When we think of the 1960s, our minds usually drift toward the moon landing, the Beatles, and the rise of the counterculture movement. However, if you dig through the archives of mid-century ...

What once was considered a legitimate exercise could now be considered pretty pointless. The vibrating belt was a popular device in the 1930s and 1950s. Portable saunas were also used because it was ...

Well, fear not - because we've been rifling through the picture archives of Alamy and have found photographic evidence. Yes, if you think times are hard now, pity the poor people who used to keep pet ...

What is it about vintage costumes that makes them so much more bizarre—and so much scarier—than their modern equivalents? Were people really that much stranger back then, or do they only look absurd ...