“A fortnight ago in Los Angeles, those romantics who still believe in nursery rhymes and the dignity of womanhood got a rude shock,” LIFE Magazine brayed in a November 1939 issue. The shock in ...

Women's hockey first sought inclusion in the Olympic Games in the 1930s. Had the sport broke that barrier, the near 80-year quest for professionalism in the sport may have been accelerated. Instead, ...

Snow White was a reflection of American women during the 1930s. Premieres Sep. 14 & 15. "Snow White is the perfect embodiment of 1930s culture," says art historian Carmenita Higginbotham. In this ...

In 1932, stunt pilot Bettie Lund watched her husband and flying partner, Freddie, crash to his death. Barely over the initial shock, she took a telephone call from the manager of the Charlotte, N.C., ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The donor, Virginia Lee, posed in a ...

Unearthed footage from the 1930s has fuelled conspiracy theories that time travel is real. The newsreel footage from 1937, which appears unremarkable at first, shows a group of women walking down some ...

Hello lovelies, Today I will be talking about popular manicure styles in the 1930s and replicate Joan Crawford's 1930s manicure as seen in photos as seen in vintage images from the 1930s. Back in the ...

The saying 'one must suffer to be beautiful' is certainly appropriate for this set of eye-opening vintage photographs. The series of images reveal the extreme beauty treatments and bizarre wardrobe ...