Dial J for Jacob

Truths & Fictions

[jforjacob]

23 May 1946

The largest mass arrest in the history of Rochester, New York, took place. Police rounded up 208 striking workers and even arrested one of the strikers' dogs. The strike spread and was won the following week.

[vintageeveryday]

Families enjoying ice-cream on a day out in the park, New York, 1951. Photograph by Ernst Haas.

[mote-historie]

1912 George Barbier, Persia, illustration for The Art of Perfume.

[gacougnol]

Jungjin Lee

[gretacelestegerwig]

Greta Gerwig, Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling behind the scenes of Barbie.

[vintage-sweden]

Man and owl, 1920s, Sweden.

[70sscifiart]

Ralph McQuarrie’s 1986 cover for Eric Frank Russell’s ‘Sinister Barrier’

[shushmuckle]

[vintagegeekculture]

[enchantedbook]

‘A sleepless Night’ by Babs Webb

[ourladyofomega]

Brooklyn, New York; 1973.

📸: Scott MacNeill

[bowieography]

[undr]

Angelo Rizzuto. Cat sitting on top of boxes. 1955

[yesterdaysprint]

Chicago Daily Tribune, Illinois, May 8, 1935

[yesterdaysprint]

The Gargoyle, January 1926

[joeinct]

Auto Stop, Paris - Amsterdam, Photo by Ed van der Elsken, 1952

[myjetpack]

Because it’s Tom Waits’s birthday