Beautiful Vintage Photos and Posters of French Entertainer Mistinguett
This post was originally published on this siteMistinguett (born Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois) was a French actress and singer. Bourgeois aspired to be an entertainer at […]
1910s
Amazing Photos of RMS Aquitania During Her Life
This post was originally published on this siteRMS Aquitania was a British ocean liner of the Cunard Line in service from 1914 to 1950. She […]
Vintage Photos of ‘the Worlds of Bertha Shambaugh’ at 219 N Clinton Street, Iowa City
This post was originally published on this siteBertha Maude Horack Shambaugh was born in 1871 to Czech-born immigrants Frank and Katherine Horack. The family moved […]
Covers of Vogue in the 1910s
This post was originally published on this siteBegan as a weekly newspaper in 1892, before becoming a monthly magazine years later, Vogue is an American […]
Amazing Photographs Capture Street Scenes of Sydney From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries
This post was originally published on this siteThese amazing photographs were taken by Frederick Danvers Power from between 1898-1926. The photos show street scenes of […]
Harry Gardiner: The First Human Fly
This post was originally published on this siteOne of the strangest phenomenons of the twentieth century began as skyscrapers first began to tower over cityscapes […]
Scary Cosmetic Rubber Masks From the 1910s
This post was originally published on this siteVulcanized rubber masks were the most common ‘cosmetic’ mask in the 1910s. They were considered to be ‘quite […]
Photograph of a Suffragette Chained to Railings in London, ca. 1910
This post was originally published on this siteBlack and white photograph of a suffragette, standing on the corner of Downing Street, London, chained to railings […]
Beautiful Black-and-White Photos of Amsterdam Taken by Dutch Painter George Hendrik Breitner
This post was originally published on this siteGeorge Hendrik Breitner (12 September 1857 – 5 June 1923) was a Dutch painter and photographer. An important […]
Rare Photos of “Early Bird” Aviators by Alfred Husmann
This post was originally published on this siteThrough his friendship with Alfred Solbrig, son of pioneer aviator Oscar A. Solbrig, Alfred Husmann of Davenport, Iowa […]
Uniforms Worn by Researchers During Experiments With Plague in the Philippines, ca. 1912
This post was originally published on this siteThis photo from the archives of the National Museum of Public Health shows two plague researchers in the […]
Amazing Vintage Photos of London Buses Used to Take British Soldiers to the Western Front During World War I
This post was originally published on this siteWhen the First World War broke out, the era of the horse bus drew to a close. London’s […]
33 Colorized Photos of Kimono Life in Old Japan
This post was originally published on this siteThe kimono is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan. The kimono is a T-shaped, […]
35 Amazing Vintage Photographs Record Life in Wyoming From Between the 1900s and 1910s
This post was originally published on this siteLaura Webb Nichols (1883–1962) got her first camera on her 16th birthday, October 28, 1899, as a gift […]
Gorgeous Portrait Photos of Classic Beauties by Fred Hartsook in the 1910s
This post was originally published on this siteBorn 1876 in Marion, Indiana, American photographer Fred Hartsook was the owner of a California studio chain described […]
Greta Looking Not So Promising as a Teenager, Here Are Some Rarely Seen Childhood Photographs of Greta Garbo
This post was originally published on this siteOn September 18, 1905 a baby girl was born on the Stockholm island of Södermalm. Her parents would […]
Vintage Photos of People Posing With Paper Moons in the Early 20th Century
This post was originally published on this sitePaper moons were particularly popular from the 1900s through to the 1930s, and especially in the United States, […]
Do Not Believe Him
This post was originally published on this siteIn WWI there were numerous campaigns aimed at slowing the spread of this debilitating disease that can stop […]
33 Amazing Vintage Posters Designed by Marcello Dudovich
This post was originally published on this siteBorn 1878 in Trieste, Italian painter, illustrator, and poster designer Marcello Dudovich relocated from Trieste to Milan in […]
20 Illustration Cover Photos of the Cosmopolitan by Harrison Fisher in the 1910s
This post was originally published on this siteCosmopolitan is an American monthly fashion and entertainment magazine for women, first published based in New York City […]
A Collection of 40 Rare Color Photographs of France in World War I
This post was originally published on this siteServing in the French Army, photographer Fernand Cuville (1887–1927) continued the autochromists’ tradition of recording the world around […]
Back in the 1920s, Many Radium Water Producers Advocated Drinking Radium Water as a Necessity of Healthy Living
This post was originally published on this site“The radium water worked fine until his jaw fell out.” From the early 20th century up to the […]
17 Stunning Vintage Art Deco Posters
This post was originally published on this siteArt Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture and design that first appeared in France just before […]
35 Amazing Vintage Photographs Show How Parisian Women’s Fashion Looked Like Back in the 1910s
This post was originally published on this siteParis is one of the fashion capitals of the world, and since forever a home of the most […]
Window Tents for Healthy Persons, ca. 1910s
This post was originally published on this siteThe window tent was originally devised in order to give the open-air treatment for tuberculosis to patients in […]