Paris

Extremely Rare Color Photography of Early 1900s Paris

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Boulevard du Temple by Daguerre

Boulevard du Temple, Paris, 3rd arrondissement, Daguerreotype. The purportedly first picture of a living person. The image shows a busy street, but due to exposure time of more than ten minutes, the traffic was moving too much to appear. The exceptions are the two people at the bottom left, one who stood still getting his boots polished by the other long enough to show. Look closely and you will also see another man sitting on a bench to the right reading a newspaper. Also in the upper left hand side you can also see another man standing under the awning of the 3rd building from the left. What looks to be a woman standing under the street lantern at 10 o'clock from the man getting his shoes shined and another one in the big white building,1st row 3rd window down. Notice the child in the top floor window of the white building in front. Note that the image is a mirror image.  by Louis Daguerre 1787–1851 , between 24 April 1838 and 4 May 1838 

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Rudy and Fredy Walker

 Rudy and Fredy Walker,  Le  Trans-Atlantic 1903

Amphibious Bicycle

This land-and-water bike can carry a load of 120 pounds; Paris, 1932

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Paris Blues

Diahann Carroll and Sidney Poitier in Paris Blues, 1961. 

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Madamoiselle F Fouguet

Madamoiselle F Fouguet of the Folies Bergere. Paris, 1925.

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker dancing at the Folies Bergère in Paris (1927)

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Ada Smith Ducongé

Bricktop outside of her famous Montmartre club.

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (August 14, 1894 — February 1, 1984) was an American dancer, singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris. (Photographed in Paris on June 22, 1934) 

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Nina Payne

Nina Payne, an American dancer who flourished in Paris.

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Paul Poiret

Every decade has its seer or sybil of style, a designer who, above all others, is able to divine and define the desires of women. In the 1910s, this oracle of the mode was Paul Poiret, known in America as "The King of Fashion." Paul Poiret (20 April 1879, Paris, France – 30 April 1944, Paris) was a French fashion designer, French couturier, the most fashionable dress designer of pre-World War I Paris.

Source: benjaminkanarekblog | Library of Congress | Encyclopædia Britannica
 

Vintage Photo

The Flood of the Seine, (January-February 1910), One of the new boats in cloth Acquired by the city servicing Haussmann Boulevard.

Source: Casas-Rodríguez Collection, published by J. Hauser, Paris, France

Mata Hari Postcards

Postcards of Mata Hari in Paris c.1906 

Source: wikipedia

Vintage Photo

"A Frenchman weeps as German soldiers march into the French capital, Paris, on June 14, 1940, after the Allied armies had been driven back across France."  - French people bid troops of the French Army goodbye as they leave metropolitan France at Marseille harbour, 1941, to reach the French colonies in Africa to be organized as Free French Forces.

Source: National Archives and Records Administration, http://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/photos/images/ww2-81.jpg

Vintage Photo

Paris, 1930

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Vintage Photo

Vintage Photo, Paris, 1929

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Vintage Photo

Crotch High Leather Lace Up Boots. Paris, circa 1900s

Source: bootlovers | flickr

Ziegfeld Follies

Chorus girl from Florenz Ziegfeld's theatrical spectaculars known as the Ziegfeld Follies (1907–1931) which were based on the Folies Bergère of Paris.

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Vintage Magazine

Vogue Paris Magazine from May 1933

 Source: getbackintime

Vintage Photo

Children reading a newspaper. Paris - vintage  c.1936

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