Modern flapper

Helena. Girl in her(roaring)thirties; half spanish, half greek. Jazz, silent cinema and 20s and 60s lover, dreaming with a modern flapper´s world. Sometimes, my posts have been written both in English and Spanish because I love to write in my own...

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Mosque at Port Said, Egypt - circa 1924

Photo probably taken en route to England from Australia in 1924 when Henry Mobsby was travelling to England for the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in London.(Mobsby Collection, Fryer Library, Brisbane, Australia)

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Saturn floats. Our Country and Its Resources. 1917.

“Saturn, the lightest of the planets in proportion to its size, would float in water (if there were an ocean big enough to hold it!)”

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A tatoo said to be popular with gay criminals. L'homme criminel: Atlas. 1888.

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Irene E. Jerome, Primrose, Wildflowers--Colorado, (1893-1900).

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Actress Anna May Wong (1905-1961)

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Matsuri float parade.  Hand-colored photo, late 19th century, Japan. Via ookami-dou of Flickr

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Theda Bara in the lost film Cleopatra (1917)

from Motography, September 15, 1917

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Topkapı Palace domes, İstanbul, Türkiye.

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Karl J. Kuerner (b. 1957) - The Light Within

acrylic on panel

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One of my favorite Krampus cards.

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Umberto Brunelleschi (1879-1949), 'The Kiss', ''The Bystander'', Christmas Number, 1927

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A Mermaid’s Afternoon Tea ~ 1926 ~ Dan Smith (American artist, 1865-1934)

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Rosario Guerrero als Carmen

Artist: Friedrich August von Kaulbach (German, 1850–1920)

Date: c. 1908

Medium: OIl on canvas

Rosario Guerrero, Spanish Dancer

Rosario Fernández Guerrero (born about 1880 – died 1960s) was a Spanish dancer and pantomimist with an international career. Although she was not a singer, she is most often associated with the role of Carmen.

Guerrero danced in Paris and London as a young woman. She danced a ballet version of Carmen in 1903 in London at the Alhambra Theatre. "I reveled in it," she told an interviewer, "I felt that I was Carmen, and do you know, I verily believe that my Don José was now and again really afraid of me." She danced in New York in 1903 and 1904, appearing in The Rose and the Dagger and The Red Feather. In 1905, she was in London again, in a pantomime called The Nightmare with music by A. Porinelly, at the Palace Theatre.

In 1906 there were reports that she was hospitalized in Vienna in 1906, found "violently insane" from "excessive dancing". She performed pantomime shows in London in 1908, in New York and Chicago in 1909, and in other American cities including San Francisco and Indianapolis in 1910. She owned a "small estate" in France.

Guerrero was described as a "famous beauty" in 1908. She posed for a series of portraits by German artist Friedrich August von Kaulbach, who considered them among his best work. Arthur Kampf's celebrated 1906 canvas, Spanische Tänzerin is similarly believed to be a portrait of Guerrero.

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Ruth Bernhard (German-American, 1905–2006)

Symbiosis, San Francisco, 1971

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1925 c. Probably a Lacloche Freres bracelet designed as two circular-cut diamond facing chimera heads, each accented with triangular-shaped diamond and emerald eyes, holding a natural pearl. From Art Deco, FB.