These vintage pictures below describe how terrible beauty care procedures looked like in the 1920s and 1940s. Women now must be happy they don’t have to spend many hours sitting under strange devices or put weird things on their faces.
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The Johnstown Flood – 27 Vintage Photos of the Great Flood of 1889 Which Killed Over 2,000 People in Minutes
In a river valley in central Pennsylvania, heavy rain and a neglected dam lead to a catastrophe in which 2,209 people die and a prosperous city, Johnstown, is nearly wiped off the face of the earth. Johnstown, located at the confluence of the Little Conemaugh River and Stony Creek, was 14 miles downstream from LakeContinue reading “The Johnstown Flood – 27 Vintage Photos of the Great Flood of 1889 Which Killed Over 2,000 People in Minutes”
20 Beautiful Portraits of Women During the Later 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Pictorialism, an approach to photography that emphasizes beauty of subject matter, tonality, and composition rather than the documentation of reality. The Pictorialist perspective was born in the late 1860s and held sway through the first decade of the 20th century. It approached the camera as a tool that, like the paintbrush and chisel, could beContinue reading “20 Beautiful Portraits of Women During the Later 19th and Early 20th Centuries”
41 Vintage Photos of the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967
The Monterey International Pop Music Festival was a three-day concert event held June 16 to June 18, 1967, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds in Monterey. The festival is remembered for the first major American appearances by The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Who and Ravi Shankar, the first large-scale public performance of Janis Joplin and theContinue reading “41 Vintage Photos of the Monterey Pop Festival in June 1967”
Amazing Vintage Photos of Hollywood Actresses at Christmas
43 Wonderful Photos of People on Christmas Morning in the Past
Christmas mornings in the 1960s and 1970s were often filled with a mix of anticipation, tradition, and joy. Families would wake up early, the excitement palpable as children rushed to the tree to see what Santa Claus had left for them. The living room, often decorated with tinsel, colorful lights, and handmade ornaments, was theContinue reading “43 Wonderful Photos of People on Christmas Morning in the Past”
26 Vintage Photographs of Hollywood Boulevard From 1928 When It Became Santa Claus Lane
Each November beginning in 1928, Hollywood merchants transformed a one-mile stretch of Hollywood Boulevard between Vine and La Brea into Santa Claus Lane to boost shopping. Part of the promotion was a daily parade featuring Santa Claus and a film star. The brainchild of businessman Harry Blaine and the Hollywood Boulevard Association, which promoted theContinue reading “26 Vintage Photographs of Hollywood Boulevard From 1928 When It Became Santa Claus Lane”
26 Amazing Colorized Vintage Photos
25 Bizarre and Creepy Vintage Christmas Cards From the Victorian Era
The Victorians had a much more macabre approach to the festive season! Christmas cards today usually feature a jolly Santa, fluffy woodland animal or green glittery tree, but Victorian versions had a much more terrifying tone. The first Christmas card was commercially produced by Sir Henry Cole in 1843 but it was not until theContinue reading “25 Bizarre and Creepy Vintage Christmas Cards From the Victorian Era”
Christmas Truce 1914: Amazing Photos of British and German Troops Meeting in No Man’s Land on the Western Front
The Christmas truce (German: Weihnachtsfrieden; French: Trêve de Noël; Dutch: Kerstbestand) was a series of widespread unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front of the First World War around Christmas 1914. The truce occurred five months after hostilities had begun. Lulls occurred in the fighting as armies ran out of men and munitions and commanders reconsideredContinue reading “Christmas Truce 1914: Amazing Photos of British and German Troops Meeting in No Man’s Land on the Western Front”
