Men at work, no date / src: unexpected tales
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Doing laundry in the Central Park lake, December 16, 1949—the day the photo was taken—was “dry Friday” in New York City. Thanks to a severe drought that left upstate reservoirs at 34 percent capacity, city residents were forbidden to shave, bathe, or do any other activity that day if it required water.These three women—Copacabana girls, part of the East Side nightclub’s famous chorus girl lineup, per the caption on the photo—are demonstrating their patriotic duty to do laundry without any running water. / source: Ephemeral New York
Julian A.
Dimock :: “Tommy Osceola shooting an alligator while his wife looks on, The Everglades, Florida, 1910.” / source: AMNH Digital Special Collections
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A very rare photograph of two women kissing, ca, 1890 / source of information: vita-segreta-delle-lesbiche-in-epoca-vittoriana/
Eileen Tweedy :: Man Ray and Lee Miller at the
Opening of “Man Ray, Inventor, Painter, Poet” Exhibition at ICA, London,
Curated by Roland Penrose, 1975. Gelatin silver print.
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The Roland Penrose Collection, England / source: Huffington Post
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American comedienne Florence Mills, wearing goggles, basks in the glow of a sun lamp in her dressing room, ca. 1925 (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) / via
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by Atelier Manassé, no date [Olga Spolarics and Adorja’n von Wlassics, founders and owners of the atelier from 1922 to 1938] / via
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‘Do ducks swim? Misses Eugenia Dunbar and Mary Moose.’ The main focus here is of course the horse trough, once a common item of street furniture in many big cities. National Photo. Glass negative. April 21, 1927 / src and hi-res: Shorpy
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Angraecum Sesquipedale, Ceylan, circa 1880
(Digitally restored internet photograph. Original here)
Dennis Stock :: ‘Mark Twain Was Robbed Here’, Nevada, 1957
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