Stunning Photographs Captured the World Trade Center Under Construction From the Aerial View, 1971

These wonderful photographs were taken by LIFE photographer Henry Groskinsky showing the nearly completed World Trade Center in 1971.

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Portraits of Miss America 1924, Ruth Malcomson

Ruth Malcomson (1906 – 1988) was Miss America in 1924, earning the title at age 18. Malcomson, a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the amateur winner in the 1923 contest and returned to defeat incumbent Mary Campbell, who was seeking her third consecutive crown. At the time, being only a couple of years old, the beauty contest was sometimes still referred to as “The Atlantic City Pageant,” with the winner called “The Golden Mermaid.”

In a published article following the contest, Malcomson provided others with her 10 rules for beauty. Listed briefly, they are:

Rise early.
Eat a hearty breakfast.
Exercise.
No alcohol.
Smoking is detrimental.
Get outdoors.
Eat a light lunch.
Eat a satisfying dinner.
Early to bed.
Sleep.

30 Extraordinary Color Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in Russia From the Russian Empire

Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944) was a Russian chemist and photographer. He is best known for his pioneering work in color photography of early 20th-century Russia. Below are some of beautiful colour photographs of daily life of Russian from between 1907-1909, taken by Prokudin-Gorsky.

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Rare Color Photographs of Charlie Chaplin, ca. 1917–18

Charlie Chaplin was an English comic actor and filmmaker who rose to fame in the silent film era. Chaplin became a worldwide icon through his screen persona The Tramp and is considered one of the most important figures of the film industry. His career spanned more than 75 years, from a child in the Victorian era to close to his death at the age of 88, and encompassed both adulation and controversy.

These magnificent color photographs of Charlie Chaplin were taken around 1917–18 by Charles C. Zoller and currently held in the George Eastman House. The photos show Chaplin dressed as the Tramp while posing in front of his Tudor style offices at his studio in Hollywood, CA. The character made him a worldwide phenomenon. His huge popularity ultimately allowed him to buy his own studio, which gave him the freedom to make his own films.

Prague of 1968

A small collection of color photos of Prague in 1968.

22 Historical Photographs of Boeing Planes From Between the 1930s and 1970s

Boeing Company's constituent business units are organized around three main groups of products and services—commercial airplanes, military aircraft and missiles, and space and communications.

It was only about a decade after the Wright Brothers' first flight that Bill Boeing, who was in the timber business in Seattle, decided to learn how to fly planes. After he ordered a plane of his own, Boeing decided the design left room for to be improved upon. So he did. In 1934, TIME called him "a hard-headed industrialist who turned to flying as a hobby, began making airplanes as a whim and ended up by giving the world a new standard of aircraft performance."

The eponymous company he founded in 1916 has been part of nearly every step of the aviation industry's evolution, from wood-and-canvas contraptions to the jets of the modern age. Below is a collection of 22 vintage photographs of Boeing planes from between the 1930s and 1970s:

Colonel Roscoe Turner, the pilot of an American Boeing plane, showing his wife a model of the plane, at the airfield in Mildenhall. 19th October 1934. (Photo by R. Wesley/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

A Pan American Airways flying boat aircraft passing over a clipper ship on the Spanish coast. January 1938. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Two U.S. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in flight near Seattle, circa 1944. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A US Boeing B-17e Flying Fortress bomber, circa 1946. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images)

British Prime Minister Clement Attlee (1883 – 1967) inspects the crew of a US Boeing B-50 Superfortress bomber nicknamed “Nifty 50” at RAF Marham in Norfolk, 4th October 1949. (Photo by Ron Burton/Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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Fascinating Black and White Photographs Capture Street Scenes of New York City in the 1960s and 1970s

Absolutely stunning photos of Paul McDonagh made them at the turn of the careless and well-sixties with violent and restless seventies. Very interesting time. Just a few years, but the world and the people in it are completely transformed.

You look at these photos and you realize that since New York City has changed, people have changed, times have changed, but the atmosphere is one of the craziest cities in the world will not go away. And even though the court is no longer the '70s, but it seems that people and situations, as in these photos, can be found on any given day, you just simply walk around the streets of New York.

Blind Man, Old Woman, Hari Krishnas, NYC, 1972

Central Park Pond - Kids in Tree, 1973

Priest with Dark Glasses, NYC, 1970

Couple, Central Park Cafe, 1973

Children with Bookbag, NYC, 1968

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20 Stunning Color Photos Show British Women's Fashions of the 1920s

The 1920s is the decade in which fashion entered the modern era. It was the decade in which women first abandoned the more restricting fashions of past years and began to wear more comfortable clothes (such as short skirts or trousers).

As for changes in fashion, the huge influence of Paris designers like Poiret, Patou, Molyneux, Chanel, Lanvin, Lelong, Callot Soeurs and Vionnet cannot be underestimated, not to mention British designers such as Norman Hartnell – who went from catering exclusively to the wealthy upper class in the 1920s to designing British women’s utility dresses in the early 1940s. But there were more factors at work other than the whims of clothing designers. The 1920s was a cultural revolution!

These stunning color photographs below were taken by Clifton Royal Adams, who was a National Geographic staff photographer from 1920 until 1934. He died of a brain tumor in 1934 after becoming ill while on assignment to photograph the California giant Sequoia forest. These are from his European travels.

Two women buy ice cream from a vendor out of his converted car. Near St. Austel, Cornwall, England.

Two country maids rest for lunch in a hayfield. Near Hawkshead, Lancashire, England.

A woman kneels in a field of flowers in the Fens. The Fens, Boston, England.

A girl stands in a field holding barley in Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire, England.

An English woman points pridefully to her farm cart. Fenland, England.

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Unboxing the Statue of Liberty, New York City, 1885

In 1880, the iron framework for the tower was begun in the yard of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie, and over the course of about 3 years the inner structure and outer skin were assembled piece by piece to Liberty's full height of 151 feet.

The statue was completed in Paris in June 1884, presented to America by the people of France on July 4, 1884. The statue was dismantled and shipped to US in early 1885, transported by the French frigate "Isere". The finished statue consisted of 350 individual pieces shipped to the US in 214 crates.

179,200 pounds (81,300 kilograms) of copper was used in Statue. 250,000 pounds (113,400 kilograms) of iron. Total weight of the Statue is 450,000 pounds (225 tons). The thickness of Copper sheeting is 3/32 inch (2.37mm), about the thickness of a penny.

Unpacking of the head of the Statue of Liberty, which was delivered on June 17, 1885.

Even before Lady Liberty became an American symbol of freedom, pieces of the statue were popular tourist attractions in their own right as people flocked to see the work under construction.

Before Lady Liberty was standing tall, she had to be assembled piece by piece.

Tourists take a peek at Lady Liberty’s massive foot as she is built in Paris before embarking on her long journey to the United States.

The Statue of Liberty’s limbs and crown arrived piecemeal before they were constructed together into Lady Liberty. They’re seen being uncrated here on Liberty Island in 1885.