Vintage Everyday

September 21, 2013

Stunning Portraits of Countess De Castiglione

September 21, 2013 1800s, celebrity & famous people, portraits

Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione (1837 – 1899), better known as La Castiglione, was an Italian aristocrat who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Emperor Napoleon III of France. She was also a significant figure in the early history of photography. Here are some of stunning vintage portraits of Countess De Castiglione.

The Charleston Champions in New York City, 1926

September 21, 2013 1920s, fashion & clothing, female, New York

The Charleston Champions invaded New York City in 1926. These lovely ladies comprised the traveling dance team. Charleston dance established itself during the Jazz period.

September 20, 2013

Mugshots From the 1930s With Curious Details

September 20, 2013 1930s, England, law & criminal, people, photography, portraits, WTF

A capsule provided by the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums, these mugshots are thought to be taken in the 1930s in and around Newcastle, England.

19 Wonderful Color Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the 1960s

September 20, 2013 1960s, life & culture, people, street, Tennessee

Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of Knoxville. Oak Ridge was established in 1942 as a production site for the Manhattan Project—the massive American, British, and Canadian operation that developed the atomic bomb. Scientific development still plays a crucial role in the city's economy and culture in general.

Here, below is a collection of 19 wonderful color photographs of Oak Ridge in the 1960s.

School Bus Stop Oak Ridge

Mother pushing daughter in swing Oak Ridge neighborhood in 1964

Night View of City of Oak Ridge

Oak Ridge Shopping Center With Watermelons For Sale

Your Stake in the Atom Oak Ridge

18 Haunting Photographs From the Wall Street Bombing of 1920

September 20, 2013 1920s, accident & disaster, event & history, New York

At noon on September 16, 1920, a horse drawn buggy loaded with 100 pounds of dynamite and 500 pounds of cast- iron slugs exploded across the street from the J.P. Morgan bank headquarters in downtown Manhattan, New York.

The explosion blew out windows for blocks around, killed 30 immediately, injured hundreds of others and completely destroyed the interior of the Morgan building. The bombing was never solved, although investigators and historians believe the Wall Street bombing was carried out by Galleanists (Italian anarchists), a group responsible for a series of bombings the previous year. The attack was related to postwar social unrest, labor struggles, and anti-capitalist agitation in the United States.

The Wall Street bomb killed more people than the 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times, which was the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil up to that point. The death toll was exceeded in the Tulsa Race Massacre in 1921.

September 19, 2013

25 Amazing Photos That Capture Daily Life at the Powder Ridge Rock Festival, 1970

September 19, 2013 1970s, Connecticut, event & history, holiday & festival, life & culture, music, people

The Powder Ridge Rock Festival was scheduled to be held July 31, August 1 and August 2, 1970 at Powder Ridge Ski Area in Middlefield, Connecticut. A legal injunction forced the event to be canceled, keeping the musicians away; but a crowd of 30,000 attendees arrived anyway, to find no food, no entertainment, no adequate plumbing, and at least seventy drug dealers.

William Manchester wrote: "Powder Ridge was an accident waiting to happen, and it happened." Volunteer doctor William Abruzzi declared a drug "crisis" on 1 August and said "Woodstock was a pale pot scene. This is a heavy hallucinogens scene."

Drugs were openly sold and commonly consumed at the festival. Rock doctor William Abruzzi (also at Woodstock) was there to treat bad LSD trips, and said there were more bad trips at Powder Ridge per capita than at any other music festival he'd ever worked. He attributed some of the problems to the barrels of "electric water" that were available for free public consumption; people were invited to drop donations of drugs into these barrels, creating drug cocktails of unknown strength and composition.

Although the promoters of the festival announced plans to reschedule the event for another location, no such plans ever came through, and no refunds were ever issued to the ticket buyers.