35 Beautiful Portrait Photos of Ziegfeld Follies Showgirls From the 1920s Taken by Alfred Cheney Johnston

Alfred Cheney Johnston (April 8, 1885 – April 17, 1971) was a New York City-based photographer known for his portraits of Ziegfeld Follies showgirls as well as of actors and actresses from the worlds of stage and film.

Johnston was born into an affluent New York banking family, which subsequently moved to Mount Vernon, New York. Initially he studied painting and illustration at the National Academy of Design in New York, but after graduating in 1908, his subsequent efforts to earn a living as a portrait painter did not meet with success. Instead, reportedly at the suggestion of longtime family friend and famed illustrator Charles Dana Gibson, he started to employ the camera previously used to record his painting subjects as his basic creative medium.

In approximately 1917, Johnston was hired by famed New York City live-theater showman and producer Florenz Ziegfeld as a contracted photographer, and was affiliated with the Ziegfeld Follies for the next fifteen years or so. He photographed several hundred actresses and showgirls (mainly in New York City, and whether they were part of the Follies or not) during that time period.

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Summer Under Southern Skies of Australia in the 1940s

These are beautiful vintage photos that show the life in southern Australia in the 1940s.

Relaxing under the summer sun in Townsville

Diving into Sydney Harbor under summer skies

Cooling down with an ice block under summer skies in New Zealand

Lifesaving test under summer skies

Splashing about under summer skies

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Bathing Beauties in Norway in 1954

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Black and White Photos of Everyday Life in Hyde Park, London in 1951

A couple holding each other in Hyde Park on a beautiful spring day.

Woman walking their babies carriages and gossiping in Hyde park.

People taking an evening stroll through Hyde park.

Couples kicking off their shoes while laying in the park on a sunnny spring day.

Young girls doing gymnastics in Hyde park.

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Old Pictures of India From the 1870s

Courtyard and Entrance to Fort Amber

Salween River, The Rope Station

Mengoon, The Great Bell, said to weigh 90 tons

Hunters

The Municipal Office

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Here’s the Last Known Picture of Hitler, It Was Taken Two Days Prior to His Death on April 28, 1945

Shortly before committing suicide in his underground Führerbunker, Hitler stepped outside with an SS officer to survey nearby bomb damage from Allied forces.

(UKTV History)

This last known picture of Hitler was taken approximately two days prior to his death as he stands outside his Berlin bunker entrance surveying the devastating bomb damage. With Germany lying in ruins after six years of war, and with defeat imminent, Hitler decided to take his own life. But before doing so, he married Eva Braun and then penned his last will and testament. The next day in the afternoon on April 30, 1945 Braun and Hitler entered his living room to end their lives.

Later that afternoon the remaining members of the bunker community found Hitler slumped over, and blood spilled over the arm of the couch. Eva was sitting at the other end. Hitler had killed himself by biting down on a cyanide capsule while shooting him self in the head. Eva only used the cyanide capsule. Hitler committed suicide two days before the surrender of Berlin to the Soviets on May 2, and just over a week before the end of World War II in Europe on May 8.

(via Rare Historical Photos)

Vintage Photos of Billiards/Pool Players in the Early 1900s

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