A happy day at the gibbet. ‘Winters Gibbet’ in Elsdon, Northumberland, ca. 1910 / via
/ source: Northumberland Archives
Tag: 1910s
Carnegie playground 5th Ave., NYC, August 1st, 1911, published by Bain News Service / source: Library of Congress
Summary: Photograph shows children at a playground located at the
northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 91st Street, New York City.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009 and New York Times, Aug. 1, 1911)
Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” Zelle (1876
– 1917), better known by the stage name Mata Hari, was a
Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for
Germany during World War I and executed by firing squad in France. Here,
wearing a bejewelled head-dress, 1910. Scan from magazine.
/ source and hi-res: Wikimedia
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Unidentified photographer, [Adele and Fred Astaire], ca. 1914.
Gelatin silver print. Dance Collection, Harry Ransom
Center.
/ source: utexas.edu
Photograph of dirigible race in the Dominguez Air Meet, Dominguez Field,
Los Angeles, 1910. Two football-shaped zeppelins race across the skies,
flying at low altitude. Each of them has single pilots. The pilots
stand on a skeletal structure consisting of metal bars that is attached
to the balloon with wires. Spectators (or judges) stand below on the
plain field watching the zeppelins race. Further in the sky is a balloon
with the phrase “all in the Examiner.”
[Copyright. 1910. CC Pierce & Co. written on photograph] / source: Aviation in_Early_LA
Photograph of two parachutists dropping from a balloon at the Dominguez
Hills Air Meet. The balloon appears to be on fire with smoke coming
out from its basket.
Dominguez Field, LA, 1910. / src: Water and Power Associates
Jacob Merkelbach :: Dutch Courtesan, Spy and Exotic Dancer Mata Hari, Amsterdam, 1914 -15. Real name: Margaretha Geertruida “Margreet” MacLeod (née Zelle)
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Finis, 1912 by Anne Brigman
Anne Brigman :: Finis, 1912. Photogravure From Camera Work No. 38. | src KQED Arts and Artnet
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