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Rare Rehearsal Photos From Classic Broadway Shows

Martha Swope wanted to be a dancer. So in 1957, she packed her bags and left her Texas hometown for New York City, where she would attend New York’s famous School of American Ballet. One of Swope’s classmates, Jerome Robbins, asked her to photograph a new show he was working...

By Elisabeth Sherman • Oct 27, 2016

Rare Rehearsal Photos From Classic Broadway Shows

Martha Swope wanted to be a dancer. So in 1957, she packed her bags and left her Texas hometown for New York City, where she would attend New York’s famous School of American Ballet. One of Swope’s classmates, Jerome Robbins, asked her to photograph a new show he was working...

By Elisabeth Sherman • October 27, 2016

22 Stunning Photos Of Abandoned Factories Given New Life

Factories, grain elevators, warehouses, power plants — reminders of our industrial inheritance are all around us. But what happens to those buildings after the final shift ends and the lights go out for the last time? Sometimes the buildings remain abandoned, left to crumble and sink back into the Earth....

By All That's Interesting • Oct 26, 2016

22 Stunning Photos Of Abandoned Factories Given New Life

Factories, grain elevators, warehouses, power plants — reminders of our industrial inheritance are all around us. But what happens to those buildings after the final shift ends and the lights go out for the last time? Sometimes the buildings remain abandoned, left to crumble and sink back into the Earth....

By All That's Interesting • October 26, 2016

21 Of The Biggest Misconceptions About World War II

From the 400,000 Axis soldiers on American shores to the real reason the Japanese surrendered, these World War II myths are sure to surprise.

By John Kuroski • Oct 25, 2016

21 Of The Biggest Misconceptions About World War II

From the 400,000 Axis soldiers on American shores to the real reason the Japanese surrendered, these World War II myths are sure to surprise.

By John Kuroski • October 25, 2016

35 Images That Capture The Beatniks’ Heyday In New York City

Explore photos of the movement in 1950s Greenwich Village that was home to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the iconoclastic Beat Generation.

By Alexander Baldwin • Oct 24, 2016

35 Images That Capture The Beatniks’ Heyday In New York City

Explore photos of the movement in 1950s Greenwich Village that was home to Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and the iconoclastic Beat Generation.

By Alexander Baldwin • October 24, 2016

What We Loved This Week, Oct. 16 – 22

Hitler's favorite little girl, Robin Williams' high school days, Siberia's mammoth hunters, stunning microphotography, 19th century mental asylum portraits.

By All That's Interesting • Oct 21, 2016

What We Loved This Week, Oct. 16 – 22

Hitler's favorite little girl, Robin Williams' high school days, Siberia's mammoth hunters, stunning microphotography, 19th century mental asylum portraits.

By All That's Interesting • October 21, 2016

Back From The Brink: 1990s New York In 51 Intense Photos

The 1990s in New York started as the city's worst decade yet ended far better than expected. These surprising photos reveal how.

By John Kuroski • Oct 19, 2016

Back From The Brink: 1990s New York In 51 Intense Photos

The 1990s in New York started as the city's worst decade yet ended far better than expected. These surprising photos reveal how.

By John Kuroski • October 19, 2016

In The ’70s, Halloween Looked Like This For New York City’s Kids

Photographer Larry Racioppo is a people person. “I interact with people, I photograph them head on. As much as I can, I bring them back photos when I know I’m going to see them again,” he told ATI over the phone. Racioppo began photographing Halloween revelers around his native New...

By All That's Interesting • Oct 17, 2016

In The ’70s, Halloween Looked Like This For New York City’s Kids

Photographer Larry Racioppo is a people person. “I interact with people, I photograph them head on. As much as I can, I bring them back photos when I know I’m going to see them again,” he told ATI over the phone. Racioppo began photographing Halloween revelers around his native New...

By All That's Interesting • October 17, 2016

37 Haunting Portraits Of 19th Century Mental Asylum Patients

The mental asylums of 19th century England housed the criminal, the insane, and the unwanted. These are their portraits.

By Alexander Baldwin • Oct 17, 2016

37 Haunting Portraits Of 19th Century Mental Asylum Patients

The mental asylums of 19th century England housed the criminal, the insane, and the unwanted. These are their portraits.

By Alexander Baldwin • October 17, 2016

39 Psychedelic Photos Of Pre-Revolution Russia

From 1909 to 1915, photographer and chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii traveled around the Russian Empire, documenting life in its most rural corners. He photographed farms, small villages, and churches, capturing the daily lives of the people he encountered along the way. And Gorskii didn’t travel for the sake of travel,...

By Elisabeth Sherman • Oct 14, 2016

39 Psychedelic Photos Of Pre-Revolution Russia

From 1909 to 1915, photographer and chemist Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii traveled around the Russian Empire, documenting life in its most rural corners. He photographed farms, small villages, and churches, capturing the daily lives of the people he encountered along the way. And Gorskii didn’t travel for the sake of travel,...

By Elisabeth Sherman • October 14, 2016

What We Loved This Week, Oct. 9 – 15

Bowie's flashiest fashions, 1940s San Francisco, normal life in North Korea, Brooklyn's grimy disco era, powerful child labor photos.

By John Kuroski • Oct 14, 2016

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What We Loved This Week, Oct. 9 – 15

Bowie's flashiest fashions, 1940s San Francisco, normal life in North Korea, Brooklyn's grimy disco era, powerful child labor photos.

By John Kuroski • October 14, 2016