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44 Fascinating Color Photographs of Travel Trailers and Motorhomes in the 1950s and ’60s

Modern-day travel trailers trace their origins to gypsy travel wagons and the Conestoga Wagons built to carry settlers across the United States. Created out of Americans’ love for camping and automobiles, the motorhome is born. In 1910 the first motorhome, Pierce-Arrow’s Touring Landau, debuts at Madison Square Garden. A back seat that folds down intoContinue reading “44 Fascinating Color Photographs of Travel Trailers and Motorhomes in the 1950s and ’60s”

28 Rare Photographs of the Romanov Family Years Before Their Execution

At about 1 a.m. on July 17, 1918, in a fortified mansion in the town of Ekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains, the Romanovs—ex-tsar Nicholas II, ex-tsarina Alexandra, their five children, and their four remaining servants, including the loyal family doctor, Eugene Botkin—were awoken by their Bolshevik captors and told they must dress and gather theirContinue reading “28 Rare Photographs of the Romanov Family Years Before Their Execution”

22 Amazing Vintage Photographs Showing Life in Paris During the 1920s

After the austerity and bloodshed of World War I, France longed for joy and light-heartedness. Pre-war values were rejected as people embraced new lifestyles and new technologies, and discovered a lust for extravagance and partying that had the era named Les Années Folles (the Roaring Twenties, or the ‘mad years’). Cars appeared on the roads;Continue reading “22 Amazing Vintage Photographs Showing Life in Paris During the 1920s”

40 Amazing Photos of Pablo Picasso in His Villa La Californie in the late 1950s

David Douglas Duncan (1916 – 2018) was an American photojournalist who is best known for his dramatic combat photographs. However another really interesting and much more unknown side of him, is the record that he made in 1957 about the intimate life of the great Pablo Picasso in his Villa La Californie in Cannes, France.Continue reading “40 Amazing Photos of Pablo Picasso in His Villa La Californie in the late 1950s”

15 Classic Photos of New York Moviegoers at the Cinema in the 1940s

Weegee is best known for his images of urban crime, death, and nightlife but these photographs are part of a series Weegee made in New York City theaters in the mid-1940s with infrared film. From bemused children to entwined couples, lonely sleepers to exhilarated teenage girls, this gallery of portraits constitutes a powerful, unique, andContinue reading “15 Classic Photos of New York Moviegoers at the Cinema in the 1940s”

30 Interesting Vintage Photos of Girls Home Economics Classes From Between the 1920s and 1950s

Many people argue that home economics classes are an outdated, patriarchal set of skills women were forced to learn back in the day that have no place in our modern, feminist school systems. After all, the modern woman can buy her own clothes, pop dinner into a microwave, throw her laundry into a washing machine,Continue reading “30 Interesting Vintage Photos of Girls Home Economics Classes From Between the 1920s and 1950s”

20 Vintage Photos Showing Florida During the 1940s

Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba; itContinue reading “20 Vintage Photos Showing Florida During the 1940s”

David Bowie With His Wife Angie Bowie at Victoria Station Before He Left on a Train to Paris, July 1973

Bowie’s first marriage to Cypriot-American model Angela Bowie ended in divorce and estrangement. Angela, or ‘Angie’ as she is known, was only 19 when she met Bowie at a gig at The Roundhouse in London in 1969. The pair were married one year later and a year after that welcomed their son, Duncan Zowie HaywoodContinue reading “David Bowie With His Wife Angie Bowie at Victoria Station Before He Left on a Train to Paris, July 1973”