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Series: Archive Fever

Visual essays, photos, and ephemera from youth cultures.

  • June 27, 2014

    To Be Young and in France

    BY Reva Goldberg

    This guy was the diving champ at French overnight camp.

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  • German Youth of Decades Past

    BY Reva Goldberg

    Looking forward to our German TV debut on Arte Sunday night, we dug up our favorite blog posts about the youth of Germany. 

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  • May 8, 2014

    Stories from the Carlisle Indian School

    BY Charles Hailer

    From 1879 to 1910 over ten thousand Native American children from every corner of the United States were sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

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  • April 29, 2014

    Teenage Highlights from the British Pathé Archives

    BY Charles Hailer

    On April 16th, British Pathé made headlines when they announced that their formidable archive of newsreel footage would be released onto YouTube.

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  • April 21, 2014

    Youth in Resistance: The Polish Scouts

    BY Monika Zaleska

    While Germany occupied Poland from 1939-1945, a critical youth movement went underground along with the Polish Home army.

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  • April 19, 2014

    B.Y.O. Philly’s Night Out in Camden

    BY Charles Hailer

    Tired of being misunderstood as pierced and mohawked harbingers of the apocalypse by talk show stiffs like Parents of Punkers family therapy founder Serena Dank, LA punks Youth Brigade formed the Better Youth Organization, or BYO.

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  • April 2, 2014

    Youth in Internment

    BY Charles Hailer

    In February of 1943, with Pearl Harbor still smoldering in Hawaii, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that would lead to the internment of over 110,000 people in prison camps across the Southwest.

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  • March 24, 2014

    Zoot Suit Riot

    BY Charles Hailer

    For a generation of Chicano youths in 1940s Los Angeles, zoot suits were pure swagger.

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  • February 27, 2014

    The Shaming of Fanny Hyde

    BY Charles Hailer

    On a January workday in 1872, a seventeen year old woman named Fanny Hyde killed her boss, George Watson.

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  • February 13, 2014

    Shirley Temple’s Teenage Years

    BY Charles Hailer

    When you mention Shirley Temple you will invariably recall that iconic, perennially smiling, dimpled face wreathed in golden curls.

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