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Anna Pavlova, costumed as The dying swan, 1905
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Actress and dancer Anita Berber (1899 – 1928), 1910′s-1920′s. The daughter of a cabaret singer and a violinist, Anita Berber also follows an artistic path and studies theatre and dance from a young age. Appearing on several cabaret stages. She proposes audacious and provocative performances that portray violence, life and passion while she becomes the first dancer to execute her act entirely naked. / src: The Red List
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At Radcliffe Anne Sullivan spelled millions of words into Helen Keller’s hands and helped her look up words in French, Latin, and German dictionaries. When Braille books weren’t available, Anne often Brailled them. Helen graduated cum laude. As she mounted the steps at graduation to get her degree, Anne Sullivan went with her hand in hand. As one girl said, ‘Radcliffe should also have given Miss Sullivan a degree.’ / src: digital commonwealth
Jazz Age Silent Film Star
Mary Nolan, Ziegfeld Follies Girl, 1920′s.
A risqué jazz age portrait of the tragic star taken when she was the
reigning wild child of showgirls who danced for the Ziegfeld Follies
under the colorful ‘nom de plume’ of Imogene “Bubbles” Wilson. / souce: eBay
Jack London dressed in a dance skirt made out of human hair and coconut fiber. Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, in 1907 / source: L’oeil de la photographie
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