Interesting Vintage Photos of Farmers' Life in Oklahoma in the early 1940s

Here is an interesting vintage photo collection of everyday life of farmers in Oklahoma in 1942.

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Pictures of Moscow in the 1960s

Some amazing color photos of old Moscow in the 1960s.

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Edwardian Beach Style: Amazing Vintage Photographs Capture Beach Fashion at Brighton and Folkestone in 1906

Edward Linley Sambourne (1844 – 1910) was one of the founding members of The Camera Club, although he was best known for his work as a cartoonist for Punch magazine.

There was a heat wave in 1906 throughout the whole of the British Isles, quite late in the year at the end of August and the early days of September. Edward Linley Sambourne went to the coast as thousands of others did, and with him as usual went his camera.

These pictures were taken at Brighton and Folkestone during the heat wave. Earlier in the year in July Sambourne had been in Weymouth where he captures the busy atmosphere of the crowded beach.

In temperatures of 90 degrees the wind blowing off the sea must have been refreshing even though it also presented a challenge to these three women who are literally hanging on to their hats.

Despite the heat holiday makers were wearing their normal clothes with few concessions to the weather.

Even on the beach, where Sambourne is still catching women unawares.

Has he woken this woman from her nap while her friend sleeps on?

A young woman adjusts her hair on the beach.

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Pictures of New York City Subway in the 1970s and 1980s

These photographs of the New York City subway system were taken mostly from the 1970s and early '80s, when graffiti was a mainstay on train cars and everything underground was, for the most part, grittier and more worn than it is today...

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Fabulous Vintage Photographs of Dancer Ruth St. Denis From the Early 20th Century

Ruth St. Denis (1879–1968) was an early modern dance pioneer. She was born in 1879 on a New Jersey farm. The daughter of a strong-willed and highly educated woman (Ruth Emma Dennis was a physician by training), St. Denis was encouraged to study dance from an early age. Her early training included Delsarte technique, ballet lessons with the Italian ballerina Maria Bonfante, social dance forms and skirt dancing.

Ruth began her professional career in New York City in 1892, where she worked as a skirt dancer in a dime museum and in vaudeville houses. Dime museums featured “leg dancers” (female dancers whose legs were visible under their short skirts) in brief dance routines. St. Denis was probably required to perform her routine as many as eleven times a day.

Below are some amazing vintage photographs of the modern solo dancer from the early 20th century.

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46 Vintage Photographs Capture Everyday Life of Gypsies of Western Europe From Between the 1930s and 1960s

Paul Almásy (Budapest, 1906 – Paris, 2003) compiled photos of all people and all classes, including the various ethnic and social marginal groups.

Below you can see dramatic photos of the Gypsies in Europe, Netherlands, from the 1930s to the 1960s, which we are accustomed to only from Romania, Bulgaria or Yugoslavia.

So, did they live in so archaic conditions in Western Europe even only two generations ago? Nothing just misery, poverty and much more...

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Vintage Mugshots of Minnesota Hip Troublemakers From the Late 1960s

The hipster baddies in these mugshots look so cool! These rebels without a care were arrested in the late 1960 around Minneapolis, Minnesota, and probably set the fashion bar pretty high in their holding cells.

Being stylish isn't a prerequisite for a life of crime, but it doesn't hurt!

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