Group of six creative cabinet cards that were most likely used to advertise the photography studio of Orgill, (John), Hartford, Connecticut. This marvelous series has an Irish theme as we see two buddies leaning on each other with a sign above that reads, Two Ould Friends. Next we see them joking around in hilarious drinkingContinue reading “Two Ould Friends”
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Stunning Photos of Stevie Nicks in New Haven, October 1975
Photographer Fin Costello was born in Glenamaddy in Galway, Ireland and grew-up in Cork by St Lukes. He emigrated to London when he was 19 years old, and took up a trade as a sailmaker. In 1966 he began photography as a hobby and discovered he had an aptitude for it, initially beginning working forContinue reading “Stunning Photos of Stevie Nicks in New Haven, October 1975”
57 Amazing Photos Showing Street Scenes of New Haven, Connecticut in the Early 1970s
New Haven is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut, and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,023 as determined by the 2020 United States Census,Continue reading “57 Amazing Photos Showing Street Scenes of New Haven, Connecticut in the Early 1970s”
25 Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture a Ladies’ Smoker Night in 1941
On the evening of May 20, members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford, Connecticut, explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers. Men were strictly forbidden from entering the Ladies’ Smoker Night, although theyContinue reading “25 Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture a Ladies’ Smoker Night in 1941”
25 Amazing Photos Showing Life at the Powder Ridge Rock Festival, 1970
“Woodstock was a pale pot scene. This is a heavy hallucinogens scene.”The Powder Ridge Rock Festival was scheduled to be held July 31, August 1 and August 2, 1970 at Powder Ridge Ski Area in Middlefield, Connecticut. A legal injunction forced the event to be canceled, keeping the musicians away; but a crowd of 30,000Continue reading “25 Amazing Photos Showing Life at the Powder Ridge Rock Festival, 1970”
