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New York in Color, 1939 (like it was just yesterday)

It’s amazing how history can feel so much more real and alive when it’s in color rather than black and white. This footage of New York in 1939 comes from the Romano archives which has an extensive collection of unpublished historical footage from the 1930s and 40s in color available on their Youtube channel– worth…

FOUND by National Geographic

Attention archive photography lovers! There’s a new Tumblr in town by National Geographic called FOUND, set up in honour of their 125th anniversary. What better way to celebrate a birthday than to go digging through one of the most interesting photographic archives in the world…. ‘FOUND is a curated collection of photography from the National Geographic…

Princess-to-Be: Grace Kelly in the Days before her Wedding

Upon learning of his muse’s engagement to the Prince of Monaco, Alfred Hitchcock allegedly said, “I’m very happy that Grace has found herself such a good part…” In 1956, just two weeks before her wedding, Grace Kelly packed up her life in Hollywood for good and made the voyage to Europe. These rare and unpublished…

American Cowgirls of the 1940s

This post is pretty much the result of me getting lost in the LIFE magazine archives again and coming across a bunch of mostly unpublished photographs of cowgirls that were too good not to share. These snaps are a melange of photo stories by LIFE photographers, Nina Leen, Peter Stackpole and Cornell Capa between 1947-48 at the…
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