The World in Color Photographs in 1909

Using Autochrome photographic process, these stunning color photographs captured the world in 1909.

Suzanne and Andre, the daughters of Louis and Auguste Lumiere, 1909.

Ballooning exhibition in Paris, 1909.

Grand Palais Air Show in Paris, 1909.

Signor Antonio Lumiere with grandchildren, 1909.

The only color photograph of King Edward VII, in 1909.

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A Girl Who Grew Up in a Concentration Camp Draws a Picture of 'Home' While Living in a Residence for Disturbed Children, Poland, 1948

A girl who grew up in a concentration camp was asked to draw “Home” and what she drew was scribbles. It shows how the horrors of the concentration camp warped her mind. It’s a mystery what the lines truly mean to her, probably the chaos or the barbed wire.

Tereska, a child in a residence for disturbed children. She drew a picture of "home" on the blackboard. Warsaw, 1948. (David 'Chim' Seymour—Magnum Photos)

An extraordinary picture taken in 1948 by David ‘Chim' Seymour, one of Magnum Photos' co-founders, has since been seen by millions: first, it was published in LIFE magazine where the caption read in part “Children's wounds are not all outward. Those made in the mind by years of sorrow will take years to heal." Then it was selected by Edward Steichen for his legendary exhibition The Family of Man. This image of Tereska drawing her home has fascinated many and has become emblematic of World War II.

David 'Chim' Seymour's photographs as they appeared in LIFE magazine in December 1948. (LIFE)

In the Spring of 1948, when Chim was sent by UNICEF as a special correspondent to report on children in five European countries, 13 million children of Europe had survived World War II. They were homeless and orphans, many of them physically wounded as well as mentally traumatized.

In a school for “backward and psychologically upset children,” as Chim states in his story's captions, Tereska, then seven or eight years old, is standing in front of a blackboard. As we see in Chim's contact sheets from a pinned notice on the blackboard, the teachers' assignment was ‘To jest dom”- “This is home”.

Contact sheet of the children drawing on blackboard. Special-need institute, Warsaw, 1948. (David ‘Chim' Seymour—Magnum Photos)

That is what children were supposed to draw, but Tereska could only trace in chalk a tangle of frantic lines. Her haunted eyes reflect her confusion and anguish. Tereska's identity has remained a mystery for almost 70 years.

Teresa Adwentowska came from a Catholic family. She was one of two daughters of Jan Klemens, who was an activist in the Polish Underground State, the Resistance. During the Warsaw uprising (August-October 1944), he was heavily beaten and all his teeth were broken by the Gestapo at their Warsaw headquarters and prison. During the war, Tereska's mother Franciszka did her best to make ends meet, for instance visiting the Jewish ghetto in order to trade goods.

During the bombing of Warsaw by the German Lutwaffe, Tereska's home was destroyed, and her grandmother was most likely shot by Ukrainian soldiers who were helping the Germans annihilate the Warsaw Uprising. Tereska was struck by a piece of shrapnel that left her brain-damaged. Fleeing Warsaw after the bombings, four-year old Tereska and her 14-year-old sister Jadwiga spent three weeks trying to reach a village forty miles away from Warsaw - on foot, in a war-ravaged country. They were starving. That episode left her with an insatiable hunger, and her physical and mental condition steadily deteriorated. During the 1954/1955 school year, she had to be sent to a mental asylum in Świecie (about 190 miles from Warsaw). Since her early childhood she had loved drawing, mainly flowers and animals. As a teenager she got addicted to cigarettes and alcohol, and became violent towards her younger brother. Since the mid-sixties, she spent her life at the Tworki Mental Asylum near Warsaw; the only things that meant anything to her were cigarettes, food and her drawings.

Family album with Tereska's photos. (Krzysztof Siemiątkowski)

In 1978, at the Tworki Mental Asylum, Teresa Adwentowska met with a tragic death: she accidentally choked on a piece of sausage that she had stolen from another patient.

Chim's photograph of Tereska, which has become a symbol of the fate of children during war and has inspired the Tereska Foundation, remains one of the only portraits of her as a child. As if caught in the tangled web of her own chalk lines, she remained frozen in time: for Tereska, war never ended.

(via TIME/LightBox)

26 Enchanting Color Photographs That Show What Life Was Like in Britain from the 1950s

Britain in 1950 was different, in many ways, from Britain today. The most obvious difference was in the physical fabric of the country. In 1950 the legacy of the Second World War was still everywhere to be seen. In the major cities, and particularly in London, there were vacant bomb-sites, unrepaired houses, temporary prefabs and gardens turned into allotments. The countryside was peppered with wartime military bases, many now abandoned, others reactivated in response to the Cold War.

British society was still strongly influenced by war. Most grandfathers had served in the First World War, most fathers in the Second, and most young men were currently called up for two years of National Service. Boys mimicked the militarism of their elders, using army surplus equipment to fight mock battles with the Germans. The armed services occupied a far more prominent role in British life than they do today.

Discovered in a photographic agency’s archives, these enchanting photographs give an insight into what life was like in Britain 60 years ago.

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Color Photographs Capture Daily Life in Morocco in the early 1980s

French photographer Bruno Barbey, one of the member and once the vice-president for Magnum foundation Europe, is known for his expeditions as a photographer capturing strong images across 5 major continents and numerous conflicts around the world. These amazing photographs below were taken by Barbey at different places in Morocco in 1984.

Traditional wedding. Wedding arrangers are strong enough to carry the bride wearing gold dress. 1984

Cemetery of Bab Sagma at sunset. 1984

Horsemen performing a 'fantasia' race, during a wedding. 1984

Old city (Medina). 1984

Trade fair & market. 1984

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Vintage Apple Ads in the 1970s and 1980s

Apple Computer Inc. was established on April 1st, 1976 and incorporated on January 3rd, 1977. Apple first started advertising its products in the late 1970s.

In the 80s ads were text-heavy and light on images, as were many computer and technology ads from that era. Here’s an amazing compilation of some of Apple’s most notable advertisements from the 1970s to 1980s.

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Audrey Hepburn in hair test shots for 'War and Peace', 1955

Unseen Royal Family Pictures Discovered in Photographer's Attic

Intimate pictures of the royal family discovered in photographer’s attic. The images were only discovered in an attic in 2011 following the death of mysterious photographer W. Jones. His family contacted royal photographer Ian Pelham-Turner, who has included W.Jones pictures in an exhibition of his own images of the royal family.

The Queen joins her father King George VI on a tour of HMS Vanguard South Africa in 1947.

The Queen after announcing her engagement to Prince Philip in 1947.

The Queen in South Africa in 1947.

The Queen in her coronation gown that was designed by Sir Norman Hartnell.

The Queen and Prince Philip on the first opening of parliament in November 1952.

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