Category: HISTORY

May 6, 2012 at 9:27 pm

Picture of the Day: Your Smartphone in the 80s

Picture of the Day: Your Smartphone in the 80s

YOUR SMARTPHONE IN THE 80s Photograph via fibes on Reddit Posted yesterday to Reddit, this image beautifully portrays how far technology has come in 30 shorts years. All of the gadgets seen here effectively reside in the palm of your hand. When you sit back and think of the computing and multimedia…

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May 4, 2012 at 2:04 pm

Blending Scenes from WWII into Present Day

Blending Scenes from WWII into Present Day

Sergey Larenkov is a Russian-based artist/photographer who was deeply impacted by World War II. On his Live Journal blog, the Saint Petersburg native has put together a tremendous set of collages of historic World War II photographs blended into the same locations as they currently look today. Through collaboratiion with the the State Museum…

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April 30, 2012 at 6:42 pm

Picture of the Day: The Tallest Building in New York

Picture of the Day: The Tallest Building in New York

THE TALLEST BUILDING IN NEW YORK Photograph by Joe Woolhead for Silverstein Properties Earlier today, workers erected steel columns that made the unfinished frame of the new One World Trade Center the tallest building in New York City, eclipsing the Empire State Building. The current height of 1 WTC stands just over…

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April 29, 2012 at 9:39 pm

Picture of the Day: Hanging Out on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1914

Picture of the Day: Hanging Out on the Brooklyn Bridge, 1914

HANGING OUT ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE, 1914 Photograph by Eugene de Salignac/Courtesy NYC Municipal Archives The New York City Municipal Archives just released a database of over 870,000 photos from its collection of more than 2.2 million images of New York throughout the 20th century. Their subjects include daily life, construction, crime,…

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April 28, 2012 at 6:48 pm

Picture of the Day: Looking Down the Washington Monument

Picture of the Day: Looking Down the Washington Monument

LOOKING DOWN THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT Photograph by NASA/Bill Ingalls In this fabulous capture by Bill Ingalls for NASA, we get a rare glimpse of the iconic Washington Monument from above. The symmetry, the perspective, the photograph is simply stunning. The Washington Monument is an obelisk near the west end of the National…

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April 19, 2012 at 6:06 pm

Picture of the Day: The Largest Raft of Canoes and Kayaks in the World

Picture of the Day: The Largest Raft of Canoes and Kayaks in the World

THE LARGEST RAFT OF CANOES AND KAYAKS IN THE WORLD Photograph by NANCIE BATTAGLIA for National Geographic On September 24, 2011, over 2,200 paddlers showed up on the shores of the central Adirondack town of Inlet, New York (population, 400) to set a new Guinness World Record previously held by 1,619 boats…

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April 19, 2012 at 10:13 am

In Pictures: Space Shuttle Discovery’s Final Flight [35 photos]

In Pictures: Space Shuttle Discovery's Final Flight [35 photos]

Photograph by NASA/Tim Jacobs NASA’s space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981 and continued to set high marks of achievement and endurance through 30 years of missions. Starting with Columbia and continuing with Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, the spacecraft has carried people into orbit repeatedly,…

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April 18, 2012 at 9:28 am

25 Vintage Police Record Photographs

25 Vintage Police Record Photographs

The Historic Houses Trust in Australia has a forensic photography archive at the Justice & Police Museum which contains an estimated 130,000 images created by the New South Wales Police between 1910 and 1960. The Sifter has already featured a vintage collection of mugshots from this archive of both male and female criminals. Below…

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April 10, 2012 at 8:55 am

23 People Who Didn’t Know the Titanic was Real

23 People Who Didn't Know the Titanic was Real

Every now and then the Sifter likes to see what’s happening on Twitter. In the past, we’ve featured the top ‘Humble Brags‘ and admired the endless wisdom of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Last week the Huffington Post published an article about people who didn’t realize the Titanic was real. Twitter user @boring_as_heck followed it…

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March 19, 2012 at 9:14 am

Portraits of Native Americans from the Early 1900s

Portraits of Native Americans from the Early 1900s

The Edward S. Curtis Collection offers a unique glimpse into Curtis’s work with indigenous cultures. The more than 2,400 silver-gelatin photographic prints were acquired by the Library of Congress through copyright deposit from about 1900 through 1930. About two-thirds (1,608) of these images were not published in Curtis’s multi-volume work, The North American…

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