In the 1930s, make-up legend Max Factor came up with an ingenious invention combining phrenology, cosmetics, and a pseudo-scientific approach to analyze a woman’s...
Freestanding 48 Car Elevator Parking Garage in Downtown Chicago’s business district, Built by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, 1936.
The rapid rise of automobiles...
“Flight from the sand desert Neuhammer.” Nuehammer Military Camp, Germany. Unidentified photographer.These military portraits collected by Christopher B. Steiner, a professor of art...
David Douglas Duncan was a renowned war photographer and photojournalist, who first encountered Picasso in 1956 when he infamously rang the doorbell of La...
The condemned Lincoln conspirators on the scaffold, 1865.
This set of pictures from 1865 shows the hanging execution of the four Lincoln conspirators: David Herold,...
The 1960s was a remarkable and dynamic era marked by various styles and influences that left a profound impact on architecture and design.
Within this...
A decade after Fidel Castro’s revolution reshaped the island, Cuba in the 1970s was a country still finding its footing, caught between the optimism...
There’s a particular kind of magic in stumbling across an old advertisement, that split-second jolt of recognition followed by a wave of memories you...
Palm-lined streets, neon motel signs, bustling downtown storefronts, and crowded beaches under the Florida sun.
The color photographs of 1950s Florida capture a state standing...
The teenagers of 1950s America helped create a completely new youth culture, one shaped by economic prosperity, growing independence, and a rapidly changing postwar...
The acrid smoke hung thick in dimly lit basements across America’s cities, where customers from society’s highest and lowest rungs sought refuge in clouds...
View on Leuven (Louvain), Belgium (between 1890-1900), with on the foreground the St. Gertrude Church.
On August 25, 1914, the German army ravaged the Belgian...
Private Heath Matthews (aged 20) of ‘C’ Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, awaits medical aid after a night patrol near Hill 166. Note...
A decade after Fidel Castro’s revolution reshaped the island, Cuba in the 1970s was a country still finding its footing, caught between the optimism...
There’s a particular kind of magic in stumbling across an old advertisement, that split-second jolt of recognition followed by a wave of memories you...
The teenagers of 1950s America helped create a completely new youth culture, one shaped by economic prosperity, growing independence, and a rapidly changing postwar...
New York City, through much of the 20th century, was a place where power operated in the shadows.
The Five Families ruled entire neighborhoods, names...