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Miss Lovely Legs 1949

Curious photos from a Beautiful Legs Contest from 1949. The pictures raise lots of questions in my mind – aside

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

More and more smokers are becoming social pariahs. They have to stand on the street in the rain outside restaurants,

If you think you need a steady hand to apply eyeliner, then try drawing straight seams up the backs of

It was the lovely Armi Kuusela from Finland who won the first ever Miss Universe contest in 1952*, with Miss

The can-can dancers of the Moulin Rouge in Paris, probably taken some time in the 1950s judging by the hair

I love this series of photos. Some of them could have been taken anywhere during the Sixties: the Mary Quant

1928 was an interesting turning point in 1920s fashion. The boyish figure of the mid 1920s was starting to become

These women were all training in various London polytechnics to work in munitions factories during the early 1940s. I’m not

London was a very different city in 1941. Alongside the landmarks we all recognize there were clear signs of the

The forecast heatwave seems to have arrived in full force today and it’s far too hot to actually dance, so

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

Vintage high school photos taken in 1942 at McGuffey High School in Miami. Aren’t these great? I love the different

I came across this amazing collection of photographs on Flickr yesterday and was totally captivated by them. The photographer was

I thought this photo was delightful, there’s something delicious about seeing little glimpses back in time. It looks like neither