60 Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life in the U.K During the 1960s
These fascinating were taken by photographer David Ayres that documented everyday life of England from the 1960s. Southsea Beach, 1964 Shop window at Plymouth shopping centre, 1965 The Cenotaph, December 1965 Torpoint Ferry, June 1965 Bond’s, Preston, 1966 Central Pier, Blackpool, 1966…
Amazing Photographs of the Mt. Lowe Railway’s Thrilling, Terrifying Circular Bridge From the Turn of the 20th Century _ US
Call it 19th-century L.A.’s idea of a thrill ride. Leaving the safety of granite slopes, trolley cars arced out onto a creaking, cantilevered wooden trestle, soaring over a 1000-foot sheer drop – with no reassuring seat belts or safety bars….
30 Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life in the U.S From Between the 1900s and 1910s _ US
Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952) was born during the American Civil War. In the 1880s, Johnston studied art in Paris and then returned home to Washington, DC, where she learned photography. She quickly established a national reputation as a professional photographer and…
30 Cool Photos of the 1940s Women in Jeans _ US
Overall and blue jeans, called dungarees, were a necessary clothing item for laborious tasks. WWII made blue jeans more popular as working Rosies took to factories and Land Girls worked farms. Men’s blue jeans had a loose fit, long crotch,…
16 Examples of Video Game Ads in the 1980s _ US
In the early-1980s, arcade games were a vibrant industry. The arcade video game industry in the US alone was generating $5 billion of revenue annually in 1981 and the number of arcades doubled between 1980 and 1982. The effect video…
Amazing Photographs of 1980s New York City Subway Through the Lens of a Teenager _ US
Most of these photographs below were shot in 1982 and 1983 by native New Yorker Ken Stein when he was 17 and 18 year old, and was the staff photographer for a weekly community newspaper in The Bronx. Through his…
Fantastic Candid Photographs That Capture New Yorkers in Their Halloween Costumes in Subway During the 1980s _ US
For a few fleeting hours on the night of October 31 New York’s subways turn into a waking dreamland. And not just any waking dreamland. On Halloween night, the New York subways are transformed into the literal realization of many…
Amazing Vintage Photos That Show the Construction of Titanic, 1909-1911 _ US
Britannic was originally to be called Gigantic and was to be over 1,000 feet (300 m) long. They were by far the largest vessels of the British shipping company White Star Line’s fleet, which comprised 29 steamers and tenders in…
46 Fascinating Photos That Capture Daily Life of Students at Sweet Briar College, Virginia in the 1960s _ US
Established in 1901 as the Sweet Briar Institute and opened its doors in 1906, Sweet Briar College is a women’s liberal arts college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, United States. The college is on 3,250 acres (13,152,283 m2) in the foothills…
Wonderful Vintage Photos of Female Students at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1948 _ US
The Civil Rights Movement in the United States fueled the feminist movement as well. Women demanded equal rights in education on the basis that equality for all in education and under the law should include women of all races as…