A photo of Otto Liebenow in military uniform. This photograph was sent to his sister-in-law in Victoria, Australia. It was taken for his mother's 54th birthday in February 1890, held in Frankfurt / Oder.
The photographer was J.Lawitzky, of Atelier J. Lawitzky, Behrenstrasse 21, Berlin
Who doesn't love a man (or woman) in uniform? Almost everybody has worn a uniform sometime in their life - these are the vintage versions of those uniforms.
Uniforms are worn by many kinds of people - children and adults - in all kinds of organizations. Police, firefighters, nurses, paramedics, the military, Boy Scouts, Girls Scouts, sports teams, prisone...
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...
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Discover how fashion has changed over the years with this collection of photos.
Fashion styles & vintage clothing throughout the decades that will inspire, make you wish for those times again, or may make you ask "What were they thinking"?
Clothing styles have obviously changed ...
German people through time: A visual retrospective.
Located in Central Europe, Germany was unified as a nation-state in 1871 under Prussian leadership, forming the German Empire. Before unification, it was a collection of independent states within the ...