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Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

Portraits of London At War by Toni Frissell – January 1942

“I became so frustrated with fashions that I wanted to prove to myself that I could do a real reporting job” - Toni Frissell ...
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19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

19th Century Portraits Of “Russian Types” by William Carrick

In September 1859 Edinburgh-born William Carrick opened a studio in St Petersburg. With John MacGregor, Carrick produced portraits of locals he called 'Russian Types', sold as cartes-de-visite to tourists. ...
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Buy Prints The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

The Great White Silence: Herbert Ponting’s Portraits from Captain Scott’s Antarctic Expedition

Ponting, who died in 1935, is best known for photographing Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole in 1911/12 ...
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Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

Extraordinary Portraits of Bedouins By The American Colony Photo Department in 1898

At the very end of the 19th century the American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service), took these pictures of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem. ...
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To Kay From Warren, Ohio – And Other Stars of A Great 1960s Yearbook

To Kay From Warren, Ohio – And Other Stars of A Great 1960s Yearbook

Nigel Maister opens up a glorious found yearbook from 1961 ...
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Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Ceausescu’s Orphans 30 years later

Catching up with the orphans whose plight horrified the world ...
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A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

A Day In The Life Of Pennsylvania Miners – November 1942

Photographs of miners going to work and at the coal face ...
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Tank Training at Fort Knox in 1942

Tank Training at Fort Knox in 1942

In June 1942, Office of War Information photographer Alfred T. Palmer (1906–1993) visited Fort Knox, ...
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Buy Prints E. J. Bellocq’s Surviving Storyville Photographs Circa 1912

E. J. Bellocq’s Surviving Storyville Photographs Circa 1912

Wonderful portraits of prostitutes in America's first red-light district ...
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Incredibly Stylish Mugshots From The 1920s

Incredibly Stylish Mugshots From The 1920s

These mugshot portraits - we'd call them pictures but their style demands more - are part of 2500 "special photographs" taken by New South Wales Police Department photographers between 1910 and 1930 ...
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The Story of Poor Robert McGee : Scalped in 1864

The Story of Poor Robert McGee : Scalped in 1864

'Young McGee' tells the story of how he came to scalped and live in the 'Indian Wars' ...
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South Wales in The 1970s

South Wales in The 1970s

Wonderful pictures of South Wales during the 1970s when Robin Weaver worked for a local newspaper ...
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