On 2 October 1940, Ludwig Fischer, Governor of the Warsaw District in the occupied General Government of Poland, signed the order to officially create a Jewish district (ghetto) in Warsaw. It was to become the largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe. All Jewish people in Warsaw had to relocate to the area of the ghetto byContinue reading “44 Amazing Vintage Photos Showing Life in the Warsaw Ghetto in the Summer of 1941”
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45 Amazing Vintage Photos of Bicycle Messenger Boys Across America from the Early 20th Century
The little bicycle messengers of yesterday who were part of two million child laborers working in American industry in the early 20th century. Photojournalist Lewis Hine played an integral role in the creation of child labor laws in America. Hine took a post with the National Child Labor Committee in 1908 and spent the nextContinue reading “45 Amazing Vintage Photos of Bicycle Messenger Boys Across America from the Early 20th Century”
31 Interesting Photos Showing Atlantic City during the 1960s
41 Vintage Photographs Showing Life in New York City During the 1930s and 1940s
John Albok (1894–1982) was a Hungarian photographer who immigrated to the United States and documented street scenes in New York City during the Great Depression and later. In 1921 and opened a tailor shop on Madison Avenue, between 96th and 97th Streets, which he also used as a location for his pursuit of photography. ForContinue reading “41 Vintage Photographs Showing Life in New York City During the 1930s and 1940s”
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”
25 Vintage Photos of Life in Russia during the 1880s
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”
40 Vintage Photographs of New York City at Night during the 1940s
(Photos by Andreas Feininger/ LIFE Archive Photos)
