Vintage

Historical photographs and pictures taken in the context of a verifiable, historically significant event.

These types of business cards were given to men at train stations as they entered town to advertise houses of prostitution. These cards were popular and on open use until the 1930’s. The women were called “Soiled Doves” in the Victorian era

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Beauty pageant winners in 1922

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Ground crews prep and paint nose art on B-25. ‘Rose of SanAntone’ seen in distance. Tarawa, Jan 1944. [1280 x 885]

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Tonton Macoutes patrol a Haitian street – 1988

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Canadian Troops filling Water bottles etc at Amiens, France. 1918. [1875×1473]

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Yup’ik medicine man exorcising evil spirits from a sick boy in Nushagak, Alaska, 1890s

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