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25 Amazing Color Photos of Street Scenes in San Francisco in 1967
Rome in 1985 Through Amazing Photographs
Living Mannequins on London’s Carnaby Street in 1966
Chicago in the 70s: A Snapshot of Change
Life was good during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Railroad provided employment, church’s influenced a lot of people, heavy duty industry was still in the city, keeping people busy and employed kept a lot of people out of trouble. On Diversey Parkway and Halsted Street, there used to be all kinds of small family-ownedContinue reading “Chicago in the 70s: A Snapshot of Change”
22 Amazing Black and White Photographs of Jewish Life From the 1930s
Born in 1897 to a wealthy Russian-Jewish family, Roman Vishniac immigrated to Berlin in 1920 in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution. As an amateur photographer, he took to the streets with his camera throughout the 1920s and ’30s, offering astute, often humorous visual commentary on his adopted city and experimented with new and modernContinue reading “22 Amazing Black and White Photographs of Jewish Life From the 1930s”
Poignant Photos of Liverpool in the 1980s
The 1980s were a time of turmoil and upheaval for Liverpool. Unemployment and economic instability led to widespread disquiet, culminating in public shows of resistance such as the 1981 Toxteth Riots. Liverpool also elected its first Labour council in 1983, who promised to stand up for what they saw as unjust cuts under the ThatcherContinue reading “Poignant Photos of Liverpool in the 1980s”
30 Wonderful Photographs That Show Everyday Life in Italy During the 1960s
Vintage Photographs of Birmingham, England in the 1960s
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. In the last 200 years, from a market town of Warwickshire, Birmingham has risen into the fastest-growing city of the 19th century, spurred on by a combination of civic investment, scientific achievement, commercial innovation and by a steady influx of migrant workers intoContinue reading “Vintage Photographs of Birmingham, England in the 1960s”
40 Vintage Photos of Bonn From Between the 1920s and 1940s
The Federal city of Bonn is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. About 24 km (15 mi) south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr region, Germany’s largest metropolitan area. The city is famous as a university city, the birthplace of Beethoven,Continue reading “40 Vintage Photos of Bonn From Between the 1920s and 1940s”
