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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,

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

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

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

So, it’s Boxing Day and I’m sitting here (eating chocolates) waiting for it to snow. Apparently we are due to

10 wierd, wonderful (and sometimes terrifying) vintage inventions which have been lost in the mists of time… My favourite is

Did you think clowns couldn’t get more disturbing than ‘Cho-Cho the health clown‘ who terrified young children into good dental

Today is the 100th anniversary of the day Britain declared war on Germany at the start of World War 1.

I hope so! I’ve got a pretty limited knowledge of photography but I really want to be able to improve

If you were of the right class and in the right circumstances the 1930s was an incredibly stylish place to

We all know the story of the ill-fated maiden voyage of the Titanic. At least I assume we do, I

Oops, I’m slightly late to the party (the best people always are)! London Underground turned 150 last year. Admittedly this