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Dancing on the Shore, ca. 1925
Kyaitteyo Pagoda, ca. 1900
Stereoscopic pair of photographs [50 (9059)] from a collection of 36 stereoscopic views of Burma, one of a series of “stereoscopic tours” of foreign countries published as part of the Underwood Travel Library. This is a general view of the “Golden Rock” pagoda, a stupa built on top of a massive boulder resting precariously on a hillside 20 km (12 miles) away from Kyaikto. | src British Library; also on wikimedia commons
Underwood & Underwood :: Publicity still of Valeska Suratt wearing a hat composed mostly of wires, ca. 1916. A stamp on the back of the print reads: “William Fox presents Valeska Suratt in photo plays supreme released through Fox Film Corporation”. /
source: Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
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Underwood & Underwood :: Russian ballet dancer Alice Nikitina as
La Chatte, 1928 in “La
Chatte” (The ‘She’ Cat), a ten-minute piece
with set and costumes by avant-garde artists Naum Gabo and Antoine
Pevsner. It was created in 1926-27 for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes
and it starred Serge Lifar as the Young Man and Alicia Nikitina and
Olga Spessivtzeva in the title role. The music was written by Henri
Sauguet and choreographed by George Balanchine.
/ Photo courtesy: Getty Images
Underwood & Underwood :: Vintage publicity / advertising photograph of
silent film actress Dorothy Janis,
late 1920′s. Dorothy shows off her toned figure and strength on the
state-of-the-art at home gym (the Gym-Junior).
Photographer’s ink stamp, handwritten notations & paper caption on verso. / source: eBay
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A young woman working out with boxing gloves and a punching bag, 1890. Underwood Archives / Getty Images / via back-then
George Rinhart (for Underwood & Underwood) :: Miss Amelia Allen, contortionist in Backward Circle, July 3, 1926
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Half of card 661 – Looking across Essefjord from Tjugum to mountain-side homes below ice-covered Kjeipen, Norway, 1900-1905.
Copyright Underwood and Underwood / source: Library of Norway
link to full stereocard, here
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