Adorable Vintage Decorated Vehicles From Between the 1910s to 1920s

Here is a funny photo collection of adorable decorated vehicles from between the 1910s and 1920s.

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Beautiful Black and White Portraits of Leslie Caron From the 1950s and 1960s

Leslie Caron is a French film actress and dancer who appeared in 45 films between 1951 and 2003. Caron is best known for the musical films An American in Paris (1951), Lili (1953), Daddy Long Legs (1955), Gigi (1958), and for the non-musical films Fanny (1961), The L-Shaped Room (1962), and Father Goose (1964). She received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress.

Below is a collection of 30 beautiful black and white photos of Leslie Caron from the 1950s and 1960s.

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Gay Pride in the 1950s: Two Young Men Kissing in a Photo Booth in 1953

More than 60 years ago, a gay couple found the freedom to show affection for each other in the safe confines a photo booth.

Joseph John Bertrund Belanger (right) kisses a man in a photo booth. “PGE exhibition, Hastings Park.” Vancouver, Circa 1953. Photo: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries

By today’s standards, this photo shouldn’t raise any eyebrows, but in 1953, the year it was taken, this photo would have been reason enough for law enforcement to harass and arrest these men.

TIME reports that the photo was once owned by Joseph John Bertrund Belanger, who is featured on the right-hand side of the picture. Belanger was born in Edmonton, Canada in 1925, and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1942 to 1944.

Joseph John Bertrund Belanger (right) shares a tender moment with a man in a photo booth. “PGE exhibition, Hastings Park.” Vancouver, Circa 1953. Photo: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at USC Libraries.

When he was in his 20s, Belanger moved to California. In the early 1950s, he was one of the original members of the Mattachine Society, one of the first LGBT organizations in the country.

In addition to that, Belanger was the Los Angeles coordinator of the Eulenspiegel Society, oldest and largest BDSM education and support group in the United States, in the 1970s. In the 1980s, he was involved with the San Francisco chapter of the Stonewall Gay Democratic Club, as well as Project Inform and the Quarantine Fighter’s Group.

Throughout his lifetime, Belanger was a devoted collector of historical LGBT artifacts and materials. These two photographs of him are now part of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries, the largest repository of LGBT materials in the world, along with several of Belanger’s letters, notebooks, and audio recordings.

35 Vintage Photos of Foreigner Women Posing in Kimono Dress From the Early 20th Century

The kimono is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan. The kimono is a flat, T-shaped garment with square sleeves and a rectangular body, worn left over right unless the wearer is deceased. It is always worn with an obi, and commonly worn with accessories such as zōri and tabi socks.

Kimono are mostly made from traditional bolts of fabric known as tanmono. There are different types of kimono for men, women and children, and the style of the kimono can indicate the wearer's age, gender, formality of occasion and - less commonly - the wearer's marital status. Types of kimono range in formality from the very least to the very most formal of occasions.

In modern Japan, the kimono is uncommonly worn as everyday dress, and has steadily fallen out of fashion as the most common garment for a Japanese person to own and wear. Kimono are now most commonly seen at summer festivals, where people frequently wear the yukata, and is less commonly seen at funerals, weddings, and other formal events. The people who wear the kimono most frequently in Japanese society are older men and women - who may have grown up wearing it, though less commonly so than previous generations - geisha and maiko (who are required to wear it as part of their profession), and sumo wrestlers, who must wear kimono at all times in public.

Despite its falling popularity and reputation as uncomfortable and difficult to wear, the kimono has experienced a number of revivals in previous decades, and is still worn today as fashionable clothing within Japan.

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Street Vendors in Washington, D.C., ca. 1915-1923

(via Library of Congress)

From Shortest to Tallest

Funny vintage portraits of people arrange in order from shortest to tallest.

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Portraits of Teenagers at Venice Beach, California in the 1970s

It's summertime and there is no better way to spend your days than being active outside.

We are taking a look back at Venice Beach, California in the 1970s to reminisce about what life was like before people were obsessed with gadgets and screens.

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