28 Found Photos Show What Service Stations of the US Looked Like in the Early 20th Century_Ha

These amazing photos were found by Steve Hagy that show what service stations of the US looked like in the 1920s and 1930s. Jeff’s Texaco, Newburgh, New York Area,…

Old West Saloons, Where Real Cowboys Often Gathered in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries_Ha

In the American Old West, a saloon designates a café or hotel. The first was established in 1822 at Brown’s Hole, Wyoming, between Colorado and Utah, to…

Women of the Civil War – Glamorous Portrait Photos of American Young Ladies around 1863_Ha

Mathew Brady (1823-1896) was one of the most prolific photographers of the nineteenth century, creating a visual documentation of the Civil War period (1860-1865). During the Civil…

100 Years Before the Smartphone: 40 Photos of People Talking on Telephones in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries_Ha

Today, almost everyone knows and owns at least one smartphone. It is also very handy, and essential to us in our daily lives. So how about 100…

45 Interesting Vintage Photographs That Show Bobby Soxers of the 1940s_Ha

Bobby soxer is a 1940s sociological coinage describing the often very zealous fans of traditional pop music, in particular its creators like singer Frank Sinatra. Bobby soxers…

Summer’s Street Fashion of Boston in the Early 1970s Through Nick DeWolf’s Lens_Ha

Born in Philadelphia, later a Bostonian and later still a “hall of fame”, fountain-designing Aspenite, Nicholas DeWolf (1928-2006) was a unique, inspiring, engaging and curious soul. Co-founder of Boston’s…

27 Fascinating Color Photographs Capture the Groovy ‘70s in the United States_Ha

How was life in the States when The Godfather was on in cinemas and hippies were roaming the streets? If you want to get a taste and a feel…

35 Vintage Photos of Young Women Knickerbock iers From the 1920s_Ha

Knickerbockers or knickers are a form of men’s or boys’ baggy-kneed breeches, particularly popular in the early 20th-century United States. Until after World War I, in many…

34 Found Snaps Defined Street Fashion During the Great Depression_ha

The 1930s are a  forgotten, in-between decade, of fashion and the economic turmoil of the Great Depression. Often lumped in with the 1920s or 1940s the fashions…

Elegant Photos Show Women’s Fashion Styles in the 1890s_ha

By 1890, the crinoline and bustle was fully abandoned, and skirts flared away naturally from the wearer’s tiny waist. It evolved into a bell shape, and were…