20 Amazing Then and Now Photos That Show How Much Paris Has Changed Since the 1900s
French art director Julien Knez spent a summer taking photos of Parisian streets overlaid with vintage photos of what they used to look like. The vintage photos…
A Day at the Halles of Paris in 1968 Through Beautiful Kodachrome Photos
Les Halles was Paris’s central fresh food market. It was demolished in 1971 and replaced by the Forum des Halles, a modern shopping mall built largely underground…
27 Rare Color Photos of the Marketplace Les Halles, Known As the “Belly of Paris” in 1956
Les Halles was the traditional central market of Paris. In 1183, King Philippe II Auguste enlarged the marketplace in Paris and built a shelter for the merchants,…
Fascinating Photos of Les Halles in the 1950s
Les Halles was Paris’ central fresh food market. In the 1850s, Victor Baltard designed the famous glass and iron structure which would house les Halles for over…
Amazing Color Photos of Occupied Paris During World War II
These images were taken in Occupied Paris during WWII by André Zucca for Nazi German propaganda magazine Signal using rare Agfacolor film supplied by the Wehrmacht. Zucca…
14 Wonderful Photos of French People Don Colorful Costumes at the Joan of Arc Festival, November 1932
Orléans, located along the northern bend of the Loire River, at about 120 km of Paris, is the capital of the Loiret department and of the Centre-Val…
France From Between the 1950s and 1960s Through Wonderful Color Photos of an American Traveler’s Lens
Ed Kanouse, an American electrical engineer for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, took his first trip to Europe in 1948 and made numerous other…
30 Vintage Photos Show What Kids Used to Do For Fun in the 1950s
For contemporary children, it may be difficult to imagine kids having fun in the 1950s. Not only were there were no video games, even children’s television programming…
Pictures of American Teenagers in Paris in the 1950s
Gordon Parks is an amazing vintage photographer whose work deserves a proper post one day since to show the above images without proper caption is to discredit…
30 Vintage Photographs Capture Scenes of High School Typing Classes From Between the 1950s and 1970s
Call it keyboarding, or old-school typing… During the 1950s and ’60s typewriting was taught mostly in elementary schools, and there was a widely held conviction that typewriting…