• Welcome to Wildwood, NJ.

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    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.

  • Desegregation in Tennessee

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

  • First Female Page!

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

  • Street Style

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

  • Young Miners

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    These sorrowful photographs by Lewis Hine show the work life of young boys during a time when child labor was exploited.