Tag: bizarre

Rubber beauty masks · ca. 1921

Detail from: Rubber beauty masks modelled by two women at a typewriter, 1921
Rubber beauty masks, worn to remove wrinkles and blemishes; modelled by two women at a typewriter, 1921 | src Wellcome collection
Rubber beauty masks, worn to remove wrinkles and blemishes; modelled by two women at a typewriter, ca. 1921 | src Wellcome collection

Woman on anthill circa 1922

Frank J. Magee :: A woman sits on top of a large white anthill near Elizabethville (Belgian Congo), before 10-1922. | Nat Geo
Frank J. Magee :: A woman sits on top of a large white anthill near Elizabethville (Belgian Congo), before 10-1922. | Nat Geo

A woman sits on top of a large white anthill, some of which can rise up to 40 feet high, near Elizabethville in the former Belgian Congo. The image was taken for a story in the October 1922 issue about a navy operation in Africa during World War I (National Geographic / Nat Geo). Photograph by Frank J. Magee.

Moving the Lyford House, 1957 | Courtesy of the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks History Collection. The Lyford House is a victorian house, built in 1876. It was originally located at Strawberry Point as part of
Lyford’s Eagle Dairy Ranch, but was moved by barge in December 1957 (when
threatened with demolition) to
Richardson Bay in Tiburon peninsula, California.
| src Marin County

Dummies outside the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK, 1932.
A puzzled milkman walking past dressmaking dummies, taken by Tomlin for the Daily Herald newspaper on 11 May, 1932. The dummies have been unloaded onto the street outside the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, in preparation for an exhibition of nineteenth century women’s clothing. | src Daily Herald Archive via Getty Images