
Phil Roeder has uploaded some wonderful photos of Asia that his father took in the 1950s. Most of the photos he's posting to Flickr were taken over a one year period, between September 1953 and August 1954. He says: "During the first half of the 1950s, my father served in the U.S. Air Force and for part of that time was based in Asia, primarily on Okinawa. He had the opportunity to travel around much of the region and these photos (with a few exceptions that include him) are ones he took of the [...]

Phil Roeder has uploaded some wonderful photos of Asia that his father took in the 1950s. Most of the photos he's posting to Flickr were taken over a one year period, between September 1953 and August 1954. He says: "During the first half of the 1950s, my father served in the U.S. Air Force and for part of that time was based in Asia, primarily on Okinawa. He had the opportunity to travel around much of the region and these photos (with a few exceptions that include him) are ones he took of the [...]

Alice Marble, the U.S. women's No. 1 in 1939 A Vassar student waits to return a serve in 1937 Private tennis court, Westhampton New York, 1972 [...]

Alice Marble, the U.S. women's No. 1 in 1939 A Vassar student waits to return a serve in 1937 Private tennis court, Westhampton New York, 1972 [...]

Winner of the Sandow bodybuilding competition, Mr. Murray. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images). Circa 1905 Contestants for the Mr. Universe title parade at the St Pancras Assembly Rooms, London. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 17th September 1971 Jack Delinger, ex “Mr. [...]

Winner of the Sandow bodybuilding competition, Mr. Murray. (Photo by Reinhold Thiele/Thiele/Getty Images). Circa 1905 Contestants for the Mr. Universe title parade at the St Pancras Assembly Rooms, London. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 17th September 1971 Jack Delinger, ex “Mr. [...]

Photographer Nick DeWolf captured daily life in Hong Kong during a trip to Asia in 1972. Read more »

Photographer Nick DeWolf captured daily life in Hong Kong during a trip to Asia in 1972. Read more »

Hippopotamus and Performer. Great Rayman Circus, Madras, India, 1989

Hippopotamus and Performer. Great Rayman Circus, Madras, India, 1989. via www.maryellenmark.com

Wearing coats and berets against the chill of an English summer three children have brought their buckets and spades to the beach at Whitby in Yorkshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). June 1930 Bashful bathers take to the waters at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). August 1919 [...]

Wearing coats and berets against the chill of an English summer three children have brought their buckets and spades to the beach at Whitby in Yorkshire. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). June 1930 Bashful bathers take to the waters at Southend-on-Sea, Essex. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). August 1919 [...]

Frank A. Rinehart, a commercial photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, was commissioned to photograph the 1898 Indian Congress, part of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. More than five hundred Native Americans from thirty-five tribes attended the conference, providing the gifted photographer and artist an opportunity to create a stunning visual document of Native American life and culture at the dawn of the 20th century. Although the portraits are posed and artistically lighted in his studio, they have a candid intimacy that allows his subjects individuality and dignity, a quality not shared by most 19th-century ethnographic photography. Rinehart printed the [...]

Frank A. Rinehart, a commercial photographer in Omaha, Nebraska, was commissioned to photograph the 1898 Indian Congress, part of the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition. More than five hundred Native Americans from thirty-five tribes attended the conference, providing the gifted photographer and artist an opportunity to create a stunning visual document of Native American life and culture at the dawn of the 20th century. Although the portraits are posed and artistically lighted in his studio, they have a candid intimacy that allows his subjects individuality and dignity, a quality not shared by most 19th-century ethnographic photography. Rinehart printed the [...]