Students, Üsküdar High School, Turkey, 1888.
Turkish high school portraits from the 1880’s!
Turkish High School Portraits
Monthly Archives: September 2012
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Baby Bobby
Bobby Fischer was just 13-years-old when he defeated American chess master Donald Byrne in 1956, marking the beginning of an extraordinary but difficult chess career.
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Marilyn Movie Maker
In 1955, Peter Mangone was a big-eared, fourteen-year-old Bronx boy with a deep love for Marilyn Monroe.
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Teenage Drag Queens
httpv://youtu.be/x7Ylpm6o478
“There’s glamour as a guy, there’s glamour as a girl, there’s glamour as a club kidgirl, as an elegant girl, any way I want, there’s always glamour.
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Magdalene Laundries
The Magdalene Laundries were convents for “fallen women” all over Britain, Europe, America, Canada and Australia — the first of which was founded in 1765 in Dublin, Ireland.
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Boy Scout Jamboree
These boots were made for walking! Two Venezuelan boy scouts departed Caracas on January 11, 1935 and walked 25 miles a day for two years in order to make it to the 1937 Boy Scout Jamboree in Washington DC.
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Puerto Rico in Illinois
Students from Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos Puerto Rican High School in Chicago, IL pose in front of a mural.
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Rison Family Pictures
A collection of lovingly worn portraits and snapshots from the Rison Family Photograph collection.
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Soviet Beauty Queens
Dashwood Books in NYC recently published a book-like zine on Soviet Beauty Queens.