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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 beauty contest began in Atlantic City in 1921. 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. [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]  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' <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" /> <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" /> <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" />  <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" />  <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" />  <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" />

Chicago is a significant transportation hub in the States. It does a lot of things in a big way. Not surprisingly Chicago has a great deal of big buildings. It is a major world financial center, with the second largest central business district in the United States. Downtown Chicago, the company center, is called the Loop. <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17168" height="590" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/World-Columbian-Exposition-Chicago-Illinois-1893-Court-of-Honor-300x236.jpg" width="750" />'  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17169 size-full" height="478" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Danger-Sign-Edison-Park-Chicago-1917-600x478.jpg" width="600" />'' <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17170" height="408" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Gertrude-“Billie”-Murphy-22-is-brought-in-for-questioning-in-the-murder-case-of-Michael-Stopec-Chicago-c.1927-500x300-300x180.jpg" width="680" />  <img alt="" class="size-medium wp-image-17175 aligncenter" height="150" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/On-Aug.-2-1926-Mae-Greene-18-was-chosen-as-Miss-Chicago-1926.-290x150.jpg" width="290" /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17176" height="408" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Women-in-Chicago-being-arrested-for-wearing-one-piece-bathing-suits-and-showing-a-little-leg.-1922.-500x300-300x180.jpg" width="680" />' <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17178 size-full" height="450" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/The-Auto-Wash-Bowl-in-Chicago.-1924.-600x450.jpg" width="600" />'  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17179" height="592" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Chicago-Illinois-1920s-Traffic-on-a-bridge.-300x261.jpg" width="680" />

Mata Hari is the stage name of Margaretha Geertruida (Grietje) Zelle. He was born on August 7, 1876 in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands and died on October 15, 1917 in Vincennes, France who was sentenced to death for spying in World War I <img alt="" class=" wp-image-17126 aligncenter" height="273" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/800px-Mata_Hari_15-300x200.jpg" width="410" /> 100 years ago Mata Hari faced the firing squad as a convicted Dutch spy. It was at this moment that the legend of Mata Hari, the seductive spy, was born. Newly-discovered documents cast doubt on her guilt and reveal startling truths about her life. Mata Hari was a self-made woman whose boldness and sexuality threatened the male establishment. Most of what we've known about her until now has largely been myth. Mata Hari's challenges as an abused wife, single mother and a creative independent woman are familiar to women around the world. <img alt="" class=" wp-image-17127 aligncenter" height="414" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/7121896d208a406bc209e0f0cc1bd37d-219x300.jpg" width="302" /> here is convert black and white to color photos by klimbim <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17130 size-large" height="815" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_9516863701_o-1024x815.jpg" width="1024" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17131 size-full" height="758" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_14936450179_o.jpg" width="750" /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17132 size-full" height="1000" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_16114094438_o.jpg" width="745" /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17133 size-full" height="658" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_21055515523_o.jpg" width="465" /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17134 size-full" height="900" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_21705442526_o.jpg" width="647" /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17135 size-full" height="1200" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_23548177062_o.jpg" width="750" /> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17136 size-full" height="862" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_27503373301_o.jpg" width="611" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17137 size-full" height="900" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_27676246946_o.jpg" width="645" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17138 size-full" height="800" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_28240988144_o.jpg" width="588" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17139 size-full" height="567" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari_28877999665_o.jpg" width="900" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17140 size-full" height="921" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari-_39330605292_o.jpg" width="576" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17141 size-full" height="1000" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari-1899_32927160055_o.jpg" width="614" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17142 size-full" height="574" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari-1906-close-up_21720317832_o.jpg" width="724" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17143 size-large" height="1024" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari-9402348-1-raw-770x1024.jpg" width="770" />  <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17144 size-large" height="1024" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mata-hari-9402348-3-raw-784x1024.jpg" width="784" /> At the turn of the century, her struggles to attain sexual freedom, artistic expression, and liberation from the constraints of conventional society are the same ones women face today. She graced the cover of Vogue, performed all over Europe and left a coterie of smitten admirers in her wake

Late 19th-century New York City was a magnet for the world’s immigrants, and the vast majority of them found not streets paved with gold but nearly subhuman squalor. While polite society turned a blind eye, brave reporters like the Danish-born Jacob Riis documented this shame of the Gilded Age. Riis did this by venturing into the city’s most ominous neighborhoods with his blinding magnesium flash powder lights, capturing the casual crime, grinding poverty and frightful overcrowding. Most famous of these was Riis’ image of a Lower East Side street gang, which conveys the danger that lurked around every bend. Such work became the basis of his revelatory book How the Other Half Lives, which forced Americans to confront what they had long ignored and galvanized reformers like the young New York politician Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote to the photographer, “I have read your book, and I have come to help.” Riis’ work was instrumental in bringing about New York State’s landmark Tenement House Act of 1901, which improved conditions for the poor. <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17108 size-full" height="480" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/be036581-1.jpg" width="614"> <img alt="" class="aligncenter wp-image-17109 size-large" height="843" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200915-1-1024x843.jpg" width="1024">

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. I’ve seen many good colorists over the years, but none compare to the artistry of Russian woman Olga Shirnina, 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. My personal favorites are her colorized portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Che Guevera. [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] <h3 style="text-align: center;">1920's Women in Color</h3> <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"> <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"> <h3 style="text-align: center;">1930s beauty in color</h3> <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"> <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">

The end of the 19th century in the city of New York was a magnet for the immigrants of the world, and most of them found roads not bordered by gold but of almost inhuman poverty. While educated people turn a blind eye, brave reporters like Jacob Riis, born in Denmark, document the shame of the Golden Age. Riis does this by venturing into the city's most unpleasant environment with dazzling lights of magnesium dust, capturing common crimes, destroying the terrible poverty and density. The most famous is the image of Riis on the gang of Lower East Side Street, which conveys the danger that lurks at each step. Such work forms the basis of the book for the disclosure of How Half Other Lives, forcing Americans to confront what they have long ignored and galvanizing reformers like the young New York politician Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote to photographers: "I read your book, and I come to help." Riis' work was instrumental in the realization of the House Act of 1901, which was a landmark in New York, which improved conditions for the poor, and its focus Enthusiastic and confrontational style that led directly to the era of documentary and scandal. journalism <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16440" height="247" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200915-300x247.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16441" height="247" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200924_1-300x247.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16442" height="247" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200945-300x247.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16443" height="243" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200947-300x243.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16444" height="243" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny200971-300x243.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16445" height="241" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201000_0-300x241.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16446" height="244" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201031-300x244.jpg" width="300" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16447" height="300" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201071-241x300.jpg" width="241" /> <img alt="" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-16448" height="240" src="http://oldpicsarchive.online/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/mny201087-300x240.jpg" width="300" />

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