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Here's the latest gossip from Zack, Virginia from Jan 28, 1899!

Love Love the name ;-)

While the original purpose of the building as the headquarters for Chrysler never materialized, an automobile...

In 1931 when the Chrysler Building opened, you could go up to the 71st floor observatory (in the spire) and take in...

On the top floor, Walter P.

Last but not least, the Atlanta Depot 1864.

Within 5 days in 1952, London smog killed 4000 people.

When horses went to war, circus elephants plowed the fields.

The Hillman Minx De Luxe Saloon for 1956

Charlie Chaplin's speech from his 83rd film "The Great Dictator" (1940).

Assorted photos of Elizabeth Taylor by Time Magazine.

This vintage illustration by Federic Varady is from a 1953 short story published in Today's Woman magazine.

After the Great War the city of Hull council gave each child within the city a book.

Grandfathers wartime bible. Probably each service man received one.

College Ardingli pupils went on holidays 1926 .

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The huge bomb in private garden ( after II WW ) Liverpool, 1940

White Star Line Olympic and Titanic ad poster by Montague B Black.

NAPLES. Watercolour by Montague B. Black.

history repeating itself

Some excellent tunes on here.

"J. Huffman of Grassy Butte, North Dakota, has been forced to close his general store on account of the drought."

The man who coined the word "hipster".

3 years old MM with Mom 1929

GAZ-Torpedo, 1951.

Billy Fury (The British Elvis).

From a 1955 Cosmo article written and illustrated by artist celeb Jon Whitcomb

Disclaimer: I just found out this isn't a real vintage ad.

Old Art Nouveau decor of a gate

F for feline photobomb

Beatles Cartoons!

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A mercury vapor rectifier - 1964-03-18

The original Dymaxion concept cars were featured at the 1933-34 World's Fair.

This is the back cover of a Ladies Home Journal magazine, February, 1915.

Cripple Creek, Colorado, 1957

The King Billy statue in Kingston Upon Hull.

Going through some of great Grandad's things and found this.

Old winch with new cable for towing

A merry thought bear. Called a cycling panda circa 1960s. Bright red bicycle. Very hard to find these days.

Three-year-old Gilou Pelletier photographing actress Yveline Arnaud.

A little boy falls in love with a carousel horse.

When I was a kid I saw this on The CBS Children's Film Festival with Kukla, Fran and Ollie and fell in...

Earlier someone had posted this picture of John Wayne in b&w.

Johnny Weissmuller, 1922.

Women’s Equality Day