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Alfred Eisenstaedt ::
Jazz age icon and civil rights activist Josephine Baker was born 112 years ago today on June 3, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri. She is pictured here during her 1951 US tour at the Strand Theater in New York. [The Life Picture Collection / Getty Images] / via
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Members of the corps de ballet of the Paris Opera attending rehearsal of Swan Lake at Grand Opera, Paris, 1930 (for Life magazine) / via: Life
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Alfred Eisenstaedt :: Guests from Kitty Miller’s New Years Eve party, 1956
Alfred Eisenstaedt :: This image ran with the following caption: “Garish advertising signs are faithful copies of US huckstering. These signs partially obscuring Milan Cathedral, advertise a motor oil (top) and two U.S. movies. Middle one feature Abbott and Costello, whom Italians call Cianni e Pinotto. Posters like this emphasize commercial activity of Milan, which is the shopping center of Italy.”
Nov. 24, 1947 / via
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Portrait in a mirror – Carole Lombard, 1938 / via silver-screen-nostalgia
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