• Welcome to Wildwood, NJ.

    httpv://youtu.be/2eqCBCUawKY

    Wildwood, NJ. 1994. Filmmakers Carol Weaks/Cassidy and Ruth Leitman took to the shore of “the last great American blue-collar carnival town” and documented the Jersey girls in all their glory.

  • Special School #619

    Left, a teen drug addict at Riverside Hospital is administered a shot in the arm.

  • Bedouin Youth

    A 1930’s Bedouin youth in Palmyra, an ancient city in present-day Syria.  

  • 1991 Prom

    httpv://youtu.be/4V3xV7Jdm-k

    Glamour gals! Check out these senior year ladies dancing to Prince at their 1991 prom.

  • Desegregation in Tennessee

    Clinton, Tennessee — African-American teens walk through a tense crowd of white boys to enter the newly integrated Clinton High School.  

  • Blitz Kids

    The Blitz Kids were a band of sexually ambiguous characters that frequented the Blitz nightclub in the early 1980s.

  • Motion Picture School

    1925 — The hopeful applicants to Paramount Motion Picture School on Astoria, Long Island!

  • First Female Page!

    Fourteen-year-old Gene Cox became the first female page in the National House of Representatives on January 3rd, 1939.

  • Street Style

    Nowadays, according to Ted Polhemus, cutting edge street-style is defined by individuality and pastiche.