Vintage Photographs that are Made for Sharing Online – in Pictures
Fascinating historical pictures posted on Twitter by Retronaut, IndiaHistoryPic and HistoryinPix – from the factory workers pressing Rubber Soul, to the construction of the Hoover dam and India's first female doctor
1910s Imperial Russia in colourSergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was paid by the Tsar to capture images of the Russian Empire. The colour wipes away the years like polish wiping away tarnish from a ring. Here, three young women offer berries to visitors to their izba, a traditional wooden house, in a rural area along the Sheksna River, near the town of Kirillov, circa 1909. Photograph: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii/Library of Congress. Shared by Retronaut1930s Construction of the Hoover damIs this taken at an angle to look more dangerous than it is? We bemoan health and safety – and then we see something like this. Photograph: AWS.org. Shared by Retronaut1838 Paris street sceneThe earliest reliably dated photograph of a person – on Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 1838. Photograph: Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. Shared by Retronaut1949 Colour photograph of Piccadilly Circus Taken on Kodachrome by Chalmers Butterfield, this picture is bright enough and sharp enough to look like a digital photograph. People aren’t used to a past that looks this crisp, which is why the picture got shared so much. Photograph: Chalmers Butterfield. Shared by Retronaut
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