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49 Remarkable Photos From The 1900s Showing The Struggles of Child Laborers Volume 1
In 1908 Lewis Hine picked up his camera and became the photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. It was a start of a long decade, as Lewis traveled across the country, documenting child labor, getting constant threats from factory owners as the immorality of child labor was supposed to be kept away from theContinue reading “49 Remarkable Photos From The 1900s Showing The Struggles of Child Laborers Volume 1”
36 Amazing Photos of Life in Canada during the Late 1940s & 1950s
Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic to the Pacific and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering 9.98 million square kilometres (3.85 million square miles), making it the world’s second-largest country by total area. Its southern and western border with the United States, stretching 8,891Continue reading “36 Amazing Photos of Life in Canada during the Late 1940s & 1950s”
44 Old Color Photos Made With Autochrome That Remain Magnificent Over A Century Later
15 Unusual and Bizarre Beauty Devices From Between the 1920s and 1940s
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.
20 Amazing Color Photos of New York During the 1950s
More than any other artist, Walker Evans invented the images of essential America that we have long since accepted as fact, and his work has influenced not only modern photography but also literature, film and visual arts in other mediums. Walker Evans (1903-1975) took up photography upon his return to New York in 1927, followingContinue reading “20 Amazing Color Photos of New York During the 1950s”
50+ Amazing Vintage Photos From the 1970s Volume 1
42 Vintage Photos of Life in Paris during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,175,601 residents as of 2018, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe’s major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, science, and arts. The CityContinue reading “42 Vintage Photos of Life in Paris during the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries”
27 Vintage Photos Showing People Watching TV in the Past
60 Wonderful Photographs Showing Street Scenes of New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1950s
New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a tabulated population of 383,997 in 2020, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader GulfContinue reading “60 Wonderful Photographs Showing Street Scenes of New Orleans, Louisiana in the 1950s”
