13 Vintage Photos Of Christmases Past
In Charles Dickens’s classic “A Christmas Carol,” the Ghost of Christmas Past was a scary and morose figure and a reminder of all the things that Ebenezer Scrooge had done wrong in his life. In reality, for the most part, Christmases past aren’t really very…
13 Vintage Pet Photos to Make You Go ‘Awww’
Think pet photography is something that was invented with Instagram or possibly LOLCats? Hardly! People have been snapping pictures of their pets since the camera was invented; after all, man’s best friend is also man’s best subject. To celebrate National Pet Week (and Throwback Thursday),…
#TBT: CreativeLive Staffer’s Actual Senior Portraits
Senior portraits are a right of passage for many American teens – even your CreativeLive staffers, who have graciously agreed to share theirs. This isn’t the first time (Senior Communications Manager Whitney Ricketts let us use this one as an example of an awkward, bygone…
Throwback Thursday: Vintage Easter Photos (Including Creepy Bunnies)
Everybody loves a creepy Easter bunny picture, but there’s a lot more to vintage Easter photos than terrifying bunny costumes. Easter photos have long been a family tradition; in countries where Easter is celebrated widely, it’s a day when the entire clan dresses in their…
Throwback Thursday: Presidents’ Day Edition
Though a lot of people don’t know his name, plenty of Americans know Pete Souza‘s images. As the official photographer of White House photographer, Souza’s pictures of the First Family and their travels have defined the Obama administration — but more than that, he’s part…
Super Bowl #TBT: Vintage Photos Show How Much Football Has Changed
This weekend, Millions of Americans will gather around televisions and computers to watch one of the biggest spectacles in sports: The Super Bowl. For more than 40 years, the top two teams in the NFL have met to duke it out on the field. But…
Vintage School Photos Show How Education Has — and Hasn’t — Changed
In the last, oh, hundred years, education has both changed a ton and also not changed much at all. At least, that’s the lesson we’re learning from these vintage school photos from the Flickr Commons. Sure, we’ve got online education (oh, hello there!) and more…
11 Vintage Photos of Old-Timey Musicians
This week, NPR reported on a study which found that the human brain, regardless of a person’s perceived ability to keep a beat, can still keep time. The findings further underscored a long-running theory that music truly is a universal human language, as old as…
11 Vintage Photos of What Photography Used to Look Like
When you consider the scope of human history, it’s kind of incredible to think how far photography has come since its birth just a few hundred years ago. From the humble camera obscura to the ridiculously cool technology we all use to shoot now, it’s…
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