cycles of mystery!

fine art, ephemera, and early jazz enthusiast illustrator and banjo player, 26

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Franz Kafka, Sketches from around the time of The Trial

“Please burn every bit of it,” he wrote

[naldibutnice]

Fay Marbe by Sasha, c. 1926

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'The Connoisseur', a photograph that was made for a cigarette advertisement in 1899.

[tournevole]

Sweet-Child-Cover-illustration-by-Fabien-Loris-1925.

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Illustration of the Dolly Sisters by Zig, Casino de Paris 1927

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Les Freres Bruckman - Lodewijk Bruckman, 1923

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Mary Leigh and Evelyn Laye in a stage production of Betty in Mayfair, 1925

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Lillian Roth and Frances Dee by Otto Dyar, 1930

[the1920sinpictures]

April 9, 1927 Cover of "Judge" magazine. From New York City-Vintage History, FB.

[naldibutnice]

Madge Bellamy in Fugitives (1929)

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British actress Ivy Lilian Close on a vintage postcard

[dontbestingybaby]

Illustration riffing on Valentino growing a goatee by Jean des Vignes from Photoplay, February 1925

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Source details and larger version.

Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.

[thedeadleafs]

From the Daily Mirror, 1914.

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Moriz Jung | Berfrois

[odetopictorialism]

Herbert Matter • Summer Wind (Mercedes Matter ) 1940

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[mahgnib]

Paul Outerbridge, Jr., photo of a Spanish dancer, c. 1936