Adorable Vintage Photos of Young Girls Posing With Buzzer the Cat in the 1910s

Arnold Genthe (1869–1942) was a photographer, best known for his photos of San Francisco’s Chinatown, the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and his portraits of noted people, from politicians and socialites to literary figures and entertainment celebrities.

Genthe’s adored cat Buzzer (he had four to whom he gave that name) is featured in these photographs.

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30 Rare and Amazing Color Photographs of U.S. Male Workers During World War II

From 1939-1944 the Office of War Information (OWI) sent a few photographers, armed with 35mm Kodachrome slides, to capture in brilliant color the work these men and women were doing. These photographs, some of the only color shots taken during World War II, were then documented and preserved by the Library of Congress.

From the outset of the war, it was clear that enormous quantities of airplanes, tanks, warships, rifles and other armaments would be essential to beating America’s aggressors. U.S. workers played a vital role in the production of such war-related materials. Many of these workers were women. Indeed, with tens of thousands of American men joining the armed forces and heading into training and into battle, women began securing jobs as welders, electricians and riveters in defense plants. Until that time, such positions had been strictly for men only.

During the war years, the decrease in the availability of men in the work force also led to an upsurge in the number of women holding non-war-related factory jobs. By the mid-1940s, the percentage of women in the American work force had expanded from 25 percent to 36 percent.

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Rare Color Photographs Capture Daily Life in the First Nazi Concentration Camps in 1933

Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War. The first Nazi camps were erected in Germany in March 1933 immediately after Hitler became Chancellor and his Nazi Party was given control over the police through Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and Prussian Acting Interior Minister Hermann Göring. Used to hold and torture political opponents and union organizers, the camps initially held around 45,000 prisoners.

Heinrich Himmler's SS took full control of the police and concentration camps throughout Germany in 1934–35. Himmler expanded the role of the camps to holding so-called "racially undesirable elements" of German society, such as Jews, criminals, homosexuals, and Romani. The number of people in camps, which had fallen to 7,500, grew again to 21,000 by the start of World War II and peaked at 715,000 in January 1945.

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Old Photographs of African Warriors

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22 Interesting and Funny Vintage Photos of Animals Acting Like People

A funny collection of vintage photos captured animals acting like people...

September 1934: Mrs C Wylds behind the wheel with her pet pig at Terling in Essex.

April 1932: Feline film star "Tibby" rests on the knee of Abraham Sofaer, leading man in her film for British Lion at Beaconsfield, The Flying Squad, while make-up man Gerald Fairbank trims her whiskers for the camera.

1956: "Carrots" the rabbit fires table tennis balls from a toy cannon.

June 1934: Snake charmer Arimund Banu holds a party for stage performers' pets at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.

September 1933: A cat hangs a row of tame rats on the washing line to dry.

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14 Vintage Photos of Greenwich Village in the 1950s

Greenwich Village, often referred to in New York as simply “the Village”, is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City.

A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families. Greenwich Village, however, was known in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries as an artists' haven, the bohemian capital, and the East Coast birthplace of the Beat movement. What provided the initial attractive character of the community eventually contributed to its gentrification and commercialization.

The name of the village is Anglicized from the Dutch name Greenwijck, meaning “Pine District”, into Greenwich, a borough of London. These are some vintage photos captured everyday life in Greenwich Village in the 1950s.

A street scene in Greenwich Village, New York, with a woman hosing down the pavement next to an ice-delivery van. 1950. (Getty Images)

American jeweller, Sam Kramer helping one of his 'Space Girls' with her motorbike helmet on a Greenwich Village street. His clipped Afghan Hound waits for him patiently. 1955. (Getty Images)

A young couple deep in conversation in Washington Square. 1952. (Getty Images)

Two men playing chequers in Washington Square. 1950. (Getty Images)

A domestic garden functioning temporarily as an art gallery in Greenwich Village, 1955. (Getty Images)

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Diane Keaton on the Set of ‘The Godfather’ (1972)

Diane Keaton is an American film actress, director, producer, and screenwriter. Keaton began her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970. Her first major film role was as Kay Adams-Corleone in The Godfather (1972), but the films that shaped her early career were those with director and co-star Woody Allen beginning with Play It Again, Sam in 1972.

Below are some behind the scenes photos of Diane Keaton, Al Pacino and Francis Ford F. on the set of The Godfather in New York in 1971. The photographs was taken by Harry Benson.