30 Amazing Snapshots Capture Street Life in New York City From the Mid-1930s to the End of the 1940s _ US
In the late 1930s, photographer Helen Levitt rode the New York City subway system, first as an apprentice to photographer Walker Evans, then snapping photos of aloof passengers wearing fur coats, flat-brim hats, and antique brooches. Yet for the majority…
Amazing Photographs of New York’s Hip-Hop Scene From the 1970s and 1980s _ US
Martha Cooper was a photo-journalist living in New York City when she first began documenting the origins of B-boy (short for break-boys) and hip hop culture. While other New Yorkers at the time saw this movement as a trite, uninspired…
40 Color Photographs Capture Everyday Life of Chicago’s African-American Residents in the Early 1970s _ US
From June through October 1973 and briefly during the spring of 1974, John H. White, a 28-year-old photographer with the Chicago Daily News, worked for the federal government photographing Chicago, especially the city`s African American community. White took his photographs for…
Beautiful Vintage Color Photos of New York City in the 1950s _ US
Ernst Haas is considered one of the pioneers of color photography and one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. Taking up photography after World War II, his early work on the returning prisoners of war caught the…
Cool Snaps Capture People Posing With Signs in the Past _ US
Here below is a cool photo collection that shows people posing with signs from between the 1920s and 1960s. Dumping Prohibited. State Highway, circa 1920s Honey (Over there), circa 1920s Pay As You Ride, circa 1920s Just me, August 23,…
Restored and Colorized Vintage Pictures: 45 Incredible Hand-Painting Photos of the Life in the U.S in the 1940s _ US
These incredibly amazing photos were colorized by photographer Marie-Lou Chatel. “I’ve always been fascinated with the work of the great photographers of the 20th century. Yet, when I look at their photos, I wonder what they saw in color while…
25 Amazing Early Photos of the World’s Most Iconic Companies _ US
Many of the most respected companies in the world started off from humble beginnings. Whether or not you know the stories behind some of the most successful companies in the U.S. and the world, you probably haven’t seen the pictures….
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…