Haverford exhibits the color of America, circa 1940 The first photo project to show the colors of America, circa 1940, was commissioned by the U.S. government but never exhibited until now.

Hello lovelies, I have been slowly collecting Vintage Avon catalogs from the 1940s, 1950s, and the 1960s because I love all ...

When Saul Leiter began shooting Kodachrome slides in New York in the late 1940s, color was scorned by most serious photographers, who thought of it as a hobby for vacationing dads or the ...

These are the kinds of black-and-white images we usually associate with past celebrities like Louis Armstrong, Orson Welles and Lucille Ball. Of note: A baby-faced Orson Welles and the backdrop that ...

Just a few decades later, the war effort helped to make America an industrial design powerhouse, and a 1940s color theorist in Chicago named Faber Birren developed influential guides to color for ...

In 1905, after years of living in Paris, Atlantic author Alvan Sanborn came home to a New York City that was, he wrote, "a wilderness of sprawling ugliness." In Lower Manhattan, new 20-story ...