Marken is a village in the Waterland and Zaan Region, North Holland, Netherlands on a peninsula in the IJsselmeer lake. It is known for its characteristic wooden houses and traditional costumes. It used to be an island in the former Zuiderzee, but is now connected to the mainland by a causeway. For some time duringContinue reading “40 Vintage Photographs That Show Life in Marken, Netherlands during the Early 20th Century”
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40 Vintage Color Photos of Mallorca, Spain in the 1950s
Here is a beautiful collection of color vintage photos that shows Mallorca, the largest island in the Balearic Islands archipelago, also a part of Spain located in the Mediterranean in the 1950s.
24 Fascinating Vintage Photos Show American Muscle Men from between the 1930s and 1950s
34 Stunning Photos of Naples, Italy in the Late 1950s
(Photos by Victor Pandolfi)
40 Incredible Vintage Photos of Ridiculous Stunts from the Past
28 Remarkable Photos Showing the World in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
31 Vintage Photographs of American Presidential Phone Calls
42 Rare Vintage Photographs of The Quarrymen (aka The Beatles) From the Late 1950s
The Quarrymen are a British skiffle/rock and roll group, formed by John Lennon in Liverpool in 1956, which eventually evolved into the Beatles in 1960. Originally consisting of Lennon and several school friends, the Quarrymen took their name from a line in the school song of Quarry Bank High School, which they attended. Lennon startedContinue reading “42 Rare Vintage Photographs of The Quarrymen (aka The Beatles) From the Late 1950s”
33 Vintage Photos of Passengers on Trains During the Early 20th Century
Trains were one of the main and essential means of transportation in the early 20th century. Not only important for the military, transportation of goods, it was also popular for traveling. These interesting snapshots show what passengers on the trains in the early 20th century looked like.
25 Gorgeous Color Photos Taken by Alfonse Van Besten in the 1910s
Belgian painter Alfonse Van Besten (1865-1926) embraced technology, utilizing innovative color processes to transfer black and white photographs into vivid, at times lurid Autochromes. The tableaux of his Autochromes (a technology patented by the Lumière brothers in 1903 and the first color photographic process developed on an industrial scale) are often bucolic and romantic. HereContinue reading “25 Gorgeous Color Photos Taken by Alfonse Van Besten in the 1910s”
