Shipping out to China in December 1947 with three ten-year-old German cameras and a plum assignment from LIFE magazine, Jack Birns was fulfilling a boyhood dream. The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaosContinue reading “80 Amazing Photos of Shanghai, China between 1947 & 1949”
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40 Vintage Photographs of U.S. Soldiers in Vietnam
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by theContinue reading “40 Vintage Photographs of U.S. Soldiers in Vietnam”
44 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Life in the Warsaw Ghetto in the Summer of 1941
On 2 October 1940, Ludwig Fischer, Governor of the Warsaw District in the occupied General Government of Poland, signed the order to officially create a Jewish district (ghetto) in Warsaw. It was to become the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe. All Jewish people in Warsaw had to relocate to the area of the ghetto byContinue reading “44 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Life in the Warsaw Ghetto in the Summer of 1941”
46 Amazing Colorized Historic Photos That Bring the Past To Life!
Relating to the past can be difficult when all you have to look at are faded black and white photos that feel like they are from another planet. The mind thinks and remembers in color, meaning a color photograph is much easier to connect with than a black and white photo. Thanks to film colorizationContinue reading “46 Amazing Colorized Historic Photos That Bring the Past To Life!”
40 Vintage Photographs and the Tragic Life of Conjoined Twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton
Born in Brighton, England on 5 February 1908, the twins were unofficially adopted by their biological mother’s midwife, Mary Hilton, when the mother rejected the children. From the time that they were infants, they were exhibited at fairs and circuses by Hilton and her daughter. When Daisy Hilton and Violet Hilton moved to the UnitedContinue reading “40 Vintage Photographs and the Tragic Life of Conjoined Twins, Daisy and Violet Hilton”
30 Incredible Photos of the Canary Girls, Female Munition Workers in WWI Whose Hair and Skin Turned Yellow
During World War I the United Kingdom called upon its female population to join the workforce. With a majority of men being deployed and a dire need for production both to support the troops and to keep the country running, women were asked to “do their bit”. Munition factories were one of the main sitesContinue reading “30 Incredible Photos of the Canary Girls, Female Munition Workers in WWI Whose Hair and Skin Turned Yellow”
45 Amazing Vintage Photos of Bicycle Messenger Boys Across America from the Early 20th Century
The little bicycle messengers of yesterday who were part of two million child laborers working in American industry in the early 20th century. Photojournalist Lewis Hine played an integral role in the creation of child labor laws in America. Hine took a post with the National Child Labor Committee in 1908 and spent the nextContinue reading “45 Amazing Vintage Photos of Bicycle Messenger Boys Across America from the Early 20th Century”
25 Amazing Vintage Photographs of Native Americans from the 1890s
18 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Victorian Tourists Climbing Up the Pyramids in Egypt
Photographs of the Pyramids of Giza taken at the height of colonialism show tourists climbing the massive structures and offer more insight into the evolution of tourism in Egypt. While it’s forbidden for tourists nowadays to clamber up Egypt’s pyramids to take a snap, back in Victorian times it was all the rage. European holidaymakersContinue reading “18 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Victorian Tourists Climbing Up the Pyramids in Egypt”
70 Amazing Photographs of American Soldiers During the Vietnam War
In the spring of 1965, within weeks of 3,500 American Marines arriving in Vietnam, a 39-year-old Briton named Larry Burrows began work on a feature for LIFE magazine, chronicling the day-to-day experience of U.S. troops on the ground—and in the air—in the midst of the rapidly widening war. In the heat of battle, in theContinue reading “70 Amazing Photographs of American Soldiers During the Vietnam War”
