Dec
6
Aboard the USS Brooklyn: These Photographs Document the Lives of Sailors on a 1896 Warship
USS Brooklyn, the third United States Navy armored cruiser, was completed in 1896 in…
Author: RHP
Dec
5
The People of Rural Norway Through the Photographs of Nils Olsson Reppen, 1900s
Photographer Nils Olsson Reppen was born in 1856 on the farm Reppen in Sogndal i…
Dec
2
Magnificent Pictures of New York’s Old Penn Station Before It Was Demolished, 1910-1963
During the first half of the twentieth century, the original Pennsylvania Station wa…
Nov
29
Robert McGee: The Man who was Scalped as a Child by Native American Warriors, 1864
Robert McGee is one of the few people in American frontier history to survive ha…
Nov
27
Vintage Devices of Birth Control that Look Appalling, 500 BCE-1970s
Although the birth control pill and other hormonal contraceptive devices are mod…
Nov
27
The Young 14th Dalai Lama Through Old Photographs, 1935-1959
The title Dalai Lama refers to an individual who serves as the spiritual and politic…
Nov
27
Shackleton’s Expedition to Antarctica on The Endurance: The Photographic Journey of One of the Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told, 1914-1917
In August 1914, explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail fo…
Nov
24
The Halifax Explosion: The Naval Accident that Erased an Entire City in Canada, 1917
It was a blast heard around the world. News of what happened when two ships coll…
Nov
24
Vibrant Color Photographs of Chicago’s Rail Yards Taken by Jack Delano in the 1940s
In 1942 and 1943, the Farm Security Administration photographer Jack Delano spen…
Nov
22
Schlörwagen: The Bizarre German Car that was Super-Aerodynamic but Very Impractical, 1939
The 1930s was a defining decade for automotive design, during which time the car…
Nov
22
Back When it Was Normal to Advertise Cocaine Gadgets in Magazines, 1970-1980
These vintage ads for cocaine and cocaine paraphernalia show how crazy and distu…
Nov
21
Creepy Vintage Photographs from the Early 20th Century will Make your Skin Crawl
In this collection, creepy vintage photographs show anything from the primitive Hall…
Nov
20
These Color Photos Capture the Newly-Recruited Tank Crews Training at Fort Knox, 1942
In 1942, Office of War Information photographer Alfred T. Palmer visited Fort Knox a…
Nov
20
Vintage Photos of the Original Strongmen and their Fascinating Feats of Strength, 1890-1940
In the late 19th century and early 20th century, strongmen more often exhibited …
Nov
18
Dazzle Camouflaging the Warships with Psychedelic Paint Jobs: Photos from 1917-1918
Throughout world history, camouflage has been used to prevent an enemy from noti…
Nov
18
Space Colonies of the Future as Imagined by NASA in the 1970s
In the summer of 1975, at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California, a team of N…
Nov
14
These Photos Follow the Journey of an Average Young Man into a Skilled and Disciplined Soldier, 1942
During the early years of World War II, various initiatives were undertaken by the U…
Nov
14
The Irish Land War Seen Through Rare Photographs, 1880-1900
When the Irish talk about the “Land War,” they have in mind either three phases …
Nov
14
Vintage Photos Show the Spectacular Engineering Feat that Brought Drinking Water to New York City, 1906-1917
These incredible vintage photos show how one of the world's greatest engineering…
Nov
12
The Innovative Construction of London’s Tower Bridge Seen Through Old Photographs, 1886-1895
Arguably one of the best-known and most recognizable bridges in the world, Tower Bri…