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Eugene Atget – The Photographer who Walked Fin de Siècle Paris

Atget (1857-1927) wandered the streets of Paris dressed in a large black cloak and floppy hat, his camera slung on its tripod over his shoulder. He drifted until something triggered a response which he stopped to photograph. ...

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New York City Crowds In The Early And Mid 20th Century

Photographs of crowds of people in the city that never sleeps ...

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Alma Mahler : The Muse Who Married Three Brilliant Men And Became A Jealous Artist’s Swan-Skin Love Doll

The woman who shagged the brightest brains of central Europe and drove a former lover to an act of memorable nuttiness ...

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“Hands, Hips, Head, Grind, Grate and Grasp” – Woodrow Wilson’s Training Camp in 1917

In August 1917 famed keep-fitter Walter Camp took the President's Cabinet in an exercise class ...

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When Blimps, Dirigibles and Airships Ruled the Sky

Vintage snapshots from the collection of Robert E. Jackson of airships passing overhead ...

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The Other Suffragettes: the Women Who Kept Fighting for the Right to Vote After the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Passed

“The contributions of Asian American, Latina, and Native American suffragists are just beginning to be examined by scholars,” writes the Library of Congress, “but there is still much work to be done regarding all women of color.” ...

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Marine Biologist Carl Chun, Discoverer of the ‘Vampire Squid’ Publishes the First, Fully-Illustrated Atlas of Cephalopods in 1910

Chun discovered a species so terrifying, he called it Vampyrotheuthis infernalis, or “vampire squid from hell,” just one of the many creatures he found, then dissected, labeled, and named. ...

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Two Brothers Photographed Every Stage of the New York City Subway Construction, from 1900-1939

“Using cameras with 8-by-10-inch glass negatives,” the brothers “were assigned to record the progress of construction as well as every dislodged flagstone, every cracked brick, every odd building and anything that smelled like a possible lawsuit.” ...

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How Mussolini Won the Propaganda War: 1922-1943

The art of indoctrination - how political propagandists tried to on shape the 20th century into “a Fascist century” ...

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‘Humours of London’ by Tony Sarg: Wonderful Illustrations of the City From Above (1914)

This series of 13 colour illustrations by Tony Sarg (April 21, 1880–March 7, 1942) take ...

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A Glorious Selection of Vintage Leap Year Cards

These cards reminds us that every four years a lady may ask a man for his hand in marriage ...

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One of the First True Monorail Systems Debuts in 1910, Wins High Praise from Winston Churchill, Then Fails

In the early 20th Century Irish-born inventor Louis Brennan invented a monorail inspired by a child's toy ...

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