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20 Soviet Health Propaganda Posters

Fri, 13 Mar 2020 15:03:34 +0300

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

Thu, 04 Jul 2019 12:28:04 +0300

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.

Christina In Red: Rare 1913 Color Photos

Tue, 28 Apr 2015 08:51:02 +0300

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.

RETRO-PHOTO OF PROFESSIONS THAT NO LONGER EXIST

Fri, 06 Mar 2015 13:38:02 +0300

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.

15 Amazingly ’80s Photos Of Brad Pitt

Tue, 17 Jun 2014 10:36:17 +0400

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

23 Completely Random Old Photos Of People Standing On Things

Fri, 28 Feb 2014 14:49:08 +0400

Before planking was a thing, there was standing.