23 Wonderful Vintage Imperial Airways Posters From Between the 1920s and 1930s

Imperial Airways was the early British commercial long-range air transport company, operating from 1924 to 1939 and serving parts of Europe but principally the British Empire routes to South Africa, India and the Far East, including Malaya and Hong Kong. There were local partnership companies; Qantas (Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd) in Australia and TEAL (Tasman Empire Airways Ltd) in New Zealand.

Imperial Airways was merged into the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) in 1939, which in turn merged with the British European Airways Corporation in 1974 to form British Airways.

Here, below is a collection of 23 wonderful vintage posters of Imperial Airways from between the 1920s and 1930s.

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Beautiful Women's Swimwear Fashion of the 1950s

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Portraits of Longhaired Women in the Past

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15 Awesome Then and Now Images of Crime Scenes on Today's New York City Streets

Photographer and historian Marc Hermann dove into the New York Daily News archive to find historic crime scenes, and mashed them up with photographs of the same locations today. The resulting images provide a haunting window into the tragic events of the past, like a Noir film playing out in real time on an empty city block.

Edna Egbert, who lived at 497 Dean St. in Brooklyn, climbed onto her ledge on March 19, 1942. The News captured the distraught woman fighting with the police as she wobbled on the edge. The building is currently painted red, but remains nearly identical to the way it looked 70 years ago.

James Linares lays bleeding in the arms of his girlfriend Josephine Dexidor on September 25th, 1961 after being shot by her husband.

The wreckage of United Airlines Flight 826 and Trans World Airlines Flight 266, which crashed over NYC in December of 1960.

A stolen car is shown crashed into the light pole at the corner of Classon Ave. and Pacific St. on July 28, 1957.

An M-7 tank destroyer being transported from City Hall to the Public Library on 42nd St. to be put on display on July 22, 1943.

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Big Things From the Past

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22 Rare Photographs of Andy Warhol in Flower Field With Flowers Silk-Screen in Queens, New York, 1964

Andy Warhol was a flower child in his own right, known for saying, “I think everybody should like everybody.” But then again, as much as he instilled love and peace, he also had a morbid fascination with death, destruction and devastation. Warhol found beauty in the ugly, but also found depth and darkness in seemingly beautiful things.

Photographer William John Kennedy and his wife, Marie, were driving their Volkswagen Beetle through Flushing, Queens in the early 1960s when they spotted a field of eight-foot-high Black-Eyed Susans.

This made Kennedy think of his good friend, who was slaving away on a painting of similar flowers. So, Kennedy called him.

“Well, pick me up!” Andy Warhol exclaimed.

And they did. The couple grabbed the artist, stuffed his “Flowers” paintings in the back of their Beetle and drove back to the field. They all spent the afternoon frolicking among the flowers while Kennedy snapped photographs of Warhol and his art.

During the early 1960s, Kennedy developed a strong friendship with Warhol and Indiana (who introduced the two). All three were struggling young artists in New York City trying to make a name for themselves.

As most photographers do, Kennedy shot his friends while they were going about their daily lives. What Kennedy didn’t know is that his friends would be among the most famous artists of our time.

The photographs sat in a dusty box for 50 years, never digitally retouched, or even cropped. They depict Warhol with “Flowers,” with his famous Marilyn Monroe piece, and lounging around The Factory.

“The two things in Andy Warhol’s life were art and his mother. And his mother came first,” Kennedy said. “If he didn’t know you, and you didn’t know him, Andy Warhol was very beige. I always had to ask him questions, poke around and provoke conversation, but then a rainbow of ideas came flowing from him.”

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Violinist with a Dog, ca. 1933

Violinist with a Dog, ca. 1933. Photo by Alfonso Sánchez Portela.