Amazing Then and Now Photos of Famous Scenes in London, New York and Paris

Not only the fashion director of Esquire, Nick Sullivan is also a dedicated photographer and downright perfectionist, as demonstrated by his amazing Instagram.

Throughout the series, there are many familiar streets and landmarks found in London, New York City, and Paris, but the locations aren’t the only recognizable subjects. It’s easy to pick out several famous faces, as well.

Sullivan has given Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Cary Grant, Picasso, and many other iconic figures the opportunity to transcend time in his incredible image arrangements. Ultimately, these photomontages impeccably represent what happens when an interesting moment in time becomes a key part of our world’s history.

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The Last Known Photo of Nikola Tesla, 1943

On 7 January 1943, at the age of 86, Tesla died alone in room 3327 of the New Yorker Hotel. His body was later found by maid Alice Monaghan after she had entered Tesla's room, ignoring the "do not disturb" sign that Tesla had placed on his door two days earlier. Assistant medical examiner H.W. Wembly examined the body and ruled that the cause of death had been coronary thrombosis.

This photo was taken in 1943. He died alone in a hotel room at the New Yorker on January 7, 1943.

Two days later the Federal Bureau of Investigation ordered the Alien Property Custodian to seize Tesla's belongings, even though Tesla was an American citizen. John G. Trump, a professor at M.I.T. and a well-known electrical engineer serving as a technical aide to the National Defense Research Committee, was called in to analyze the Tesla items, which were being held in custody. After a three-day investigation, Trump's report concluded that there was nothing which would constitute a hazard in unfriendly hands, stating:

[Tesla's] thoughts and efforts during at least the past 15 years were primarily of a speculative, philosophical, and somewhat promotional character often concerned with the production and wireless transmission of power; but did not include new, sound, workable principles or methods for realizing such results.

In a box purported to contain a part of Tesla's "death ray", Trump found a 45-year-old multidecade resistance box.

On 10 January 1943 New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia read a eulogy written by Slovene-American author Louis Adamic live over the WNYC radio while violin pieces "Ave Maria" and "Tamo daleko" were played in the background.

On 12 January, two thousand people attended a state funeral for Tesla at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. After the funeral, Tesla's body was taken to the Ferncliff Cemetery in Ardsley, New York, where it was later cremated. The following day, a second service was conducted by prominent priests in the Trinity Chapel (today's Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of Saint Sava) in New York City.

31 Incredible Colorized Photos of French Actresses in the 1950s and 1960s

If you don’t know too many female French movie stars, then you will be stunned by all of these beauties.

In the movies at least, French women tend to both say less and wear less than their American counterparts. They walk alone in Paris streets like Jeanne Moreau, or along deserted beaches like Brigitte Bardot. They’re more often temptresses than girls next door. Jean-Luc Godard said that all one needs to make a film is a gun and a girl.

Below is a collection of 31 stunning images of French actresses from the 1950s to 1960s. The photos were colorized by OFENA1.

Agnes Laurent

Annie Girardot

Anouk Aimee

Brigitte Auber

Brigitte Bardot

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48 Fantastic Photos of Nevada From Between the 1930s and '40s Through an American Traveler's Lens

The Nevada Photo Service was a Reno company founded by Lawrence Engel (ca. 1872-1953) in 1925. Between the late 1920s and his death in 1953, Engel made three trips a year, circumnavigating the state and taking photographs he produced at postcards.

Though postcards are often dismissed as ephemeral, nobody documented Nevada so thoroughly as Engel, and this at a time when the state was undergoing a transformation from frontier backwater (in the opinion of many easterners) to a modern society.

This album is arranged in a rough itinerary following a journey Engel may have taken, leaving Reno and heading out towards Wendover before turning around and taking back to Reno.

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Neuroscience Experiments From the 19th Century: Bizarre and Creepy Images Capture Human Facial Expression From 1862

Influenced by the fashionable beliefs of physiognomy of the 19th century, Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne de Boulogne wanted to determine how the muscles in the human face produce facial expressions which he believed to be directly linked to the soul of man.

He is known, in particular, for the way he triggered muscular contractions with electrical probes, recording the resulting distorted and often grotesque expressions with the recently invented camera. He published his findings in 1862, together with extraordinary photographs of the induced expressions, in the book Mecanisme de la physionomie Humaine (The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression, also known as The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy).

Duchenne believed that the human face was a kind of map, the features of which could be codified into universal taxonomies of mental states; he was convinced that the expressions of the human face were a gateway to the soul of man.

Unlike Lavater and other physiognomists of the era, Duchenne was skeptical of the face's ability to express moral character; rather he was convinced that it was through a reading of the expressions alone (known as pathognomy) which could reveal an "accurate rendering of the soul's emotions". He believed that he could observe and capture an "idealized naturalism" in a similar (and even improved) way to that observed in Greek art. It is these notions that he sought conclusively and scientifically to chart by his experiments and photography and it led to the publishing of The Mechanism of Human Physiognomy in 1862, now generally rendered as The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression.

"The face of an old man... photographed in repose."

"The grimace produced is similar to a tic of the face."

"A study of m. frontalis in maximum contraction."

"Showing the expressive lines of m. frontalis in a young girl."

"A study of the contraction of and the expression produced by the superior part of m. orbicularis oculi"

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An Excellent Guide for Using Telephone in 1951

How to use the rotary dial phone? How to talk with a phone? How to call, how to answer?

This booklet The Telephone and How We Use It, published in 1951 by Bell Telephone System, was a beginner course in telephone use. Targeting elementary school students, it covers everything from basic use to emergency calls and proper etiquette.

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44 Vintage Portrait Photos of Turkish Women in the Early 20th Century

At the beginning of the 20th century, Ottoman women’s outfits were highly under the influence of European styles. Indeed, women of the Second Constitutional period, particularly in the capital city Istanbul, were closely following Paris fashions thanks to big fashion houses in Pera and Greek Ottoman tailors called modistra, who made house calls. In this period, women’s çarşaf became shorter and tighter, revealing women’s bodily features.

Furthermore, especially after the Balkan Wars and World War I, Ottoman women’s veils became more transparent or were replaced by umbrellas that women used to hide their faces, only when needed. This had a lot to do with Ottoman women’s increased activity in work life due to the conscription of men to the army.

Shorter skirts, comfortable shoes and new accessories related to their educational or professional life such as books for female university students, uniforms or badges for women nurses and army staff or pants for those women street-sweepers of Istanbul were unaccustomed details of this new look.

During the Armistice period, just like in Europe and the United States, Ottoman women started to follow short hair fashion of the 1920s. In Istanbul they were also under the influence of Russian refugees who had fled from the Bolshevik army. Russian women, just like the Greek tailors of the previous epoch, set an example of the new European fashions. Ottoman women changed their head covering styles and started using the headscarves called Rusbaşı (Russian head) which was tied at the back of their heads and showed some of their hair and neck.

These lovely photos were taken at studios in Istanbul. They show Turkish women portraits from between the 1920s to 1930s.

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