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Weightless Cats: The U.S. Air Force Once Tested Cats in Zero Gravity in 1947

April 14, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAfter WWII, the Navy and Air Force began to compete for primacy in the U.S. space program by […]

1970 Lancia Stratos Zero: A Crazy Concept From the Wedge Era

April 13, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAt the turn of the 1970s, the great design rivalry between Bertone and Pininfarina reached an all-time high, […]

Coolidge Midget Marching Club, 1924

April 12, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe first organized touring Coolidge Marching Club to work for the nomination of the president comes to Washington […]

Las Tapadas Limenas: The Hidden Women of Lima Who Veiled Everything But One Eye in the 19th Century

April 11, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteImages of people in typical local costume and vocations were among the standard offerings of any 19th century […]

The Giants of Seville: Rare Photos of Anna Haining Swan and Martin Van Buren Bates, the Tallest Married Couple Ever

April 10, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAnna Haining Swan (August 6, 1846 – August 5, 1888), was a Canadian woman famed for her great […]

Pictures From Sweden’s First Car Bomb Murder, 1926

April 9, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe businessman Sixten Flyborg (1892–1926) was murdered by his associates on the night of March 12, 1926 in […]

During 1950s Cold War, U.S Children Taught to Duck and Cover

April 8, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAfter the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb in 1949, the American public was understandably nervous. They […]

The Paris Morgue Was One of the Most Popular Tourist Attractions in Paris in the 19th Century

April 3, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteToday, Parisians and tourists from around the world flock to visit the dozens of magnificent monuments and museums […]

Housed in the Henry Ford Museum, Here’s the Test Tube Said to Hold Thomas Edison’s Last Breath

April 2, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteHenry Ford considered Thomas Edison his personal hero and friend. Did his admiration for Edison provoke the admittedly […]

Torches of Freedom: Photographs of Women Smoking Publicly During the Easter Sunday Parade in 1929

March 31, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteCigarette companies began selectively advertising to women in the late 1920s. In 1928 George Washington Hill, the president […]

Wolseley-Vickers “Wheel-Cum-Track” Car, 1926

March 28, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIf you’ve ever gotten a car stuck in the mud, snow, or any other kind of slippery surface, […]

Amazing Vintage Photographs of Niagara Falls Frozen in the Winter From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

March 27, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this sitePeople used to walk to Canada across frozen-over Niagara Falls. As temperatures drop in the northeast corner of […]

Here’s a Daguerreotype of the Notorious Lola Montez and Alights-on-a-Cloud Cheyenne Chief, ca. 1850s

March 27, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAccording to Paula Fleming/Judith Luskey this daguerreotype was made by J. Hawes sometime during the delegation trip. According […]

Candid Photographs Captured People Living a Normal Life With Mummies in Venzone, Italy in 1950

March 24, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe inhabitants of Venzone, Italy with their ancient mummy relatives in 1950 by Jack Birns for LIFE magazine. […]

When Lincoln Rockwell’s Hate Bus Came to Town

March 21, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn March 1959, George Lincoln Rockwell (1918–1967), an American politician and neo-Nazi, founded the World Union of Free […]

Let Me Hop Up on the Table So You Can Sign My Cast, George!

March 21, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteGeorge Harrison autographing the plaster cast on the leg of a young Austrian girl, during a hotel press […]

1900 Ogden’s Guinea Gold Cigarette Ad Targeting Women

March 20, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the early 20th century this particular brand of cigarettes, Ogden’s Guinea Gold, primarily targeted men. In fact, […]

Chastity Belts From the 17th Century

March 19, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteChastity belts became popular in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Their functional purposes are well known, […]

Vintage Studio Portraits Depict Russian Types in the 19th Century

March 19, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteDuring the 1860s, several photographers based in Moscow and St. Petersburg produced series of cartes-de-visite showing Russian ‘types.’ […]

Norway After Liberation: Historical Photos of German Prisoners of War in Norway, 1945

March 17, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe German occupation of Norway began on 9 April 1940 after German forces invaded the neutral Scandinavian country […]

Here’s the Real “Hand of Glory” Which Is Kept at the Whitby Museum

March 16, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe mummified severed human hand in Whitby Museum was discovered in the early 20th century hidden on the […]

20 Breathtaking Photos of Fujian Tulou, the Unique China’s Hakka Earthen Buildings

March 15, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Hakkas who settled in mountainous south western Fujian province in China developed unique architectural buildings called tulou, […]

Stunning Photos of the 1964-1965 New York’s World Fair

March 13, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 1964/1965 New York World’s Fair was a world’s fair that held over 140 pavilions, 110 restaurants, for […]

Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, the First Woman to Travel Around the World by Air in a Zeppelin

March 12, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteLady Grace Drummond-Hay, an English journalist, was the only woman among sixty passengers and crew on the Graf […]

The First Photograph of a Woman Smoking: Daguerreotype of Lola Montez by Southworth & Hawes, 1852

March 11, 2021 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteConsidered to be the first photograph of a woman smoking, this is Lola Montez’s portrait by Southworth & […]

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