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Posts Tagged: Girls

  • July 31, 2012

    Pattern Fashion

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Back in the day most teenage girls knew how to sew (and well).

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • July 13, 2012

    Swim Girl, Swim!

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Gertrude Ederle learned in swim at age 9 in while summering in her New Jersey cottage.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • June 13, 2012

    Emma Girls

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Emma Willard School in Troy, NY was founded in 1814 by Emma Willard in an effort to provide girls with the same  level of education as boys.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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  • June 5, 2012

    Vieva Wonder, age 13

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Take a glimpse into the life of a Johnstown, PA teenager from 1930-1932 – inside the scrapbook of Vieva Wonder (best name!)

    FROM:Dear Diary

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  • March 19, 2012

    Police Police Will Come

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    httpv://youtu.be/nmPA4wEMGf4

    Brazil, 1983. Four students — three girls and a boy — formed Mercenarias. 

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • March 5, 2012

    Miss Iran, 1978

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Before the Isamlic revolution of 1979 in Iran, there were the beauty pageants of 1978 in Iran.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • February 23, 2012

    Looks of ’69

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Bellbottoms, beads, bare mid drifts, ginghams, fringe leather vests, long flowing hair–these were the looks of high schoolers, 1969.

    FROM:Threads Ahead

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  • February 21, 2012

    Miss Navajo

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    This may be the only pageant where contestants are required to know how to butcher a sheep—Miss Navajo.

    FROM:Tube Time

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  • January 26, 2012

    Mid-wink, Mid-gum chew, Mid-hair twirl

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Take a peek at these disturbingly awkward portraits of teenage girls by Stockholm based artist Julia Peirone.

    FROM:Youth Happenings

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  • December 20, 2011

    Edison TV

    BY Kelly Rakowski

    Early motion pictures made by inventor extraordinaire Thomas Edison.

    FROM:Archive Fever

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