Año nuevo 2000 en el Salón dorado del Hotel Jose Noguiera, Punta Arenas
People in photo include: Manuel Vasquez Arguelles and Angela Aurora Sapunar Pavlov
Birthdays are the one day of the year where we celebrate our own lives and the lives of those who are important to us. A day to spend with family and friends, to eat birthday cake, give and get prese...
Portrait photographs and paintings of our loved ones and ancestors.
Before photos we had paintings of family members - most usually these were reserved for the well off. The era of modern photography began with the daguerreotype, in 1839. Since the advent of photogr...
Architectural wonders that showcase our cultural history.
From famous architects like Frank Lloyd Wright (1867 - 1959), to our great grandparents who built our ancestral family homes, architecture is part of our culture and a representation of how we see our...
Photos documenting holidays, special events, and celebrations.
Before the advent of photography, we didn't have a way to see visually what happened. Now, of course, we have over two centuries of visual recollections of how people celebrate the important events i...
Old photos of workers and businesses from past decades
While we don't know what the first business transaction was, it is easy to imagine that thousands of years ago a good hunter bartered his excess meat for something more useful to him. In the history ...