Retro Photo (Anything Retro)

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Emperor Caligula's ships (Italy, 1932)

 

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WWI (1914-18): tecnology & weapons

 

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The early days of Dentistry part 1

 

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The early days of Dentistry part 2

 

[MustangJack]

 

[trencherman]

@ golfdelta21 Early dentistry


Why do you think sitters for early photographic portraits always looked sullen? They could not, even if their lives depended on an open lipped smile, simply to hide hideous dental work.

Besides, I would view modern medicine and dentistry with utmost scepticism if not total disbelief if they had not shored up their often quacky practice with the requisite hygiene (Joseph Lister, 1867); anesthesia (diethyl ether, Crawford W. Long, 1849) and penicillin (Alexander Fleming, 1942).

 

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Caricature of an atavistic fear

@ golfdelta21 Early dentistry


Why do you think sitters for early photographic portraits always looked sullen? They could not, even if their lives depended on an open lipped smile, simply to hide hideous dental work.

Besides, I would view modern medicine and dentistry with utmost scepticism if not total disbelief if they had not shored up their often quacky practice with the requisite hygiene (Joseph Lister, 1867); anesthesia (diethyl ether, Crawford W. Long, 1849) and penicillin (Alexander Fleming, 1942).

In the second half of the 19th century, dentistry made much progress. This especially in the main cities.
In small villages, tooth extraction was often done by barbers or charlatans. The poorest people resorted to dentists just to get rid of the sore tooth.
The use of anesthesia began in 1846, but was little used in small country villages. Often the extraction of the teeth provoked even deadly infections.
The pain caused by the extraction of the tooth, the infections that sometimes the patient had were the reasons why the dentist was seen with terror by many people.
Even today, many people have a real terror of the dentist. For many it is an atavistic fear, innate as is the fear of snakes
Some of the photos I have uploaded still accentuate the fear in a caricatural way
At that time, photographs were made to be sold as postcards. Make a caricature of a "job" was the way to sell more photos/postcards.
These images prove it

 

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Gas and Electric Stoves in the 1950s

 

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The jump of the Snake River Canyon (1974)

 

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Italy in the Late 1950s

 

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In my opinion the big revolution in the kitchens of ordinary people in Europe happened when mass produced cast iron kitchen stoves could be bought by almost anyone everywhere from the mid 19th century on.

 

[MustangJack]

1969 Robin Williams

 

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London's first Routemaster in 1956

 

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Ellis Island immigrants 1910 circa

 

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Pin-Up Bombshell Nose Art of World War II Bombers

 

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The French Foreign Legion - Old pics (1880-1953)

 

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American Writers Janet Flanner & Solita Solano

 

[MustangJack]

QE2 Coronation

 

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Princess Diana Visits AIDS Hospice

 

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The evolution of typwriters