Pin-Ups Before and After

This pin-up girl illustrations by American artist Gil Elvgren pin-up caused by photographs from the '50s.

Old Photos Of A Rainy, Stormy New York City

Looking south from 34th St.; Met Life Building is at front left, lower Manhattan buildings at back, 1913

"Cars and people crossing intersections at 42nd Street after rain during the Bus Strike. 1953

Hillside Avenue, West from 170th Street. Bus Waiting Line in Rain. June 7, 1943 6:35 p.m

Sailing a wagon in the Brooklyn rain, ca. 1910

City Employees Parade in the rain, May 17, 1913

Gay Rights - Photos From the Early Days of the Movement, 1971

In late 1971, two years after the Stonewall riots in New York sparked the modern gay rights movement in America.

Airplane Landing in City, 1973

Near Logan Airport - Airplane Coming in for Landing Over Frankfort Street at Lovell Street Intersection 05/1973

These Point Shirley Homes on Wintrop Shore Drive Are in Landing Pattern for Logan Airport's Runway 27 10/1973

Lovell Street Homes in Jet Aircraft Landing Pattern 05/1973

Jet Zooms Over Southwestern Side of Neptune Road 05/1973

Mary Bruno Holds Her Ears Against Noise of Jet Coming in for a Landing on Runway 15r at Logan Airport. 39 Neptune Road, the Brunos' Home, Is the White-Fronted Building in the Background 05/1973

Portrait Photographs by Mathew Brady taken c. 1840-1860

Mathew B. Brady (ca. 1822 – January 15, 1896) was one of the most celebrated 19th century American photographers, best known for his portraits of celebrities and his documentation of the American Civil War. He is credited with being the father of photojournalism. (Wikipedia)

Esquire’s Automobile Parade, 1935

Old Pictures of The Golden Gate Bridge - A Celebration on Its 75th Birthday

There’s something about a bridge. Whether it’s an ancient stone arch over a stream or a 19th century marvel like the Roeblings’ Brooklyn beauty or a modern, mile-long steel behemoth with towers that rise hundreds of feet into the air, a bridge is the most practical and the most evocative of structures. A bridge takes us places; a bridge connects places. And sometimes, a single bridge can help to define places.

Take the Golden Gate Bridge, 75 years old this year. (It opened on May 27, 1937.) With its immediately recognizable “international orange” — not golden — color, its slender, arcing span and its open, stepped towers so often rising dreamlike above the thick fog that courses through the Gate into the bay on summer afternoons, the Art Deco-inflected masterpiece literally connects San Francisco with Marin County to the north and (with perhaps even greater impact) symbolically connects the entire Bay Area with the wild blue Pacific yonder. Much like its older, statelier limestone and granite cousin 3,000 miles to the east in Brooklyn, the Golden Gate Bridge seems to have always been there. It’s almost impossible, now, to imagine the lower East River or the Golden Gate itself without those visionary, boldly executed marvels.

The view north from atop the Golden Gate Bridge in 1955 - Nat Farbman

The Golden Gate Bridge in 1950 - Margaret Bourke-White

The Golden Gate Bridge in 1955 - Nat Farbman

The Golden Gate Bridge (with San Francisco in the background) in 1950 - Margaret Bourke-White

The view south from atop the Golden Gate Bridge in 1955 - Nat Farbman

Creepy Vintage Ads Featuring Children

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, kids were used to promote cigarettes, firearms, drugs and much more. Many of the ads — which feature things like cellophane-wrapped infants and gun-toting toddlers — seem irresponsible and creepy.

7-Up -- Soda (1956)

Ayer's -- Cathartic pills (1890s)

Young Fritz -- Cigar box label

Camel -- Cigarettes (1946)

Douglas -- Aircraft (1949)

Colour photographs of England, 1928

These images are Autochromes taken by Clifford R. Adams in England in 1928 for National Geographic.

Street Life of San Francisco, 1971