Truth Be Told

[theroyalhistory]

Queen Elizabeth II, Bondi Beach, 1954

[wtf-fun-factss]

Vulcan Point - WTF fun fact

[covid-69]

[yesterdaysprint]

Chicago Tribune, Illinois, November 19, 1920

[yesterdaysprint]

Chicago Tribune, Illinois, November 19, 1920

[philamuseum]

We’re celebrating Women’s Equality Day by highlighting some of the trailblazing female artists currently on view.

“Two Calla Lillies on Pink,” 1928, by Georgia O’Keeffe 

“Hot Blocks,” 1966-1967, by Edna Andrade © Estate of Edna Andrade

“A Woman and a Girl Driving,” 1881, by Mary Cassatt 

“Elegantka II,” 2013–14 (cast 2017–18), by Ursula von Rydingsvard (Courtesy Ursula von Rydingsvard and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York

“Hill,” 1967, by Agnes Martin © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier),” c. 1629, Judith Leyster 

[philamuseum]

We’re celebrating Women’s Equality Day by highlighting some of the trailblazing female artists currently on view.

“Two Calla Lillies on Pink,” 1928, by Georgia O’Keeffe 

“Hot Blocks,” 1966-1967, by Edna Andrade © Estate of Edna Andrade

“A Woman and a Girl Driving,” 1881, by Mary Cassatt 

“Elegantka II,” 2013–14 (cast 2017–18), by Ursula von Rydingsvard (Courtesy Ursula von Rydingsvard and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York

“Hill,” 1967, by Agnes Martin © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier),” c. 1629, Judith Leyster 

[sovietpostcards]

Flowers at a train station. From Ogonyok magazine, 1960s

[historicaltimes]

Do not ever forget, Danuta Terlikowska, Auschwitz#18294, 21yo nurse, captured in Warsaw, send to Auschwitz 25.08.1942, killed by fenol injection to the heart on 29.10.1942

via reddit

[todaysdocument]

USS Missouri, starboard side, burning at Gibraltar. 8/26/1843

Series: Naval History Photographs (Bureau of Ships), 1883 - 1941. Record Group 19: Records of the Bureau of Ships, 1940 - 1966.

[philamuseum]

We’re celebrating Women’s Equality Day by highlighting some of the trailblazing female artists currently on view.

“Two Calla Lillies on Pink,” 1928, by Georgia O’Keeffe 

“Hot Blocks,” 1966-1967, by Edna Andrade © Estate of Edna Andrade

“A Woman and a Girl Driving,” 1881, by Mary Cassatt 

“Elegantka II,” 2013–14 (cast 2017–18), by Ursula von Rydingsvard (Courtesy Ursula von Rydingsvard and Galerie Lelong & Co., New York

“Hill,” 1967, by Agnes Martin © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

“The Last Drop (The Gay Cavalier),” c. 1629, Judith Leyster 

[lex-for-lexington]

“USS Princeton (CVL-23) burning soon after she was hit by a Japanese bomb while operating off the Philippines on 24 October 1944. This view, taken from USS South Dakota (BB-57) at about 1001 hrs., shows the large smoke column passing aft following a heavy explosion in the carrier’s hangar deck.”

(NHHC: 80-G-287970)

[yesterdaysprint]

The Hon. Nancy Mitford photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1929

[yesterdaysprint]

The Bowery, New York, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1937

[yesterdaysprint]

The Bowery, New York, photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1937

[yesterdaysprint]

Get a tattoo, a haircut, a shave, and your black eye covered up all in one place!

[yesterdaysprint]

The New Yorker, October 31, 1936

[theroyalhistory]

Princess Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth II) and Prince Charles photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1950

[theroyalhistory]

Cecil Beaton photographing Wallis Simpson (Duchess of Windsor), Château de Candé, 1937