Time machine: 37 archival photographs about everything in the world (38 photos)

There was a time when some things were considered chic, but now they can no longer surprise anyone. Something new quickly becomes commonplace. Here are strange ideas and inventions that demonstrate how the view of things changes over the years. Perhaps these photos will make you smile or even grin.





1. Bad review of the "painless dentist" in the 1920s



Liar

2. Photo in memory of the lost husband and father, 1925





3. Nathan Khan was arrested in 1940 for wearing women's clothing. The man refused to wear a man's suit provided to him by Detective Holt.



4. The cast of Monty Python's Flying Circus, 1976



5. Anne Francis wearing real budgie earrings in Forbidden Planet, 1956



6. A group of teenage girls, Estonia, 1930



This photograph was given to Kaisa Kaer by her grandmother Aino - the girl on the right in the second row, who lights a cigarette. “She was about 15 years old at the time of filming, and these were her friends,” explains Kaisa. “I don’t have more specific information about who they were. They were involved in amateur theater. My grandmother never smoked, but she had a sparkling sense of humor".

Kaisa said that her grandmother married the pharmacist Nikolai. During World War II, they lived and worked in a small town in Estonia, and the German officer who lived in their house treated them well and even suggested that they go to his family in Germany (somewhere near Frankfurt) to hide from war. “Grandfather and grandmother refused, and so,” she added, “grandfather was deported to Siberia, he was released under Khrushchev. He returned home, but died four years later, as his health was undermined.”

“The most vivid memory of my grandmother is when we come to visit her with my parents and brother, sit at the kitchen table and play mahjong for hours, the dice for which my grandfather made.” Aino died in 2009.

7. Women's self-defense gloves, London, circa 1850



8. Zardoz (1974) - Probably the weirdest movie ever made



The film takes place in 2293 on a post-apocalyptic Earth. The sci-fi film was produced and directed by John Boorman. The role of Zed is played by Sean Connery, who, dressed in a scarlet mankini, defeats the almighty computer.

9. Vinyl record booths, 1950s



In many music stores you could use a special booth and listen to records before purchasing.

10. Dog dressed in a suit with a kitten on his lap, 1950s



11. The photograph was taken in 1911 by Francis James Mortimer (1874-1944), a pioneer of pictorial photography.



The sea is his favorite topic. He captured the shipwreck of the three-masted ship Arden Craig, which crashed onto the rocks after the captain became disoriented due to heavy fog.

12. In the 1970s and 80s, there were two types of children: the one who was on a bicycle and jumped over, and the one who lay on the ground and was jumped over



13. Concept design for car seat belts from the 1960s



14. Secret meeting of grandmothers



15. Rock star Alice Cooper at home with his girlfriend wearing a mask based on the film "Creature from the Black Lagoon", a remake of which was released in 1975



The photo was taken by Terry O'Neill in August 1975. At the end of the same month, the house burned down while the musician was in New York. The woman in the picture is Cindy Lang. She and Alice separated in 1975. Cindy had no children. The child in the picture is Mickey Dolenz's daughter Amy.

16. Two wax mannequins melted during a heat wave in London in 1929



17. “Kiss of Death”, photographer Bruna Casinoti, 1988



18. Italian actress Marisa Allasio surrounded by young priests, 1957



19. Couple hugging in a hole on the beach, July 4, 1950, Santa Monica, California



20. Winona Ryder on the set of Beetlejuice, 1988



21. Photograph of Francesca Woodman (April 3, 1958 - January 19, 1981)



Her photographs are not self-portraits in the traditional sense of the word. She is often naked or semi-nude and usually half-hidden - sometimes by furniture, sometimes by slow exposure that blurs the figure into a ghost.

22. Pubic wigs



Brothel workers removed hair from their private parts to avoid pubic lice. And such accessories helped them hide sexually transmitted diseases from clients. The first pubic wigs went on sale in the 1450s.

23. British Airways Flight 5390



On June 10, 1990, British Airways BAC 1-11-528FL was operating scheduled flight BA5390 from Birmingham to Malaga. 13 minutes after takeoff, one windshield blew out, as a result of which the aircraft commander, Timothy Lancaster, was half thrown out of the cockpit. After 20 minutes, the co-pilot was able to land the plane at Southampton Airport. Lancaster suffered serious injuries but survived. And 5 months later he returned to the helm.

24. The Irish originally carved Halloween lanterns from turnips and potatoes.



25. Jodie Foster holding a lamb during a promotional shoot for The Silence of the Lambs, 1991



26. Patrick Swayze poses with his beloved dog, 1980s



27. Daguerreotype portrait of a blind man from the mid-19th century



28. “Post-apocalyptic wedding” by photojournalist Anatoly Zhdanov, 1989



29. At the beginning of the 20th century, water bridges for logging, as well as for transporting people, were not uncommon in the USA and Canada



30. Christmas in the hospital, Sweden, 1953



31. Hollywood actress Veronica Lake demonstrates what can happen to women working in factories who wear their hair down, November 1943



During World War II, the actress, at the insistence of the government, changed her style and appearance to promote occupational safety.

32. Jay Orberg's Wide Limousine



Jay Orberg is Hollywood's favorite automotive designer who has created hundreds of experimental cars with an incredible array of features. His creations have been featured in more than 100 films, television shows and videos, earning him the title of "King of Show Cars."

33. Child in a mask, 1950s



34. "Don't be skinny!"



Advertisement for weight gain tonic.

35. Attraction "Rotor"



The ride was designed by German engineer Ernst Hoffmeister in 1948 and unveiled at Oktoberfest in Germany a year later. The rotation of the barrel created a centrifugal effect. The bottom disappeared from under their feet, and people were pressed against the walls. At the end of the session, the barrel slowed down and gravity returned. They didn't think about safety back then.

36. In Goldfield, Nevada there is a grave of an unknown person who was poisoned by library glue in 1908



As the story goes, in 1908, a tramp was rummaging through the trash near the library in search of something to eat. The best thing he came across was a jar of book glue. The paste seemed surprisingly sweet to him, because in addition to flour and water, it consisted of 60% alum. Unfortunately, the concentration was deadly.

37. Window tent from the 1910s



The window tent was originally developed for tuberculosis patients who needed to sleep in the fresh air. The device turned out to be so convenient and inexpensive that it became popular among healthy people. The awning on a steel frame was attached to the wall above the window, and inside the room there was a closed part of the tent. So the air remained in the tent itself and did not cool the room.