Stories, News, Articles and Galleries reflecting our collection
Sit back and enjoy the heyday of cinema and going to watch a film. This week on April 2nd over 120 years ago in 1902, Tally’s Electric Theater opened – it was the first permanent movie theater in Los Angeles, with the Hollywood district of the city soon to become central to film-making and cinema around […]
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UIG contributing partner Underwood Archives offers researchers a vintage and historic glimpse into America’s past. The collection includes thousands of images of politicians, entertainers, and other notables from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Underwood archive offers a peak at the daily lives of Americans in years gone by, humorous images from a simpler time, […]
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Jump in to our time machine as we take you back 100 years to the United Sates in 1924. What was going on in the daily lives of people, what events were happening? Are there things we do now that were surprisingly similar all that time ago? When you do see something in these images […]
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Photography in its early days was seen more as a mechanical and scientific process than a new medium for art. Throughout the 1800’s, photography was often defined simply as a process to capture a visible reality. Even the most aesthetically pleasing and creative images produced for most of the 19th century were understood to be […]
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