Late 20th Century

Rococo art 🌹 on Instagram: “💐 Cesare Augusto Detti 💐 An Elegant Gathering 💐 Late 19th century/early 20th century 💐 Private collection . What do you think of this…”

What and who makes us who we are? Genes, people, environment? I was going through my documents and found my daughter’s personal statement for her application for college. We were living in San Franci...

Telephone Operator, Wisconsin, 1915

The Loop Previous Story: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO Next Story: WEST SIDE GROUNDS

Although fashion did not embrace the look of trousers on the female form until the late 20th century, history saw working women wearing them a hundred years prior. From Victorian coal miners who rolled up their skirts around their waist to reveal soot-covered pants underneath to today’s terrible backlash of factory-torn denim, spandex jeggings, and bedazzled bums, women’s pants have undergone quite a transformation. Let’s take a look at the early fashion of women’s pants from the festooned…

The Fifth Avenue mansion's top floor has a room with a Faraday Cage, where people met during the Cold War to evade wire taps, installed after Yugoslavia bought the property in 1946.

A look back at the iconic images of Life magazine, presented by Getty Images.

By the end of the 19th century, London was not just a bustling, world-class city. It was also the center of Britain's Empire. People living in London had access to goods from around the world... if they could afford them, that is. Not everyone could afford them, however, since London was also a city of contrasts. London by Alfred Buckham, pioneer of aerial photography. Eighteenth century houses at Borough Market by William Whiffin Bunhill Fields A plane tree in Cheapside Dirty Dick’s in…

View auction details, art exhibitions and online catalogues; bid, buy and collect contemporary, impressionist or modern art, old masters, jewellery, wine, watches, prints, rugs and books at sotheby's auction house