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Vintage Photos of New York City Coffee Shops
Check out these old New York City coffee shops, from the 1880s to 1980s 550 West 125th Street, 1932. Battle’s Coffee Pot. (Courtesy of the MCNY) 8th Avenue and 23rd Street, Coffee Pot. February 28,...
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The Most Photographed Victorian House in the United States
Originally the home of William Carson, one of Northern California’s first major lumber barons,the Carson Mansion is a large Victorian house located in Old Town, Eureka, California. It is one of the...
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The Five Stages of Intoxication, 1860S
This sequence of photographs illustrating the ability of alcohol to transform a fine upstanding citizen into a staggering wreck was produced by Australian photographer Charles Percy Pickering at his...
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23 Photos From The Past That Require A Second Look…
Below are photos from the turbulent 1860s, a period marked by revolution and the fight against slavery, through the 1980s, a decade in which technology and globalization started to take off like never...
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Vintage Photos: Victorian Girls And Their Books, 1800s
In the late 1800s, people posing for their portraits were given the chance to decide what they would like to be doing in their photos. While many chose to simply look steel-faced in to the camera, a...
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The Story of the French Socialite Who Was Locked Away For a Quarter of a...
In Paris 1876, 25-year-old Blanche Monnier was a typical socialite scrambling to find a suitor before it was too late. She fell in love with an older, broke lawyer, who her aristocratic mother...
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Picasso’s Self-Portraits from Age 15 – 90
Pablo Picasso is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century. He is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of assemblage, the co-invention...
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Mark Carr, the First NYC Christmas Tree Seller, And a Brief History of New...
In the mid-19th century, hardly any modern Christmas traditions existed. One that did was the Christmas tree, a pre-Christian ritual incorporated into holiday festivities in German-speaking European...
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Before Photoshop: 20 Creepy Headless Portraits From the Victorian Era
A number of Victorian photographers combined images from more than one negative to create illusions or novelty portraits. “Headless Photographs” featured men and women with “their heads floating in the...
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What Christmas Trees Looked Like 100 Years Ago
The Christmas Tree didn’t become a popular tradition in the U.S. until the mid 1850’s. At that time, many of the trees were lit with actual candles. After quite a few fires, people shifted to tinsel,...
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11 Horrifying Dentistry Tools Used in the Past
The official denstistry profession — including training — didn’t come around until the eighteenth century. Before that, as the American Dental Association explains, folks from the Middle Ages counted...
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Ten Assorted Vintage Artificial Eyes from 1870 – 1920
During the 19th C., as more doctors started to specialise in eye disease alone, increasingly complicated operations were devised. The introduction of anaesthesia in 1846 and adoption of antiseptic...
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Parturition Chairs: The Birthing Seats of the 18th Century
From the ancient times until the 1800s, many women gave birth with the aid of specially designed seats, called the parturition chairs, that allowed them to sit upright or recline while giving birth....
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Vintage Photos of Dapper Men from the Victorian Era
Victorian fashion comprises the various fashions and trends that emerged and grew in province throughout the Victorian era, a period which lasted from June 1837 to January 1901. This photo series will...
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17 Stirring Photos of Released American Slaves
After Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation outlawed slavery, thousands of men and women found themselves finally freed. These historical portraits show former slaves after the emancipation. The...
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Beautiful Portraits of Native American Teen Girls, 1800s-1900s
While Native America women generally had different roles from men, they often had the same rights as their male counterparts. They usually owned the home along with everything in it, and in some...
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The Story Behind the Picturesque Devil’s Bridge in Kromlau Park, Germany
Throughout Europe, there are numerous Devil’s bridges – in France, alone there are 49 Devil’s Bridges. Devil’s Bridges can be found also in Italy, Germany, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, and...
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Photographer Uses Camera Equipment Made in The 1800s To Take Eerily Beautiful...
Giles Clement, a Nashville-based contemporary photographer makes eerily beautiful portraits using camera equipment made in the 1800s. “My tintype images are created using equipment made more than 160...
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California’s 1000-year-old Pioneer Cabin Tree Has Fallen Over
The Pioneer Cabin tree was one of several “tunnel trees” that had been carved out and served as human amusements. The tree’s exact age and height were not immediately available, but sequoias can...
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Ten Assorted Vintage Artificial Eyes from 1870 – 1920
During the 19th C., as more doctors started to specialise in eye disease alone, increasingly complicated operations were devised. The introduction of anaesthesia in 1846 and adoption of antiseptic...
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