A 1930’s Bedouin youth in Palmyra, an ancient city in present-day Syria.
Bedouin Youth
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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Desegregation in Tennessee
Clinton, Tennessee — African-American teens walk through a tense crowd of white boys to enter the newly integrated Clinton High School.
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Blitz Kids
The Blitz Kids were a band of sexually ambiguous characters that frequented the Blitz nightclub in the early 1980s.
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Motion Picture School
1925 — The hopeful applicants to Paramount Motion Picture School on Astoria, Long Island!
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First Female Page!
Fourteen-year-old Gene Cox became the first female page in the National House of Representatives on January 3rd, 1939.
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Hello Halbstarke!
Yankees – Halbstarke (1965)
Lyrics: They race (biduah, biduah) / through the streets / and the alleys / they are deserted / blonde beehives / with bands in the hair / and on the black leather that they wear.
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Young Miners
These sorrowful photographs by Lewis Hine show the work life of young boys during a time when child labor was exploited.
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Manual High Makers
The students at Manual Training High School in Denver, Colorado studied more than just reading and writing.
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Joyriding in Dublin
Ballymun Towers, Dublin. One of the most renowned council estates in Ireland.
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New Age Travelers
New Age Travelers are young people inspired by the traveling traditions of the gypsies and nomads who’ve roamed Europe for centuries; they are idealists looking for an alternative form of living.