Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country in Mainland Southeast Asia. Myanmar is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to… Read More

These outstanding autochrome pictures of pre-Revolutionary Russia were taken by Peter Ivanovich Vedenisov (1866-1937). After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory in 1888, Vedenisov came t… Read More

Girl’s fashion in the 19th century was mostly based on skirts. At certain ages, the skirts would have to be longer. At first, before they started school, the girls would wear very fril… Read More

Remember “don’t touch that dial,” and “stay tuned,” or “turn the channel”? If you remember any of those sayings, then you remember when televisions… Read More

The Munsters is an American sitcom depicting the home life of a family of benign monsters starring Fred Gwynne as Frankenstein’s monster-type head-of-the-household Herman Munster; Yvon… Read More

Born 1900 in New York City, American actor and film director Ricardo Cortez began his career playing romantic leads, and when sound cinema arrived, his strong delivery and New York accent ma… Read More

Agatha Christie (1890–1976), the best-selling novelist of all time, creator of such characters as Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot, was also one of England’s first woman surfers.Wh… Read More

Although the brewery was born in 1849, it was in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire that Schlitz got its nickname “the beer that made Milwaukee famous.” The fire wiped out five o… Read More

Born 1935 in Rome, Italian actress Anna Maria Ferrero made her film debut at the age of 15 in Il cielo è rosso (1950). She was soon cast in such films as Il duca di Sant’Elmo (1… Read More

Electro magnets on a bar mounted on wheels and trailed after a car make the streets of Universal City, California, safe for motorists. The magnets pick up nails, tacks, pieces of wire, lost… Read More

In the 1950s and 1960s, after being fractured by internal conflict and foreign intervention for centuries, Afghanistan made several tentative steps toward modernization in the mid-20th centu… Read More

Twenties fashion is often remembered for its glitz and glamour, though underlying this was a move toward simplicity in dress. For women, this meant shorter skirts and simple shapes.At the da… Read More

At the height of the pandemic, it seemed like New York, the city that never sleeps was finally going to bed. Streets once clogged with crowds and vehicles suddenly emptied. The startling sti… Read More

Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is the tenth largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingd… Read More

In 1970, a new kind of splash was being made in America’s watering spots by a swim suit that keeps a woman afloat even if she couldn’t swim. And the Ever-Float Safety Swim Suit d… Read More

In the 1870s and 1880s, the first summer camps promised boys a chance to escape increasingly urban modern life. Roughing it would build character, and, as one early camp founder put it, save… Read More

Queen Elizabeth II, whose seven decades on the throne of the United Kingdom was a longer reign than any other British monarch, has died at the age of 96. The Queen “died peacefully&rdq&hell…Read More

“Cigarettes are like women. The best ones are thin and rich.” The advertisers for Silva Thins filter cigarettes have plastered this caption at the top of their ads. These ads dep… Read More

In 1931, when a family of his young porkers were orphaned at the age of two days, John Vincent, a farmer of Wayne, Michigan, constructed a novel feeding trough to supply the pigs with milk… Read More

Since the early 20th century, swimming came to be regarded as a legitimate leisure activity or pastime and clothing made specifically for swimming became the norm. Since then, swimwear for w… Read More

Before Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States in the 1980s, he was a big-time Hollywood actor and spokesman for some products from between the 1940s and 1950s. Although… Read More

It’s a street sweeper for drunks! We could use that in Winnipeg on Saturday nights.This safety device, consisting of a shield and roller geared to the motor, sweeps the man ahead till… Read More

The Jaguar XKSS is a road-going version of the Jaguar D-Type racing car. By early 1957 a total of 16 of the planned production run of 25 XKSS’s had been completed at Jaguar’s Bro… Read More

The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan is the second studio album by Bob Dylan, released on May 27, 1963 by Columbia Records. Whereas his self-titled debut album Bob Dylan had contained only two o… Read More

Here’s Madonna and Dennis Rodman on the cover of Vibe magazine for the June/July 1994 issue which was never published, as founder Quincy Jones decided he did not want a caucasian femal… Read More

The body of the Porsche 356 was manually manufactured at the Reutter bodywork. The car body cover itself was attached to the chassis frame welded to several parts. The joints were filled wit… Read More

Bertha is the low shoulder neck-line worn by women during the Victorian Era. The cut exposed a woman’s shoulders and it sometimes was trimmed over with a three to six-inch deep lace fl… Read More

Born 1909 in California, American photographer John Engstead assumed the position of studio portrait photographer at Paramount, despite having never previously photographed anyone in 1932.Cl… Read More

Yonge Street is a major arterial route in the Canadian province of Ontario connecting the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto to Lake Simcoe, a gateway to the Upper Great Lakes.Yonge Street, T… Read More

The Rolling Stones’ Tour of the Americas ’75 was a 1975 concert tour originally intended to reach both North and South America. The plans for concerts in Central and South Americ… Read More

Born 1899 in San Francisco, California, American actor George O’Brien came to Hollywood in his early twenties hoping to become a cameraman and worked as an assistant cameraman for a wh… Read More

In 1933, commissioned as a pro-bono project by Cole and Weber, a Seattle-based advertising agency, Art Chantry was asked to design a print campaign promoting condom use among gays, women and… Read More

Windsurfing is a wind propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. It is also referred to as “sailboarding” and “boardsailing”, and emerged in… Read More

Temperatures are climbing everywhere. Record heat has been reported around the globe, from the U.S. as well as Europe and China. Spending time as a sweaty mess can be extremely irritati… Read More

Photography undergoes extraordinary changes in the early part of the twentieth century. This can be said of every other type of visual representation, however, but unique to photography is t… Read More

In 1933, B. Nonomura, a Japanese lawyer of Los Angeles, had for several years been contemplating a trip to his native country. So remembering his stormy voyage to this country years ago, and… Read More

Born 1963 in New York City, American actress Phoebe Cates appeared on the cover of Seventeen magazine four times as a teen model. Dissatisfied with modeling, Cates decided to pursue acting… Read More

Double Oscar-winner Sean has always had a love/hate relationship with Hollywood, primarily because he prefers to work on the fringes of the industry rather than going for big bucks. His arti… Read More

Born in Sculcoates, Kingston upon Hull in 1903, British-American actress Dorothy Mackaill had begun making the transition from “Follies Girl” to film actress in 1920. That same y… Read More

There’s an interesting backstory to how Sean Penn, then 23, wound up hanging out with Robert De Niro, then 40, at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival, according to The Hollywood Reporte… Read More

The Jaguar C-Type, officially called the Jaguar XK120-C, is a racing sports car built by Jaguar and sold from 1951 to 1953. The “C” stands for “competition”.The car c… Read More

Kate Simon is a New York-based photographer whose work has documented the artists, poets, and musicians in New York City during the 1970s and 1980s. Among her subjects are Allen Ginsberg, Wi… Read More

Pasta is an integral part of Italy’s food history. Wherever Italians immigrated they have brought their pasta along, so much so that today it can be considered a staple of internationa… Read More

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, covers an area of 2,511 square kilometers (970 sq mi), while the urban area covers 5… Read More

“4 out of 5 men want Oxfords... in these new Van Heusen styles” – Get it? The man of color is the only one who doesn’t want an Oxford, but he is also the one in the q… Read More

George Ehler Stonebridge (1860–1941) was an amateur photographer who lived and worked in the Bronx. He left little record of himself, but an invaluable one of his surroundings and inte… Read More

In 1966, Larry Fink photographed Andy Warhol and his Factory friends for a small literary magazine that went bust. The pictures were never published, and Fink thought nothing of them until j… Read More

When the right soap used to help find a husband and save the marriage.First, a woman should question herself if her husband shuts her out. Now, a wife can blame herself if her husband has gr… Read More

Born 1910 in Seattle, Washington, American-British actress Constance Cummings debuted on Broadway as a chorus girl, a member of the ensemble in Treasure Girl (1928) by the age of 18. While a… Read More

These advertisements appeal to ethos because they establish their credibility as highly rated and popular sports. The BPA Fun Center was a bowling alley where many people chose to spend thei… Read More

Joanne Woodward first met Paul Newman in 1953. They later reconnected on the set of The Long, Hot Summer in 1957. Newman divorced his wife Jackie Witte, with whom he already had three childr… Read More

Fashion in the 1990s was defined by a return to minimalist fashion, in contrast to the more elaborate and flashy trends of the 1980s. One notable shift was the mainstream adoption of tattoos… Read More

These photographs of Berlin in 1970 were taken by Heinrich Klaffs. At the time Berlin was still isolated by the Cold War and divided by the wall that shaped life in the city. Looking back no… Read More

In 1974, this exceptionally sexist ad by Weyenberg Shoes was run in Playboy magazine. It shows a naked woman on the floor, beautifully styled with makeup and adorned with nail polish and a g… Read More

Jack Delano (born Jacob Ovcharov; 1914–1997) was a Ukrainian immigrant who became an accomplished photographer for the Works Progress Administration, United Fund, and most notably, the… Read More

These photographs of floats at the Synwell Carnival were taken by Brian Candy in 1954. The historic carnival, once the event of the year in Synwell, saw a procession of floats featuring… Read More

Sophie Litvak, born Simone Steur in 1926 in Nice, then Sophie Malgat following her first marriage with François Malgat, is a Parisian model who collaborates remarkably in the 1950s wi… Read More

Two persons can share the same telephone with a device patented by Roger Heap of Lyme, Connecticut in 1953.Simple in design, it consists of a T-shape plastic shell which cups over the receiv… Read More

Vanity Fair is a monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.Covers of Vanity Fair magazine from between the 1910s a… Read More

These disturbing pictures of a pig with the head of a child actually promote a prescription for fever and chills caused by malaria. In 1878, Edwin Wiley Grove came up with a fever-remedy mad… Read More

The decade of the 1980s is rightly celebrated by Koreans today as the era of minjung (people’s) culture, a time when a collective effort by ordinary citizens and intellectuals alike le… Read More

Born 1943 in Milan, Italian actress Annabella Incontrera attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia without finishing the course. She made her film debut at 16, in Love Now, Pay Late… Read More

Serge Gainsbourg (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a French musician, singer-songwriter, actor, author and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the most important figures in French pop, he… Read More

Before the end of World War II, French automaker Panhard et Levassor foresaw that post-war demand for their typically large and expensive cars would be limited and that a smaller less expens… Read More

Transgender women and drag queens were often the subjects of Andy Warhol’s work in the 1960s and early 1970s. For Ladies and Gentlemen, Warhol’s staff recruited most of these Bla… Read More

The 1970s was a decade full of important events in Ireland and Dublin. In October 1970, former US President Richard Nixon made his official state visit to the country. This decade also saw t… Read More

Italian lifestyles in the 1950s are best remembered as glamorous thanks to the cinematic contributions of Sophia Loren and Federico Fellini. Conversely, the lifestyles are also remembered fo… Read More

The literal translation for this French tampon ad: “I am like a fish in the water.”Even if you cannot speak or understand French, what the image in this ad suggests is extremely… Read More

The 1939–40 New York World’s Fair was a world’s fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expensive America… Read More

Long before internet memes, there was Morris the Cat, the advertising mascot for 9Lives brand cat food, appearing on its packaging and in many of its television commercials since the 1970s… Read More

For much of the 20th century, women played an important role in telecommunications system of the United States. As telephone operators, they helped customers make long distance calls, provid… Read More

Born 1968 in Roseville, California, American actress, singer, dancer, and author Molly Ringwald was cast in her first major role as Molly in the NBC sitcom The Facts of Life (1979–80)… Read More

This ad from 1964 shows a Volkswagen that has gotten into an accident and states, “Sooner or later, your wife will drive home one of the best reasons for owning a Volkswagen.” Th… Read More

Wittenberg is a village in Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,081 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Wittenberg and has a total area of… Read More

1978 was the summer of Grease. The film adaptation of the successful California high school based musical was massively hyped in the spring and early summer. The singles charts were backed… Read More

Born 1843 in a forester’s hut at Sjöabol (or Snugge) farm near Växjö, Småland, Swedish operatic soprano Christina Nilsson gave her professional debut in concerts i… Read More

A pair of clowns “help” a woman through the entrance to Steeplechase Park’s Insanitarium and Blowhole Theatre. Located in the Pavilion of Fun, visitors were led through Com… Read More

No one likes skinny people. They are reviled as inferior and subhuman. They are anorexic and icky and pallid, and you don’t want to befriend them. But there is hope for those cursed to… Read More

Born 1938 as Kätherose Derr in Wiesbaden, German actress Karin Dor was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film You Only Live Twic… Read More

Harrison Forman (1904-1978) was a prominent photojournalist, explorer, author, and fellow of the American Geographical Society. As a foreign correspondent, Forman’s images and articles… Read More

The 1950s were a decade known for experimentation with new styles and culture. Following World War II and the austerity years of the post-war period, the 1950s were a time of comparative pro… Read More

In 1939, not content with collecting photographs and autographs, star-struc movie fans in England go their American sisters one better by buying novelty pillow covers bearing the likenesses… Read More

And blow it into somebody else’s eyes.Wishing to read his newspaper without the annoyance of clouds of smoke getting in his eyes, an Englishman invented an ingenious device–a fle… Read More

Her Wedding Night is a 1930 American comedy film directed by Frank Tuttle and written by Avery Hopwood and Henry Myers. The film stars Clara Bow, Ralph Forbes, Charlie Ruggles, Richard &ldqu&hell…Read More

The Spiritualist movement was founded on the belief that the human soul exists beyond the body and that the dead could communicate with the living. This concept developed in the 1850s and ga… Read More

In early May 1963, The Rolling Stones were at the old Olympic Studio in Carton Street in London’s West End, to record their first single, a cover of Chuck Berry’s “Come On… Read More

With the start of the war and strict rationing on fabric, dresses in the 1940s became shorter. Whereas the 1930s featured dresses that went down to mid-calf, the 1940s brought them up to kne… Read More

Almost every rock fan is familiar with The Doors 1967 eponymous debut album containing the hit songs “Light My Fire”, “Break On Through”, “Soul Kitchen” a… Read More

Born 1906 as Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm in Berlin, German actress Brigitte Helm had her first role as Maria in Metropolis which she began work on while only 18 years old. After Metropo… Read More

Since its inception, advertising mirrored the common realities of the era. It not only reflected products and services that consumers could buy but also depicted situations in which it can b… Read More

As the financial, industrial and transport center of the Republic of Vietnam, Saigon however, beginning in the 1960s, experienced an economic downturn and high inflation, as it was completel… Read More

Few western figures are as associated with East Africa as Ernest Hemingway, even though he only took two trips to the continent in his life. Perhaps this is because the writer of A Farewell… Read More

When the legendary French photographer Jacques-Henri Lartigue met Renée Perle while strolling the streets of Paris in 1930, he fell in love instantly. Tall, chic and hiding coquettish… Read More

Born 1950 in Houston, Texas, Debbie Allen is an American actress, dancer, choreographer, singer-songwriter, director, producer, and a former member of the President’s Committee on the… Read More

Developed in Germany, a portable shelter for camping or trailer travel looks like a gigantic orange––and peels apart almost like one. The parts of the shelter are shaped much lik… Read More

Judge was a weekly satirical magazine published in the United States from 1881 to 1947. It was launched by artists who had seceded from its rival Puck. The founders included cartoonist James… Read More

A Fool There Was is an American silent drama film produced by William Fox, directed by Frank Powell, and starring Theda Bara. Released in 1915, the film was long considered controversial for… Read More

Tanzania is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It borders Uganda to the north; Kenya to the northeast; Comoro Islands and the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambiqu… Read More

Back in the 18th and 19th century, recreational swimming kickstarted a service industry of aids for decent beach life etiquette. These tools of maintaining dignity were perhaps unsurprisingl… Read More

A passing policeman might have done a double-take, as did the photographer. Fear not. The steady hand on the wheel is that of the pooch’s owner Nancy Sasse of Toledo, Ohio. The worst R… Read More