The Old Clothes of St. Giles in Seven Dials, London, ca. 1877
This post was originally published on this siteThis vintage photograph represents a second-hand clothes shop in a narrow thoroughfare of St. Giles, appropriately called Lumber […]
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34 Amazing Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Spanish Harlem in the Mid-1980s
This post was originally published on this siteSpanish Harlem, New York’s oldest barrio, is the U.S. mecca where Puerto Ricans first established themselves in the […]
Fascinating Vintage Photos of Los Angeles in the Late 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteManel Armengo is a Spanish photographer. He studied journalism in Barcelona and has been doing photojournalism independently since […]
24 Amazing Color Photographs of Berlin in the Early 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteBy the 1950s the German capital had become a divided microcosm of the Cold War. East Berlin was […]
Chile 1988: Year of the Plebiscite and the Defeat of Pinochet
This post was originally published on this siteThe 1988 Chilean national plebiscite was a national referendum held on October 5, 1988 to determine whether Chile’s […]
50 Amazing Photos Capture Street Scenes of New York City in the 1990s
This post was originally published on this siteAt the dawn of the 1990s, New York City was in an unremittingly bleak state. Following two decades […]
A Street Doctor Displaying His Wares, London, ca. 1877
This post was originally published on this sitePhotographer John Thomson (1837–1921) used the ‘Woodburytype’ process patented in 1864 for the images in Street Life in […]
Wonderful Color Photos Show What France Looked Like in the 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteThe surge of economic growth that lasted from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s brought extensive changes in French […]
28 Candid Photographs Captured Prostitutes in the Saint-Denis District of Paris in 1960
This post was originally published on this siteRue Saint-Denis is one of the oldest streets in Paris. Its route was first laid out in the […]
The Street Fruit Trade in London, ca. 1870s
This post was originally published on this siteThe season for strawberries, the most delicious of English fruits, has ended. This delicacy was brought in numberless […]
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 […]
A Look Back at Life in Birmingham in the 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteBirmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. By the 20th century it had […]
50 Photos Capture Street Scenes of Shanghai in the Mid-1970s
This post was originally published on this siteShanghai is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People’s Republic of China, governed by the State […]
Road Safety Series in Sydney Streets, 1938
This post was originally published on this siteA shocking rise in road fatalities prompted the NRMA (formerly National Roads and Motorists’ Association) to launch new […]
45 Photos Capture Street Scenes of Singapore in the Early 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteSingapore is a sovereign island city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It is composed of one main island, 63 […]
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 […]
30 Photos Capture Street Scenes of Madison in the 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteMadison is the capital of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Dane County. It is […]
Beautiful Vintage Color Photos of Birmingham in the 1980s
This post was originally published on this siteBirmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. By the 20th century it had […]
Fascinating Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Tri-Taylor Neighborhood, Chicago in the 1970s
This post was originally published on this siteThese photographs were taken by Lou Fourcher, a University of Chicago Ph.D. psychology student, for a project sponsored […]
Gorgeous Vintage Color Snapshots of London in the ‘60s
This post was originally published on this siteSome of these photographs were taken when the photographer was just 13 years old, with a Halina PET […]
38 Beautiful Photos of Switzerland in the 1950s
This post was originally published on this siteFor a long period after World War II, the undamaged Swiss economy experienced very little unemployment, and it […]
Life of a New York Family in the 1970s Through Beautiful Photos
This post was originally published on this siteReeling from a decade of social turmoil, New York in the 1970s fell into a deep tailspin provoked […]
35 Fascinating Vintage Photos of Life in New York in 1978
This post was originally published on this siteManel Armengo is a Spanish photographer. He studied journalism in Barcelona. Since 1971 he has been doing photojournalism […]
Beautiful Vintage Kodachrome Photos of Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1961
This post was originally published on this siteThese fascinating images were taken by Charles Weever Cushman, an amateur photographer, during his trip to Scotland. Cushman […]
30 Amazing Snapshots Capture Street Life in New York City From the Mid-1930s to the End of the 1940s
This post was originally published on this siteIn the late 1930s, photographer Helen Levitt rode the New York City subway system, first as an apprentice […]