Photographer unknown, Former soldier
Christine Jorgensen at a press reception in London to launch the film
The Christine Jorgensen Story, September 14, 1970
© Wesley / Getty Images via Aperture Foundation
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The marvellous Anne Bancroft chilling out, probably 1960′s / via mudwerks
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Actress Jean Parker, 1930′s / src: doctormacro.com
Poetess Bella Akhmadulina, Izabella Akhatovna Akhmadulina, First Class Student, 1944 (she was born in 1937, so the date is right, but the picture looks like 1910′s) / sources: ekogradmoscow.ru and chelib.ru
A sultry vamp view of Shirley Dorman in an oversized hat with dangling
vines and strands of pearls, ca. 1927-1929. Vintage and original studio
portrait photograph of Paramount Pictures contract player Shirley
Dorman. Dorman had a very short career, appearing in only two films
(“Honeymoon Hate” [1927] and “The One Woman Idea” [1929]) and one stage
play (“The Great Waltz” [1934]). / source: eBay
Antique and original
gelatin silver photograph of stage and silent screen vamp Valeska Suratt notated on the verso: Huntington Beach –
August 1915 . Suratt was one of the first women in show business to
control every aspect of her visual presentation and representation and
she built her brand around being a vampy sexual provocateur. A rare
images of Suratt which comes from her personal scrapbooks. / src: eBay
Wright Brothers glider in the midst of a record flight in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, 1911 / source: topdesignmag
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Bois de Boulogne, Paris, ca. 1930
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