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Members of the Glenwood Springs Fire Department Posing in Front of the Hotel Glenwood, Colorado, circa 1888

May 9, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Hotel Glenwood first opened its doors in 1884. It was financed in part by town founder Isaac […]

The 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps: America’s Short-Lived Black Army on Wheels

May 9, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 25th Infantry Bicycle Corps was a unit of black soldiers commanded by a white officer, Lt. James […]

May 8, 1886: Coca-Cola Is Invented

May 8, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn May 1886, Coca-Cola was invented by Doctor John Pemberton, a pharmacist from Atlanta, Georgia. According to the […]

How the "Falling Cat" Phenomenon Helped NASA Prepare Astronauts for Zero Gravity From the 1960s

May 6, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBack in the golden era of space exploration – the 1960s, NASA scientists were concerned with how astronauts […]

Captain Lewis Nixon With His Beloved Stash of Vat 69 Whiskey in the Morning After Celebrating V-E Day in 1945

May 4, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOn the morning of May 4, 1945, the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division moved […]

Tunnel Through Snowslide, Otto Mears’s Toll Road Between Ouray and Silverton, Colorado, 1888

May 4, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe effects of winter can be very long-lasting in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains. A spring 1888 avalanche (snowslide) still […]

The Two-Headed Dog Experiment: Shavka and Brodyaga, Two Soviet Dogs Became Famous in History by Becoming One

May 1, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this site In 1959 Vladimir Demikhov, a Soviet scientist and organ transplant pioneer, attached the upper body of a […]

Vintage Photographs Capture Main Street in Grand Junction During the Operation Foresight Project, 1962

April 29, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the 1950s, Grand Junction was thriving due to the Uranium Boom. Growth was expected to rise, and […]

In 1908, a Doctor Used X-Rays to Highlight the Damaging Effects of Tight Corsets on a Woman’s Body

April 29, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteLudovic O’Followell, a French doctor who in 1905 and 1908 published books on the effects of the corset […]

Painless Parker, an Early 20th Century Street Dentist Who Pulled 357 Teeth in One Day

April 27, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBefore local anesthesia could manage the pain, one early 20th century dentist distracted his patients with showgirls and […]

Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture Victorian Women Climbing High Mountains in Long Skirts

April 27, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this site“All mountains appear doomed to pass through the three stages: an inaccessible peak, the hardest climb in the […]

“Beautify America – Get a Haircut” – Anti-Hippie Billboard From 1968

April 26, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBillboards about social and political causes are nothing new. The billboard “Beautify America – Get a Haircut” produced […]

Goat Suckling a Child in El Mojon, Teguise, Spain in 1958

April 26, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe photograph was taken on February 14, 1958, in El Mojón, a fishing town in Teguise on the […]

Portraits of Lili‘uokalani, the Last Queen of Hawaiʻi

April 25, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this site Liliʻuokalani (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917) was the only queen regnant and the last sovereign […]

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Here’s How Nordic People Do the Laundry

April 25, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this sitePhotographer and artist Jonna Jinton lives in Northern Sweden, where frigid temperatures prevail in the winter. In this […]

Robert E. Cornish, the Scientist Who Wanted to Bring Dead Dogs Back to Life

April 22, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteRobert E. Cornish (December 21, 1903 – March 6, 1963) was an American biologist and writer, best known […]

Photos of Women Workers in the Factories in London During World War II

April 22, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThese women were all training in various London polytechnics to work in munitions factories during the early 1940s. […]

Amazing Mug Shots of People Posing With Their Hands on Chest in New Zealand From the 19th Century

April 21, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteMug shots are photographic portraits of arrested suspects and convicted criminals. Since the mid-19th century, they have been […]

Saw Pit Store, Colorado, 1940

April 21, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis photo was taken by Russell Lee for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in September 1940, and titled […]

Brigitte Bardot, Elina Labourdette, Tilda Thamar and Estella Blain Testing New Models of Nylon Stockings in Paris, 1954

April 20, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe 1950s era represented a return to fashion for women. After World War II ended, and the men […]

Cross-Country Skiers in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, ca. 1910

April 19, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThis mixed group of men and women were photographed around 1910 in Animas Forks or Eureka demonstrating their […]

Long Before Pantone, an Artist Cataloged Thousands of Color Swatches in a Book From the 17th Century

April 18, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBefore we had Pantone Color Guide, there was no universally recognized system to identify colors. But there were […]

50 Historical Photographs of the Anglo-Egyptian Army in Sudan During the Battle of Omdurman

April 18, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe Battle of Omdurman took place in present-day Sudan during the Mahdist War (1881–1899). These photographs documented the […]

15 Vintage Photographs of Bugle Megaphones From the Mid-20 Century

April 17, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBugle megaphones were used on military garrisons to help amplify the sound of the bugle. Used in a […]

Here’s the Earliest Mug Shot Still in Existence, ca. 1843

April 16, 2022 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWhen photography was invented in the first half of the 19th century, it seemed to be the solution […]

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