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Shocking Photos Show How French Women Were Punished by Shaving Their Head to Publicly for Collaborating With Nazis

July 5, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteAt the end of World War II, many French people accused of collaboration with Germany endured a particularly […]

Rare and Amazing Photos of the Brooklyn Bridge Under Construction

July 4, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWhen it opened in 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was the answer to a geographical problem that should be […]

Paintings by Hilma af Klint, the Swedish Woman Who Found Abstraction Before the Modernists

July 3, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteWhen Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, they were like little that had […]

The Surreal Photographs by Kansuke Yamamoto, the Pioneer of Japanese Surrealist Photography

July 2, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteIn the act of appropriating the political voice and thematic structure of European Surrealism and melding it with […]

American Writers Janet Flanner and Solita Solano, the Lesbian Lovers Fled 1920s America for Paris and Lived Their Best Life

June 29, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteSo said writer and journalist Janet Flanner, when she explained her decision to move to Paris in 1922 […]

24 Amazing Photographs of Burlesque Dancers in the 1950s

June 27, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteA burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or […]

27 Historical Photos That Show Construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the 1930s

June 25, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteConstruction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge began with the groundbreaking ceremony on July 9, 1933. Discussion of […]

When 1920s Flappers’ Stocking Postcards Were Considered "Naughty"

June 25, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBefore the First World War, postcards served as very important memorabilia. They were used to share personal news, […]

24 Shocking Runaway Slave Ads From the 19th Century

June 24, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThroughout the 250-year history of slavery in North America, enslaved people tried to escape. Once newspapers were common, […]

Amazing Vintage Photographs of River Thames Floods From Between the 1910s and 1950s

June 24, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe River Thames bursting its banks, rail lines being washed away, villages being turned into islands and soldiers […]

D-Day in Color: Stunning Retouched Photos of Brave Allied Troops Landing Normandy Beaches in June, 1944

June 21, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteSome 156,000 Allied troops landed on five Normandy beaches during the operation on June 6, 1944, which would […]

Flooding in the Thames Valley, December 1915

June 21, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteDuring a House of Commons sitting in February 1915, the prime minister, Herbert Asquith, replying to a question […]

Heart-Wrenching Images Depicting Child Labor in Early 20th Century America Has Been Brought to Life After Being Expertly Colorized

June 20, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this sitePhotographer Lewis Wickes Hine once said: “There is work that profits children, and there is work that brings […]

Meet Eugen Weidmann, the Last Person Ever to Be Publicly Executed by Guillotine in 1939

June 20, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe last public execution by guillotine was not as long ago as you may think. It actually took […]

The Model in Britain’s Sex-and-Spy Profumo Scandal: 22 Vintage Photos of Christine Keeler in the 1960s

June 19, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteChristine Keeler (1942–2017, Orpington, Kent) was an English model who, as one of the central figures in the […]

20 Historic Photos of Africans in European Zoos From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

June 19, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteOnly in 1935-36 in Europe were closed the last cells with blacks in zoos – in Basle and […]

Extraordinary Running Aground in Alaska: Remarkable Images of the ‘Princess May’ on the Rocks at Lynn, 1910

June 18, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteRemarkable images of the steamship Princess May, resting at a seemingly impossible angle, after running aground on rocks […]

The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln, Who Was the First U.S President to Be Photographed While in Office

June 16, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this site“There are many pictures of Lincoln; there is no portrait of him.” — John George Nicolay, Secretary to […]

A Couple Sleeping in a Morrison Shelter Used as Protection From Collapsing Homes During the WWII ‘Blitz’ Bombing Raids

June 16, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteMorrison shelters were a way of protecting people from in their own homes from falling bombs. This was […]

Remembering World Trade Center: These Pictures Will Bring Back Memories of the Twin Towers in the 1970s

June 14, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe original World Trade Center was a large complex of seven buildings in Lower Manhattan, New York City, […]

Conrad Heyer, Born 1749, Was the Earliest-Born American To Ever Be Photographed

June 14, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteBorn in 1749, New Englander Conrad Heyer was a veteran of the American Revolution. He was there in […]

Decayed Daguerreotype Portraits of Americans in the 19th Century

June 12, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe daguerreotype, invented by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre in 1837, was the first commercially successful photographic process and was popular […]

The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, a Hilarious Collection of Slang Terms Used Among the Working Population of London in the 18th Century

June 11, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThirty years after Dr Johnson published his great Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Francis Grose put out […]

1925 Rolls Royce Phantom I Jonckheere Coupe

June 10, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe motor car may have been invented by German engineers, but it took two Brits to refine the […]

The Most Famous Beale’s Cut Stunt: Did Tom Mix Jump Over the Cut on a Horse in "Three Jumps Ahead"? Here’s the Story…

June 9, 2018 Vintage Everyday 0

This post was originally published on this siteThe greatest stunt that Tom Mix (1880-1940) ever did, and the most famous Beale’s Cut stunt, was jump […]

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