Tea Break during a Cricket Test Match, Leeds, England, 1938 / via
my-retro-vintage
Tag: funny
Robert W. Coburn :: The press snipe (on back) reads, “Before the days of the bicycle built for two – was the ped-cycle, and here are two young ladies about due for a fall from their high saddle. They’re Radio Pictures featured beauties, Roberta Gale and Rochelle Hudson, and they rode the thing – after a fashion – in a comedy.”, 1931 / source: Grapefruit Moon Gallery
Michael Terry :: Michael Terry’s sisters, Frances and Charlotte, wearing his Russian gas mask and tin hat, Benwell, England, December 1918 / source:
via
mudwerks
“Amplifiers at Bolling Field, 1921.″ Two giant horns with ear tubes, evidently designed to listen for approaching aircraft. National Photo Co. / source and hi-res: Shorpy
René Maltête ::
Sirène,
from “des yeux pleins le poches” paru chez Glénat en 2003
/ src: Maltête website
more [+] by this photographer
“Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at the Tidal Basin bathing beach after Col. Sherrill, Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds, issued an order that suits not be over six inches above the knee.“
June 30, 1922.
National Photo Co.
/ source and hi-res: Shorpy
Foot Patrol. “S.S. Banks,
Washington DC, March 20, 1923.” We suspect this has something to do with traffic safety. National Photo Company glass negative
/ src: shorpy
Christopher Helin ::
Keyless Entry
or what seems to be a demonstration of the paparazzi-proof Mitchell sedan,
San Francisco, circa 1918, glass negative. / src and hi-res: shorpy
Dennis Stock :: ‘Mark Twain Was Robbed Here’, Nevada, 1957
John Pratt :: British runners Susan and Bruce Tulloh training together with their son, Clive, 11 October 1962 (Keystone Features / Getty Images)
/ source: ilpost.it
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