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Women Of The Guomindang: A Diplomat’s 1940s Portraits Of China
Fu Bingchang (1895-1965) was a diplomat and Nationalist politician, as well as an accomplished portrait and landscape photographer, in a Pictorialist style. Fu photographed his friends and colleagues...
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A Baby Boomer’s Photo Album: Living The American Dream In 1940s New Jersey
Ted Polhemus shares his personal photo archive. His life begins in the bosom of the All American, late 1940s family. Many of the photographs are from tiny 4mm photos taken by his mother and father in...
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Feed Sack Fashions And Patterns of Depression Era America
During the Depression people used cotton flour bags and feed sacks to make clothes, curtains, diapers, awnings and other household items. Manufacturers got wind of their bags’ other uses and began...
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How to Louse Up a Date! A Guide from 1948
From 1948 comes this guide on how to royally screw-up on a date. The rules are simple: Don’t be one of these guys: THE MAULER THE FUNNYMAN THE PRACTICAL JOKER THE BIG SHOT THE INCINERATOR HUNGRY...
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Postcards of the ‘Streamline Moderne’ Greyhound Terminals
Syracuse, New York Greyhound, the intercity bus carrier, that still serves over 3,800 destinations across North America began in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1914. Carl Eric Wickman who had been born in...
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10 Long-Forgotten Mid-Century Girl Comics
Comic books weren’t always superheroes and horror stories; there was an entire genre of girl comics. They came in romance, comedy and action varieties – all featuring a female lead character. So,...
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20 Beautiful, Elegant but Long-Forgotten American Actresses from Mid-Century...
Take a look around Hollywood’s top shelf of TV & film actresses – what are the odds they’ll be remembered 60-70 years from now? Less than a handful will have any recognition whatsoever; the rest...
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When Pan Was King
There was a time when it seemed every home had a Pan paperback somewhere on the premises. They could usually be found tucked up on a shelf, or faithfully nestling dogeared by the fire, or hidden...
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Extraordinary Photos of Women Fire-Fighters in Britain During WW2
21st June 1942: Members of the ATS (Auxiliary Territorial Services), attached to the Army Fire Service, give a demonstration of their fire-fighting skills. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images) On...
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Small Town Noir – Twenty-One ’30s and ’40s Mugshots from New Castle,...
When the police department of the once-prosperous small town of New Castle, Pennsylvania, threw out thousands of mid-century mug shots in the late 1990s, a few hundred were saved from destruction by...
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‘The Key-way to the Highway ‘ – The Rise and Fall of Raleigh – 100 years of Ads.
Raleigh image from 1928 Just over 100 years ago in 1913 it was announced that the Raleigh Cycle Company was the biggest bicycle manufacturing company int he world. In the 1920s and 30s they also...
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The Life and Death of ‘Our Aeroplane Girl’ – English Aviatrix Amy Johnson
5th May 1930: 26-year-old English aviator Amy Johnson (1903 – 1941) standing in front of her Gipsy Moth just before she undertook a 19-day solo flight to Australia. She died in 1941 when an aircraft...
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An Isolation Reading List From Ernest Hemingway
The only advice that’s worth a damn when it comes to writing is to sit down and write. There are no quick fixes, no cheat sheets, no words that will bring around some grand epiphany. Good writing is...
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White Slaves, Sinful Sisters or Playthings of Passion – Reginald Heade was...
‘White Slaves of New Orleans’ by Roland Vane, published in 1949. Not much is known about the life of Reginald Cyril Heade except that he was probably Britain’s greatest pulp-fiction cover artist....
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Spivs and the Post-War British Gangster Films
In January 1948 the Observer film critic, C.A. Lejeune, made no attempt to hide her disapproving tone when reviewing the Boulting Brothers’ Brighton Rock: “Graham Greene’s savage story about a couple...
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