Series of 1920s French fashion postcards in the style of the Seeberger brothers, mid-to-second half of the decade, showing fashionable day wear.
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Monday, May 20, 2013
Vintage Photos of Cutie Baby Animals
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| Two brown bear cubs from a litter of triplets born at Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire playing with the scales at their first weight check. The 4-lb cubs have been transferred to the children's zoo, where they delight the visitors. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images). 3rd May 1962 |
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| A soldier of the US Seventh Marines carrying a little puppy in his pocket after rescuing it during an operation south west of Da Nang in Vietnam. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 1968 |
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| Huge crowds formed at the London Zoo on the debut of Pipaluk, the baby polar bear. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 15th April 1968 |
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| Sir Henry Frederick Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath (1905–1992) mounted on baby African elephant Wamba at Longleat Safari Park, his family seat in Wiltshire, 29th May 1968. Leading Wamba by the ear is Mr J. R. Kabuzi, the Acting High Commissioner for Uganda, who is at Longleat to open the new East African Game Reserve. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) |
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| Beatrix, a she-lion at Chessington Zoo, carries her newborn cub. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images). 30th May 1968 |
Old Portraits of Anna May Wong – The First Chinese American Movie Star
Anna May Wong (1905 – 1961) was the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American actress to gain international recognition. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio.
Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
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Born near the Chinatown neighborhood of Los Angeles to second-generation Chinese-American parents, Wong became infatuated with the movies and began acting in films at an early age. During the silent film era, she acted in The Toll of the Sea (1922), one of the first movies made in color and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad (1924).
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Photos of Marilyn Monroe Four Days in New York, 1955 by Ed Feingersh
1955 was a year of change for Marilyn Monroe. After leaving Hollywood for New York, and abandoning her contract with Twentieth Century Fox, Marilyn was no longer ‘just a dumb blonde’, but a true renegade. In January, Marilyn formed a production company with photographer Milton Greene, and moved into a suite at the Ambassador Hotel.
Despite frenzied speculation, Marilyn largely evaded publicity. Dressed down in casual clothes and no make-up, she wandered the city unnoticed, and learned about ‘the Method’, a deeper, more challenging approach to drama, with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. And Marilyn also began the long, difficult journey of psychoanalysis at this time.
By March of 1955, however, both Greene and Marilyn agreed that her image needed a boost. Her wish to prove herself a ‘serious actress’ had been roundly mocked by the press, many of whom predicted that the erstwhile sex goddess was destroying her own career.
In his introduction to the 1990 book, Marilyn 55, Bob LaBrasca stated that it was Milton Greene who arranged for a cover spread in Redbook. But Robert Stein, magazine editor at the time, has claimed that it was another of Marilyn’s photographers, Sam Shaw, who arranged the initial contact, and one of Shaw’s portraits of Marilyn graces the resulting July 1955 cover story, ‘The Marilyn Monroe You’ve Never Seen’.
However, neither Shaw nor Greene worked on the story directly. Over a hectic week, photojournalist Ed Feingersh followed Marilyn, along with Stein, and Marilyn’s small coterie of business associates. Whether shopping, dining, or dressing up, Marilyn’s daily life was captured on film.
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Despite frenzied speculation, Marilyn largely evaded publicity. Dressed down in casual clothes and no make-up, she wandered the city unnoticed, and learned about ‘the Method’, a deeper, more challenging approach to drama, with Lee Strasberg at the Actor’s Studio. And Marilyn also began the long, difficult journey of psychoanalysis at this time.
By March of 1955, however, both Greene and Marilyn agreed that her image needed a boost. Her wish to prove herself a ‘serious actress’ had been roundly mocked by the press, many of whom predicted that the erstwhile sex goddess was destroying her own career.
In his introduction to the 1990 book, Marilyn 55, Bob LaBrasca stated that it was Milton Greene who arranged for a cover spread in Redbook. But Robert Stein, magazine editor at the time, has claimed that it was another of Marilyn’s photographers, Sam Shaw, who arranged the initial contact, and one of Shaw’s portraits of Marilyn graces the resulting July 1955 cover story, ‘The Marilyn Monroe You’ve Never Seen’.
However, neither Shaw nor Greene worked on the story directly. Over a hectic week, photojournalist Ed Feingersh followed Marilyn, along with Stein, and Marilyn’s small coterie of business associates. Whether shopping, dining, or dressing up, Marilyn’s daily life was captured on film.
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Vintage Photos of Animal Astronauts
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| Sam, a 7-lb rhesus monkey is prepared for his flight into space by being secured in a 100-lb biopack drum. Sam then rode a Project Mercury-type capsule to a height of 55 miles and landed 200 miles out in the Atlantic. The “Little Joe” experiment to test the capsule's escape rocket system was a success. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 4th December 1959 |
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| A life-size replica of the original Sputnik satellite which carried two dogs into orbit, on display at a Moscow exhibition of space travel. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 18th February 1959 |
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| A captain at the School of Aviation Medicine, Texas demonstrating how space monkey “Sam Soacem” is strapped into special padding and seat when sent up in rockets. Sam's name was formed from the school's acronym. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 6th February 1959 |
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| Laika, the Soviet Satellite dog in the specially designed space equipment in Sputnik II. The capsule will probably burn up on re-entry. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 5th November 1957 |
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| Two monkeys, Baker and Able, aboard USS Kiowa after their recovery from the cone of the Jupiter missile in which they travelled into space. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images). 28th May 1959 |
Old Photos of Japanese 130 Years Ago
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| Three samurai warriors in armour, circa 1880. (Photo by Kusakabe Kimbei) |
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| A Japanese general, circa 1865. (Photo by Hulton Archive) |
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| A group of officers in the service of a prince from the north of Japan, circa 1865. (Photo by Felice Beato/Spencer Arnold) |
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| A Samurai warrior in armour, 1867. (Photo by Hulton Archive) |
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| Two Japanese kago bearers carrying a woman in a sedan chair, circa 1865. A samurai with two swords accompanies the group. (Photo by Felice Beato/Spencer Arnold) |
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Fascinating Mug Shots of Criminals in The 1870s
The mugshots come from the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Flickr page. According to the page, all the prisoners photographed spent time in Newcastle Gaol between December 1871–December 1873.
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| William Smith stole money and some scales in 1873 and was ordered to do two months in jail. |
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| William Brankston was convicted of the theft of four rabbits and was sentenced to carry out one month in jail. |
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| Thirteen-year-old James Scullion was sentenced to 14 days’ hard labor for stealing clothes. After this he was sent to Market Weighton Reformatory School for three years. |
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| Isabella Smith was sentenced to six weeks for stealing poultry. |
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| Seventeen-year-old Catherine Kelly was found guily of stealing bed linen and was sent to prison for three months. |
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