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[RadishRose]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Lewkat]

I'd have been right up there with the boys. I was such a daredevil tomboy.

 

[MarkinPhx]

Greta Garbo looking none too comfortable here with Leo, the MGM lion, in 1926. Photo by Don Gillum. Garbo, born in 1905, is 21 in this photo.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

My son bought a sewing machine desk from goodwill for a computer desk and although the machine was not with it, there was some of the extra parts and accessories still in the drawers. He showed me this case and asked about it. The little book was published 1960…. When was the last time you saw buttons for 10 cents?!

 

[Lewkat]

 

[MarkinPhx]

19-year-old Aretha Franklin rehearsing with Motown choreographer Charles “Cholly” Atkins, 1961.

 

[Lewkat]

 

[Aunt Bea]

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Horn & Hardart’s automat had a starring role in A Touch of Mink.

 

[RadishRose]

Daguerreotype of Andrew Jackson at age 77 or 78 (1844 or 1845).

 

[RadishRose]

 

[MarkinPhx]

Olive Thomas 1894 - 1920

 

[Magna-Carta]

December 1939. German Heavy Cruiser, Admiral Graf Spee, ("Pocket Battleship"). In the River Plate estuary, South America. After the Battle of the River Plate.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Mizmo]

All great pics

 

[RadishRose]

Avedon’s France : Old World, New Look
Audrey Hepburn 1959

 

[RadishRose]

Restaurant cook. Mogollon, New Mexico 1940 June.

 

[RadishRose]

Cartier Bresson : Salto en la lluvia

Cartier Bresson : Salto en la lluvia

 

[oslooskar]

Birthday party Vallejo California 1948/49

 

[RadishRose]

Ancient Pompeii snack bar

 

[RadishRose]

NYC 1947

 

[smiley]

it's lovely and frightening at the same time heh?

 

[smiley]

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first started in Germany I hear - how innovative?

 

[McBride]

Young women wearing stylish hats around 1900.