Category: 1940s

Nudes by Yvonne Gregory

Yvonne Gregory (British, 1889-1970) :: Nude, ca. 1935. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, verso with photographer’s label, copyright limitation and label from the Camera Club Permanent Collection. | src Bonhams
Yvonne Gregory :: ‘The Veil’ (Nude study), 1930. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, the verso titled and signed in pencil, with label from the Camera Club Permanent Collection. | src Bonhams
Yvonne Gregory :: ‘In the Sunlight’. Nudes in Nature, 1940s. Matt warm-toned gelatin silver print, mounted on paper, the front signed in pencil, titled on verso with an assortment of labels including photographer’s credit and copyright limitation. | src Bonhams

Eyes of Youth by Rosalind Maingot

Rosalind Maingot (née Rosalind Beddome, 1894-1957) :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. From: Photograms of the Year 1945. | src eBay
Rosalind Maingot :: Eyes of Youth, ca. 1945. Halftone print. | src eBay
Rosalind Beddome was born 1894 in Brisbane, Australia.  After a successful career as an actress she studied at the London School of Photography and married surgeon Rodney Maingot. The influences of her previous career can be seen in her theatrically posed, expressive photographs of portraits, figure studies and flowers. In 1932 she was made a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1933 had a one woman show at the Camera Club. Her work was published in the Sketch between 1933 and 1946. Later she worked alongside her husband as a medical photographer and helped set up the Royal Photographic Society’s Medical group. In 1947 she went on a lecture tour in America where she socialized with American photographers including Mildred Hatry her account of which was published in the RPS Journal Feb. 1948 “A woman photographer visits America”. She died in 1957 in London. quoted from source

Wreckages, 1902-1958

Wreck on Ballston Beach, 1915 (?). Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
Wreck on Ballston Beach, 1915 (?). Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
Wreck on Ballston Beach, 1915 (?). Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
The wreck of the “Castagna”, So. Wellfleet, Feb. 17, 1914. Postcard. Truro, Massachusetts Historical Postcard Collection. | src Digital Commonwealth
Arthur Alvin :: Wreck of Cape Ann, 1948. Eastham Historical Society. | src Digital Commonwealth
Arthur Alvin :: Wreck of Cape Ann, 1948. Eastham Historical Society. | src Digital Commonwealth
The ‘Jennie C. May’ wrecked on the Peaked Hill Bars ca. 1902. Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 – 10/4/1988), Book 4, Page 28 | Provincetown History Preservation Project
The ‘Jennie C. May’ wrecked on the Peaked Hill Bars ca. 1902. Scrapbooks of Althea Boxell (1/19/1910 – 10/4/1988), Book 4, Page 28 | Provincetown History Preservation Project
The dragger Paulmino awash in the surf on back shore, 1958. Ross Moffett Collection | src Provincetown History Preservation Project

Revue de la Danse, 1948

Serge Lido :: Yvette Chauviré. Revue de la Danse, Mars 1948. | src CND ~ Centre national de la danse ~ Médiathèque
Danseuses anglaises (Cirque d’Été, 1894). Revue de la Danse, Mars 1948. | src CND ~ Centre national de la danse ~ Médiathèque
Les Ballets des Champs-Elysées au Caire. Revue de la Danse, Mars 1948. | src CND ~ Centre national de la danse ~ Médiathèque
Les Mirages, choréographie de Serge Lifar. Revue de la Danse, Mars 1948. | src CND ~ Centre national de la danse ~ Médiathèque

Female nude at the beach, 1940s

John Everard :: Female Nude outdoors, standing on beach, ca. 1940s. | src vintageads on eBay
John Everard :: Female Nude outdoors at the beach, ca. 1940s. | src vintageads on eBay
John Everard :: Female Nude outdoors, standing on rocks, ca. 1940s. | src eBay
John Everard :: Female Nude (half nude, close up) outdoors, ca. 1940s. | src eBay

Stella Kadmon, beach of Tel Aviv

Stella Kadmon on the beach of Tel Aviv, ca. 1940s © Theatermuseum Wien. Stella Kadmon was an enthusiastic pioneer of the cabaret stages in Vienna. At the age of 29 she founded Vienna’s first literary and political cabaret, “Lieber Augustin” in the cellar of Café Prückl. On March 9, 1938, the last performance at “Lieber Augustin” took place. Due to persecution and war, the troupe was scattered to the four winds, and not everyone survived. [read more] | src Jüdisches Museum Wien

Jako-Mica in catsuit 1940s

Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot), dancer at Casino de Paris, ca. 1940s
Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot), dancer at Casino de Paris, ca. 1940s
Anonymous Studio Photos.
Jacqueline Jako-Mica (Nicole Chaumot), dancer at Casino de Paris in the Troops of Carla Conté, circa 1940s
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