Plaids & pleats, sweater sets & caps—teen girls in Louisville, Kentucky model the hottest styles for high school at the department store Kaufman-Straus in 1945.
Shop Girls
Series: Archive Fever
Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.
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Industrial High
Future teachers and homemakers looking smart for their class portrait in oversize bows and skinny neckties.
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Gente Joven
The QualityCalidadQualité series published Gente Joven/Young people a dialogue on sexuality with adolescents in Mexico.
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Teen Talk
Long before the birth of AIM, teenagers spent hours with a receiver glued to their ear.
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Mali Youth
Records, twisting, beach bumming, all-night posing, layered in textiles — photographs of Mali youth culture in the 1960s and 70s by Malick Sidibé.
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Camp Nizhoni
Every summer, Colorado girls took the train from Denver to Pinecliff on their way to the fresh mountain air and wilderness of Camp Nizhoni.
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Seeing Double
Another gem from the LIFE Archive! In 1945 the term “teenage” was finally coined.
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Wandering Birds
Jon Savage recently wrote a fascinating article for Vice on the Wandervogel and German youth gangs in the 1930s.
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Celia’s Diary
July 17th : Hottest day I ever saw.
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Working Boys
Wm. Gross, Newsboy, 15 years of age. Selling papers 5 years.