“Braving the Heights: The Daredevil Window Cleaners of Skyscrapers in Vintage Imagery”_trunghinhsu
Cleaning high-rise windows is nothing like cleaning the windows of your house or bedroom, which only needs a damp cloth, a squeegee, some window cleaning…
15 Amazing Vintage Photographs That Capture America’s Great Depression from the 1930s_ml
Video Player is loading. The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was created in 1937 from an earlier agency named the Resettlement Administration, or RA. The RA had been…
30 Fun and Interesting Vintage Photos of New Year’s Eve Celebrations From Between the 1930s and 1950s_ml
New Year’s Eve celebrations are as old as the holiday itself, and it’s hard to believe that we’re so deep into the 21st century already. In the…
Lovely Vintage Photos of Kids With Their Pedal Cars_top1
When the automobile made its appearance, the pedal car soon followed. Pedal car history goes back to the 1890s when most were modeled from the real cars…
27 Fascinating Vintage Photos of Soho, London Over the Years_top1
Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of London’s West End. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century…
Classic Snapshots: Ford Coca-Cola Delivery Trucks in the 1920s-1950s _ US Memories _ LINH
In an early-1920s speech, 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…
Interesting Pictures of a Country Store on Dirt Road in North Carolina, 1939; And Surprise That It Is Still Standing More Than 70 Years Later!_top1
The story began when Wayne Jacobs discovered this colorized picture on Shorpy in early April of 2014. The original photo was taken in July of 1939 by Dorothea Lange, the famous…
“Echoes of Hooves and History: The Majestic Draft Horses of America’s Past in 20 Enthralling Historical Photographs”_trunghinhsu
The Industrial Revolution proved to be responsible for both the rise and collapse of the heavy horse in America. Demand for draft animals was spurred on by…
38 Amazing Photos Capture Women in Bars From Between the 1930s and 1950s_top1
That’s what women looked like in bars from between the 1930s and 1950s. …
Fun ice cream on wheels: 20 charming vintage photos of mobile vendors _ US Memories _ LINH
‘Hokey-pokey’ was a slang term for ice cream in general in the 19th and early 20th centuries in several areas, including New York City and parts of…