FREE ARTICLE- - November 19, 2024
This is our inaugural post and we hope that you will come along on this journey with us as we explore the wonders of the history of the world in all its beautiful eccentricities through the photographic medium. We will show you photographs from the 1840s up to 2024, and we are sure that you will enjoy them. Some days, like today, they will be a montage of different themes to savour on their own merits. Sometimes, we will follow a theme like an actor or actress from a bygone era of Hollywood or feature a town or city in this beautiful world.
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Yesterday Today
A magnificent photograph of London in 1952.
#London
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A police officer directs traffic in Detroit in the 1920s. Detroit was among the first to have a police squad dedicated to traffic control.
#Detroit1920s
Young Yuek and daughter Alice, with dried squid and shark fin, in his Chinatown grocery at 2239 Wentworth Street in Chicago, Illinois, on June 27, 1956. Dried squid was $1 per pound; $6 per pound for shark fin.
#Chicago1950s
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, born 11th November 1821
Dostoevsky by Vasily Perov [1872]
#Dostoevsky
"Sooner or later, everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, born 13th November 1850
#RobertLouisStevenson
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VIDEO - Children in Edwardian England. A glimpse into 1902.
#EdwardianEra
Johnny Cash, 1965.
#JohnnyCash
The Mod Squad. 1968. The main cast is pictured from left: Clarence Williams III, Peggy Lipton, and Michael Cole.
#ModSquad
Pin-up photo of Gene Tierney for the May 25, 1945 issue of Yank, the Army Weekly.
GeneTierney
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During the first few years after World War I, more Americans were killed in auto accidents than American soldiers were killed in France.
#AutoAccidents
This photograph depicts convicts at the Greene County prison camp attending the funeral of their warden, who was killed in an automobile accident in Georgia in May 1941.
#GeorgiaInmates1940s
I can’t bare it. A small girl scratches her bottom while her little brother sits in a pushchair and covers his face. Leominster, Herefordshire, England in 1972.
#Children1970s
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