Adorable Color Pics That Show What Kids Wore in the 1950s
That’s what kids looked like in the 1950s.
Rare photos show the street life of Victorian New York City, 1896
These vintage photographs, taken by photographer Alice Austen, capture the working people of New York City. They depict employees, postmen, firefighters, policemen, street cleaners, cab drivers, and other trade people whose work kept the city functioning. She also photographed people…
Christmas Nostalgia: Vintage Photos From the 1940s and 1950s That Will Make You Feel Warm
The allure of Christmas transcends time, but few eras have captured its true essence quite like the enchanting decades of the 1940s and 1950s. In those post-war years, the festive season was steeped in a kind-hearted spirit and simple joys,…
Fascinating Vintage Photos of People Dancing at the Savoy Ballroom
The Savoy Ballroom was a large ballroom for music and public dancing located at 596 Lenox Avenue, between 140th and 141st Streets in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. In operation from March 12, 1926, to July 10,…
50 Fascinating Pics Capture People Posing With Their Convertibles From Between the 1930s and ’60s
A convertible, cabriolet or spyder/spider is a passenger car that can be driven with or without a roof in place. The methods of retracting and storing the roof vary between models. A convertible allows an open-air driving experience, with the…
Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago: 30 Rarely Seen Photos of the Second-Largest City in the U.S in the 1930s
These are what the life of Los Angeles looked like in the 1930s. Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over 80 Years Ago Los Angeles Over…
Vintage Photos of 12 Crazy Wooden Homes on Wheels From the Early 20th Century
There is no formal definition of a house car but in the early 1900s, Americans want to take to the roads and explore. Some creative Tin Can tourists decided that they’d rather bring their home with them rather than have…
With nylon stockings scarce, women would paint their legs so it looked like stockings, 1940s
Until the end of the 1930s, the best women’s stockings were made from silk. This changed in the United States when DuPont began manufacturing nylon in 1939. Nylon stockings went on limited sale in October of that year followed by…
38 Snapshots Prove That Jeans Made the 1950s Girls Look So Cool
Invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873, jeans marked culture of the last 140 years probably more than we think. Jeans are undeniably a fashion mainstay, but that wasn’t always the case. In fact, jeans are one fashion…
Glamour Girls of the Air: Fascinating Pictures of an Airline Stewardess Essay in 1958
The rather odd education that the girls are getting is preparing them for one of the most coveted careers open to young American women in the 1950s. They all want to be airline stewardesses. The job they want does not…