Vintage Photos Thread

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

Post your favorite old time photos here. Keep them classy kids! They run a nice joint around here and we want to keep it that way! All photos before 1980 count as vintage. Please give credits to the photographers or links/attribution to the website whenever possible.

I'll start with a recently re-found female street photographer Vivian Maier. http://www.vivianmaier.com/

Jaded · Jan 16, 2016

I just found this site http://www.vintag.es/

They have labels for a lot of years. Some of the photos are gorgeous. Some of my favorites.

These are just from the 1800's

THE 1800'S I don't know why that's so exciting to me.

electrolyte · Jan 16, 2016

This link has a collection of some of my favorites. 20 color photos from Paris in 1909, taken using Autochrome Lumière.

(Trivia: I have a cat named Lumière.)

http://www.boredpanda.com/vintage-color-photos-paris-albert-kahn/

essjay · Jan 16, 2016

Is it cool if I post some of my grandparents/great grandparents?

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

Not sure who took this but it always makes me laugh! Photographer unknown.

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

essjay said:
Is it cool if I post some of my grandparents/great grandparents?

YES!

Jaded · Jan 16, 2016

essjay said:
Is it cool if I post some of my grandparents/great grandparents?

Yes! Because that means it's even more real!

I don't know why, but yeah.

electrolyte · Jan 16, 2016

Relevant! The New York Library recently released 187,000 newly digitized images to public domain.

An article about it: http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-...ased-treasure-trove-incredible-archive-images

Link to start viewing and searching: http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain

Jaded · Jan 16, 2016

electrolyte said:
Relevant! The New York Library recently released 187,000 newly digitized images to public domain.

An article about it: http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-...ased-treasure-trove-incredible-archive-images

Link to start viewing and searching: http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain

Any chance of working today is now gone. So. Many. Pictures

Jaded · Jan 16, 2016

Look at this pretty lady in a dress. How awesome is this.

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

electrolyte said:
Relevant! The New York Library recently released 187,000 newly digitized images to public domain.

An article about it: http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-...ased-treasure-trove-incredible-archive-images

Link to start viewing and searching: http://www.nypl.org/research/collections/digital-collections/public-domain

Libraries have the best online resources! Definitely check out ones in your area for local photo history too.

Other places to lose time:

http://dp.la/
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
http://www.magnumphotos.com/
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

Another silly one. Photographer unknown.

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

Jaded said:
Any chance of working today is now gone. So. Many. Pictures

photos>work all day every day! :ROFL:

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

electrolyte said:
This link has a collection of some of my favorites. 20 color photos from Paris in 1909, taken using Autochrome Lumière.

(Trivia: I have a cat named Lumière.)

http://www.boredpanda.com/vintage-color-photos-paris-albert-kahn/

J'adore Paris! Only been once. Hope to go back one day soon. So beautiful!

Jaded · Jan 16, 2016

This lady seems fun.

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Those are great! I am in the process of archiving all my dad's/grandma's photos for my family since they have passed. Will def share some soon!

clickhappier · Jan 16, 2016

I hadn't been going to bother reposting this (shared it on MTG last summer), but since now there's a thread for vintage photos anyway, I just love this wacky shoe-testing contraption...

Neat piece of manufacturing history, for testing shoes:

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An article from a 1930s magazine about this and many more testing contraptions for other types of products:

Torture Tests Tell The Truth: Ingenious Machines in the National Bureau of Standards help bring to light unknown facts about peas, pants, pots and paints.

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

clickhappier said:
I hadn't been going to bother reposting this (shared it on MTG last summer), but since now there's a thread for vintage photos anyway, I just love this wacky shoe-testing contraption...

Neat piece of manufacturing history, for testing shoes:

(enlarge)

An article from a 1930s magazine about this and many more testing contraptions for other types of products:

Torture Tests Tell The Truth: Ingenious Machines in the National Bureau of Standards help bring to light unknown facts about peas, pants, pots and paints.

Love it!

coffeeowl · Jan 16, 2016

Cats and Dogs Dressed as People, 100 Years Ago
http://photo.sf.co.ua/id400

Photographer - Harry Whittier Frees

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