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A cyclist struggles with an enormous hat. (Street style 1906- Edward Linley Sambourne)

A Rolls Royce car which is being used by the Prince of Wales on a tour of Margate and Ramsgate, Kent. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 24th November 1926 Entertainer Elsa McFarlane stands on the bonnet of a Rolls Royce car, mimicking the Silver Lady figurine, in a production of “The Co-Optimists”, at the Vaudeville Theatre in London. (Photo by Sasha/Getty Images). 1929 [...]

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Comedian Charlie Chaplin is iconic for several reasons, one of the most obvious being his trademark moustache! His whole look is actually the result of quiet calculations, beginning from when his boss at Keystone Studios said he looked too young to be a comedic actor at age 24. “I wanted everything to be a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large… I added a small moustache, which, I reasoned, would add age without hiding my expression. I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was [...]

Series of 1920s French fashion postcards in the style of the Seeberger brothers, mid-to-second half of the decade, showing fashionable day wear. Read more »

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Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961) was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio. Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of [...]

1955 was a year of change for Marilyn Monroe. After leaving Hollywood for New York, and abandoning her contract with Twentieth Century Fox, Marilyn was no longer ‘just a dumb blonde’, but a true renegade. In January, Marilyn formed a production company with photographer Milton Greene, and moved into a suite at the Ambassador Hotel. Despite frenzied speculation, Marilyn largely evaded publicity. Dressed down in casual clothes and no make-up, she wandered the city unnoticed, and learned about ‘the Method’, a deeper, more challenging approach to drama, with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. And Marilyn also [...]

Sam, a 7-lb rhesus monkey is prepared for his flight into space by being secured in a 100-lb biopack drum. Sam then rode a Project Mercury-type capsule to a height of 55 miles and landed 200 miles out in the Atlantic. The “Little Joe” experiment to test the capsule's escape rocket system was a success. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 4th December 1959 A life-size replica of the original Sputnik satellite [...]

Those were the days - air travel, 1950s

Teenagers having a soda, 1940s

Three samurai warriors in armour, circa 1880. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei) A Japanese general, circa 1865. (Photo by Hulton Archive) A group of officers in the service of a prince from the north of Japan, circa 1865. (Photo by Felice [...]

The mugshots come from the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Flickr page. According to the page, all the prisoners photographed spent time in Newcastle Gaol between December 1871–December 1873. William Smith stole money and some scales in 1873 and was ordered to do two months in jail. [...]

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A petrol pump attendant is surprised to see a lion emerge from the back of the van he is filling. (Photo by Keystone-Getty Images). 7th January 1966.

July 1938. Ambridge, Pennsylvania. Scene in the alley on the east side of town. 35mm negative by Arthur Rothstein for the Resettlement Administration. (via Shorpy )