Tag: 1920s

Dutch mills amidst the flood

Een molen in het overstroomde land bij Durgerdam, Nederland, 1911 | A mill amidst flood near Durgerdam, Netherlands, 1911. Spaarnestad Photo | src Het Geheugen (Nationaal Archief)
Dutch mill facing the flood, Grouw, the Netherlands, 1926. Spaarnestad Photo | src Nationaal Archief

 

G.C Clutton :: Painter and illustrator Ethel King colouring a mounted preserved specimen of a Queensland Groper in 1926 [Australian Museum]

In 1925 the Australian Museum was commissioned by the Fijian government to prepare fish specimens for an exhibition in The New Zealand and South Seas International Exhibition in Dunedin. The instructions that came with the fish were to have them mounted on a pedestal and painted in natural colors.

Source and more info about this painter: Australian Museum

Niddy Impekoven, ca. 1928

Atelier Robertson (1927–1933) :: Dancer Niddy Impekoven. From a group of four dance studies (Niddy Impekoven, Ellinor Bahrdt, Trude Engelhart, Ira Langenteels), ca. 1928. Each with the photographer’s studio stamp and handwritten annotations in pencil on the reverse. | src Ostlicht (Westlich) Photo Auction nº 14 (June, 2016)

Nyota Inyoka, 1920s

The dancer Nyota Inyoka, 1920s. Probably from George White’s Scandals, a long-running string of Broadway revues produced by George White that ran from 1919 to 1939, modeled after the Ziegfeld Follies. | src grapefruitMoon on eBay

Rosalia Chladek, ca. 1926

Austrian dancer and choreographer Rosalia Chladek, ca. 1926. Vintage silver gelatin print. On verso with stamp of ‘Schule Hellerau-Laxenburg bei Wien’, signed in ink “Karl M. Baer phot.” and
with handwritten designation. | src the saleroom