Category: 1910s

Vintage postcard stamped PC, Paris

Vintage French postcard. Stamped PC Paris on verso. 1910s-1920s.

Balloon on barge, 1914-1918

A small steam boat pulls the barges over Lake Biel with the captive balloon inside: Balloon experimental company, 1914-1918
Original: Glass plate negative; silverbromide.
Maker / photographer: Santschi
Original caption: A small steam boat pulls the barges over Lake Biel with the captive balloon inside: Balloon experimental company, 1914-1918
Original: Glass plate negative.
Maker / photographer: Santschi

Balloon being carried on barge during World War I

With the outbreak of the first world war Switzerland was faced with confusing events – and therefore used captive balloons for clarification. Here on Lake Biel. Image: Swiss Photo Foundation
From: Switzerland and the great war “14/18 – Switzerland and the Great War” in the Zurich State Museum. | src Tages Anzeiger: https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/kultur/Zerruettung-des-verschonten-Landes-/story/17621214

French vintage postcard

Vintage French postcard. Unknown photographer. Stamped PC Paris on verso. Sometimes credited as Julien Mandel’s.

Lotte and Mary by Heinrich Kühn

Heinrich Kühn :: Lotte and Her Nurse, duplex half tone reproduction, published in Camera Work n• XXXIII, 1911. | src Fostinum
Heinrich Kühn :: Mary Warner und Lotte Kühn, um 1911. Japanpapier. Edeldruckverfahren (Gummigravüre); signiert: recto o.: in Braun: “HEINRICH / KUEHN”; beschriftet: verso u.: in Blei: “Miß [sic] Mary + Lotte Kühn. | src MK&G ~ Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

Villanyi, 1919

Atelier Willinger, Wien :: Villanyi (Tanzfoto / Dance photo), ca. 1919 | src Theatermueseum, Wien
Willinger & Schnapper, Wien :: Villanyi [Rollenporträt], 1919. | src Theatermuseum Wien
Willinger & Schnapper, Wien :: Villanyi (Schattentanz | Shadow Dance), 1919. | src Theatermuseum, Wien

Women in balloon costume

Honor Blackman, English actress, wearing a bunch of balloons in a studio portrait, ca. 1950. Photo: Paul Popper | src Getty Images
Dancer Helen Barnes, wearing a costume and headpiece decorated with balloons. Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics. Photo: White (NY)

Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics : The Ziegfeld midnight frolics was an annual review playing at New York City’s New Amsterdam Roof that was produced from 1912 through 1929. “Helen Barnes, ‘Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic’, Danse de Follies, New Amsterdam Roof”– written on verso.

src New York Public Library (NYPL)