Rare Historical Photos

This clip from the Early Motion Picture collection was filmed 1905 and scanned on HD format. The view on Manhattans Theatre District is from the top of the then newly-erected Times Building, at a height of approximately twenty stories. The photographer makes a pan to the north over the tops of the buildings from Bryant Park, south of 42nd Street (behind the New York Public Library) up 6th Avenue to the Hippodrome Theatre at 43rd Street. A marquee on the theater reads "A Yankee Circus On Mars." The camera continues toward 44th and 45th Streets between 6th and 7th Avenues, until coming to rest looking directly north up Times Square to 46th Street, where Broadway (left) and 7th Avenue (right) diverge again<br/><br/><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWQF8YEWR0k" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>

With the flapper era bringing in a new breed of girls, bathing beauty contests were popping up in cities throughout the United States. Miss America <span class="st">beauty contest</span> began in Atlantic City in 1921.<br/><br/>Chicago capitalized on this trend in 1922 by starting the Miss Chicago contest, which is still held yearly, and Texas followed suit in 1926, creating the International Pageant of Pulchritude (a fancy word meaning beauty), which became the Miss Universe competition.<br/><br/>[caption id="attachment_17185" align="aligncenter" width="450"]<img alt="" class="wp-image-17185" height="555" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Chicago-Georgia-Theodora-Hale-was-the-winner-in-the-first-year-of-the-Miss-Chicago-contest-in-1922.-831x1024-243x300.jpg" width="450" /> Miss Chicago Georgia Theodora Hale was the winner in the first year of the Miss Chicago contest in 1922[/caption]<br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><br/>One Chicago beauty was Ella Van Hueson, Miss Universe in 1928. Van Hueson had this to say after her win: "Chicago girls are beautiful. new cities have pretty girls, but Chicago has the beautiful ones'<br/><br/><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-17198 alignleft" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Ella-Van-Hueson-circa-June-16-1928.-842x1024-247x300.jpg" width="247" /><br/><br/><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-17199 alignleft" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Universe-Ella-Van-Hueson-circa-June-16-1928.-836x1024-245x300.jpg" width="245" /><br/><br/><img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-17200 alignleft" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/zxcxcd-240x300.jpg" width="240" /><br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/> <br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><br/><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17186" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Maebelle-Soller-at-the-Miss-Chicago-contest-circa-Aug.-31-1926.-801x1024-235x300.jpg" width="235" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17187" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Estelle-Kosloff-20-circa-August-16-1927.-Kosloff-won-the-Miss-Chicago-beauty-pageant-in-1927-but-was-disqualified-when-the-pageant-found-out-she-was-recently-married.-810x1024-237x300.jpg" width="237" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17188" height="245" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/On-Aug.-2-1926-Mae-Greene-18-was-chosen-as-Miss-Chicago-1926.-300x245.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17189" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Myrtle-Christine-Valsted-17-was-Miss-Chicago-in-1927.-245x300.jpg" width="245" /><br/><br/><!--nextpage--><br/><br/><img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17190" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/On-Aug.-2-1926-Mae-Greene-18-was-chosen-as-Miss-Chicago-1926-out-of-4000-rivals-at-the-Trianon-Ballroom-in-Chicago.-801x1024-235x300.jpg" width="235" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17191" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Myrtle-Christine-Valsted-17-circa-July-11-1927.-Valsted-became-Miss-Chicago-1927-after-the-original-winner-Estelle-Kosloff-was-found-out-to-be-married.-815x1024-239x300.jpg" width="239" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17192" height="234" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Milwaukee-Clare-Koehler-from-left-Miss-Chicago-Margaret-Leigh-Miss-Los-Angeles-Lillian-Knight-and-Miss-Sioux-City-Alta-Sterling-circa-Sept.-1924.-600x468-300x234.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17193" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Chicago-Margaret-Leigh-came-in-fourth-place-at-the-Atlantic-City-Miss-America-beauty-contest-the-most-prestigious-beauty-contest-in-America-in-September-of-1924.-816x1024-239x300.jpg" width="239" /><br/><br/> <br/><br/><!--nextpage--> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17194" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Chicago-of-1925-Margarita-Gonzales-circa-1925.-Gonzales-was-a-candidate-for-the-national-title-at-the-Atlantic-City-beauty-contest-in-1925-but-was-eliminated-in-the-first-round.-237x300.jpg" width="237" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17195" height="243" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Virgina-Stonesifer-from-left-Betty-Ann-Savers-Doris-Rutkin-Margaret-Dorney-Novene-LaRue-and-Myrtle-Christine-Valsted-in-the-Miss-Chicago-contest-circa-1927.-300x243.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17196" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Miss-Chicago-contestant-Lucille-Burgess-left-with-Betty-Blythe-circa-March-20-1926.-798x1024-234x300.jpg" width="234" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-17197" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Margaret-Knight-right-and-two-other-girls-participate-in-the-1926-Miss-Chicago-contest.-799x1024-234x300.jpg" width="234" />

There are many apps these days which claim to colorize with a click of a button your old black & white photographs, but these compare poorly to the work of a real artist.<br><br>I’ve seen many good colorists over the years, but none compare to the artistry of Russian woman <strong>Olga Shirnina</strong>, who has perfected it. Working under the name Klimbim, her work has gone viral over the past few years when she began breathing new life into Russian history, from the Romanov family archive to the Red Army.<br><br>My personal favorites are her colorized portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Che Guevera.<br><br>[caption id="attachment_16457" align="aligncenter" width="680"]<img alt="" class="wp-image-16457" height="481" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1910-Washington-DC-group-of-ladies-500x354.jpg" width="680"> 1910 Washington DC group of ladies feature[/caption]<br><br><br><h3 style="text-align: center;"><strong>1920's Women in Color</strong></h3><br><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-16459 size-full" height="361" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1920s-Fashion-in-color2-500x361.jpg" width="500"><br><br><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-16460 size-full" height="383" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1920s-Fashion-in-color-500x383.jpg" width="500"><br><h3 style="text-align: center;">1930s beauty in color</h3><br><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-16461" height="409" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1930s-beauty-in-color-Myrna-Loy-500x325-300x195.jpg" width="630"><br><br> <br><br><img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-16477" height="426" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/marlene_dietrich-1930-in-color-500x338-300x203.jpg" width="630">