The Dangerous Playgrounds of the Past Through Vintage Photographs, 1880s-1940s – Rare Historical Photos

If it seems like today’s kids have gotten “softer” compared to the kids decades ago, perhaps it’s because playgrounds have gotten softer as well. Thanks to state…

Stonehenge: History and Restoration through old photographs, 1880-1960 – Rare Historical Photos

Post-First World War aerial photograph of Stonehenge. Stonehenge, on the Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire in southern England, is certainly one of the most well-known and well-studied prehistoric…

Vintage photos capture the Edwardian beach style that was elegant but stifling, 1906 – Rare Historical Photos

A woman on the beach at Ostende, Belgium. Edward Linley Sambourne was one of the first photographers to capture street fashion by using a hidden camera. He…

Vintage pictures of bizarre vending machines you never knew existed, 1920-1960 – Rare Historical Photos

This collection of photographs shows some of the world’s oldest and oddest vending machines. Nowadays almost anything imaginable can now be purchased from the vending machines, however,…

The visual history of Beatlemania in rare pictures, 1964 – Rare Historical Photos

The Beatles leave London airport in 1964. From left: John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. Enthusiastic fans welcomed the Beatles in airports and concert…

Amazing photos of London street style during Edwardian era, 1905-1908 – Rare Historical Photos

Cromwell Road, Kensington. 1906 Edwardian fashion refers to the clothing that was in style between the late 1890s and 1914 or the beginning of the Great War….

Fascinating historical photos show families picking hops in the English countryside, 1900-1950 – Rare Historical Photos

These fascinating black and white pictures show the hop picker families of Kent from the early 1900s. Before mechanization hop-picking was a hugely labor-intensive process. Consequently, farmers…

Street life of Victorian London in Rare Historical Photographs, 1873-1877 – Rare Historical Photos

Porters with boxes of plants at Covent Garden market. 1877. These rare historical photographs were taken from 1873 to 1877 and are part of Street Life in…

Rare color photos capture England at work and play, 1928 – Rare Historical Photos

A policeman directs buses in the intersection of Trafalgar Square, London. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, photographer Clifton R. Adams was commissioned by the National…

27 Rare and Amazing Color Photographs of London From 1924 to 1926 _CN

These color photographs show a very different side to London from the traffic-snarled metropolis of today. They portray a more genteel city, complete with policemen guiding traffic,…