A Trip to Italy in 1965 Through Beautiful Pics

These color pics were found by eyedot that documented a trip to Italy of two women named Bette and Dot in 1965.

Bibione. Dot, Bette, Margaret at the beach, 1965

Bibione, Italy, 1965

Bibione, Italy, 1965

Bibione, Italy, 1965

Bibione, Italy, 1965

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40 Cool Snaps Defined the ’70s Young Fashion

Fashion in the 1970s was about individuality. In the early 1970s, Vogue proclaimed “There are no rules in the fashion game now” due to overproduction flooding the market with cheap synthetic clothing.

Common items included mini skirts, bell-bottoms popularized by hippies, vintage clothing from the 1950s and earlier, and the androgynous glam rock and disco styles that introduced platform shoes, bright colors, glitter, and satin.

New technologies brought advances in production through mass production, higher efficiency, generating higher standards and uniformity. Generally the most famous silhouette of the mid and late 1970s for both genders was that of tight on top and loose on bottom.

The 1970s also saw the birth of the indifferent, anti-conformist casual chic approach to fashion, which consisted of sweaters, T-shirts, jeans and sneakers.

Take a look at these color snapshots to see what young people wore in the 1970s.

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10 Rules for Teachers, and for Students in 1872

You couldn’t drink or smoke. In women’s cases, you couldn’t date, marry, or frequent ice cream parlors. And, for men, getting a shave in a barber shop was strictly verboten. Below are some rules for teachers in 1872:

1. Teachers will fill the lamps and clean the chimney each day.
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day's sessions.
3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual tastes of the pupils.
4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly.
5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in improper conduct will be dismissed.
7. Every teacher should lay aside from each day's pay a goodly sum of his earnings. He should use his savings during his retirement years so that he will not become a burden on society.
8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, visits pool halls or public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop, will give good reasons for people to suspect his worth, intentions, and honesty.
9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
10. You may ride in a buggy with a man, if the man is your father or your brother.

Sometimes the document includes a list of equally onerous rules for students as well:

1. Respect your schoolmaster. Obey him and accept his punishments.
2. Do not call your classmates names or fight with them. Love and help each other.
3. Never make noises or disturb your neighbors as they work.
4. Be silent during classes. Do not talk unless it is absolutely necessary.
5. Do not leave your seat without permission.
6. No more than one student at a time may go to the washroom.
7. At the end of class, wash your hands and face. Wash your feet if they are bare.
8. Bring firewood into the classroom for the stove whenever the teacher tells you to do this chore.
9. Go quietly in and out of the classroom.
10. If the master calls your name after class, straighten the benches and tables. Sweep the room, dust, and leave everything tidy.

The source of these rules are unknown. They have been attributed to Monroe County, Iowa; a one-room schoolhouse in Maine; and an unspecified schoolhouse in Arizona.

Flu Mask of the Future, 1919

In 1919, a woman wears what was most likely considered the “flu mask of the future” — a contraption bizarrely elephantine in appearance — so comfortable you can read while wearing it!

Wearing a mask to help prevent flu, but it was not known then that most infection was spread via the hands.

In 1918-1919, an epidemic of “Spanish Flu” spread around the world. At least 20 million died, although some estimates put the final toll at 50 million. It’s estimated that between 20 per cent and 40 per cent of the entire world’s population became sick.

(Photos: Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Japan in the Early 1950s Through Amazing Color Slides

After Japan surrendered in 1945, ending World War II, Allied forces led by the United States occupied the nation, bringing drastic changes. Japan was disarmed, its empire dissolved, its form of government changed to a democracy, and its economy and education system reorganized and rebuilt.

Years of reconstruction were required to recover from thousands of air raids, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. By the 1950s, a former enemy became a Western ally, parts of American culture became part of the Japanese landscape,. And Japan began to find its economic footing as a manufacturer consumer devices and electronics.

These amazing color slides were found by Bill Greene that captured everyday life of Japan in the late 1940s or early 1950s.

Healthy and bright Japanese girls in bathing suits

‘Koto’ or Japanese harp

Art of tea-making

Ashino-ko A lake

Flower arrangement

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American Classic Beauty: 40 Glamorous Photos of Jean Peters in the 1940s and ’50s

Born 1926 in East Canton, Ohio, American actress Jean Peters selected to replace Linda Darnell as the female lead in Captain from Castile (1947) opposite Tyrone Power. Although she had not yet made her screen debut, Peters was highly publicized. She received star treatment during the filming. Captain from Castile was a hit.

Peters is known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Although possibly best remembered for her siren role in Pickup on South Street (1953), she was known for her resistance to being turned into a sex symbol. Peters preferred to play unglamorous, down-to-earth women.

Peters died of leukemia in 2000 in Carlsbad, California, two days before her 74th birthday.

Take a look at these glamorous photos to see the beauty of young Jean Peters in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Haunting Colorized Photos Reveal the Devastation Caused by the Spanish Flu Which Killed at Least Fifty-Million

These seldom seen photographs, colorized for the first time, graphically depict the scale of the pandemic. The images reveal how doctors and nurses fought to save Spanish Flu sufferers in 1918. They show community centers and sports halls in the US converted into makeshift hospitals for the sick, while cinemas were closed and people wore face masks when they went to the park or took public transport.

“I have been colorizing for a long time as a hobby, which I started by coloring pictures for my family and friends, but my passion has grown into almost an obsession,” the colorizer, who wishes to remain anonymous, said in an interview. “It’s been over one-hundred years since the Spanish flu happened and I thought it was important to remember the millions of people who lost their lives.”

The disease, which broke out after the First World War, spread quickly and ravaged the globe, claiming between 20 million and 50 million lives.

A Kansas hospital during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 that still lives large in people’s imaginations.

Hospital beds crammed head to toe at the San Francisco Naval Training Station. They are occupied by soldiers.

Theatres and public spaces were shut down to help prevent the virus spreading in the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918.

A mask is worn by a street sweeper in New York in 1918. The admonition of the New York Health Board to wear masks to check the spread of influenza epidemic was: ‘Better ridiculous than dead’.

A conductor checks to see if potential passengers are wearing required masks in Seattle, 1918.

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