Category: <span>Retronaut</span>

The 1910 Great Flood of Paris was the worst the city’s seen

By Shannon Connellan and Keith Wagstaff2018-01-24 08:59:35 UTC The Seine is flooding in Paris, but it’s not the first time….

Over the course of 13 weeks, the code was developed, practiced, and committed to memory. It grew into a sprawling…

The Italian filmmaker Marta Savina has brought Viola’s story to life in a 15-minute short film that was recently screened…

Image: Marcia Bricker Halperin One frigid day in February 1975, Marcia Bricker Halperin, a budding street photographer, was shooting storefront…

Born in Chicago in 1946, Wayne Sorce studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and went on…

In 1900, German chocolate company Hildebrands produced a series of postcards imagining the wonders of life in the year 2000….

Born and raised in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, William Bullard worked as a photographer without a studio, visiting clients…

Wallace G. Levison was a chemist, inventor, and lecturer who founded the Departments of Mineralogy and Astronomy at the Brooklyn…

C. and G. Zangaki were two Greek brothers who were active photographers in Egypt from the 1870s to 1890s. Apart…

c. 1930 An overhead view of people on 36th St. between 8th and 9th Aves., New York. Manhattan’s Garment District…