Tag: vintage
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
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Paola Barbara. Italian postcard by Rizzoli, Milan, 1936. Paola Barbara (1912-1989) was an Italian actress who acted in over 60 films, but also worked on stage and for television. She is best known for the film La peccatrice (1940) by Amleto Palermi./ src: Truus, Bob & Jan
“Boiling Breakfast Eggs in Hot Springs”, Beppu, Oita Prefecture. Japan, 1942. This picture was published in the
National Geographic
August issue of 1942. A woman in Japanese clothing (viewed from behind) besides a sign warning “dangerous attention” uses a stick and is trying to soak a bamboo cage with eggs in hot water. In the lower part of the stand sign, it reads: “boiled egg half-mature 4 minutes, hardly lean 6 minutes”. (uncredited photographer)
source: natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp
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Woman stands next to a small boat, no date / src: simpleinsomnia
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Woman’s face cut out of a couple’s portrait. / src: simpleinsomnia
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Woman climbing a leaning tree. ‘Monkeyin around’ handwritten on bottom of snapshot. / source:
simple insomnia
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