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Jackie Kennedy Aged 6
A little Jackie Kennedy looking very grown up! This photo was taken in 1935 which I think would make her 6 years old. What a little lady eh? No wonder she became a style icon later in life! Image...
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20 Weird and Wonderful 1950s Photos
The 1950s was a time when people reveled in the new and exciting. Atomic power (and atomic testing) were new and thrilling and people dressed as lobsters and shot electricity from their fingertips to...
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When Paris Was a Very Different Place
It’s spring, and so of course my thoughts have returned to Paris, the beautiful city of blossom and boulevards, baguettes and bicyclette *sigh*. But Paris has always had a certain charm it was a very...
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7 Classic Hollywood Stars Before They Were Famous
There’s little more fascinating than looking at stars back when they were ‘normal people’. Even Marilyn Monroe looked like any other girl before she dyed her hair, had plastic surgery and changed her...
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A Century of Summer: 12 Vintage Photos Summertime Fun!
I heard on the radio that a week-long heatwave has started here in the UK, so I’m ignoring the fact that the sky has clouded over in the past few hours and I’m celebrating summertime! These photos...
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10 Moving Crime Scene Photos from the 1940s
I hope you don’t think these photos are too macabre, but there’s something terribly poignant about seeing these ordinary domestic scenes which have been turned upside down by a tragedy or a moment of...
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Any Helpful Photographers Out There?
I hope so! I’ve got a pretty limited knowledge of photography but I really want to be able to improve my photos. I have a Canon EOS 60D, which I’ve had endless issues with – not least because you have...
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A Junior Edition of Star Wars in 1970s Toronto?
I saw this photo this morning and it struck me how much it looked like something from a junior edition of Star Wars – this little girl looks like a 10-year-old version of Princess Leia. Who would...
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Mae West Before Her Hollywood Makeover
We all know what Mae West looked like (above). Her sexy on-screen image is probably one of the most iconic of all time. So much so that she had life preservers named after her during WW2 and Salvador...
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10 Vintage Clowns Guaranteed to give you Nightmares
Did you think clowns couldn’t get more disturbing than ‘Cho-Cho the health clown‘ who terrified young children into good dental hygiene habits in the 1920s? Well it turns out they can be a darn site...
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Vintage Fashion Photographers: Toni Frissell
Following on from talking about Toni Frissell’s photos of children during WW2 I wanted to share some of her breathtaking fashion photos with you. She started photographing for Vogue in 1931 and was...
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Jackie Kennedy Aged 6
A little Jackie Kennedy looking very grown up! This photo was taken in 1935 which I think would make her 6 years old. What a little lady eh? No wonder she became a style icon later in life! Image...
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7 Astonishing Vintage Daredevils
There’s a lot to be said for the time when we weren’t all glued to our smartphones, but not everything people did to relieve their boredom was a good thing. After WW2 lots of young men with flying...
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Ghoulish Gifs to get us in the Hallowe’en Spirit
It was with total delight that I discovered Kevin Weir’s macabre gifs. He created them using old photos from the flickr photo archive from The Library of Congress, and I thought they were perfect for...
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Victorian Children Sentenced to Hard Labour
To try to reduce the number of criminals being sentenced to death the Victorians introduced Hard Labour as an alternative. It involved backbreaking pointless work which was designed to be...
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Astonishing Photos of a Klu Klux Clan Parade in 1920s America
Everything I’ve head about the Klu Klux Klan and their history has just served to reinforce what a vile and hateful organization they are which is why I find these photos so shocking. Not only because...
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Children of the Blitz
These photos of children living through the Blitz in London kind of speak for themselves. I just wanted to share. Battersea incident, England, January 1945–girl among the ruins, British flag overhead....
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Snow Glorious Snow!
So, it’s Boxing Day and I’m sitting here (eating chocolates) waiting for it to snow. Apparently we are due to get snow tonight, but I fully expect to wake up in the morning and see cold grey drizzle...
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Vintage Curiosities: What Says Happy Christmas Better Than Dead Snakes?
Frankly, an artistic arrangement of dead snakes doesn’t really say Happy Christmas to me, but clearly it did to somebody. This photos if from a Christmas card back in 1910. I don’t have much...
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Pin Up Pioneers: Miss Fernande (NSFW)
Miss Fernande was arguably the very first photographic pin up star. Born during the 1890s in Paris, the lovely Fernande was a model and prostitute who posed for nude and semi-nude photographs for...
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