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….
The photographic story of the The Great New York to Paris Auto Race of 1908 _ US
The racers line up at the starting point in Times Square. At the dawn of the 20th century, automobiles were an infant technology with none of the infrastructure we take for granted today: road maps, traffic signals, pavement, gas stations,…
Vintage Color Photos Capture Street Scenes of Los Angeles From 1940s to 1960s _ US
These amazing color photographs show the streets of Los Angeles between the 1940s and 1960s. During the early 20th century, Los Angeles continued to boom and by the early 1920s, it had overtaken San Francisco in size. By 1939 it…
Vivid Kodachrome Photos Show the Bygone Manhattan of the Early 1940s _ US
Step into a time machine through a series of vivid Kodachrome photographs that offer an enthralling glimpse into the bygone streets of Manhattan during the early 1940s. These colorful snapshots serve as portals to a city pulsating with life, painting…