Tag: balloons

Vintage divers in midair

Diver plunging into a river and spectators on rowing boats. Press photo. | src Drouot
Diver with balloons. Press photo. | src Drouot
Sport, natation, sport nautique. Circa 1900-50. Photographies de presse | src Drouot

Nude from Adam’s Fifth Rib, 1935

John Everard :: Nude from Adam’s Fifth Rib. A Collection of Photographic Studies of the Nude by John Everard, Chapman and Hall Ltd., London, 1935. | src dyndns.org

Women in balloon costume

Honor Blackman, English actress, wearing a bunch of balloons in a studio portrait, ca. 1950. Photo: Paul Popper | src Getty Images
Dancer Helen Barnes, wearing a costume and headpiece decorated with balloons. Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics. Photo: White (NY)

Ziegfeld Midnight Frolics : The Ziegfeld midnight frolics was an annual review playing at New York City’s New Amsterdam Roof that was produced from 1912 through 1929. “Helen Barnes, ‘Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic’, Danse de Follies, New Amsterdam Roof”– written on verso.

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