The freaky high school fashion of the hippie era seen through rare photos, 1969 _CN
The high school fashion of 1969. These photographs, taken for LIFE magazine in the fall of 1969, explored the “freaky new freedoms” of fashion seen on high…
Building the iconic Golden Gate Bridge in rare photographs, 1930s _TCN
A man standing on the first cables during the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, with the Presidio and San Francisco in the background. 1935. The Golden…
Forgotten photographs of a late summer Sunday in Central Park, 1942 _TCN
On a lazy Sunday afternoon in September 1942, photographer Marjory Collins wandered around New York City’s Central Park capturing a series of incredible images. The amazing and…
Vintage Photos of Coca-Cola Ads and Delivery Trucks from the 1900s to the 1970s_Lap
In the 1920s, a Coca-Cola bottler declared, “Coca-Cola was as instrumental in building up the soft drink industry as Henry Ford was in building up the automotive…
22 Vintage Photos Reveal Daily Life at Drive-In Theaters – A Fading American Tradition_Lap
It’s been 80 years since a New Jersey auto-parts store manager named Richard Hollingshead Jr. hit upon the idea of a drive-in theater. The wonder of Hollingshead’s…
50 wunderbare Farbfotos dokumentierten das tägliche Leben in Westdeutschland in den späten 1950er Jahren _NH
Diese wunderbaren Fotos wurden von einem Mitglied der Familie Hübner aufgenommen, die 1958 auf einer Europareise das Alltagsleben in Westdeutschland dokumentierte. Autobahnbrücke über die Lahn, Limburg an…
27 Black and White Pictures of American Teenagers in the 1950s _NH
In June 1954, LIFE magazine published an article titled “The Luckiest Generation” that, revisited 60 years later, feels like an almost perfect snapshot of a certain segment of American…
40 Incredible Colorized Photos Show What Life of the U.S. Looked Like in the 1930s and ’40s _NH
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It began after the stock market crash…
22 bemerkenswerte Schwarzweißfotografien des jüdischen Lebens in den 1930er Jahren_Lap
Roman Vishniac wurde 1897 als Sohn einer wohlhabenden russisch-jüdischen Familie geboren und wanderte 1920 nach der Russischen Revolution nach Berlin aus. Als Amateurfotograf ging er in den…
38 Snapshots Prove How Jeans Gave Girls a Cool Look in the 1950s_Lap
Invented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873, jeans marked culture of the last 140 years probably more than we think. Jeans are undeniably a fashion…