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Rare Color Portraits from the 1910s Taken by Alfred Stieglitz

June 2, 2015, 7:37 pm
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Alfred Stieglitz (1864 – 1946) was an American photographer and modern art promoter who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an accepted art form.

While in Europe Stieglitz saw the first commercial demonstration of the Autochrome Lumière color photography process, and soon he was experimenting with it. Back again in New York, Stieglitz continued to experiment with the Autochrome by taking portraits of his friends, family, and colleagues.
















(Photos: Alfred Stieglitz / Georgia O'Keeffe archive)
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18 Cute Photos of Children with Their Toys in the 1930s

June 2, 2015, 7:47 pm
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Pet show, Venice Beach, CA, 1936

Children in hospital bed with dolls, Washington, D.C., 1931

Tenements, London, 1936

Child hanging baby clothes on clothesline, ca. 1935

Girl with her doll, ca. 1930

School boy, 1938

La marchande de ballons, ca. 1930s

Young girl entertaining Mickey Mouse and other friends at a make-believe tea party, ca. 1930s

Children with umbrella, 1934

Tea party, 1930

Beach buddies, ca. 1930

Boy and his toy car, 1937

Little girl with her puppies, 1934

Three children and wagon, ca. 1930s

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The French doll, 1932

3 sisters with a huge doll, Latvia, 1937

Young child with a baby doll on her lap and a rag doll, a teddy bear and a golliwog next to her, Australia, ca. 1930

Kids from the Lower East Side, New York City, 1937

Dozens of children play in a water-filled 104th street in Harlem in 1939

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The First Professional Modelling Pictures of Norma Jeane in 1945

June 2, 2015, 7:50 pm
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These photographs were taken in 1945 and were the first professional modelling pictures of Norma Jeane. The pictures were taken in a single day on a beach in Malibu by photographer Bill Carroll. Over 40 years would pass before Bill realized the young model was legend Marilyn Monroe.
"I sincerely believe that my pictures present a different woman than the one they know. I had no idea who Monroe was until I read that Time magazine 40 years later. I had no idea I had photographed the same woman," he said.






















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50 Extraordinary Fashion Photographs Taken by Louise Dahl-Wolfe from Between the 1930s and 1950s

June 2, 2015, 7:52 pm
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As a staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar, Louise Dahl-Wolfe introduced a witty naturalism to the staid conventions of fashion photography and helped pioneer the use of color film.

After studying painting, figure drawing, and design at the San Francisco Institute of Art, Dahl-Wolfe began experimenting with photography in 1921, inspired by Anne Brigman’s photographs. In 1928, Dahl-Wolfe married American sculptor Meyer (Mike) Wolfe and soon established herself as a professional photographer.

Dahl-Wolfe often juxtaposed her models with famous works of art, resulting in surprising and irreverent compositions. Fashion assignments led her to locations around the world, where she posed her models outdoors, in natural light. Throughout this period, Dahl-Wolfe also created striking portrait photographs of society figures and art world celebrities, including authors Carson McCullers and Colette, designer Christian Dior, and sculptor Isamu Noguchi.



















































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Streets Scenes of London in the 1980s

June 2, 2015, 7:54 pm
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The 1980s in London was a decade of considerable change. Long established industries, street scenes, shops and ways of life were being swept away and the often divisive politics of the time were visible painted along the walls. Check out these photographs of London streets 30 years ago via A London Inheritance to see the different to those of today.
























(Photos © A London Inheritance)
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20 Bizarre Vintage Alcohol Adverts

June 2, 2015, 7:54 pm
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It shouldn't be too hard to sell alcohol - put it in a bottle and make sure it doesn't taste like gasoline.




















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Vivid Color Portraits of Two Edwardian Young Girls in a Garden, ca. 1910s

June 2, 2015, 7:55 pm
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Etheldreda Laing was around 38 years old when she first took pictures of her daughters using Autochrome process. Older daughter Janet was around 12 years old and Iris was roughly seven at the time the photographs were first taken in the garden of their Oxford home. After taking them, Etheldreda processed the photos in a darkroom within the house. Some required up to one minute for exposure.



















Etheldreda Laing, ca. 1910

(Photos: National Media Museum/ Science and Society Picture Library/ Getty Images, via Mashable/ Retronaut)
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The 20 Most Badass Photos of Animals from World War II

June 2, 2015, 7:57 pm
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Venus the Bulldog was the sassy mascot of the Royal Navy destroyer HMS VANSITTART, 1941. Lt. H W Tomlin / IWM via Getty Images

A mascot proudly poses in front of the the British RAF men who bombed the Nazi warships at Bergen. 11th April 1940. H. F. Davis / PNA Rota / Getty Images

A R.A.F squadron adopted a lamb as a mascot and named him Aloysius. The lamb and one of the sergeants quickly became best friends. 18th December 1939. IWM via Getty Images

This is the English bulldog mascot of a regiment from Quebec based in England. 11th October 1941. Payne / Fox Photos / Getty Images

RAF Captain Eric Stanley Lock bording his Spitfire with this really cute dog. 31st July 1941. J. A. Hampton / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

June Mottershead, from Sedbergh (England), adopted this lion cub because the Chester Zoo couldn’t take care of him during the war. 25th September 1939. Fox Photos / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Spectators enjoy a baseball game between the US army and the Canadian forces, at Wembley stadium in London. One spectator doesn’t seem quite as enthralled by the action on the field as the others. 8th August 1943. Fox Photos / Getty Images

American pilot Robert W Biesecker and his crew are posing with their two mascots, a dog named Scrappy and a monkey named Joe. 18th October 1943. M. McNeill / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

This life-jacket wearing spaniel is Butch O’Brien, a spaniel mascot of the US navy, on board his ship in the Sea of Japan. Circa 1944. Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Coupie, the canine mascot of a squadron in the Allied Expeditionary Air Force, used to visit each aircraft and pilot before take-off. 24th April 1944. Reg Speller / Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Chilling on the shoulder of a Royal Air Force pilot. Circa 1944. Keystone / Getty Images

Queenie is participating in a dog show to raise money for ‘War Weapons Week’, in Twickenham, 1941. Fox Photos / Getty Images

A steel-hatted bulldog on guard outside a block of flats in London. 15th October 1940. Fred Morley/Fox Photos / Getty Images

A member of the British Expeditionary Force smiles from the train window with his mascot having been safely evacuated back home from France. 1st May 1940. Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

A dog watches AA gunners watching the enemy. Circa 1940. London Express / Getty Images

Two Airedale terriers at a canine training camp in England. One dog wears a special gas mask and the other carries rations for a wounded soldier. 16th October 1939. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive / Getty Images

A dog stands by a French officer waiting to deliver it. The dogs acted as couriers to scattered posts in the French zone, 1939. Topical Press Agency / Getty Images

Members of L Section of the AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service) from London offer titbits of food to Spot, a stray terrier they adopted as their official mascot. 21st March 1941. Harry Todd/Fox Photos / Getty Images

Oleg of the Glacier, a Samoyed, on a patrol with one of the Canadian soldiers who had adopted him as a mascot, 1941. Fred Ramage/Keystone / Getty Images

Judy, an English pointer, has probably accomplished more during the war than you will during an entire lifetime. Formerly a ship’s dog on board HMS Gnat and HMS Grasshopper, Judy helped save the lives of servicemen after the Grasshopper was sunk. She then spent three and a half years in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps, narrowly escaping death many times. She was the only dog to be registered as a Second World War Prisoner of War. This picture was taken right before she was awarded a Dickin Medal, the PDSA’s version of a Victoria Cross, for her heroism during World War II. 5th August 1946. Fred Morley/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive / Getty Images

(via BuzzFeed)
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Old Photos of The First Tour de France in 1903

June 2, 2015, 7:58 pm
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The 1903 Tour de France was the first cycling race set up and sponsored by the newspaper L'Auto, ancestor of the current daily, L'Équipe. It ran from 1 to 19 July in six stages over 2,428 km (1,509 mi). Compared to modern stage races, the stages were extraordinarily long, with an average distance of over 400 km (250 mi), compared to the 171 km (106 mi) average stage length in the 2004 Tour de France; cyclists had one to three rest days between each stage, and the route was largely flat, with only one stage featuring a significant mountain.

Tour de France 1903. Advertising of the first cycle racing.

60 cyclists, all professionals or semi-professionals, started the race, of whom 49 were French, 4 Belgian, 4 Swiss, 2 German, and one was Italian, Maurice Garin, the pre-race favourite who eventually went on to win the event. The cyclists were not grouped in teams but raced as individuals, and paid a fee of ten francs (€87.50 at 2003 prices) to compete in the race for general classification, or five francs to enter a single stage. Because the stages were so long, all but the first started before dawn: the last stage started at 21:00 the night before.

The riders get ready to start. Note that what constitutes effective cycle clothing hadn't been settled.


1903 Tour winner Maurice Garin having a smoke. Pictured with him are his son (on right with little bike) and his masseur.

Typical feed zone in 1903.

Desgrange's 60-man peloton riding together.

The first kilometre in the history of cycle racing Tour de France.

The first stage finish line in Lyon.

Leon Georget finishes third in the first stage, 34 minutes, 59 seconds behind stage winner Garin. Georget would drop out of the Tour in stage 5.

The finish in Bordeaux, which saw the first ever foreign winner of a stage, the Swiss Charles Laeser.

Maurice Garin, in his trademark white coat and flat cap racing in the '03 Tour.

Maurice Garin

Maurice Garin is greeted by enthusiastic fans.

1903 Tour de France winner Maurice Garin.

The wining scene at the finish of the first Tour. In the middle on the right: the winner, Maurice Garin, to his left: most likely Leon Georget.

Leon Georget signs in under the watchful eye of an official. To minimize cheating riders signed in a stops along each stage.


Willie Hume

Fernand Augereau

Maurice Garin pictured after his victory in the first stage.

Lucien Pothier.

Marcel Kerff
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18 Vintage Photographs of Streets of Chicago from Between the 1900s and 1910s

June 2, 2015, 7:59 pm
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These 18 amazing vintage photographs show a picture of Chicago in the early 20th century...

Wabash Avenue, 1907

Government Building and Post Office, Chicago, Illinois, ca. 1906

Great Northern Building & Hotel, ca.1900

Madison St. east from Fifth Ave., 1900

Randolph St., east from LaSalle St., Chicago. Sept. 1, 1900

State Street, 1905

View of Chicago from Majestic Bldg. ca.1907

Chicago Federal Building. Block bounded by W. Jackson Blvd., S. Clark, W. Adams, and S. Dearborn Sts. 1910

Coliseum. 1912

Dearborn looking north from Harrison in 1913

Madison Avenue & Brevoort Hotel, Chicago, Ill. ca.1910

Michigan Avenue with Blackstone Hotel. ca.1915

Michigan Avenue, 1910

Michigan Avenue, 1910

Randolph and Dearborn looking south in 1909

State Street looking north from Randolph in 1911

State Street looking south towards Lake Street in 1912

West Madison Street and Clark Street depicting Hotel Brevoort and La Salle Opera House in 1910
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22 Amazing Photographs of Legendary Boxer Muhammad Ali from Between the 1960s and 1970s

June 2, 2015, 8:03 pm
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Here's a collection of 22 amazing photographs of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali from the archives. The gallery includes pictures of some of Ali’s most memorable fights as well as many distinctive portraits from his life outside the ring.

Muhammad Ali dodges a punch from Joe Frazier at the "Fight of the Century"March 8, 1971. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

Muhammad Ali taunting Joe Frazier during training for their fight in 1971. Photograph: John Shearer/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

Muhammad Ali and Stevie Wonder at The Apollo, 1963. Ali was still known as Cassius Clay when this photo was taken. Photograph: Redferns

On 15 September 1978 Ali defeats Leon Spinks at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans to win the world heavyweight boxing title for the third time in his career, the first fighter ever to do so. Following his victory, Ali retired from boxing, only to make a brief comeback two years later. Photograph: Dirck Halstead/Getty Images

A quick and homespun bit of showmanship which made for a striking photograph, 1963. Ali had been accused of being a loud-mouth for always predicting when he would beat his opponents. He needed no words and just two props to fashion a comic response to such criticism. Photograph: Bob Thomas/Bob Thomas/Getty Images

February 01, 1964. Black Muslim leader Malcolm X standing behind tux-clad Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali), who is surrounded by jubilant fans after he beat Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship of the world. Photograph: Bob Gomel/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty

Muhammad Ali helps talk a suicidal man off the ninth floor of a high-rise structure in Los Angeles, 1981. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis

Gordon Parks’ shot of Ali after a training session in Miami in 1966. Photograph: Gordon Parks/AP

September 05, 1960. The winners of the 1960 Olympic medals for light heavyweight boxing on the winners' podium at Rome: Cassius Clay (now Muhammad Ali). Photograph: Central Press/Getty Images

This image of Ali and George Foreman, taken before Ali’s second fight with Jerry Quarry in 1970? Photograph: Neil Leifer/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) spars with challenger Floyd Patterson during the World Heavyweight Championship fight. Clay won the fight with a technical knockout in the 12th round. 25th November 1965. Photograph: Allsport/Getty Images

Photograph: Jess Tan/AP

Photograph: Harry Benson/Hulton

Challenger Muhammad Ali watches as defending world champion George Foreman goes down to the canvas in the eighth round of their WBA/WBC championship match in Kinshasa, Zaire, which is now known as the Republic of Congo, Oct. 30, 1974. Photograph: RED/AP

Muhammad Ali sitting on a Million Dollars, 1963. Photograph: Howard Bingham

Multiple exposure portrait of Muhammad Ali demonstrating "Ali Double-Clutch Shuffle" during a photo shoot at Life Studios. New York, New York. December 30, 1966. Photograph: Neil Leifer/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

Muhammad Ali sits in the back seart of a car with an unidentified man and holds up eight fingers for the camera, Louisville, Kentucky, 1963. Photograph: James Drake/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

Sammy Davis Jr gets some pointers from Muhammad Ali in January 1965, in Manhattan, New York, after the comedian had performed a show. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS

Heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali stands over fallen challenger Sonny Liston, shouting and gesturing shortly after dropping Liston with a short hard right to the jaw on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. Photograph: John Rooney/Associated Press

January 24, 1963. Heavyweight boxer Cassius Clay, aka Muhammad Ali, in his locker room on the night of his fight vs. Charles Powell. Photograph: James Drake/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

February 25, 1964. Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) jumps for joy after winning the world heavyweight boxing title from fellow American Sonny Liston at Miami Beach, Florida. Liston retired at the start of the seventh round of the scheduled fifteen round contest. Ali rushes around the ring, screaming 'I am the greatest!'. Photograph: Photoshot/Getty Images

Muhammad Ali seen walking back to his corner after KO of Cleveland Williams at the Houston Astrodome, Nov. 14, 1966. In 2003, this was voted the greatest sport photo ever by the Observer. Photograph: Neil Leifer/Sports Illustrated/Getty Images

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Rollermania! 45 Interesting Photos of Roller Disco in the 1970s and 1980s

June 3, 2015, 2:04 am
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A roller disco is a discothèque or skating rink where all the dancers wear roller skates of some kind. The music played is modern and easily danceable, historically disco but in modern times including almost any form of dance music or pop music. The concept originated as a fad in the 1970s when the disco craze was at its height, peaking around 1980 and inspiring several roller-disco magazines.













































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Girls Getting Some Sun in University of Missouri - Kansas City, Spring of 1964

June 4, 2015, 9:42 am
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30 Interesting Vintage Photos of Roller Skating Girls

June 6, 2015, 7:58 pm
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The first patented roller skate was introduced in 1760 by Belgian inventor John Joseph Merlin. His roller skate wasn't much more than an ice skate with wheels where the blade goes. They were hard to steer and hard to stop because they didn't have brakes and as such were not very popular.

In 1863, James Plimpton from Massachusetts invented the "rocking" skate and used a four-wheel configuration for stability, and independent axles that turned by pressing to one side of the skate or the other when the skater wants to create an edge. This was a vast improvement on the Merlin design that was easier to use and drove the huge popularity roller skating, dubbed "rinkomania" in the 1860s and 1870s, which spread to Europe and around the world, and continued through the 1930s. The Plimpton skate is still used today.

Vogue 1970

Roller skating, ca. 1930s

Rockabilly roller girl posing

Wendy Parker skating at Wellington Pier, ca. 1950

Members of the Great Yarmouth roller skating club at Wellington Pier, ca. 1950

Marilyn Monroe roller skating in 1952

Roller skating girls, ca. 1950s

Marie Prevost on roller skates

A gorgeous Vogue card featuring a photograph of a girl skating with her luggage. Photography by Jean-Francois Jonvelle, 1972.

Roller skating in Manhattan, 1933

Roller skating girl, 1966

Gloria Nord, headliner of the Skating Vanities skating show of the 1940s

A waitress on roller skates skillfully delivers a tray full of food to hungry customers in the 1940s.

Pin-up roller girl, ca. 1950s

Natalie Wood skating in the 1970s

Roller skating, 1970s

Stylish girl on roller skates, ca. 1900s

Co-eds at the University of Chicago go to school on skates, 1930

Emma Willard School girls, NY, 1950s

Betty Grable on roller skates, ca.1937

The Lesson, Central Park, New York, 1936

Roller skating girls having fun, ca. 1940s

Adrienne Dore

Debbie Reynolds on skates, ca. 1950s

Roller skate friends, 1944

Becky Howe roller skating with a sling at the Venice Pavillion in 1978

English roller skaters, 1926

Roller girl, ca. 1930s-40s

Betty Grable on skates

Fashion photo by Herman Landshoff, Junior Bazaar, 1946
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Girls of Woodstock – The Best Beauty and Style Moments from 1969

June 6, 2015, 7:59 pm
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The 1969 event was undoubtedly one of the most formative moments in music history, but as we've learned with most music festivals, they lend themselves to some pretty awesome style-spotting. Long before the concept of street style or even festival style existed, Woodstock showcased inspiring women wearing sweet bell bottoms, crop tops and knit dresses.






















































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30 Incredible Photographs That Capture 1970s America's True Colors

June 6, 2015, 8:10 pm
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Founded by Gifford Hampshire, Documerica lasted about six years, hired roughly 70 photographers, and knocked out 115 assignments in all 50 states. Photographers were paid $150 a day plus film and expenses and were given the creative freedom to interpret environmental issues outlined to them from EPA employees.

The results—22,000 images—ended up documenting environmental issues and brought another meaning to environment that focused on local neighborhoods, social issues, political changes, and the remarkable fashion trends typical of the 1970s.

Children play in the yard of Ruston home, while a Tacoma smelter stack showers the area with arsenic and lead residue. Ruston, Washington, August 1972. (Gene Daniels/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Stanton Street in the second ward, the Spanish-speaking section. El Paso, Texas, June 1972. (Danny Lyon/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Gasoline stations abandoned during the fuel crisis in winter of 1973-74. (David Falconer/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Housing adjacent to a U.S. Steel plant. Birmingham, Alabama, July 1972. (Leroy Woodson/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Chemical plants on shore are considered prime source of pollution. Lake Charles, Louisiana, June 1972. (Marc St. Gil/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Cyclist in front of environmental center. Humbolt County, California, May 1972. (Thomas Sennett/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Two Latin girls pose in front of a wall of graffiti in Lynch Park, Brooklyn, New York, June 1974. (Danny Lyon/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Photograph of a bride and her attendants in New Ulm, Minnesota. New Ulm, Minnesota, October 1974. (Art Hanson/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Mary Workman holds a jar of undrinkable water that comes from her well, and she has filed a damage suit against the Hanna Coal Company. She has to transport water from a well many miles away although the coal company owns all the land around her, and many roads are closed, she refuses to sell. Near Steubenville, Ohio, October 1973. (Eric Calonius/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Michigan Avenue, Chicago (couple on street). Chicago, Ilinois, July 1975. (Perry Riddle/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Industrial smog blacks out homes adjacent to North Birmingham pipe plant. This is the most heavily polluted area of the city. Birmingham, Alabama, July 1972. (Leroy Woodson/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Dorothy Thierolf, Ocean Beach businesswoman and leader of the fight to reopen nearby beach to auto traffic. To protect clam beds the state government had banned cars from a short stretch of beach during the summer months on August 12, 1972. (Gene Daniels/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Near the town of Wisconsin Dells the Wisconsin River channels through deep, soft sandstone cliffs, cutting rock into fantastic shapes. These natural splendors have given rise to a booming tourist industry. People come in droves, often in campers and trailers. September 1973 (Jonas Dovydenas/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Stevensville children in front of a trenched house. Owner dug trench and formed levee to protect house from flood waters. Stevensville, Louisiana, May 1973. (John Messina/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

The painted bus is home. Rifle, Colorado, October 1972. (David Hiser/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Abandoned automobiles and other debris clutter an acid water and oil filled five acre pond. It was cleaned up under EPA supervision to prevent possible contamination of Great Salt Lake and a wildlife refuge nearby.” Near Ogden, Utah, April 1974. (Bruce McAllister/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Auto dump. Escondido, California, April 1972. (Gene Daniels/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Country's fuel shortage led to problems for motorists in finding gas as well as paying much more for it, and resulted in theft from cars left unprotected. This father and son, made a sign warning thieves of the possible consequences. Portland, Oregon, April 1974. (David Falconer/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Two girls smoking pot during an outing in Cedar Woods near Leakey, Texas. (Taken with permission.) One of nine pictures near San Antonio. Leakey, Texas, May 1973. (Marc St. Gil/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Exhibit at the first symposium on low pollution power systems development held at the Marriott Motor Inn, Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 1973. (Frank Lodge/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Mr. and Mrs. Berry Howard of Cumberland, Kentucky, and the new truck he just bought with some of his black lung payments. Cumerland, Kentucky, October 1974. (Jack Corn/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

D'aug Days (pronounced dog) is a month long presentation of all the arts at downtown Cincinnati's immensely popular public plaza, Fountain Square. Dancers from New Media Theater, a Cincinnati group. Cincinnati, Ohio, August 1973. (Tom Hubbard/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

The cook at the Texan Cafe watches the snow removal crew at work. Rifle, Colorado, January 1973. (David Hiser/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Water cooling towers of the John Amos Power Plant loom over a Poca, WV, home that is on the other side of the Kanawha River. Two of the towers emit great clouds of steam. Poca, West Virginia, August 1973. (Harry Schaefer/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Central expressway leading south into Dallas. Dallas, Texas, May 1972. (Bob Smith/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Movie Theatre. Berlin, New Hampshire, June 1973. (Charles Steinhacker/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Sandra Bruno straightens a pillow in the immaculate living room of her family's home at 39 Neptune Road. Boston, Massachusetts, July 1973. (Michael Philip Manheim/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

At Bahia Honda State Park, on Bahia Honda Key, Florida. June 1973. (Flip Schulke/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Midtown traffic congestion and jaywalking pedestrians. New York, New York, April 1973. (Dan McCoy/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Hitchhiker with his dog, 'Tripper,' on U.S. 66. U.S. 66 crosses the Colorado River at Topock. Yuma County, Arizona, May 1972. (Charles O'Rear/National Archives/Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

(Photos: National Archives, via Slate and The Big Picture)
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Rare and Unseen Color Photographs of America’s Hippie Communes from the 1970s

June 6, 2015, 8:19 pm
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Their hair and dress, their pioneer spirit, even their Indian teepees evoke the nation’s frontier beginnings. These young people are members of a commune, which they have created for themselves as a new and radical way of living. Scores of these communes are springing up all across the U.S. In the wilderness areas of the West, Southwest, and New England, the new settlers build their own homes–adobe huts, log cabins, geodesic domes–share their money and labor and legislate their own laws and taboos.

According to LIFE, the youthful pioneers, unlike the earlier Americans who went into the wilderness to seek their fortunes, are refugees from affluence. Though there have been previous such experiments in the U.S., the new communes represent an evolution of the philosophy and life-style of the hippie movement. Most members have fled the big cities—New York’s East Village, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury—where they were beset by crime, police harassment, squalor, and disillusionment. They seek in the land, and in one another, meaningful work, mutual love and spiritual rebirth. Their religion is rooted in many faiths—among them Christianity, Hinduism, and Zen Buddhism. Some communes permit LSD and marijuana, but many now discourage their use or even ban them. Some take a broad view of sexual morality, but in many communes couples practice traditional American monogamy, and sexual behavior is often surprisingly pristine. Young children, however, are raised by all the adults and by the older children of the commune, which itself is often referred to as “the Family.”















(via Fans In A Flashbulb, courtesy of The Farm Archive Library)
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This is what that looked like in the 1950s

June 13, 2015, 8:03 pm
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This is what alot of oranges looked like at the Miami Orange Bowl Game, 1951.

This is what a canoe on a 1957 Ford Fairlane 500 looked like in 1957.

This is what 5 best friends from grammar school in the 1920s looked like in 1950.

This is what a string of keepers looked like.

Thats the 5 best friends with their children. The kids moved away, but the moms lived in the same city their whole life.

This is what being ignored at a photoshoot looked like in 1957.

This is what a monster tv with just 2 knobs looked like. This apparently is also where Ba-Ba-Loo-icious comes from.

This is what a backyard barbeque looked like.

This is what a photoshoot at a photo club looked like in 1957.

This is what moms legs looked like.

This is how to romance a lady in 1959 with a weird cat-looking thing in the background.

This is the last thing Joe remembered before blacking out in 1950. We are not allowed to speak of this.

This is what a Daisy Bikini looked like in 1955

This is how to make a chameleon spontaneously combust.

Thats a golfing birthday cake for golfer number one in the house in August 1954.

This is what Niagara Falls looked like in 1957.

This is what a scooter death trap looked like in Florida, and the dog seems to know its life is in danger.

This is what a Christmas tree in a swimming pool looked like in 1957.

This is what Japanese-Americans, Kitty & June, looked like on an airforce base in Japan 1954.

This is what a gangster looked like in the late 1950s.

Thats a Cub Scout 1st prize blue ribbon for a father son cooking contest on April 4, 1954.

Thats how to build a boy scout tent in the 2nd grade in 1951.

This is what oldschool monkeybars looked like at Silvergate Elementary School, Point Loma, San Diego, CA., September 1954.

This is what real bikes looked like on July 12, 1954,

This is what a stunning bathing suit looked like in 1956, with ever-so curious boys in the background.

This is what the craziest lamp ever looked like in 1959 with Florida souvenir sword fish next to it.

This is what One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer looked like, and 6 ash trays, great lamps, an orange chair, a fabulously striped wall, incredible shoes, and wonderful socks!.

This is what airline stewardesses looked like.

This is what a pair of fabulous shoes and a 1956 Ford Thunderbird looked like in 1956.

This is what the luckiest man in the world looked like.

This is what a driving test looked like.

Thats neighborhood kids with no blood relation getting together to take a pic in 1953.

This is what kids did in 1958 before video games.

This is what tee pees looked like at Disneyland in 1959.

This is what hep cats looked like.

This is what people who eat fruit on a picnic looked like.

This is what the remains of a red fish looked like in 1959.

This is what a porche at a small town car show looked like in July 1952.

This is what a 1952 Jaguar looked like in 1953. Nobody noticed it because it was parked next to the green hornet.

This is what a yellow bikini looked like in 1951.

This is what a Marilyn Monroe look-alike looked like in Washington DC standing next to a 1950 Cadillac.

This is what gossip looked like in 1954.

This is what the biggest beach hat looked like.

This is what young women canoeing on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe looked like in 1959.

This is what different shades of red looked like in New York, early 1960. That's also what snowtires looked like on the back of a 1956 Pontiac.

This is what the first drone looked like in Dayton Ohio, 1953

(via Imgur)
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Rare Color Photographs from the First World War

June 15, 2015, 11:00 am
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A French soldier, circa 1915. ©Mark Jacobs Archive /The Image Works

View of Verdun after 8 months of bombing, September 1916. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

French Gunners receive instruction, 1916. ©TopFoto / The Image Works

The remains of a dead French soldier and his gun rest under a tree on the Western Front in France. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

French soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment eat soup during the battle of the Aisne in 1917. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

French Artillery soldiers are shown at the entrance of their shelter on the Western Front. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

A French soldier with an acoustic listening device capable of tracking aircraft on the Western Front. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

A French section of machine gunners take positions in the ruins during the battle of the Aisne in 1917. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

A crater caused by the explosion of 19 mines placed underneath German positions near Messines in West Flanders by the British on June 7, 1917. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

The wreck of a German tank, which was destroyed during a battle on the Western Front. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

A little girl plays with her doll in Reims, France in 1917. Two guns and a knapsack are next to her on the ground. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

A soldier in uniform with three medals stands next to a cannon in Paris in 1918. His left leg has been replaced by an artificial limb. ©R Schultz Collection / The Image Works

(TIME, via Shooting Film)
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30 Amazing Vintage Portraits of Exotic Dancers from the 1890s

June 17, 2015, 9:10 am
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These images of female exotic dancers from the 1890s, which shows just how different our perception of ‘exotic’ has become over the intervening 120 or so years.































(via Charles McClaghy Collection)
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