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Here is a "Did you know?" that caught my eye when I was looking at Viralnova. Heroin was used to treat coughs: Bayer...

Bill Haley and the Comets

STREAMERS AND FIREWORKS! WE JUST HIT OUR 500TH MEMBER!

Detroit

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Llloyd Child, world record power-diver (575 MPH in a Curtiss Hawk 75-A), gives his slant on...

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"Day on the River", by Bill Brandt, a British photographer and photojournalist.

The Grand Staircase of Titanic, 1912.

Shops as I remember them as a child in Britain.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: Margaret Bourke-White, most famous woman photographer of our time, on.

Delineator: A Magazine Serving the Modern Home, subscription 10¢ per issue or $10.00 per year.

Teddy Boys, 1950s Britain

Heufuhr im Engadin

Portrait of a Father and Smiling Child

Some amazing dancers Whiteys Lindy Hoppers

NO, NOT THAT NRA: This beer ad is from the early 1930s for Pabst Blue Ribbon.

75 YRS AGO THIS WEEK: "It brings a livelihood to thousands of farmers". The #Beer Industry! http://bit.ly/1AuDZf5

Elvis Presley & Sophia Loren

Make your own #style quotient! #fashion #quote

Hair from another era ...

not sure of the date but I'll guess mid sixties...

Vanity Fair cover, 1927

Warm, waterproof and wild!

I just discovered Roman Vishniac and his photographs of Jews before, during, and after World War Two.

Please note this is a contemporary photo. It was made to look "old fashioned"!

When fashion was fashionable.

Marilyn & James Dean

I love this little photograph.

When something goes wrong.

The perfect place to go on a rainy, or any other day...

Nosferatu the vampire is a silent movie from 1922

Kodachrome from the 1950s...

A lonesome rattlesnake

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Guys, I just gotta tell y'all that I tried on a wedding dress the other day that would make all your vintage-loving...

Here's another NFB gem from the 60s.

I bet you didn't know that Buster Keaton made a silent movie in the 60s.

Again someone said something that made me wonder, Tom Brydon this time, about the small car in the News Real...

Compilation of newsreel footage...

This is due to a question I posed to Darran Hughes , I found it to be quite interesting.

"In The Reeds" by photographer Constant Puyo, 1903.