40 Interesting Vintage Photos That Capture Everyday Life in Atlantic City From the Early 1900s

By the early 1900s, the Boardwalk had replaced the ocean as Atlantic City's greatest and most romantic attraction. It had the strollers, the rolling chairs, the bathers and the lovers.

Below are 40 incredible black and white vintage photographs from Shorpy show everyday life in Atlantic City and the Jersey Shore from the early 20th century.

Circa 1901. The Islesworth and Virginia Avenue, Atlantic City.

The Jersey Shore circa 1900. Hotel Windsor, Atlantic City. At left, the Traymore.

The Jersey shore circa 1904. Young's Hotel and Boardwalk, Atlantic City.

Circa 1904. Virginia Avenue -- Atlantic City, New Jersey.

The Jersey Shore circa 1904. Steeplechase Pier and bathers, Atlantic City.

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28 Color Photographs Captured Street Scenes of London in the 1970s

These color photographs of London's street scene from the 1970s were taken by American photographer Richard Friedman, when he lived in London in 1973 and again in 1977-78.

Golders Green Road

The Freemasons, Hampstead Heath

Hampstead High St

Gt Russell St

Gates of the British Museum

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Glamour Girls of the Air: Fascinating Pictures of an Airline Stewardess Essay in 1958

The rather odd education that the girls are getting is preparing them for one of the most coveted careers open to young American women in the 1950s. They all want to be airline stewardesses.

The job they want does not pay extraordinarily well, only $255 to $355 a month. The life is irregular and opportunities for promotion are small. But the chance to fly, to see the world, and meet all sorts of interesting people — mostly the kind of men who can afford to travel by plane — gives the job real glamor. And the dawning age of jet transport, in which the stewardesses and their planes will go a lot farther and faster, gives it new excitement.

The positions are so eagerly sought that only three to five of every hundred girls who apply to major airlines are taken. To qualify, a girl should be between 21 and 26 years old, unmarried, reasonably pretty and slender, especially around the hips, which will be at eye level for the passengers. She should have been to high school, be poised and tactful, have a good disposition and a pleasant speaking voice.

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Pictures of German Female Prisoners of War in 1945

Despite many "wild rumors" about how the Allies treated their prisoners, some Germans were pleased to be captured by the British or Americans—fear of being captured by the Soviets was widespread—because they disagreed with Nazism or their nation's conduct of the war.

Life for the Germans in British POW camps was reportedly "firm but fair". These photographs below were taken by a member of the forces during their active service duties, documented everyday life of German female prisoners of war in 1945.

German female prisoners of war knitting in a camp for SS, Luftwaffe and civilian women prisoners at Vilvoorde on the outskirts of Brussels.

Lance Corporal E J Burck talking to German female prisoners of war during morning parade at a camp for SS, Luftwaffe and civilian women prisoners at Vilvoorde on the outskirts of Brussels.

German female prisoners of war outside their tented accommodation in a camp for SS, Luftwaffe and civilian women prisoners at Vilvoorde on the outskirts of Brussels.

British guards check on prisoners in a barrack block at a camp for SS, Luftwaffe and civilian women prisoners of war at Vilvoorde on the outskirts of Brussels.

Lance Corporal Jean Burck of New Malden, Surrey, applies first aid treatment to a prisoner at a camp for SS, Luftwaffe and civilian women prisoners of war at Vilvoorde on the outskirts of Brussels.

(Photos © Imperial War Museum)

40 Stunning Color Photographs of the USA in 1950 Through the Window of a Train

Historians use the word “boom” to describe a lot of things about the 1950s: the booming economy, the booming suburbs and most of all the so-called “baby boom.”

These 40 stunning color photographs below were taken by photographer Walker Evans through window of a train; they give us a glimpse into what the United States looked like in the early 1950s.

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Wonderful Photographs Capture Everyday Life in Paris in 1971

The photographs were taken by Richard Friedman

(All photos © Richard Friedman)

30 Rare and Amazing Black and White Photographs of the 1969 Woodstock Festival Taken by Baron Wolman

Baron Wolman was Rolling Stone magazine's first photographer. In 1969 he was on the road photographing music festivals around the USA on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine when word started to trickle through about a major musical event happening in upstate New York. Joining the long traffic jams, Wolman made it to Woodstock, along with, ultimately, hundreds of thousands of other people.

Wolman was just two years working in the musical photography. He did it by far. He could capture the power of the live music of the different kinds of rock of the moment (phsicodelic rock, folk rock, blues rock, and hard rock) represented by Santana, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Joan Baez, Credence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, The Who and Neil Young, between others.

But Wolman went beyond it, he mimic between the attendances and thanks to this, he got amazing photos which gained a bucolic environment full of good vibrations and people who wanted to enjoy the good music. In that moment, the photographer find out that, the crowd had more power than the electric guitars. “I ended up spending most of my time out in the wild with the crowd because what was happening ‘out there’ was just too interesting not to explore”.

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