Jun 8, 2023

Vintage Photography Through the Decades

This blog looks at vintage photography from the past century, featuring photos of Sir Christopher Lee, a young woman dressed for an evening out, and more. It also includes ads from the 1940s and 1950s.

ART PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORY

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Toshiba RT-2800 https://t.co/50JcEyPn0S pic.twitter.com/9HJG8G9JZj
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Toshiba RT-2800 https://t.co/50JcEyPn0S pic.twitter.com/6hYhtQoNI9
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Vespa (1970) https://t.co/juFzbSRkrB pic.twitter.com/E1gah7Yvu8
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Sir Christopher Lee, 1922-2015. https://t.co/hHaO54fKk1 pic.twitter.com/KbrZZAcbGC
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“Fork in the Road” Saturday Evening Post, July 7, 1956 https://t.co/D1oNQLTN29 pic.twitter.com/Bak87WMjnl
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Young woman dressed for an evening out, Detroit, 1968. https://t.co/lEMDc000iy pic.twitter.com/31Zvrk4zD3
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
“For the first time a magazine presents a woman in her proper perspective” (1954) https://t.co/IG5s4IIvp4 pic.twitter.com/y5CsuXNJs2
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Lugosi and Benard Jukes on stage in DRACULA in 1928 https://t.co/zauGPlz2uo pic.twitter.com/kNONYMRHW3
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https://t.co/3xcVYtvMtf pic.twitter.com/WFFTVS8Rzy
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Poison Gas Quiz, 1943 ad detail for Walker Mufflers https://t.co/ohcT3LCqE3 pic.twitter.com/ArKWqgJJ9d
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/CvfwkwsVl9 pic.twitter.com/oLyCTbMpYc
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“Discotheque Scene” Saturday Evening Post, March 27, 1965 Cover by Burt Glinn https://t.co/Gk2fZKJv3X pic.twitter.com/HYrN4rGq4J
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'Six AM', 1930 - William Wolfson https://t.co/L08VwOCPqg pic.twitter.com/I97YSir3ld
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Grasshopper’s Dream Cafe Located: Jeongseon, South Korea https://t.co/yja8Gquz8b pic.twitter.com/X1bRdhZ8Uy
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Dungeon of Mystery (1992) https://t.co/otEelyLZb3 pic.twitter.com/2ShsfycZrw
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
1970s Campus Expressions ad. Nice hats. https://t.co/8sIWgf9rke pic.twitter.com/eLWovAl1rT
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Renaissance set of knives made of bone and iron in a Trout-shaped case - Italian work 17th century https://t.co/LAnBZ5xAhX pic.twitter.com/By2ONkmYxM
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“High Mountain Country” by Jack Breed for Arizona Highways, May 1950 https://t.co/EQxhruNUOk pic.twitter.com/IfD6buntGj
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Devil Girl from Mars (1954) https://t.co/2fHzB6HQ64 pic.twitter.com/9TF3GW8gAh
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Devil Girl from Mars (1954) https://t.co/2fHzB6HQ64 pic.twitter.com/vqt2hlOxLn
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Devil Girl from Mars (1954) https://t.co/2fHzB6HQ64 pic.twitter.com/czU4AzKsXH
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Devil Girl from Mars (1954) https://t.co/2fHzB6HQ64 pic.twitter.com/c7sIeqgZag
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Devil Girl from Mars (1954) https://t.co/2fHzB6HQ64 pic.twitter.com/yy79OvN7vp
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Devil Girl from Mars (1954) https://t.co/2fHzB6HQ64 pic.twitter.com/hd5fgZ4rC4
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
1946 https://t.co/TB4Tj3hPf7 pic.twitter.com/zctzTTR43f
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Chicken McNuggets - Changeables (McDonald’s) https://t.co/wV819sJfuq pic.twitter.com/NWw44VbgQU
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Hans Döllgast’s Re-Roofing (1971) of Leo von Klenze’s Allerheiligen-Hofkirche (1826-37) in Munich, Germany. Photo by Klaus Kinold. https://t.co/U9arnw1aO8 pic.twitter.com/PLTbTupvXU
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Woman's Home Companion October 1949 https://t.co/lTt7y9r1lD pic.twitter.com/hqDYKUB1Ph
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Spain Rodriguez (in “Tales from the Hideum” - East Village Other / 1968) https://t.co/pDZN0o8MKH pic.twitter.com/F7gSQznSd6
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Warp Miniatures’ June 2023 Patreon/MMF Tribe has STLs for printing modular pig-faced orcs with the classic David Sutherland AD&D orc shield https://t.co/idiZcmKQTC https://t.co/RJVQzuTTCD pic.twitter.com/Mvqv19lMP9
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Warp Miniatures’ June 2023 Patreon/MMF Tribe has STLs for printing modular pig-faced orcs with the classic David Sutherland AD&D orc shield https://t.co/idiZcmKQTC https://t.co/RJVQzuTTCD pic.twitter.com/MMvmHqB8mC
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/xb7bvOnVD0 pic.twitter.com/vPH9UHY0aJ
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/rZMsge7V7k pic.twitter.com/BikpJ6K2rF
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
The Spirit #22 (1950), cover by Will Eisner https://t.co/GYexIbbyQK pic.twitter.com/t6NmAxaI4Y
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
**Tissue!** Gesundheit! https://t.co/OUyetcRcvS pic.twitter.com/58Dt1gFPiX
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
1960 https://t.co/mbjFQrDlqi pic.twitter.com/wq56pItbER
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
Cover by Alejandro https://t.co/qQQq9Ipb4E pic.twitter.com/gnmjS1SLpj
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
View-Master Tron reels - Walt Disney (1982) https://t.co/yuy4BYQTva pic.twitter.com/R60uDMdSfj
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
The Art of French Cooking 1962 https://t.co/Y2urhoucrZ pic.twitter.com/9x6E4PMKD4
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
“Colonizing the Ocean Bottom” Amazing Stories, April 1940 Illustration by Julian Krupa https://t.co/mgcVjUaHVl pic.twitter.com/unQITWfIP1
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/oG0lvZEmNv pic.twitter.com/uQCpGaDJgN
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/gUXZvQNamU pic.twitter.com/9WVngSK6M5
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/dAyn6PVgVj pic.twitter.com/rOAp7HrKBA
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
v https://t.co/WyvYL5AT1N pic.twitter.com/pTCJIRMy60
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
The Gun Hawk by Shannon Stirnweis https://t.co/njrru0ofmG pic.twitter.com/NQ6KAD4A3j
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/p4zDd7agqc pic.twitter.com/TRQCpkcdAU
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
David Sutherland’s pig-faced orcs with diverse polearms and a unique shield style, https://t.co/5fZBBWcS2w pic.twitter.com/yAru9WFE1M
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
The so-called “Blaue Post” (1974-83) in Chur, Switzerland, by Richard Brosi https://t.co/Dnh45XCbiy pic.twitter.com/MOnRWDtz1i
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023
https://t.co/eGDqnIvaPA pic.twitter.com/pO1fOh1aFY
— Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues (@doctorow) June 8, 2023