If you grew up in the 1970s, chances are you had a rockin’ sense of style. Adults were donning leisure suits and bell bottoms, and stores adapted those trends to fit their littlest costumers, too. At that time, it was impossible not to look good. But looking back, some of the best styles seem aContinue reading “Vintage Photos Show What Kids Wore in the 1970s”
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50 Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1940s Volume 4
40 Beautiful Photos of Actress Jeanne Crain in the 1940s and 1950s
Born 1925 in Barstow, California, American actress Jeanne Crain had her first sizable role in Home in Indiana (1944). The film, shot in Technicolor, was popular at the box office and established Crain as a film name. In 1949, Crain appeared in three films. A Letter to Three Wives (1949), in which Crain was oneContinue reading “40 Beautiful Photos of Actress Jeanne Crain in the 1940s and 1950s”
86 Amazing Photographs Showing Life in Paris During World War 1
Charles Lansiaux (1855–1939) became a photographer at the end of the 19th century. He established his own business in 1903, describing his company purpose as “Artistic and industrial photography, city works, emergency works, interior photography with artificial light, enlargements, amateur documentary photography.” At the beginning of the war in 1914, he started documenting daily lifeContinue reading “86 Amazing Photographs Showing Life in Paris During World War 1”
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Vintage Photos of Women Workers in the Factories in London During World War II
These women were all training in various London polytechnics to work in munitions factories during the early 1940s. Women have always worked outside the home but never before in the numbers or with the same impact as they did in World War II. Prior to the war, most of the women that did work wereContinue reading “Vintage Photos of Women Workers in the Factories in London During World War II”
Abolitionist Button, ca. 1850s
Abolitionist Button is an early photography daguerreotype and gold photographic print created from between the 1840s to the 1850s. It lives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The image is in the public domain, and tagged jewelry and political work. This miniature daguerreotype shows two hands resting on a book. The photographContinue reading “Abolitionist Button, ca. 1850s”
The Story of the Cardiff Giant, the Greatest Hoax in American History
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in American history. It was a 10-foot-tall (3.0 m), 3,000 pound purported “petrified man” uncovered on October 16, 1869, by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. “Stub” Newell in Cardiff, New York. He covered the giant with a tent and itContinue reading “The Story of the Cardiff Giant, the Greatest Hoax in American History”
Amazing Vintage Photos of American Life in the 1930s
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, 326 Indian reservations, and nine minor outlying islands. It is the world’s third-largest country by bothContinue reading “Amazing Vintage Photos of American Life in the 1930s”
