26 Rare Color Photos That Capture Street Scenes of Edinburgh in 1949

Edinburgh is the capital and the second most populous city of Scotland, also the seventh most populous in the United Kingdom. It is one of its 32 council areas, and located in Lothian on the Firth of Forth's southern shore.

Recognised as the capital of Scotland since at least the 15th century, Edinburgh is home to the Scottish Parliament and the seat of the monarchy in Scotland. Historically part of Midlothian, the city has long been a centre of education, particularly in the fields of medicine, Scots law, literature, the sciences and engineering. It is the largest financial centre in the UK after London.

These found snapshots from Found Slides that capture street scenes of Edinburgh in 1949, years just after the Second World War.

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38 Intimate Color Photos That Capture People of Boston in 1957

This set is a part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of Nick Dewolf. Pictures are portraits of people in Boston that were taken in 1957.

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Candid Photographs Reveal New York City Taxicab Passengers Taken by Their Own Driver in the 1980s and '90s

A self-described “photographer-taxi driver,” Ryan Weideman presents duotone portraits of punks, white- and blue-collar types, prostitutes, club kids and others who rode in his cab before plunging back into New York City's anonymous throng.

Weideman wrote in his book In My Taxi: New York After Hours, “When I move to New York City in the fall of 1980, it's my first time ever in the East. By then, I know I want to be a photographer, I'm not sure how to pay the rent.”

After migrating east from the California Bay area in 1980, Weideman began driving a spacious Checker cab, capable of accommodating seven passengers. Weideman wrote: “I drive one week on the day shift. The dense traffic is too frustrating, so I quit and and request the night shift - 5 P.M. to 5 A.M.”

In a terse, mercurial introductory essay evocative of the city's intensity, he tells tales of life as a cabbie, explains how he captures his subjects on film and reveals their myriad reactions, from enthusiastic to wildly negative.

The motley New Yorkers here exhibit many attitudes: some glare menacingly yet comply, some seem exasperated, still others smile, attempt sexy poses or appear blase. Weideman occasionally sets up the camera so that his countenance dominates the foreground, separated from the action behind him. These transitory glimpses of radically dissimilar individuals are a sincere, blunt, affectionate document of New York's multicultural night life.

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Susan Peters Riding Her Monark Bicycle Along the Pacific Palisades at Santa Monica, 1942

Susan Peters was an Oscar-nominated young actress, being groomed for stardom at MGM, when she was shot in a hunting accident and left paralysed from the waist down. She tried to continue her career in a wheelchair, but things fell apart: her husband (Richard Quine, the actor and director) left her, she became anorexic, and died of kidney failure at age 31.

Here's some of beautiful photos of Susan Peters in a publicity photoshoot for "Random Harvest" in 1942.

50 Amazing Behind the Scenes Photos From the Making of 'Ghostbusters' (1984)

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. The film stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis as eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis co-star as a client and her neighbor, and Ernie Hudson as the Ghostbusters' first recruit.

Take a look back at some behind the scenes photos from the iconic movie's production.

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The Hollywood Living Legend: Look at the Beauty of Angela Lansbury From Between the 1940s and 1950s

Born 1925 to an upper-middle-class family in Regents Park, central London, British-American-Irish actress Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury has appeared in theatre, television and film, as well as a producer, voice actress, singer, and songwriter. Her career has spanned seven decades, much of it in the United States, and her work has attracted international attention.

Amid difficulties in her personal life, Lansbury moved from California to County Cork, Ireland, in 1970, and continued with a variety of theatrical and cinematic appearances throughout that decade. These included leading roles in the stage musicals Gypsy, Sweeney Todd, and The King and I, as well as in the hit Disney film Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971).

Moving into television, she achieved worldwide fame as fictional writer and sleuth Jessica Fletcher in the American whodunit series Murder, She Wrote, which ran for twelve seasons from 1984 until 1996, becoming one of the longest-running and most popular detective drama series in television history.

In 2014, Lansbury was made a Dame by Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony at Windsor Castle for "services to drama, charitable work, and philanthropy." Lansbury has received an Honorary Oscar and has won five Tony Awards, six Golden Globes, an Olivier Award, and one Grammy Award. She has also been nominated for numerous other industry awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress on three occasions, and various Primetime Emmy Awards on eighteen occasions. She has been the subject of three biographies.

Take a look at the beauty of this Hollywood living legend in her young age from between the 1940s and 1950s.

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New York in the 1950s: 23 Fascinating Color Snapshots May Make You Softhearted

That's what New York City looked like in the 1950s.

Warner Theater, New York, circa 1950

George Washington Bridge, circa 1950

Greeley Square and Broadway, circa 1950

Hicks, NYC, circa 1950

New York City from the Empire State Building, circa 1950

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