Writing by Topic: Photography
On the Vault
- “Salvaged Photos Capture the Rugged Life of Pennsylvania’s Late-19th-Century Lumber Camps” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 7, 2016)
- “A Nazi’s Documentary Photographs of the Forced Removal of Polish Jews, 1940” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 26, 2016)
- “Browse Nearly 1,000 Photo Postcards of Late-19th-Century Stage Productions of Shakespeare” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 8, 2016)
- “Gently Posed Photos of Everyday Life in Late-19th-Century Rural Japan” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 14, 2016)
- “Spooky, Beautiful 1930s Photos of London Streets at Night” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 4, 2015)
- “Photos of Belgium’s Ravaged Landscapes, in the Immediate Aftermath of World War I” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 28, 2015)
- “Early Aviation in Italy, As Seen Through the Enraptured Lens of a Futurist Pilot” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 21, 2015)
- “Nazi Photos Documenting Heaps of Everyday Objects Looted From Jewish Households” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 2, 2015)
- “An Unusually Beautiful 19th-Century Illustrated Photo Album” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 4, 2015)
- “Dreamy Early-20th-Century Photochroms of Scenery in the Swiss Alps” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 28, 2015)
- “Five Panoramic Photographs of the Ruins of Hiroshima” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 6, 2015)
- “Luminous Lantern Slides of Blackfeet Tipis on the Prairies of Montana in the Early 20th Century” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 15, 2015)
- “Photos of Bohemian Partiers in New York’s Greenwich Village, 1910-1920” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 27, 2015)
- “How Photographers Tried to Capture the Terror of Night Zeppelin Raids During WWI” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 5, 2015)
- “Blind Kids’ Experiences at the Early-20th-Century Museum of Natural History, in Photos” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 22, 2014)
- “The Most Beautiful and Intelligent Historical Coffee-Table Books of 2014” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2014)
- “Late-1940s Chicago CSI, In Photos” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 15, 2014)
- “Delicately Hand-Tinted Postcards Show How Early 20th-Century Tourists Viewed Japan” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 21, 2014)
- “Gently Sexy Boudoir Stereographs For Use in Victorian Parlors” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 14, 2014)
- “Delightfully Awkward Studio Action Shots of Players, Used on Early Baseball Cards” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 23, 2014)
- “Smash Mouth: The Life of a Football Lineman Before Face Masks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 9, 2014)
- “A Kiowa Photographer’s Beautiful, Decades-Long Record of His Community and Family” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 3, 2014)
- “Photos of 1920s Philadelphians, Hanging Out On Their Stoops” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 25, 2014)
- “The Disastrous Cordon Sanitaire Used in Honolulu’s Chinatown in 1900” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 15, 2014)
- “A Photo Tour of the Flooded Mississippi, 1927” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 14, 2014)
- “Photos Show How Workers Crunched Census Data in 1940” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 10, 2014)
- “The Romantic, Hopeful French Pictorial Postcards of World War I” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 20, 2014)
- “Photos of Late 19th-Century Bicycle Clubs Riding Their Penny-Farthings Around the Bay Area” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 5, 2014)
- “The Neon Noir of Midcentury Vancouver” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 13, 2014)
- “Utterly Charming Photos of 1920s Chicago Kids Dressed Up as Flowers” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 7, 2014)
- “Photos Show How the American Museum of Natural History Made Its Blue Whale Swim” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 28, 2014)
- “Striking Photos of Early 20th-Century Baseball Players in Motion” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 22, 2014)
- “Beautiful Photo Portraits of People Doing Their Jobs on the Streets of Late 19th-Century New York” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 16, 2014)
- “Newly Digitized Photo Archive Takes a Personal Look at Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 10, 2014)
- “Early 20th-Century Spirit Photographs Specializing in Faked Ectoplasm” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 9, 2014)
- “Who Was This Kindly Looking Man Who Took Hundreds of Photobooth Selfies in the Mid-20th Century?” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, April 3, 2014)
- “The Tank-Building Learning Curve, as Seen in Photos Taken Inside WWII Factories” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 25, 2014)
- “Searching for the Farmers Who Posed for Government Photographers During the Depression” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 14, 2014)
- “A Trove of Photographs of African-American Community Life in Jazz-Age New Orleans” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 28, 2014)
- “Photos of Contemporary Workers with Ancient Artifacts from the Earliest Histories of Their Jobs” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 16, 2014)
- “When Students Went to School Outside–Even in Winter” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, December 19, 2013)
- “In A Captivating Panoramic Display, 1920s ‘Bathing Girls’ Show How Quickly Fashions Changed” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 14, 2013)
- “Photo Album Documents 1915 Road Trip Along the New Los Angeles Aqueduct” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, November 5, 2013)
- “Haunting Photos Show Aftermath of 19th-Century Train Wrecks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 23, 2013)
- “Mugshots of Bruised and Battered Boxers in Early 20th-Century San Francisco” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, September 26, 2013)
- “Fake Photos of WWI Aerial Combat That Really Had People Fooled” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 31, 2013)
- “Photo Album: When Thomas Edison and Henry Ford Went Car-Camping” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 30, 2013)
- “Photos: When Segregation Reached Right Into the National Parks” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 19, 2013)
- “Gas Thieves and Gas Defenders in the 1973-4 Oil Crisis” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 15, 2013)
- “Montgomery Clift Squirms Through a Montgomery Clift Movie” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 7, 2013)
- “An East German Mother Passes Her Baby to Freedom Across the Berlin Wall” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 22, 2013)