
Actress Madge Bellamy sitting backwards on Art Deco armchair, 1920’s. / src: The Baddest Bitches of Jazz Age
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Actress Madge Bellamy sitting backwards on Art Deco armchair, 1920’s. / src: The Baddest Bitches of Jazz Age

Little Boy Blue, 1900.
From New England circa 1900 comes a young fellow who looks like he’d rather be somewhere else, wearing anything but this ridiculous getup Aunt Polly made him put on. Good thing they haven’t invented the Internet yet, kid. 5×8 inch glass negative, probably an estate-sale find. source and caption: Shorpy at Juniper Gallery

Dancer Laura Devine in a Shadow’s Dance during ‘This Year of Grace’ by Charles B. Cochran, London, 5 October 1928

I – El río, los cambios de luz y de estación,
las casas que sugieren un pasado decoroso.
Sólo un opaco fragor
de los asuntos humanos.
Es cierto, las noches son más frías
y el tiempo se demora entre los bancos de niebla.
La ira parece innecesaria; persiste apenas
la ausencia del mar,
la impresión de vidas y de muertes que se hilvanan
a un mismo nacimiento.
II – Un plato, un vaso, una silla;
un cielo insulso y leve, blanquecino.
Pasado el verano —la vulgaridad del verano—
el invierno reduce el mundo a dos o tres
emociones esenciales. Papeles, libros,
recuerdos de palabras.
Y luego los sueños; las formas imprecisas
de claridad y dominio.
Gerardo Gambolini – Finisterre I (Text source: zoopat)
image via
lasmicrofisuras

Portrait of Norma Talmadge in evening dress, 1930’s / src: theRedList

Joan Leslie photographed by Charles Rhodes (c. 1940)

German actress and dancer Taina Béryl, aka Taina Beryll, aka Tayna Beryll

“Cliff House and Seal Rocks, from Pier, San Francisco, October 26, 1895, Taber Photo, San Francisco, Cal.” from
the John Hall Collection / src: cliffhouseproject
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Storm at Cliff House, San Francisco, 1901 / src: cliffhouseproject
This is undoubtedly one of the most reproduced Cliff House photographs. Marilyn Blaisdell’s book attributes it to Tsunekichi Imai. [1. framed photography, 2. close up and 3. reverse]
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