Actress Marie
Louise Brooks, probably from
Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box,
Georg Wilhelm Pabst ,1929) / via
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Photographer
Thomas Kelley*, 1930’s. / via coolkidsofhistory
(*) Photographers Charles C. Ebbets, Thomas Kelley and William Leftwich
were all present the day ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ was shot [Sept. 20, 1932] so their identities are often confused.
Sahary Djèli in Salomé, 1920
Elliott Erwitt :: Boundary Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1950 / via
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Mary Ijams (whose father Harry was a venerated Tennessee naturalist) holding a mounted passenger pigeon, Tennessee, 1928. The bird was collected by Confederate General Benjamin Cheatham about 1856 near Nashville. / via
zielenadel / original source: passengerpigeon.org
Elliott Erwitt :: Top Row of Syria Mosque* during a Concert, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1950 / via
(*)
In spite of its name, the Syria Mosque was not, in fact, a mosque. It was a Shriners temple and concert venue. It was a historical landmark, but nonetheless was demolished in 1991.
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The Golden Gate Bridge on opening day, May 24, 1937 / via
/ src: History Porn
related post: same day 50 years later, here
