Month: September 2024

40 Vintage Photos Show What Living Rooms Looked Like in the 1960s-LGT

The “Retro Modern” style is associated with the decades of the 1950s and 1960s. As a furniture material, polypropylene, which was manufactured in colors that could be matched to paint chips, came into its own. Foam molding, mostly used as…

32 Heartbreaking Pictures That Capture the Squalid Lives of New York’s Slums in the Late 19th Century _ US

A Danish emigrant, settled in New York in 1870, Jacob Riis (1849–1914) becomes a reporter for the New York Tribune in 1888 and covers the police investigations of the Lower East Side. His pictures of the squalid lives of New…

44 Beautiful Photos That Capture Street Scenes of New York in the Late 1980s _ US

These beautiful color photos were taken by Dutch travel photographer Eric Böhm that show street scenes of New York in 1989. Was this article helpful? Yes No Related articles 14 Historical Photos That Show the Evolution of Television From the 1920s Through the…

50 Fascinating Photos Show the Bus System of San Diego in the 1970s _ US

The San Diego Metropolitan Transit System (MTS) is the transit bus and rail service provider for southern San Diego County, which includes approximately 570 square miles of the urbanized areas of the county, as well as the rural parts of…

The Golden Age of Floppy Disks: 27 Interesting Vintage Photos of Women at Computers in the 1980s _ US-LGT

Here’s a stack of images of women at computers in the 1980s. As you might have guessed, most are secretaries doing glamorless data entry for the gentlemen in double breasted suits (we weren’t “enlightened” back then).

44 Fascinating Photos That Show Men’s Street Style of the United States in the 1970s-LGT

What did American men wear in the 1970s? Just check these fascinating photos to see. Men’s Street Style of the United States in the 1970s Men’s Street Style of the United States in the 1970s Men’s Street Style of the…

40 Elegant Photos That Show Fashion Styles of ’50s Weddings _ US

Out of the 1940s, women in the 1950s were looking towards Hollywood for inspiration for what to wear so it’s no surprise that this extended to their wedding too. High fashion designers were in the spotlight as brides-to-be flocked to…

40 Amazing Vintage Photos of Doble Steam Cars _ US

The Doble steam car was an American steam car maker from 1909 to 1931. Its latter models of steam car, with fast-firing boiler and electric start, were considered the pinnacle of steam car development. The term “Doble steam car” comprises…

30 Black and White Photos of New York City from the 1940s _ US

Repaving Times Square Bus No. 7 Champion, New York Boardway, New York Boardwalk Atlantic City Orchard Street Staten Island Ferry City of Sin Construction Site on Madison Ave. looking toward Rockefeller Center San Genaro Festival Silent Salesman, Philadelphia Ritz Bar…

40 Amazing Vintage Color Photographs of New York City at Night Taken by Andreas Feininger in the 1940s _ US

Andreas Feininger (1906–1999), a Bauhaus student and the eldest son of Lyonel Feininger, regarded this as the most important prerequisite for good photography. He belonged to a generation of artists who, during the period after the First World War, discovered…