Historic Photos

COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF FASHION, 1940S, BY JOHN RAWLINGS

Home exhibition: A vacuum cleaner used as a hair dryer, Amsterdam.
1960s

Home exhibition: A vacuum cleaner used as a hair dryer, Amsterdam.

1960s

“Washington Tidal Basin Beauty Contest — August 5, 1922.” Misses Eva Fridell, 17, and Anna Niebel. National Photo Company glass negative. 

“Washington Tidal Basin Beauty Contest — August 5, 1922.” Misses Eva Fridell, 17, and Anna Niebel. National Photo Company glass negative. 

Title: Garden with flowers
Creator(s): Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer
Date Created/Published: between 1906 and 1942.

  • Title: Garden with flowers
  • Creator(s): Genthe, Arnold, 1869-1942, photographer
  • Date Created/Published: between 1906 and 1942.

Corean beauty

Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library
Title: Corean beauty
Date: ca. 1904

Corean beauty

Collection: Willard Dickerman Straight and Early U.S.-Korea Diplomatic Relations, Cornell University Library

Title: Corean beauty

Date: ca. 1904

Sleeping Beauty

Description: Underwater photograph of experimental motor submersible canoe ‘Sleeping Beauty’.
Date: c.1945

Sleeping Beauty

Description: Underwater photograph of experimental motor submersible canoe ‘Sleeping Beauty’.

Date: c.1945

paris. france : photos from 1885-1900

#1 Paris Exposition: unidentified interior view, Paris, France, 1900 
#2 A photo of Sargent in his studio in Paris, 1885. Sargent was a portrait and mural painter in London, England.
#3 Vue générale de face de l’Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris, avril 1898