Weddings in Soviet Union

What was a Soviet wedding like? How much was it different from what we see today and from what contemporary couples arrange on such an occasion? Here is an awesome collection of old wedding photos in Soviet Union.

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A Collection of 73 Humorous Vintage Photographs From the Past

Even before the age of the Internet, us goofy humans were LOLing at funny pictures. Go back in time and take a look at these funny vintage photographs.

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Pictures of '80s Pop Culture at the Reagan White House

Here are interesting pictures of ’80s pop culture at the Reagan White House. The hair! The clothes! The supply-side economics!

Ella Fitzgerald after her performance for King Juan Carlos I of Spain

Ronald Reagan telling Frank Sinatra to stop dancing with his wife

Nancy Reagan talking with Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton at a movie screening for "Reds"

Michael Jackson

Christopher Reeve and Frank Gifford

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Funny Vintage Vinyl Covers

Here's a collection of funny vintage vinyl covers in the past.

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The First Color Images of Sweden From the 1910s

Some rare color photographs of Sweden from the 1910s.

Amazing Vintage Photographs of Pre-Revolution China, 1870-1946

Before Europeans first arrived in Asia, China was one of the most advanced and powerful nations in the world. It was the most populous, was politically unified, and most importantly, it had mastered the art of agriculture. However, when Europeans first landed on Chinese shores, they found a nation that had revered to traditional culture and warfare. Industrialization was almost nonexistent.

At the beginning of the 20th century, China was divided into sphere of influence with each powerful Western nation trying to exert as much control over it as possible. The Chinese resented foreigners control and expressed this at the beginning of the 20th century with the Boxer Rebellion. At the same time, the traditional government of China began to fail in the early years. The Chinese people, being resentful of foreigners and dissatisfied with inability of the present government to throw them out, initiated the Revolution of 1911, replacing the Chinese 2000 year old imperial system with the Republic of China headed by Sun Yat-sen.

Here is an amazing collection of vintage photographs taken in pre-revolution China, in Pre Deng XiaoPing period (1870-1946).

Chinese Family [c1875] Attribution Unk

Group Of Chinese Women With Fans, Canton, China [c1880] Afong Lai

Greatwall China [1907] Herbert G. Ponting

Boxer Prisoners Captured By 6th US Cavalry, Tientsin, China [1901] Underwood & Co

Beggars, Beihai Park [c1917-1919] Sydney D. Gamble

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Interesting Photos of Life in Soviet From the 1930s and 1940s

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Wonderful Color Photos of Stockholm From Between the 1930s and 1960s

In the late 20th century, Stockholm became a modern, technologically advanced and ethnically diverse city. Throughout the century, many industries shifted away from work-intensive activities into more high-technology and service-industry knowledge-based areas.

The city continued to expand and new districts were created, some with high proportions of immigrants. Meanwhile, the inner city (Norrmalm) went through a criticised as well as admired wave of modernisation in the post-war period, the Redevelopment of Norrmalm, securing the city's geographical center as the political and business center for the future.

In 1923 the Stockholm municipal government moved to a new building, the Stockholm City Hall. The Stockholm International Exhibition was held in 1930. In 1967 the city of Stockholm was integrated into Stockholm County.

Below is a small collection of 22 wonderful color photographs of Stockholm from between the 1930s and 1960s.

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15 Unbelievably Racist Vintage Valentine’s Day Cards From the Early 20th Century

In the early 1900s, racist imagery was widely used in consumer products, even Valentine’s Day cards, and relied on caricatures and stereotypes to create humor.

Harvey Young, Jr., an Associate Professor at Northwestern gave a talk last year on racist V-Day ephemera and had this to say: “They capture in a material object the racial discourse occurring at the moment... You can really get a sense of how common and everyday and widely accepted these cards were. It gestures to this past moment when racism was more apparent in society.”

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The First Color Photographs of Greece, 1913

Nowadays we are used to digital photography and have totally forgotten that color photography is something relatively new.

According to Wikipedia, color photography is photography that uses media capable of reproducing colors. By contrast, black-and-white (monochrome) photography records only a single channel of luminance (brightness) and uses media capable only of showing shades of gray. In color photography, electronic sensors or light-sensitive chemicals record color information at the time of exposure. This is usually done by analyzing the spectrum of colors into three channels of information, one dominated by red, another by green and the third by blue, in imitation of the way the normal human eye senses color.

We first saw the color photographs around 1907 with the Autochrome plate is introduced and becomes the first commercially successful color photography product. Below you can see the first color photographs taken in Greece in 1913.