
Tag: people reading

Roy Decarava :: From The Sweet Flypaper of Life, 1984 / via ohwiewunderbar
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Robert Williams* :: Man reading newspaper on the banks of the Mississippi River, Memphis, TN. while a barge** is passing by. Taken in August 7, 1961 and according to the watch, at 3:10 p.m.
Headline: ‘Soviet Alive, Well in 17th Orbit’ (The Soviet is
Gherman
Titov,
an air force pilot and cosmonaut
chosen to
fly the Vostok 2 in 1961) / more info and source: forensic genealogy
*
R. Williams was a staff photographer for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis.
**
The barge is carrying the first Saturn V rocket engine, SA-1, used to launch Apollo 4.

Bassano Ltd :: Actress Dame Gladys Cooper, whole-plate glass negative, 1910. | src National Portrait Gallery
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Ioannis Lambros :: Visiting the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece, 1960 / src: The Benaki Museum
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Polish actress Pola Negri in Three Sinners, 1928. Directed by Rowland V. Lee. / src: Dr. Macro’s movie scans
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