VINTAGE PHOTO: Future airline stewardesses in Queens study for their exams, 1939
BY LINDSAY GOLDWERT Before there were flight attendants, the TSA and budget airlines, flying was reserved for the wealthy. Stewardesses, or "air hostesses," as they were called, were all but...
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This gem from the New York City Municipal Archives comes via The Atlantic's Alan Taylor, who has been digging through its recently-released trove of 870,000 photographs that show the city in all its...
View ArticleAmherst College claims to have rare photograph of Emily Dickinson
The world may have a glimpse of quite possibly the most famous shut-in in history. Emily Dickinson, 19th-century poet and recluse, appears to be in an old photograph from her hometown of Amherst,...
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