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20 Remarkable Black and White Photographs Capture Air Travel in Its Glory From Between the 1930s and 1970s

It was a golden age of flying – glamorized by first class passengers being fed from silver service food trolleys and celebrities posing next to planes before jetting off around the world. Or in the case of Playboy’s Hugh Hefner, posing…

25 Interesting Vintage Photographs Show London Pubs Through the Years ‎

Samuel Pepys once described the pub as ‘the heart of England’, and rightly so, considering that there are few more pleasurable things than supping a pint of ale in good company. From naval reserve sailors toasting to their health to…

25 Black and White Photographs Captured Street Scenes of London in 1975

Chris Steele-Perkins is a British photographer and member of Magnum Photos. He was born in Rangoon, Burma in 1947 to a British father and a Burmese mother; but his father left his mother and took the boy to England at…

30 Stunning Black and White Photographs of London in the 1930s and 1940s

Arriving in London in 1935, the Viennese photographer Wolfgang Suschitzky is best known for his depictions of London in the 1930s and 1940s. However a photography career spanning 70 years has seen him capture many subjects, all with the same genuine affection….

28 Vintage Color Snapshots of London in the 1960s

Some of these photographs were taken when the photographer was just 13 years old, with a Halina PET camera and Ektachrome film. He lived in Byfleet, a village lies around 20 miles from the center of London. From 1971 to…

Rock Against Racism: Stunning Pictures of British Punk and Reggae Bands Using Music to Fight Fascism in the 1970s

Syd Shelton has been a street photographer in the UK and Australia for the past several decades. His iconic photographs of punk, protests and portraits help to tell England’s story of anti-racist activism. In the 1970s Syd was one of…

Vintage Photos Capture Dapper Teddy Boys From the 1950s to the 1970s

Teddy Boys, or Teds, were a subculture of young adults wearing smart clothes partly inspired by dandies in the Edwardian era. Began in London in the early 1950s, it rapidly spread across the United Kingdom and became closely associated with…

A Toast to the New Year With Cool Shots of Ladies Drinking in the Early 20th Century _ US

The New Year is coming! Let’s cheer it up by toasts from ladies in the early 20th century. A Toast to the New Year A Toast to the New Year A Toast to the New Year A Toast to the…

35 Vintage Photos Capture People at Parties in the 1970s _ US

The 1970s was one of the most culturally vibrant periods in American history. The decade of the 1970s was in many ways a continuation of the late 1960s with respect to social trends. The activists of the 1960s crusaded for…

Vinyles Passion: Vintage Photos Capture Teenage Record Parties in the 1950s and 1960s _ US

Before the 1950s, teenagers listened to the music of their parents, but when rock and roll came on the scene teens swarmed to it. Even though teens were able to purchase rock and roll records because they were receiving extra…