Category: 1950s

Tao-Hoa role · The Red Poppy

Efraim Zalmanovich Lesov :: Tatyana Mikhailovna Vecheslova as the Chinese girl Tao-Hoa in the ballet “The Red Poppy”. Vintage postcard (nº 80), published by GATOB / S. M. Kirova in 1951. | src Presidential Library
Efraim Zalmanovich Lesov :: Lyubov Voyshnis as Tao Hoa in the Soviet ballet «Красный мак» (The Red Poppy), 1951. Vintage S.M. Kirova postcard, (Nr. 90) printed in 1951. | src Presidential Library

Russian ballerina, 1951

Efraim Zalmanovich Lesov :: Alla Yakovlevna Shelest, winner of the Stalin Prize. B.V. Asafiev. ‘The Fountain of Bakhchisarai’ – Zarema, 1951. Vintage postcard. | src BY Presidential Library

Maria Biljan-Bilger, vor 1954

Yoichi R. Okamoto :: Maria Biljan-Bilger, vor 1954. Bildnis im (zerbrochenen) Spiegel mit ihren Keramikskulpturen. Rückseite mit Nachlassstempel “Paula Okamoto, Bethesda, MD”. | Maria Biljan-Bilger, before 1954. Portrait in the (broken) glass with her ceramic sculptures. Reverse with estate stamp “Paula Okamoto, Bethesda, MD”. | src ÖNB

The Riesenrad through time

The Riesenrad after the II World War. Prater Park in ruins, Vienna, January 1946 (Photo by AFP) | src getty images
The Riesenrad after the II World War. Prater Park in ruins, Vienna, January 1946 (Photo by AFP) | src getty images
Yoichi Okamoto ~ Das Wiener Riesenrad, Wien, 1945 | Giant ferris wheel, Prater park, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, 1945 | src ÖNB ~ Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
The Big Wheel at Prater Funfair, Vienna, July 1967 (Photo © Hulton Archive) | src getty images
The famous Ferris wheel at the Prater, Vienna’s principal public park, circa 1955 | src getty images
The Wiener Riesenrad, Vienna, ca. 1935. The Riesenrad in the Prater amusement park in Leopoldstadt | src getty images
Wurstelprater amusement park, Vienna, 1920s. Wiener Prater park with ferris wheel | src getty images
Prater park. In the background the Riesenrad. Photography by M. Manenizza, Vienna, ca. 1900 [Auf dem Weg in den Wiener Wurstelprater, im Hintergrund das Riesenrad. Photographie von M. Manenizza; um 1900] | src getty images