The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 began on a hot July day and thought to be the worst of around 25 riots during the so-called ‘Red Summer’. Some ninety years later the New York Times called it the worst race riot in the history of Illinois. On July 27, 1919, an African-American teenager called EugeneContinue reading “27 Amazing Photographs of the Chicago Race Riots of 1919”
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38 Amazing Vintage Photos of a Country Doctor While Making Housecalls & Treating Patients in 1948
For his groundbreaking 1948 LIFE magazine photo essay, “Country Doctor” — seen here, in its entirety, followed by several unpublished photographs from the shoot — photographer W. Eugene Smith spent 23 days in Kremmling, Colo., chronicling the day-to-day challenges faced by an indefatigable general practitioner named Dr. Ernest Ceriani.Seven decades later, Smith’s images from thoseContinue reading “38 Amazing Vintage Photos of a Country Doctor While Making Housecalls & Treating Patients in 1948”
45 Fascinating Historical Photos Volume 4
The Earliest Known Photos of 12 Major U.S Cities
Philadelphia, Pa. New York City, N.Y. Boston, Mass. Washington, D.C. Detroit, Mich. Miami, Fla. New Orleans, La. San Antonio, Tex. Denver, Colo. Las Vegas, Nev. Seattle, Wash. Los Angeles, Calif.
The Last Public Execution By Guillotine, 1939
In the early morning of 17 June 1939, Eugène Weidmann became the last person to be publicly executed by guillotine. He had been convicted of multiple kidnappings and murders, including that of a young American socialite. Beginning with the botched kidnapping of an American tourist, the inspiring dancer Jean de Koven, Eugène Weidmann murdered twoContinue reading “The Last Public Execution By Guillotine, 1939”
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”
30 Fascinating Vintage Photographs Showing What Life Looked Like in Female Dorm Rooms in the 1950s
Most colleges and universities provide single or multiple occupancy rooms for their students, usually at a cost. These buildings consist of many such rooms, like an apartment building, and the number of rooms varies quite widely from just a few to hundreds. In the United States, residence halls are sometimes segregated by sex, with menContinue reading “30 Fascinating Vintage Photographs Showing What Life Looked Like in Female Dorm Rooms in the 1950s”
60 Amazing Portraits of African-American Ex-Slaves in the Late 1930s
These portraits of African American men and women from locations in Texas were taken in the late 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Work Progress Administration (WPA). They are part of a group of 500, together with more than 2,000 first-person accounts of the experience of being a slave. PeopleContinue reading “60 Amazing Portraits of African-American Ex-Slaves in the Late 1930s”
50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1970s Volume 2
40 Wonderful Photos of the 1939 New York World’s Fair
The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair was a world’s fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive American world’s fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis’s Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million peopleContinue reading “40 Wonderful Photos of the 1939 New York World’s Fair”
