December 1, 2013 0 Comments Peter House Rare Vintage Swimsuit Photos Of Geisha Rob Oechsle, a photographer and researcher, has compiled a series of photographs from the late 19th and early 20th century featuring Geishas. What makes these photos all the more striking is the fact that they feature these women in swimwear and against […]
Three Scottish herring girls knitting whilst waiting for the arrival of the fishing fleet at Great Yarmouth in England, 1929. Thousands of women travel from Scotland to Great Yarmouth to process the catch during the autumn herring season. (Photo by Topical Press Agency) A Sami woman wearing a thick fur coat fishes through a […]
For more than a decade after they moved into their house in Neenah, Wisconsin, the Zwick family knew they had a Cold War bunker in their backyard. It was not until 2010 that anyone thought to open the heavy steel hatch, climb down the ladder and explore the 8-foot-by-10-foot chamber that the home’s previous owner […]
Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920 The last known picture of Adolf Hitler, April 30, 1945 Eisenhower’s Inauguration on January 20, 1953 Nazi rally in the Cathedral of Light c. 1937 Marilyn Monroe performing for troops stationed in Korea, February 1954 The last known […]
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Vintage X-Rays Reveal Shocking Extent of Corset-Imposed Body Deformation by Lori Zimmer , 06/26/13 filed under: Fashion Artifacts Back in 1908, Dr. Ludovic O’Followell started a minor opposition against a piece of clothing that virtually every woman in every class level wore: the corset. In his diatribe, aptly titled Le Corset, O’ Followell provided […]
Man tikt 100.000 filmnegatieven van schitterende foto’s op de kop voor $380 bij lokale veiling Beeld je dit eens in: misschien wel de belangrijkste straatfotografe van de twintigste eeuw was een nanny die alles voor zichzelf hield. Ook haar foto’s. Niemand kreeg ooit één foto van haar te zien. Tientallen jaren later, in 2007, kocht […]