28 rare historical snapshots of Japanese everyday life in the late 19th century

Historical photographs that vividly tell about the life and life of ordinary Russian people in the 19th century

Old photographs are a real time machine that can take you 100 years or even more back. It is thanks to old photographs that you understand what life was like for people in the distant past. And if you carefully consider the details, then such photographs can tell no less than history textbooks

Old colored photographs about the life of the Japanese in the second half of the 19th century (30 photos)

This collection of photographs from Japan was seen in Europe in 1839 with the light hand of Liu Dareg, a French artist, inventor and one of the creators of photography. These pictures aroused great interest among the public, but there was one "but" - the photographs were black and white, and the Europeans wanted to immerse themselves in a "highly realistic environment." By 1840, coloring photographs had already become common practice and contributed a lot to the development of tourism in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this review, there are old photographs that

Rare retro photographs of Native Americans taken in the late 19th century

Filmmaker Paul Ratner became interested in Native American peoples while filming the historical adventure film Moses at Mass. As a result, he put together a fascinating photo archive, which includes not only black and white, but also rare, even for the beginning of the 20th century, color retro photos

From everyday scenes to paintings in the "nude" genre: Such different women from the 19th century on the true canvases of Firs Zhuravlev

The best works of the famous painter and connoisseur of the Russian life of the artist - Firs Sergeevich Zhuravlev are on a par with the paintings of the greatest masters of Russian realistic art of the 19th century. The gallery of works by the gifted painter testifies that he was especially attracted to the female theme in his work, which, although not the first, but a very significant place. It was Firs Zhuravlev, one of the first in the history of Russian art in the second half of the 19th century, who bared and showed a beautiful

The humble charm of the Netherlands: Picturesque retro photographs taken in the late 19th century

These colorful postcards featuring picturesque landscapes, windmills and city canals were created in the Netherlands in the late 1890s. An employee of a Swiss printing company, Hans Jakob Schmidt, was able to turn black and white images into realistic color images. He did it using chromolithography technology using printed stones, and thanks to this, today we can see how people lived about 150 years ago