History crushes

Old blog from my teenage years, left as an archive + to repost from my main blog. Sometimes I come back to post interesting historical figures and pretty pictures.

[summertimenoir]

Hedy Lamarr in Algiers (1938)

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If tumblr shuts down, you can find me on tumblr. They can’t make me leave.

[psikonauti]

John Singer Sargent (American,1856-1925)

Lady Helen Vincent, 1905

Charcoal on paper

[saisonciel]

Bird Millman by Gerlach, c. 1910

[art-and-some-history]

Mae Clarke in Frankenstein (1931)

[gatabella]

Merle Oberon, Folies Bergère de Paris, 1935

[innocentscemetery]

Marilyn Monroe photographed by Andre de Dienes in Beverly Hills, 1953.

This is a series she reportedly told photographer Andre de Dienes to call “The End of Everything.”

That sleepless night, Marilyn called de Dienes, saying she couldn’t sleep, a lifelong struggle rooted in trauma and insomnia. He met her in the dark, lighting her only with his car headlights.

“It was the first time I came face to face with the dark side of Marilyn,” he later said. “She was alone, unhappy, on the edge of despair.”

(Source : @/cigarettes on Instagram)

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Natalie Wood by Peter Basch, 1958.

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Carole Lombard relaxing by the pool, 1930's.

[ecultured]

eartha kitt photographed by carl van vechten, 1954

[diioonysus]

edwardian & victorian era women

[historical-babes]

Natalie Clifford Barney (1876-1972).

American-born literary figure and writer who was noted for her international salon based in Paris, her friendships with several writers, and her unabashed lesbianism. (Britannica)

[the60sbazaar]

Romy Schneider in profile 

[the60sbazaar]

Sharon Tate

[historical-babes]

Princess Ileana of Romania (1909-1991)

[innocentscemetery]

The Rolling Stones by Michael Cooper, Kevin Brownjohn's Studio, London, 1967.