
Harold Lloyd in a film still of the movie Safety Last! [directed by Fred Neymeyer and Sam Taylor, 1923]
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Harold Lloyd in a film still of the movie Safety Last! [directed by Fred Neymeyer and Sam Taylor, 1923]

Swiss photographer Frédéric Boissonnas being pulled up, trapped into a rope net, to the Meteora monasteries, in central Greece,
beside the Pindos Mountains,
1908. Unknown phorographer. / source: www.lifo.gr

Press photographer at work, USA, ca. 1930. From the exhibition ‘Le photographe photographié’ / src: Galerie Lumière des Roses

Photographer
Thomas Kelley*, 1930’s. / via coolkidsofhistory
(*) Photographers Charles C. Ebbets, Thomas Kelley and William Leftwich
were all present the day ‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ was shot [Sept. 20, 1932] so their identities are often confused.

Workmen high above on the Gantry of Tower Bridge, London, ca. 1900’s

Pepi Merisio :: “Nel porto di Genova” / At Genova Port, nd / src: Italian Ways
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Russell Froelich :: Aerial acrobat performing on a bi-plane with a
race car driving below, 1920’s | src: Missouri History Museum

Vivian Maier :: Sanford Bowling sign, New York City, September 20, 1954
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Health and safety? That’s a new thing. Three thoroughly modern girls in their swimming costumes go for a human pyramid while riding on Wilfred and Squeak, two donkeys, on the beach at Ramsgate, Kent in the 1920’s. (Photo: Mary Evans Picture Library) / src: The Mirror