Thursday, 13 October 2016

Photochrome print from 1900 of a Philadelphia row house where it was claimed Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag


Lucky Strike billboards to the Chicago railway track which opened up travel to all in Chicago in 1900


Little has changed but if you glance closely a lady in period dress poses under the Arch Rock in Santa Monica in this postcard from circa 1888-1905


Lick Observatory, Mt. Hamilton, California stars in this postcard from 1902


Holidaymakers at the turn of the century could stay at accommodation such as Hotel El Tovar, Grand Canyon, Arizona which was snapped in this postcard from 1905


Illustrating the modcons and comforts of the age, this postcard of the interior of Hyatt Chalet Motel from 1964


A neon sign invites guests to the Park Plaza Motel. Vintage autos are parked at the entrance


Monday, 8 August 2016

An elephant drinks out of a bottle at the Benson's Wild Animal Farm in New Hampshire, which opened in 1926


photograph of President Theodore Roosevelt driving through the three's tunnel


People inflating a hydrogen balloon on the roof of the John Wanamaker store on Broadway and Tenth Avenue, planning to travel to Philadelphia in 1910


Passengers on board the Queen Mary admire the New York skyline as the ocean liner docks in Manhattan at dawn in 1939


Overview of the Gaillard Cut, formerly Culebra Cut, an excavation deep into Culebra Mountain for the construction of the Panama Canal


On 24 March 1936, two months before the maiden voyage, The Daily Mail published a souvenir supplement on the Queen Mary


Officers on board the Queen Mary, which was the largest and fastest ocean liner when it launched in 1936


New Zealander middle distance runner Jack Lovelock sailed from Southampton in 1936 to compete against America's top runners


New York City residents lounge in the Battery Park shade on a hot day in 1910


Locomotive 13, purchased new in 1886 from the Pittsburgh Locomotive Works


Wednesday, 20 July 2016

More than 10,000 workers helped construct the Twin Towers, 60 of which were killed on the job. After they were finished in 1970 they attracted global attention


Men gather around a vehicle balancing on the edge of a bridge after it crashed in Central Park in 1910


John F, Kennedy arrives at Southampton after sailing from New York on 2 March, 1939, 22 years before he came president of the US


Images from the 1873 book The Wonderland of the Antipodes and other sketches of travel in the North Island of New Zealand by J Ernest Tinne


1970s A color portrait of (then) Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto with his signature .


1970s Tourists at Khyber Pass in Pakistan


Rio De Janeiro in 1930's


Abu Dhabi in 1970's


Friday, 1 July 2016

Berengo Gardin described himself as an old photographer who was born into an age of 'real photography'. This image of people fishing was taken in Genoa, 2002


Despite being over a century old, Genthe's work perfectly encapsulates the vibrant daily life of the time. Pictured are citizens going about their day-to-day business


A street scene shows a young child being led by the hand down a decorated walkway, parasols in hand


Valley of the Shadow of Death in 1855


Drive-through trees have existed since the 1800s.


A vintage photo of Big Cedar Stump.


An old postcard of the Wawona Tree from 1956


All 169 passengers were onboard waiting for take-off and looking excited for one of the Dornier Do-x's early flights in this shot from October 21, 1929


A view of the controls in the Dornier Do-X cockpit shows the complicated nature of making this plane fly in 1929


A public information notice warning about the drought, erected by the road in the Bridport area of Dorset in September 1976


A completed Dornier Do-X flying boat sat fully assembled in hangar of the aircraft plant in Altenrhein, Switzerland, a few days before its maiden voyage


A chief navigator was in-charge of steering the direction of the boat plane and can be seen examining a physical map of the world in the navigation cabin in 1930