Stunning Photos Capture the Early Days of Aviation, 1890s-1930s _ US
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the world witnessed a profound shift in human ingenuity. Fueled by an insatiable desire to conquer the uncharted realms of flight, visionaries like the Wright brothers, Otto Lilienthal, and Alberto Santos-Dumont took…
Amazing Vintage Photographs That Show Transport in the U.S Before the Invention of Cars _ US
Before cars, people used horses and buggies to get around and clung to coastal settlements to use the waterways for trade. There were not many roads in America at the time, and the roads were usually in poor condition. These…
The golden age of the video rental store through vintage photographs, 1970-1990 _ US
Employee Tammy Swier looks at VCR cassettes tapes at Colfax Video. 1986. Before video stores, movies were solely watched in theaters, leaving studios hesitant to embrace video technology and video stores because they feared for losses in revenues. The first…
45 Fabulous Vintage Photos That Show Women’s Street Style From the 1920s _ US
“Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” – Coco Chanel Fashion is shaped and influenced by the…
40 Rare and Amazing Vintage Photos of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League From the 1940s and 1950s _ US
The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was a professional women’s baseball league founded by Philip K. Wrigley which existed from 1943 to 1954. The AAGPBL is the forerunner of women’s professional league sports in the United States. Over 600…
40 Vintage Studio Portraits of Beautiful Young Ladies of Cochise County, Arizona From the Early 20th Century _ US
Cochise County is a county in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Arizona. It is named after the Native American chief Cochise. Studio portraits of young ladies in Cochise County, Arizona in the early 20th century The population was…
Pictures of High School Proms in the 1940s and 1950s _ US
In the United States, and increasingly in the United Kingdom and Canada, a promenade dance, most commonly called a prom, is a semi-formal (black tie) dance or gathering of high school students. This event is typically held near the end…
35 Vintage Photos That Defined Street Fashion in the 1940s _ US
World War II dominated the first half of the 1940s as well as fashions in the Western world. Materials such as silk, nylon, wool, leather, rubber, and zippers were needed in wartime production. Clothing was rationed in the United States…
Stunning photos depicting the rebellious fashion at Woodstock, 1969 _ US
No one expected the 1969 Woodstock concert and festival to draw a crowd estimated at half-million — nor that the gathering would become a legendary touchstone for the counterculture of the 1960s and a unique event in the history of…
Vintage photos of people posing on Tennessee’s Umbrella Rock in Lookout Mountain, 1860-1940 _ US
Umbrella Rock on top of Lookout Mountain was one of the more iconic tourist spots from the 1880s through the 1940s. These images, assembled by Chattanooga’s local historical organization Picnooga, capture almost 60 years of photo opportunities on Umbrella Rock….