Gorgeous Photos of Lori Nelson in the 1950s and ’60s

Born 1933 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, American actress and model Lori Nelson made her film debut in the 1952 Western Bend of the River. In 1955, Nelson guest starred in two episodes of It’s a Great Life, and reprised her role as “Rosie Kettle” in Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki. That same year, she co-starred in the Creature From the Black Lagoon sequel Revenge of the Creature and Underwater! with Jane Russell and Richard Egan.

Her supporting roles in films included the low-budget sci-fi story Day the World Ended (1955), and a big-budget Paramount Pictures comedy-Western, Pardners (1956). Nelson had a featured role in I Died a Thousand Times, a 1955 remake of High Sierra, as well as in 1954’s Destry, a remake of Destry Rides Again.

Nelson was perhaps best known for her roles in the TV series How to Marry a Millionaire and the films Revenge of the Creature, All I Desire, and I Died a Thousand Times. Her last role was in the 2005 low-budget science fiction horror film The Naked Monster, in which she reprised her role from Revenge of the Creature.

Nelson died in 2020 at her home in Porter Ranch, Los Angeles, aged 87. Take a look at these gorgeous photos to see the beauty of young Lori Nelson in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Reducing Suits for Horse, 1950

Horses, as well as overweight humans, can trim off pounds by sunning in this plastic “silhouette” suit, which was invented in 1950. Jockeys say it helps them reduce as much as five pounds in an hour.

Western Canada in 1947 Through Wonderful Color Photos

After the war, close to a million veterans reentered civilian life, marrying, having children (this was the start of the “baby boom” in Canada), and going on a buying binge.

Western Canada in 1947

For the first time since the Great Depression years, Canadians indulged themselves, but the dramatic increase in consumption put tremendous pressure on Canada’s balance of payments with the United States: much of what Canadians were buying was manufactured by its southern neighbor. It also added to inflationary pressures that stimulated industrial unrest, especially in 1945–46.

Organized labour had virtually doubled in size during the war, and the unions were ready and willing to demonstrate their new strength by staging major auto, steel, and transportation strikes.

Here below is a set of wonderful color photos from dianp that shows Western Canada in 1947.

Banff Springs Hotel, 1947

Banff. Cascade Mountains and Bow River, 1947

Banff. Chephero Mountain, 1947

Banff. Johnston Canyon, near Banff, 1947

Banff. Moraine Lake and Valley of Ten Peaks, 1947

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Vintage Photographs of Christine Keeler Posing in a Swimsuit on a Beach in Spain and France, 1963

Christine Keeler taking a holiday in Spain and France shortly before her controversial involvement with war minister John Profumo led to his resignation.

Christine Keeler (1942–2017) was a model and topless dancer who at 19-years-old had brief sexual relationships with both John Profumo, the Secretary of State for War, and Captain Yevgeny ‘Eugene’ Ivanov, a Soviet naval attaché, during a similar time period.

Taking place during the Cold War, the Profumo Affair of 1963 rocked the country and the sitting Conservative government, as the public questioned whether Keeler could have passed sensitive information between her two lovers, resulting in a security breach. She was branded a “tart” by Harold Macmillan, the prime minister whose government collapsed as a result of the scandal.

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Newspaper Dress, 1928

This unidentified young woman gives new meaning to “being in the news.” She is wearing a dress made from Omaha’s Evening World-Herald newspaper. Most of the newspapers date from June 1928.

Woman wearing a dress made from Evening World-Herald, an Omaha newspaper, June 1928. (via History Nebraska)

Stunning Pictures of a Wet and Cold New York Taken by Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was born in Pittsburgh, the son of an internationally renowned Talmudic scholar.  Leiter's interest in art began in his late teens, and though he was encouraged to become a Rabbi like his father, he left theology school and moved to New York to pursue painting at age 23. In New York, he befriended the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was experimenting with photography. His friendship with Pousette-Dart and soon after, with W. Eugene Smith, expanded his interest in photography.

By 1948 Leiter had begun to experiment in color, largely using Kodachrome 35 mm film past its sell-by date. He made an enormous and unique contribution to photography with a highly prolific period in New York City in the 1950s. His abstracted forms and radically innovative compositions have a painterly quality that stands out among the work of his New York School contemporaries. Leiter’s use of color is often attributed to his enduring interest in painting.

A pioneer of color photography and a talented image-maker, Leiter sought neither fame nor commercial success. “I’ve never been overwhelmed with a desire to become famous.” Leiter told TIME. “It’s not that I didn’t want to have my work appreciated, but for some reason – maybe it’s because my father disapproved of almost everything I did – in some secret place in my being was a desire to avoid success.” Instead, he slinked through New York’s city streets capturing moments of beauty within the ordinary: bright umbrellas, faint reflections, neon advertisements, rain-washed cars and snowy junctions.

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35 Lovely Photos That Defined Hairstyles of Victorian Girls in the Mid-19th Century

Girls in the Victorian period wore their hair long. Unless a girl was very ill, or a pauper in the workhouse, her hair would not be cut short.

Commonly girls’ hair was worn loose, with a centre parting. Sometimes this style was cut with a fringe or drawn back under a hair band. Alternatively, sections of hair at each side of the head might be pulled back. These were twisted and secured with hairpins or tied back with a bow.

On wealthier girls, bows were often large. Outside, they wore hats – sun bonnets and straw hats for play. Poorer girls who worked as servants would have their hair braided or tied back and covered with a cap. If they were foundlings or orphans their hair might be cropped short on entry to the orphanage or workhouse.

Here is a set of lovely photos that shows what hairstyles of Victorian girls looked like in the 1840s and 1850s.

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