Past in Present.com Inc.

07/02/2026

🇺🇸 Celebrate July 4th with America’s History
This Independence Day, we invite you to explore Past in Present, a private historical archive offering museum-quality historic prints, original photographs, and rare visual records of America’s past.
From the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island to old New York, early transportation, national landmarks, and unforgettable moments captured from original vintage negatives, each image offers a window into the story of America.
For our July 4th celebration, enjoy:
30% OFF SITEWIDE
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JULY4-30OFF
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Visit our Historic Prints collection and discover, own, and preserve history:
https://pastinpresent.com/historic-prints/
ffer valid July 2 – July 31, 2026.

06/20/2026

🇺🇸 The Boys of the Flag: YMCA Patriotic Parade - New York City, c.1910s
Before smartphones, before television, before social media, there were neighborhood parades.
Captured from an original glass plate negative, this remarkable scene shows dozens of New York City boys gathered around decorated truck floats and bicycles for a YMCA patriotic parade during the early twentieth century.
Some wear athletic uniforms. Others proudly carry American flags. A few perch high above the crowd on improvised floats, eager to be seen. Together they represent a generation growing up in an era of rapid change—when automobiles were replacing horse-drawn wagons, millions of immigrants were building new lives in America, and organizations like the YMCA sought to instill character, discipline, and civic pride.
Look closely at the faces. Every boy had a story. Some may have become soldiers, businessmen, laborers, teachers, or fathers. Many would soon witness a world transformed by war, technology, and modernity.
A fleeting moment in New York history—preserved for more than a century on glass.
Archival fine art print available from the Past in Present Historical Archive: https://pastinpresent.com/new-discoveries/

06/08/2026

THE LOOK THAT CONQUERED HOLLYWOOD
Not a reproduction. Not a modern print.
This is the actual vintage Kodachrome transparency photographed during Marilyn Monroe’s final year, capturing one of the most elegant and recognizable profiles in Hollywood history.
With her platinum hair illuminated against a dramatic black background, Marilyn appears every bit the screen legend she had become by 1962. More than a photograph, this is a unique surviving photographic artifact from Hollywood’s Golden Age —an original 2 × 2 inch color transparency preserved from the era itself.
The actual vintage Kodachrome transparency offered in our online exhibition:
"MARILYN MONROE AT 100 - From Norma Jeane to Immortality"
Follow link to: https://pastinpresent.com/viewing-room/

05/25/2026

MARILYN MONROE AT 100 - From Norma Jeane to immortality.
Now showing in our online Viewing Room at: https://pastinpresent.com/viewing-room/
Step into the world of Marilyn Monroe through a rare collection of original photographs, negatives, transparencies and archival material from the golden age of Hollywood.
Featuring works by:
Philippe Halsman, Milton H. Greene, Cecil Beaton, Eve Arnold, Jack Cardiff and more.
Explore the online Viewing Room exhibition from the Past in Present archive.

05/23/2026

MARILYN MONROE AT 100 - From Norma Jeane to immortality.
Now showing in our online Viewing Room at: https://pastinpresent.com/viewing-room/
Step into the world of Marilyn Monroe through a rare collection of original photographs, negatives, transparencies and archival material from the golden age of Hollywood.
Featuring works by:
Philippe Halsman, Milton H. Greene, Cecil Beaton, Eve Arnold, Jack Cardiff and more.
Explore the online Viewing Room exhibition from the Past in Present archive.

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04/07/2026

Easter Sunday, Fifth Avenue NYC 1921.
A river of elegance flows beneath St. Patrick’s Cathedral…
silk hats, tailored coats, and a city stepping boldly into the modern age.
Motorcars surge. A double-decker appears.
New York is no longer arriving—it has arrived.
From an original glass negative — preserved in extraordinary detail.
For full story follow: https://pastinpresent.com/new-discoveries/

04/03/2026

“Hands up… for the pearls.”
This dramatic 1920s scene looks like a real robbery—but it was carefully staged.
Image created from an original vintage glass negative.
WHY were scenes like this staged and photographed?
Was it:
• A newspaper illustration?
• A warning about rising crime?
• Early film publicity?
• Something else entirely?
👇 Tell me what you think—your theory matters.
I’ll reveal the most likely answer in the comments later.
Full story: 👉 https://pastinpresent.com

03/19/2026

A new exhibition is now live: "Vietnam War — Across Lines of Fire, Human Tragedy and Suffering". This opening collection features original 1967 photographs by Lee Lockwood, taken inside North Vietnam and published in Life Magazine.
They are images of:
– civilians living under bombing
– children being evacuated
– workers carrying rifles
– a society reshaped by war
History repeats a painful pattern. Wars are often launched with confidence, promised as quick, decisive, and necessary.
But the reality is different. It is ordinary people who carry the consequences. For years… sometimes generations. This collection is a reminder of that truth.
To view full story follow: https://pastinpresent.com/vietnam-war-across-lines-of-fire-human-tragedy-and-suffering/

03/14/2026

"Before sirens and flashing lights, courage arrived on wooden wheels, America’s Early Motorized Fire Brigade, c.1900s"
This striking early-1900s newly discovered image created from vintage glass camera negative captures a proud brigade of firefighters posing with one of America’s first motorized fire engines, a revolutionary machine that marked the end of the horse-drawn era.
Seven uniformed men stand ready beside their gleaming apparatus outside the brick engine house—lanterns, axes, hoses, and even a BABCOCK fire extinguisher mounted at the side.
A quiet moment before the alarm bell rings… when these men would race through the streets to protect their city.
For full story and oversize fine art prints follow link: https://pastinpresent.com/new-discoveries/

03/10/2026

Pushcart Kingdom — Jewish Street Vendors of the Lower East Side, New York, c.1920s. Step back into the bustling streets of New York’s Lower East Side during the great age of immigration.
Captured around the 1920s, this remarkable image reveals a long line of pushcart vendors selling produce along the crowded sidewalks beneath tenement fire escapes. These humble carts formed the backbone of the neighborhood’s immigrant economy, where newly arrived Jewish families built livelihoods one sale at a time. A kosher poultry shop with bold Yiddish lettering hangs chickens in its window beside a store displaying eggs, butter, tea, and coffee—everyday essentials for the densely packed community that once filled these streets. Women pause to examine vegetables, neighbors converse at the carts, and passersby hurry along the curb in a blur of motion.
Today this image preserves a vivid moment from a vanished New York-when the sidewalks themselves became the marketplace of the American dream.
Fine Art Prints available at: https://pastinpresent.com/new-discoveries/