Marilyn Monroe posed for Fourth of July, wearing a bikini with some oversized fireworks and a sign that reads “Beware of Danger, July 4th”. These photographs were taken by Bert R… Read More

Born 1910 in New York City, American actress Claire Trevor made her film debut in Jimmy and Sally (1933), a film originally written for the popular screen duo of James Dunn and Sally Eilers… Read More

Born 1922 as Joan Letitia LaCock in Logan, West Virginia, American actress Joanne Dru moved to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen and made her first film appearance in Abie’s… Read More

The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the civil rights movement in the United States.The United States was the world’s strongest mi… Read More

If you “want to handle large groups economically” with “unusual layout flexibility,” we have got the homoerotic bathroom fittings for you.Bradley Group Showers seem t… Read More

Celebrity friendships aren’t spoken about much these days, mostly because we don’t know who is considered a “friend,” especially with the romantic scandals and compet… Read More

At a moment when Minneapolis had a very small African American community, the city became home to “Rastus,” an iconic caricature of a black man. “Rastus” was the symb… Read More

Basically they are saying: “Choose the Army before the Army chooses you.”His induction notice caught him with his decisions down. He waited too long to choose Army.If he had acte… Read More

The Ford Capri is a fastback coupé built by Ford of Europe, designed by Philip T. Clark, who was also involved in the design of the Ford Mustang. It used the mechanical components fro… Read More

Living up to her super strength image by feigning to lift a Mini suspended above the pavement outside Thames Television’s Euston Road studios, was 26-year-old Lindsay Wagner, who was i… Read More

The Fifties have a particular place in our collective imagination: the decade of elegance and sophistication, of the economic boom, of “the Golden Age” of radio, of the birth of… Read More

New York City has a long and sprawling history, but looking at the city today, it's hard to tell what it looked like in the past. Luckily, an enterprising coder has solved that problem by cr… Read More

Born 1950 in Los Angeles, American actress and author Pamela Hensley worked mostly in television and had only eight credits in feature films. Her debut was in the dramedy There Was a Crooked… Read More

For all of the lighthearted and often downright frivolous material that appeared in LIFE through the years, the magazine could also address, head-on, the thorniest, most resonant issues of t… Read More

It wasn’t until the 18th century when manners changed and modesty suddenly took hold that we get the first true swimsuit, with European ladies wading into the water in long dresses, kn… Read More

Born 1928 in Columbia, Mississippi, American philanthropist and retired actress Peggy Dow was spotted by a talent agent and cast in a television show in February 1949 after brief modeling an… Read More

In Victorian era, it was very difficult to keep perishable food fresh. People in the Victorian period would go shopping everyday and bought small amounts of groceries.There were no supermark… Read More

Men’s hair was rocked long until the mid-1970s when everything changed following the hippie lifestyle. As opposed to the shaggy haircuts of the ’60s, most ’70s men’s… Read More

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia, and the most populous city in the province. It has the highest population density in Ca… Read More

One of every 14 Britons claims to have seen or heard a ghost, according to Philip Paul, vice-chairman of the Ghost Club of London, in 1957. Investigating specters, sleeping in haunted houses… Read More

These pictures were taken by Flickr user AntyDiluvian during his trip to London in September 1973. The capital city was the first stop in a month-long European tour he and his wife took on t… Read More

Kyiv or Kiev is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. It is the seventh-most populous city in Europe.Kiev is an important ind… Read More

An odd-looking cycle that seemed to have some of the qualities of a railway train was seen on the roads near Upper Norwood, England, the other day. Its twelve riders pedaled along, seated in… Read More

Nassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas. It is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. It is the centre of commerce, education, law, admini… Read More

The 1980s was a very unique era of time. It was full of loud colors, extreme fashion, sky high hair, and forever defining music.’80s fashion was big on accessories. The trendiest items… Read More

Bruce Gilden is an American street photographer. Known for his graphic and often confrontational close-ups made using flash, his images have a degree of intimacy and directness that have bec… Read More

Mik Critchlow is a social documentary photographer based in the North East of England. On seeing an exhibition of paintings in 1977 by 'The Ashington Group' (Pitmen Painters), a group of Ash… Read More

Kurt Cobain was born on February 20, 1967, in the small logging town of Aberdeen, Washington. As a child, Cobain was artistic and had an ear for music. Although he had a younger sister Kim (… Read More

Motor Trend is an American automobile magazine. It first appeared in September 1949, and is notable for introducing the first Car of the Year designation, also in 1949.Covers of the Motor Tr… Read More

In classical mythology, Cupid is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars. He is also know… Read More

Born 1937 in Taylorville, Illinois, American actress Joyce Taylor sang in amateur shows at age 10 and turned professional at 15, signing with Mercury Records (billed as Joyce Bradley). When… Read More

Throughout the 1970s, Amsterdam experienced rapid development. To reduce the use of automobiles, city planners have favored public transportation. Trams remain the primary transportation mod… Read More

Born 1914 as Aase Madsen Iversen in Copenhagen, Danish actress Osa Massen began her career as a newspaper photographer, then became an actress. She first came to the United States in 1937. H… Read More

From hippie bohemian to glitzy disco, the 1970s runs the gamut from natural to glamorous.Furniture of the 1970s refers to the style of furniture popular in the 1970s. Often, the furniture wo… Read More

Born 1922 in DeKalb, Illinois, American actress Barbara Hale moved to Hollywood in 1943, and under contract to RKO Radio Pictures, made her first screen appearance (uncredited) in Gilderslee… Read More

Tokyo is the capital, the largest city, and the most populous metropolitan area in the Greater Tokyo Area, the Kantō region, and Japan, as well as the most populous metropolitan area in… Read More

The 1924 Winter Olympics were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally held in association with the 1924 Summer Olympics, the sports competitions wer… Read More

Founded in 1907 in Pontiac, Michigan, by Edward Murphy, a manufacturer of horse-drawn carriages, Pontiac was an American automobile brand owned, manufactured, and commercialized by General M… Read More

Born 1914 in Álamos, Sonora, Mexican actress and singer María Félix made her first appearance in the “White and Black Ballroom” of the Mexico City Country Cl… Read More

Colombia is a country in South America. It is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south, the Pacific Ocean to… Read More

As part of publicity for the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which was soon to be released, Marilyn, along with co-star and friend Jane Russell, immortalized themselves in a very Hollywood way… Read More

A Great Dane holds the lead of its smaller companion as they wait at the side of a road during a traffic training class run by dog trainer Barbara Woodhouse in the UK, 1954.Barbara Woodhouse… Read More

An 18th century travel female urinal with an eye portrait and the inscription “Ha je te vois petit coquin,” which roughly translates to “Ha! I see you, little rascal.&rdquo&hell…Read More

Harvey Ross Ball (July 10, 1921 – April 12, 2001) was an American commercial artist. After World War II, Ball worked for a local advertising firm until he started his own business, Har… Read More

A photo from Michael Oberman shows him with his brother and David Bowie at his house in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1971.“Ground Control to Major Tom...This was David Bowie’s firs… Read More

Chishō Takaoka (April 22, 1896 – October 22, 1994) was a geisha in Shinbashi who became a Buddhist nun later in life. Her stage name was Chiyoha or Teruha, while her real name was… Read More

Born 1891 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australian actress Mae Busch had her first film appearances in The Agitator and The Water Nymph, both released in 1912. She worked in both silent and sound… Read More

The Ladies’ Automobile Club was Great Britain’s first dedicated motor club for women. It was not exclusively a motorsport association, but it was one of the first bodies to organ… Read More

Of all the characteristics attributed to defining Victorian male masculinity, the one least emphasized or spoken about was that of the Victorian man as a father. Little attention was directe… Read More

“Racing is life. Anything before or after is just waiting.” – Steve McQueenWhen Jaguar pulled out of racing at the end of 1956, they were left with an excess of D-type chas… Read More

The Last Time I Saw Paris is a 1954 Technicolor romantic drama made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is loosely based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “Babylon Revisited.” It… Read More

Naples is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan. The city’s historic center, which is the largest of its kind in Europe and has bee… Read More

The average 1960s cars costs about $2,752, and a gallon of gas was around 31 cents. The 1960s were a time of change: the Civil Rights movement as led by Martin Luther King Jr., the Women&rsq&hell…Read More

Drag racing was born in the dry lake beds in the California deserts. In the 1930s as engines got better and drivers got braver, speeds began topping 100mph. But it wasn’t until after W… Read More

Viva Maria! is a 1965 adventure comedy film starring Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau as two women named Maria who meet and become revolutionaries in the early 20th century. It also starred… Read More

Born 1915 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, American actress Dorothy Dell began entering and winning beauty pageants and at the age of 17 won the title of “Miss New Orleans” in 1930… Read More

Austrian stage actress Marie Schleinzer in costume for the ballet “Around Vienna”. Photos by Adele K.u.K Hof Atelier, ca. 1900 Read More

Hawaii is a state in the Western United States located in the Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) from the U.S. mainland. It is the only state outside North America, the only state th… Read More

November 7, 1929 — Joan LaCosta, prominent woman auto racer, was held by police in Chicago, Illinois for attempted robbery in a Chicago hotel, with chloroform and a toy pistol. When fi… Read More

Roland “Rollie” Free (November 18, 1900 – October 11, 1984) was a motorcycle racer best known for breaking the American motorcycle land speed record in 1948 on the Bonnevil… Read More

After Japan surrendered in 1945, ending World War II, Allied forces led by the United States occupied the nation, bringing drastic changes. Japan was disarmed, its empire dissolved, its form… Read More

Veronica Lake (born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman) developed her signature look during the filming of I Wanted Wings (1940) when her blonde hair accidentally fell over her right eye durin… Read More

World War I was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. Contemporaneously known as the Great War or “the war to end all wars”, it le… Read More

You Only Live Twice was the fifth James Bond movie and was set largely in Japan. Bond was once again played by Sean Connery and the plot for this latest adventure involved the terrorist orga… Read More

Born 1938 in Lyon, French actress Michèle Girardon began acting in 1956, and had a small but noticeable role as a deaf-mute beauty in La mort en ce jardin (Death in the Garden) (1956)… Read More

August Sander (1876 – 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. While working at a local mine, Sander first learned about photography by assisting a photographer who wa… Read More

Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was born in Pittsburgh. His interest in art began in his late teens, he left theology school and moved to New York to pursue painting at age 23. In New York, he befri… Read More

For nine seasons – between 1974 and 1984 – the Ingalls family of Little House on the Prairie was the personification of wholesome family values. The story of a 19th century famil… Read More

Slipped over the head, a bag of cellulose tissue designed for use in skiing and other outdoor sports offers protection for the face without interfering with vision. This transparent mask fro… Read More

Covent Garden Market had its beginning in 1835 when a patent was issued to hold a “public fair or mart” in the area of Richmond, Dundas and King Streets. In 1845, the Market foun… Read More

Born 1874 in Folkestone, England, British dancer and stage actress Mabel Love played one of the triplet children in Masks and Faces at London’s Opera Comique in 1887, and the same year… Read More

There were no mods and rockers in 1940s but simply youths who wanted to have a good time. Although the term ‘teenager’ was not coined until the 1950s the beginnings of the &lsquo&hell…Read More

“It was the thrill of risking my life that made me to take to drome riding. I was the girl who flirts with death. From childhood I was inspired by wanderlust. I was always alone, dream… Read More

A man experiences irony as his car, laden with used tires, has a flat tire, Houston, Texas, March 1966.(Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Read More

Born 1907 in New York City, American actor Cesar Romero was active in film, radio, and television for almost 60 years. The 6’3” [190 cm] Romero routinely played “Latin love… Read More

“A great, wicked and quite extraordinary city” was how, in 1947, LIFE described Shanghai. In 1947, four million people had made the City their residence (today, that number is 26… Read More

The accompanying photograph is that of a nondescript guy, somewhat clumsily built up by a costermonger who lives in the south-east of London.(From Street Life in London, 1877, by John Thomso… Read More

Now We’re in the Air is a 1927 American silent comedy film directed by Frank R. Strayer, starring the late-1920s intermittent comedy team of Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton. In a supp… Read More

A carhop is a waiter or waitress who brings fast food to people in their cars at drive-in restaurants. Carhops usually work on foot but sometimes use roller skates, as depicted in movies suc… Read More

Grasshoppers like hot, dry weather. Some of the people who survived the 1930s on the plains have stories of how swarms of hoppers descended on them, eating entire fields and even farm implem… Read More

Everyday life in Wallsend and South Shields was provided with a backdrop of huge ships and industrial cranes, which immensely fascinated Chris Killip. The ship Tyne Pride, which he photograp… Read More

Hanoi is the capital city of Vietnam in the north of Vietnam. It covers an area of 3,358.6 km2 (1,296.8 sq mi). The second largest city in Vietnam, it consists of 12 urban districts, 1 distr… Read More

At home or in public, ’30s women most commonly wore dresses with wide shoulders; puffy sleeves; modest necklines; higher, belted waistlines; and mid-calf flared hemlines. Frilly bows… Read More

Laura Thornhill Caswell was born in 1961 in Dallas, Texas, where she grew up. She was an avid roller skater as a young child. The day she saw a skateboard, something changed, and she knew sh… Read More

From a photo shoot in 1979 at the Old Street Studio in London, frontwoman for the iconic New Wave band Blondie Debbie Harry wore this t-shirt, as well as performing on stage with it too. And… Read More

Born 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky, American actress Irene Dunne made her Hollywood film debut in the musical Leathernecking (1930). She starred in 42 movies and in popular anthology televisi… Read More

Tijuana is a city in Baja California, Mexico. It is part of the San Diego–Tijuana transborder urban agglomeration and the larger Southern California megalopolis. As the 2nd-largest cit… Read More

There’s lots of Station Wagon in this 21-foot, 12-passenger job in which rear-seat occupants ride sitting backwards. Seats and walls are covered with two-tone leather. The carpeting is… Read More

In 1978, during the making of the original Halloween, the prop department was faced with the enormous task of finding a frightening mask that the villain could wear, but only the cheapest on… Read More

The Beatles Book (also known as Beatles Monthly) was a fanzine dedicated to the English rock band the Beatles, founded in 1963. It was first published in August 1963 and continued for 77 edi… Read More

The Sixties were a time of enormous change, both technologically and socially. The space race was on and the American culture was focused on Sputnik, the Cold War and jet airplanes that were… Read More

Hue was a monthly celebrity and gossip magazine published in the 1950s by Johnson Publishing, the publishers of Jet and Ebony. It was digest-sized like Jet, but unlike that magazine Hue feat… Read More

All the horror fans around the world have seen this film for sure and one of the most memorable scenes of the film was of a “spider walk” by the possessed girl. The possessed gir… Read More

Born 1918 in Newport News, Virginia, American actress and singer Pearl Bailey began by singing and dancing in Philadelphia’s black nightclubs in the 1930s, and soon started performing… Read More

Halloween, which dates back to Celtic rituals thousands of years ago, has long been associated with images of witches, ghosts, clowns and many other supernatural or scary characters. From th… Read More

A 9-year-old Tim Burton, wearing a skeleton costume his mother made him for Halloween in 1967. It was this costume that would later inspire the character, Jack Skellington, in Tim Burton&rsq&hell…Read More

Olive Pierce (1925-2016) was a documentary photographer based in Massachusetts and Maine. The collection comprises several hundred black-and-white photographic prints taken by Pierce over he… Read More

The Daguerreotype, the first widely used photographic process, was invented in 1839. The exposure time in those early days was really long, sometimes lasting up to 15 minutes or so. Way too… Read More

No need now for yellow, discolored, spotted, tobacco-stained teeth. Bleachodent Combination costs just a few cents and removes unsightly stains in three minutes at home. Leaves teeth white… Read More

Andhra Patrika was the weekly newspaper of the nationalist movement in the Telugu speaking region founded by Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao in 1908. It later transformed into a daily newspaper be… Read More