A Rare Vintage Photograph of a Japanese Female Warrior
The Onna-bugeisha were a class of female warriors, who belonged to the Japanese upper class in feudal Japan. Though they were members of the bushi (samurai) class, calling them female…
Dovima with Elephants – A Beautiful Vintage Photograph
In her heyday, Dorothy Hora (December 11, 1927 – May 3, 1990), aka Dovima, was reputed to be the highest-paid model of her time. This spectacular black and white photograph,…
Woman with Kodak Camera, c. 1900
A circa 1900 photograph of a beautiful young woman posing with her Kodak camera. [via Vintage Photography]
Bertha Benz Driving the Benz Patent-Motorwagen
Click on the image to view large. An 1886 photograph of Bertha Benz, the wife of inventor Karl Benz, and one of the pioneering co-founders of Mercedes-Benz. A woman of…
Retro Photography Featuring Models “Floating” in Plastic Bubbles
Click on the image to view large. American photographer Melvin Sokolsky shot these stunningly-surreal fashion photographs for Harper's Bazaar magazine in 1963. The “Bubble Series” featured models in giant plastic…
Vintage Princess Leia
Click on the image to view large. A daguerreotype of a fashionable young lady, with a hairstyle strikingly similar to that of Princess Leia’s “cinnamon buns” that we have all…
Vintage Actress Paulette Goddard in “Modern Times”
The beautiful Paulette Goddard (1910 – 1990) in Modern Times, the 1936 film directed by Charlie Chaplin. [via Classic Film Heroines]
A Stunning Vintage Photograph of Ethel Barrymore
“For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the…
King George VI at the Microphone
"King George VI at the microphone at Buckingham Palace on 12 May 1937." Image: CC licensed Flickr photo shared by BBC Radio 4
Vintage Photographs of People Standing Outside Their Homes
Apparently, this was the hottest meme in the early 1900s. In all seriousness though, I just wonder how life would have been if the internet had evolved a hundred years…