Air Hostess Training in the 1940s
Photos taken at the McConnell Air Hostess School which trained air hostesses for TWA in the 1940s. The training included
Photos taken at the McConnell Air Hostess School which trained air hostesses for TWA in the 1940s. The training included
Curious photos from a Beautiful Legs Contest from 1949. The pictures raise lots of questions in my mind – aside
You must have heard people say that the 1950s was a time of simpler pleasures, and these pictures of Disneyland
These beautiful Victorian portraits are a type of early photograph called daguerreotypes. Invented by Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre in the
The airship industry effectively died with the Hindenburg disaster of 1937, but for 80 or so years previously the dream
I stumbled across this photograph this morning and I’m ghoulishly intrigued by it. The only information I have about it
More and more smokers are becoming social pariahs. They have to stand on the street in the rain outside restaurants,
I’ve often wondered how enormous monuments such as Mount Rushmore are created. Having said that, even having seen these photos
You thought zumba and ashtanga yoga were torture enough in the pursuit of youth and fitness? Be grateful you didn’t
It was the lovely Armi Kuusela from Finland who won the first ever Miss Universe contest in 1952*, with Miss
I love this series of photos. Some of them could have been taken anywhere during the Sixties: the Mary Quant
Tomorrow Queen Elizabeth II overtakes Queen Victoria as the longest serving monarch in British History. I was born in the
London was a very different city in 1941. Alongside the landmarks we all recognize there were clear signs of the
I love the idea of collating images which give a real flavour of what a place was like at a
Wow, you’d certainly need a head for heights to do this job! Back in 1908-9 when the Manhattan bridge was
During the 1850s British physician Dr. Hugh Welch Diamond took a series of haunting photographs of mentally ill patients under
I visited the Wedding Dresses (1775-2014) exhibition at the V&A last week. It was a fantastic display of bridal fashions
Olga Spessivtseva was one of the foremost Russian ballerinas of the early 20th Century. She traveled the world to rave