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20 Soviet Health Propaganda Posters (21 photo)

The USSR really cared about its citizens – well at least about their health – because if they were not strong and healthy, they wouldn’t be productive members of the proletariat!

The USSR really cared about its citizens – well at least about their health – because if they were not strong and healthy, they wouldn’t be productive members of the proletariat!

Atmospheric Retro Images Of The USSR As Photographed By American Professor Thomas T. Hammond (34 photo)

Thomas T. Hammond, an American professor at the University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of Russia and the USSR, was taking photographs of Soviet Russia for long time, nineteen years during the 1950s, the 1960s and the 1970s. He paid many visits to the USSR with his family, saw Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Yaroslavl, Samarkand, Pyatigorsk, and Riga.

Thomas T. Hammond, an American professor at the University of Virginia and a specialist in the history of Russia and the USSR, was taking photographs of Soviet Russia for long time, ...

Christina In Red: Rare 1913 Color Photos (8 photo)

We imagine the past in black-and-white, but Mervyn O’Gorman was taking color photos using glass plates coated in potato starch in 1913. The technical name for this process is autochrome, and O’Gorman used it to take beautiful pictures of his daughter Christina wearing red in the British countryside. As the photos contain little to give their era away, they seem to be from no specific period; in fact, they almost weren’t taken at all.

We imagine the past in black-and-white, but Mervyn O’Gorman was taking color photos using glass plates coated in potato starch in 1913.

RETRO-PHOTO OF PROFESSIONS THAT NO LONGER EXIST (16 photo)

Before the invention of electricity, gas stoves, refrigerators and other complex automated systems, many kinds of work were made by hand. Some of them were very dangerous, where only women and children worked.

Before the invention of electricity, gas stoves, refrigerators and other complex automated systems, many kinds of work were made by hand.

15 Amazingly ’80s Photos Of Brad Pitt (14 photo)

And apparently he didn’t own T-shirts in the ’80s.

And apparently he didn’t own T-shirts in the ’80s.

23 Completely Random Old Photos Of People Standing On Things (24 photo)

Before planking was a thing, there was standing.

Before planking was a thing, there was standing.