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39 Amazing Portrait Photos of Mexican People in the 1860s

Here’s a photo album of Mexican occupationals made by the studio “Cruces y Campa” in the 1860s. The album contains portraits of occupations, vendors and marketeers. Antíoco Cruces and Luis Campa made a brilliant career as photographers in Mexico City from between the years of 1862 and 1877. Their studio called Art Photography was locatedContinue reading “39 Amazing Portrait Photos of Mexican People in the 1860s”

32 Amazing Photographs of Paris in the 1950s by Photographer Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau (French: 14 April 1912 – 1 April 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s, he made photographs on the streets of Paris. He was a champion of humanist photography and with Henri Cartier-Bresson a pioneer of photojournalism. Doisneau is renowned for his 1950 image Le baiser de l’hôtel de ville (The KissContinue reading “32 Amazing Photographs of Paris in the 1950s by Photographer Robert Doisneau”

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”

58 Remarkable Photographs of Life at Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940

Pie Town is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located along U.S. Highway 60 in Catron County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 186. Pie Town’s name comes from an early bakery that specialized in dried-apple pies; it was established by Clyde Norman in the early 1920s.Continue reading “58 Remarkable Photographs of Life at Pie Town, New Mexico in 1940”

63 Vintage Photos of U.S. Route 30 in 1948

LIFE photographer Allan Grant took these awesome pictures in 1948, three years after the end of World War II. Route 30 connects Omaha, Nebraska, to Salt Lake City, Utah. Grant traveled west through Nebraska and Wyoming which is now known as the Lincoln Highway. For reasons lost to time, none of Grant’s marvelous photos fromContinue reading “63 Vintage Photos of U.S. Route 30 in 1948”

Extraordinarily Candid Vintage Photographs Showing Life in Vienna, Austria During the 1900s and 1910s

Emil Mayer was a Viennese photographer who did most of his work with a hand-camera on the streets of Vienna around the 1910s. Although he was a lawyer by profession, his greatest passion was for photography: he was the long-time president of one of Vienna’s most prominent camera clubs, and by the time of hisContinue reading “Extraordinarily Candid Vintage Photographs Showing Life in Vienna, Austria During the 1900s and 1910s”