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B&W Photos of Life in World War II

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Civil War cutups

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Unidentified men in Union uniforms, one pointing a revolver at another's head. Half-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. (via)

Shops and Stores in Japan in The 19th Century

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An interesting collection of Japanese's shops and stores in the 19th century

Interesting Vintage Photos of Cats

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A small interesting collection of old photos of cats

A little girl hangs three Siamese kittens on a washing line in a garden in Croydon, London. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 14th July 1931

A cat wearing headphones to listen to a radio. (Photo by Monty Fresco/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). January 1926

A cat watches two mice in a goldfish bowl. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images). Circa 1950

A bandaged cat recovering from its injuries. (Photo by Maeers/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 25th May 1935

Above Fifth Avenue, Looking North, 1905

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Above Fifth Avenue, Looking North, 1905. Underwood and Underwood (American, active 1880-1934) (via)

Protection Mask, 1936

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Oct. 15, 1936. Washington, D.C. Protection against that dreaded disease Silicosis is assured underground workers with this new sand-blasting helmet developed by William P. Biggs, Safety Engineer of the Navy Department. Weighing only 43 ounces, the helmet has been tested for nearly a year in various naval stations throughout the country. Harris & Ewing glass negative. (via)

Color Photos of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 1964

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Guys gone wild, 1860s style

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Unidentified soldiers in Union uniforms holding cigars in each other's mouths. Ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored. Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War Photographs, Library of Congress. (via Shorpy)

Amazing Photos of Burmese Women in The Past

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A policeman in London directing three giraffe necked women from Burma along Elgin Avenue, London, 1935. (Photo by General Photographic Agency)

Giraffe necked women of Burma having tea in England, circa 1935. (Photo by General Photographic Agency)

A Padaung, or Kayan woman. Originally a Mongolian tribe, the Padaung have been assimilated into the Karen group native to Mayanmar (Burma), circa 1950. The most stiking feature of these people are the brass rings fitted to the necks and limbs of women born on Wednesdays. The first neck ring is fitted when they are five or six, with successive rings fitted every two years, denoting the status of their family. (Photo by Three Lions)

A Padaung, or Kayan woman. Originally a Mongolian tribe, the Padaung have been assimilated into the Karen group native to Mayanmar (Burma), circa 1950. (Photo by Three Lions)

Three Burmese women members of a circus play cards as they wear the brass neck and leg rings traditionally worn by Padaung women since childhood and which cannot be removed, London, January 4, 1935. (Photo by Keystone)

A Burmese woman, with traditional neck-extending rings, celebrates her twenty-first birthday with a cake in Folkestone with her friend. They are both part of Bertram Mills Circus, where they are billed as the “giraffe-necked Burmese ladies”. 25th August 1936. (Photo by A. J. O'Brien)

Old Photos of City Churches in London A Century Ago

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Here are old photos of City churches (and a few nearby), taken for the London & Middlesex Archaeological Society a century ago.

St Clement Danes, c. 1900

St. Magnus the Martyr, c. 1910

St Magnus the Martyr & the Monument from the Thames, c. 1920

St Dunstan in the East, 1910

Roller skating 1930s

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1990s NYC Graffiti

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Street Style, 1906

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A cyclist struggles with an enormous hat. (Street style 1906- Edward Linley Sambourne)

A Look Back at Rolls Royce

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A Rolls Royce car which is being used by the Prince of Wales on a tour of Margate and Ramsgate, Kent. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 24th November 1926

Entertainer Elsa McFarlane stands on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce car, mimicking the Silver Lady figurine, in a production of “The Co-Optimists”, at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 1929

Mae Murray, the radiant Hollywood film star and actress signed by MGM. Seen about to board her Rolls Royce. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1929

Two young women in swimwear posing in front of a Delage D8 adorned with a Lalique glass radiator ornament. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). 1930

The new Lord Mayor of London Sir William P Neal with his wife. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 1st October 1930

Advertising of Domestic Tourism in the USSR

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A vintage collection advertising of domestic tourism in the USSR

Black & White Portraits of Charlie Chaplin without His Trademark Moustache

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Comedian Charlie Chaplin is iconic for several reasons, one of the most obvious being his trademark moustache! His whole look is actually the result of quiet calculations, beginning from when his boss at Keystone Studios said he looked too young to be a comedic actor at age 24.

“I wanted everything to be a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large… I added a small moustache, which, I reasoned, would add age without hiding my expression. I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the makeup made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked on stage he was fully born.” —Charlie Chaplin.

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1920s French Fashion

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Series of 1920s French fashion postcards in the style of the Seeberger brothers, mid-to-second half of the decade, showing fashionable day wear.

Tennis Players, 1930s

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Vintage Photos of Cutie Baby Animals

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Two brown bear cubs from a litter of triplets born at Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire playing with the scales at their first weight check. The 4-lb cubs have been transferred to the children's zoo, where they delight the visitors. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 3rd May 1962

A soldier of the US Seventh Marines carrying a little puppy in his pocket after rescuing it during an operation south west of Da Nang in Vietnam. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1968

Huge crowds formed at the London Zoo on the debut of Pipaluk, the baby polar bear. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 15th April 1968

Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath (1905–1992) mounted on baby African elephant Wamba at Longleat Safari Park, his family seat in Wiltshire, 29th May 1968. Leading Wamba by the ear is Mr J. R. Kabuzi, the Acting High Commissioner for Uganda, who is at Longleat to open the new East African Game Reserve. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Beatrix, a she-lion at Chessington Zoo, carries her newborn cub. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 30th May 1968

Old Portraits of Anna May Wong – The First Chinese American Movie Star

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Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961) was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio.

Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924).

Photos of Marilyn Monroe Four Days in New York, 1955 by Ed Feingersh

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1955 was a year of change for Marilyn Monroe. After leaving Hollywood for New York, and abandoning her contract with Twentieth Century Fox, Marilyn was no longer ‘just a dumb blonde’, but a true renegade. In January, Marilyn formed a production company with photographer Milton Greene, and moved into a suite at the Ambassador Hotel.

Despite frenzied speculation, Marilyn largely evaded publicity. Dressed down in casual clothes and no make-up, she wandered the city unnoticed, and learned about ‘the Method’, a deeper, more challenging approach to drama, with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. And Marilyn also began the long, difficult journey of psychoanalysis at this time.

By March of 1955, however, both Greene and Marilyn agreed that her image needed a boost. Her wish to prove herself a ‘serious actress’ had been roundly mocked by the press, many of whom predicted that the erstwhile sex goddess was destroying her own career.

In his introduction to the 1990 book, Marilyn 55, Bob LaBrasca stated that it was Milton Greene who arranged for a cover spread in Redbook. But Robert Stein, magazine editor at the time, has claimed that it was another of Marilyn’s photographers, Sam Shaw, who arranged the initial contact, and one of Shaw’s portraits of Marilyn graces the resulting July 1955 cover story, ‘The Marilyn Monroe You’ve Never Seen’.

However, neither Shaw nor Greene worked on the story directly. Over a hectic week, photojournalist Ed Feingersh followed Marilyn, along with Stein, and Marilyn’s small coterie of business associates. Whether shopping, dining, or dressing up, Marilyn’s daily life was captured on film.

Vintage Photos of Animal Astronauts

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Sam, a 7-lb rhesus monkey is prepared for his flight into space by being secured in a 100-lb biopack drum. Sam then rode a Project Mercury-type capsule to a height of 55 miles and landed 200 miles out in the Atlantic. The “Little Joe” experiment to test the capsule's escape rocket system was a success. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 4th December 1959

A life-size replica of the original Sputnik satellite which carried two dogs into orbit, on display at a Moscow exhibition of space travel. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 18th February 1959

A captain at the School of Aviation Medicine, Texas demonstrating how space monkey “Sam Soacem” is strapped into special padding and seat when sent up in rockets. Sam's name was formed from the school's acronym. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 6th February 1959

Laika, the Soviet Satellite dog in the specially designed space equipment in Sputnik II. The capsule will probably burn up on re-entry. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 5th November 1957

Two monkeys, Baker and Able, aboard USS Kiowa after their recovery from the cone of the Jupiter missile in which they travelled into space. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 28th May 1959

Air Travel, 1950s

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Those were the days - air travel, 1950s

Teenagers having a soda, 1940s

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Teenagers having a soda, 1940s

Old Photos of Japanese 130 Years Ago

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Three samurai warriors in armour, circa 1880. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei)

A Japanese general, circa 1865. (Photo by Hulton Archive)

A group of officers in the service of a prince from the north of Japan, circa 1865. (Photo by Felice Beato/Spencer Arnold)

A Samurai warrior in armour, 1867. (Photo by Hulton Archive)

Two Japanese kago bearers carrying a woman in a sedan chair, circa 1865. A samurai with two swords accompanies the group. (Photo by Felice Beato/Spencer Arnold)