
This photograph shows the buildings along Gatehead’s riverside by the High Level Bridge, 1879. The River Tyne in the foreground is at low tide with boats on the shore. | src Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection
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This photograph shows the buildings along Gatehead’s riverside by the High Level Bridge, 1879. The River Tyne in the foreground is at low tide with boats on the shore. | src Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection

Airship USS Los Angeles landing on carrier USS Saratoga, 27 January 1928. | src War History Online and

A London Transport inspector holding a flare leads a number 25 bus out of the terminus at Aldgate East as dense fog blanketed London, causing widespread traffic chaos, Dec. 1952

A police officer directing traffic in London’s fog with the help of an “apparatus connected with the gas main, November 1935. Caption for the photo explains that the “device can be folded up and put in a metal box sunk
in the street.” | src New York Times

Pa·Ja·Ma. Glenway Wescott, George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, ca. 1941 | src
Pa·Ja·Ma: Magic Realism. Paul Cadmus, Jared French, Margaret French.
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American actress Winifred Elaine “Wynne” Gibson in feathered dress, 1930s | src and hi-res Dr Macro

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Winifred Elaine “Wynne” Gibson reading, 1933

Dorothy Sebastian in Sackcloth and Scarlet (Henry King, 1925) | src and hi-res Dr Macro
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“Mack Sennett Girl,” circa 1919. Actress Marvel Rea, one of film producer Mack Sennett’s well-rounded “bathing girls”, in somewhat mouldy National Photo glass negative. From a series of pictures using cars and tires as props. 1 src and hi-res Shorpy
Probably edited from this photograph. [zoom in detail of hands’ retouching]

“Mack Sennett girls in costume”, circa 1919. Sennett, an early producer of silent films, was known as the King of Comedy for his slapstick reels. National Photo Company Collection. | src and hi-res Shorpy