photos of Actress & Model Carmen Dell’Orefice in the 1940s and 1950s”
40 Wonderful Vintage Christmas Ads from the 1940s
Back when a carton of cigarettes, a Hoover vacuum or a shotgun (for the father, mother and son, respectively, of course) were unquestionably the perfect gifts to give. At least, that’s the impression we get today looking back at that were produced during that era, as well as the 1940s. These 40 vintage holiday advertisementsContinue reading “40 Wonderful Vintage Christmas Ads from the 1940s”
40 Amazing Photos Showing Life in Paris in 1941
“For Parisians the Seine is a compass, a way to know where you are,” said art historian Marina Ferretti.France had a relatively easier time under German occupation during World War II. That is because Hitler did not consider West Europeans as ‘Untermenschen’. The infamous German brutality was reserved for the Russians. These images were takenContinue reading “40 Amazing Photos Showing Life in Paris in 1941”
49 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Life in the United States During the Early 1940s
Born 1914 as Jacob Ovcharov in Voroshilovka, Podolie Governorate, Russian Empire (now Vorošýlivka, Ukraine) and moved, with his parents and younger brother, to the United States in 1923, American photographer Jack Delano worked for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and was also a composer noted for his use of Puerto Rican folk material. After graduatingContinue reading “49 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Life in the United States During the Early 1940s”
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”
