The 1960′s Needlecraft
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Stark 100-Year-Old Photos of Destitute East End Children
Taken by Horace Warner in 1912 in Spitalfields England, these images of poverty stricken children show the horrible existences they had to endure just to survive. Read more »
Future-Predicting Postcards From Around 1900
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Incredible Photos of Russian Peasants in the 1800s
Russian peasants were a completely separate class from the land owners and nobility, many of whom must have considered their underlings less than human. Most peasants were actually serfs – individuals owned by or legally tied to their masters – before The Peasant Reform of 1861. The first major liberal reform in Russia, it freed serfs to marry without consent and to own businesses and property. About 23 million people were affected. Yet life was still tough for the peasants. They made their living working the land or were employed in unskilled jobs. The 1905 Russian Revolution may have been on the relatively distant horizon at the time these photographs were taken – in the 1860s and ’70s – but the seeds of revolt had surely already been sown by the harsh living conditions in which these people were forced to live. [ via ] Read more »
Cool Inventions From the Past
The fast pace of technology change in the 20′s brought us the lie detector, traffic signal, bubble gum and Penicillin. An all-electronic moving-image television system somewhat similar to that used today was invented and demonstrated in 1929. The 30′s were not less invention-intensive bringing us the jet engine, helicopter, tea bags, sticky tape, ballpoint pen and the first photocopier. However, somewhere between these great world-changing inventions there were some fun and sometimes even hilarious inventions the world has forgotten. All terrain car able to descend slopes up to 65 degrees (England, 1936) The Cyclomer, a bicycle on land and water can ride with a load of 120 pounds (Paris 1932) Hamblin glasses. A pair of spectacles especially designed for reading in bed (England 1936) Bulletproof glass, demonstration by the best rifle man of the New York police, 1931 Kind of shovel on a car. Purpose: reducing the number of casualties among pedestrians (Paris 1924) Read more »
Tour de France In The Early 1930s
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Speed Girls: the Bugatti Queen
Hellé Nice was born as Helene Delangle near Chartres as daughter of a postmaster, moved to Paris as teenager, posed for naughty photographs sold to tourists, and soon became one of the most popular and best known dancing acts in Paris in the mid 1920s. She started racing through contacts with members of the French motorsport world, like Baron Philippe de Rothschild, and Le Mans winner Henri de Courcelles. Hellé Nice successfully competed in Grand Prix and set multiple speed records in the 1930s in Bugatti’s and Alfa Romeo’s. Hellé Nice in an undated photograph (Jean-Pierre Poiter, Chelles, France/Random House) Hellé Nice after her victory in the 1929 Grand Prix Féminin which secured her a sleek Bugatti and the nickname ”The Speed Queen.” Hellé Nice in Rio de Janeiro leading the field in her Alfa Romeo with No. 2. Read more »
Movie posters of 1970s
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