Historic Photo: Daytona Beach, Florida, 1964. Happy Spring Break!
Two features of post-World War II America built this picture: the automobile, and the availability of university education. [Read Me!]
Photos
Historic Photo: Aftermath of the Great Blizzard of 1888, New York City.
New York was buried by the late-winter blizzard, turning a city of gas lights and horse-drawn carriages into a deadly winter nightmare. [Read Me!]
Historic Photos: narrow streets of old Paris by Charles Marville, 1853.
An almost medieval-looking Paris captured on film ceased to exist shortly after these photos were taken in the 1850s. [Read Me!]
Stones and slabs of old: some ruminations on ancient graves. [Photo essay]
Seeing the ancient stones of people long dead puts in perspective what's important in life. [Read Me!]
Historic Photo: Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland, about 1900.
Modernity is slowly replacing the old ways in this view of turn-of-the-century Ireland. [Read Me!]
Historic Photo: Trinity College Kirk, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1848, now lost.
This church, which stood here since the 1500s, was demolished in 1848 to make room for a railway station, but not before this last photo was taken. [Read Me!]
Historic Photo: Men of the Depression, 1939, by Dorothea Lange, colorized.
Brazilian digital colorist Marina Amaral has done a magnificent job of bringing this 1930s photo to life. [Read Me!]
Fields of metal now quiet: some views of Wacken in autumn. [photos]
The site where 70,000 metalheads gather every first weekend of August is a lot quieter and more pastoral as fall approaches. [Read Me!]
Historic Photo: Kem, Russia, 1916, in original color.
This is how a little village in Karelia looked 100 years ago, in full natural color. [Read Me!]
Historic Photo: Teddy Roosevelt and John Muir at Yosemite, 1903, colorized.
This amazing modern colorization of a 1903 photo highlights the brilliance of America's 100-year commitment to publicly-owned national parks. [Read Me!]
