Rare Vintage Photos of Hillary Clinton in Maine South High School in 1965

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn’t always been in the public sphere.

Before she was locked in her second race for president, a Secretary of State, a senator from New York, a First Lady, a lawyer, or a Yale or Wellesley student, then-Hillary Rodham was a part of the first graduating class at Maine South High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, the Chicago suburb where she lived for almost her whole childhood.

Lost & Found Photographs of Women With Cameras

A very interesting collection of lost-and-found photographs featuring women with cameras. Most of these photographs were purchased on eBay by Todd Wemmer. Some were purchased in antique stores or thrift shops. After photographs are acquired, Wemmer scans and posts them to with cameras Tumblr blog. Just follow him to find out much more of these interesting found photographs.

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Old Photos of Notre Dame de Paris From Between the 1840s and 1850s

Notre Dame de Paris is a historic Roman Catholic Marian cathedral on the eastern half of the Île de la Cité in the fourth arrondissement of Paris, France. Widely considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture and among the largest and most well-known churches in the world.

Notre Dame is the cathedral of the Catholic Archdiocese of Paris; that is, it is the church that contains the cathedra (official chair) of the Archbishop of Paris, currently André Vingt-Trois. The cathedral treasury is notable for its reliquary, which houses the purported crown of thorns, a fragment of the True Cross and one of the Holy Nails – all instruments of the Passion and a few of the most important first-class relics.

Here, a collection of some of rare photos of Notre Dame de Paris from between the 1840s and 1850s.

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Racism Has a Long History in Advertising! Here Are 15 Shockingly Racist Vintage Ads From the Past

What’s more, racist ads still appear today, with companies such as Intel, PopChips, Sony and Burger King all having been accused of promoting their products in racially insensitive ways.

Although most of these unacceptable modern-day ads are retracted after inciting a hue and cry, the vintage ads featured here were quite unapologetic about the views they presented. And while they might hail from a different era, they’re still rather too close for comfort. Take a look.

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Funny Backdrop Photographs From the Past

A funny collection vintage photos of people’s portraits with backdrops from the early 20th century.

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Dark City: London Night in the '30s

Photographs by Harold Burkedin from the book London Night by him and John Morrison (1934).

The Overworld and disembarked quietly trying to attract no attention.

Up the stairs under the blind gaze of the River Guardian.

The Garden of the Lonely Companion.

Light around the palace of the Archduchess Persephone.

The Dream Gate

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Balancing Act, London, 1930

Basket Jim does his thing in Covent Garden, London in 1930. Back in the days when Covent Garden was a fruit and veg market.

50 Romantic Images of Young and Sweet Couples in Love During the 1930s and 1940s

You have to bear of these somewhat sappy images of couples being all lovey-dovey. The photographs show couples who were young and in love during the 1930s and 1940s. They are collected from the awesome archive of LIFE magazine.

It’s not just from the way they dressed or the way they did their hair, but something else about these photos sets lovers from decades past apart from couples of the present generation. Their dates and special moments seem more intimate, carefree, and maybe even stylish and classy in a way.

Take a look at some of these nostalgic moments of love in the selection below:

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Incredible Pictures of Telephone Wires Over New York in the Late 19th Century

Alexander Graham Bell may have invented the telephone in 1875, but the first phone installation didn't come about for another three years. And that's what makes these photos from 1887-1888 so incredible; this tangled mass of telephone wires had already wound itself around New York City's streets just seven years after that first installation.

14 Vintage Photos of Hollywood Legends With Their Oscars

Pictures of Hollywood legends as they clasp, lovingly gaze at and, in a few instances, totally ignore their long-sought statuettes.

Vivien Leigh places the Oscar she won for her role as Scarlett in Gone With The Wind on her mantlepiece at home, 1940. (Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Luise Rainer, the first woman to win two Oscars, holds her Best Actress award for her performance in The Great Ziegfeld during the 1937 Academy Awards ceremony. (Rex Hardy Jr.—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Joan Fontaine doing the household bookkeeping next to the Oscar she won for her role in Hitchcok's Suspicion, 1942. (Bob Landry—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Elizabeth Taylor at a Hollywood party with the Oscar she won for her role in Butterfield, 1961. (Allan Grant—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Grace Kelly with the Oscar she won for her role in The Country Girl, 1955. William Holden, her co-star in the movie, stands behind her. (George Silk—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

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30 Rare Vintage Photographs Document Everyday Life of North American Indians From the 1900s

In 1906, American photographer Edward S. Curtis was offered $75,000 to document North American Indians. The benefactor, J.P Morgan, was to receive 25 sets of the completed series of 20 volumes with 1,500 photographs entitled The North American Indian. Curtis set out to photograph the North American Indian way of life at a time when Native Americans were being forced from their land and stripped of their rights. Curtis’ photographs depicted a romantic version of the culture which ran contrary to the popular view of Native Americans as savages.

Below are selected images of the Native American way of life chosen from The Library of Congress’s Edward S. Curtis Collection. Some were published in The North American Indian but most were not published.

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