The Soviet Union operated pretty much in isolation...  ...t to see them. When they were revealed later, the photographs of Soviet machinery, vehicles, and architecture s...

The more you look at this photograph , the more details stand out. There are 17 men, al...  ...ding a paper, enjoying whiskey, or staring at the photographer . That photographer was Fred Tyree, who took the picture in 1906 in P...  ...wing day they were more than eager to ind...

We can't say for sure whether this was the first h...  ...t was actually a secret crush that led him toward photography . “When he was a young man at Oslo Universit...  ...e decided that this was possible only by taking a photograph of her himself, without her knowing.”The ca...  ...traits of the era...

For a hundred years or so, there was only one know...  ...r a hundred years or so, there was only one known photograph of William Bonney, also known as Billy the Kid. T...  ...even more money. Read about the newly-discovered photograph

George Hendrik Breitner was a Dutch Impressionist...  ...side in France for a while. Breitner began taking photographs to use as a reference for his paintings, but also...  ...e as a reference for his paintings, but also used photography itself as an art medium.Like his paintings, Breit...  ...ne task to another...

If you watched the Discovery channel mini-series H...  ...ues too warm and itchy to wear. See 15 of them at Vintage Everyday. -via the Presurfer

Imagine 100 years into the future when history stu...  ...from the San Francisco Library’s Historical Photograph Collection and geotagged them onto a map of the c...  ...on and geotagged them onto a map of the city. The photographs go back to the beginning of San Francisco (almost...  ...ning of San Franci...

It’s pretty rare to see someone from the 19t...  ...to see someone from the 19th century smiling in a photograph , and even rarer to see a Native American from the...

In this case, turn-of-the-century refers to the 20th century. A gallery of mugshots of women arrested in England 100 years ago all somewhat resemble Eliza Dolittle, without the movie star face of Audrey Hepburn. They wer...

Alexey Zakharov took photographs from Shorpy that showed us scenes from New York,...